My interest in raising my protein intake made me understand that I need to stop relying on store-bought protein bars and make my own recipe, because I need to be sure that all the ingredients are whole and health-approved. I took advantage of the upcoming Valentine’s Day and created this pinkish low carb protein bar recipe using nut butter, protein powder, nuts and coconut oil. These easy protein bars….
Testing quick ice-cream recipes using healthy ingredients is my favorite activity ever since we came back from our summer holiday in Sardinia (the ice-cream heaven!). I don’t have enough patience to test complicated recipes using our ice-cream machine, so my new popsicles molds are getting more time in the freezer than expected in their first week of life, stuffed with…
Seed cycling was a big trend during the last years when hormone imbalances got a lot of attention from a lot of blogs and magazines. Without even knowing, some of us were somehow following the seed cycling schedule simply because we include a lot of seeds in our daily diet in the form of seed butter and tahini, or as a result of following a keto diet. As for myself, I always add seeds to my morning oats and sometimes in salads, but of course this doesn’t make me …
As long as the first rain drops start to fall, baking turns into the main activity in my kitchen. Mornings with flavored pumpkin bread and coffee, avocado toast with super seed bread, or a slice of freshly baked no knead bread with rye and nuts in the afternoon after a short walk – all these cozy little things make Autumn beautiful despite the temperature drop and ….
I love to discover how a classic dish is being re-interpreted in different parts of the world and even in different areas of my country. This crustless blueberry pie is an adaptation of a recipe I tasted while traveling to the lovely Transylvanian city of Sibiu. The local name of the pie is Lichiu, and it is actually a semolina fruit cake combined with a……
Sometimes life can get boring when you get caught in the same every day routine, other times a lot of things happen within short periods, making you feel like a totally different person from a week to another. Although I was away from my everyday routine for three weeks, wandering along the shores of Sicily, sipping Limoncello, eating Pasta alla Norma and turning 37 at some point in between, I don’t feel like…..
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