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Dates cinnamon buns

Everyone loves cinnamon buns. The aroma, the taste is so amazing that you want to have them every day. I personally love simple cinnamon buns and those with apple and cinnamon filling, freshly baked in the morning are the best thing to have with freshly brewed coffee.  Ohhh so yummy..     There are many variations of those buns. I think every country has its own recipe for those buns. In Sweden…

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Pulled buns.

Hi guys!! I hope you liked my last post, about pasta salad. If you haven’t seen it yet you can check it here.       Today I want to share with you another recipe which is brilliant for party, whether it is inside or outside. To be honest, this recipe is in my family since I can remember. Only my grandma is making those buns, because her buns are amazing!!! Usually we’re having them for lunch with…

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Pasta salad

   Yesterday was the first day of summer. For this occasion I made simple pasta salad. The recipe is so easy that you can make this salad every day!! It is good for summer dinner and as a side salad for barbecue. With some grilled chicken or sausage and cold wine it’s just amazing. This salad is vegetarian, meat lover can change cheese, for meat or smoked fish.   For one big bowl you will need:…

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Potato and cheese.

Hello everyone!! To discover new flavors we do not necessarily have to go to another country!  In every land there is a dish which is very popular in one part and in other not so much, but once you tried this course you want to have it all the time. Why? Because it’s so different from the food you already know.  One of my “foreign”dish is potato with curd- “gzik”. It’s very popular dish in west…

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Polish krokiety

Everyone has favorite childhood food. The food which was made by grandmother or grandad, and every time you are having it now, it brings many memories and takes you back to your childhood. I have few dishes like that. The best comfy food which tastes good only at home. One of those dishes is “krokiety” “croquette”. There are as many recipes for this dish as many grannies and moms:) Every recipe…

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Home made scrub

Few weeks ago I came back from my vacations!! And like always after exposing myself to sun I  got a little bit burned and my skin started to coming off. It is not nice to see, specially in this weather when I’m only wearing T-shirts and shorts. I could have peeled my skin off  but then my sofa would be covered in my dead skin… yuck.., for some people it’s disgusting, it hurts sometimes and…

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How to use chickpeas flour and be beautiful!!!

How to use chickpeas flour and be beautiful!!!

Chickpeas flour is not only known for it’s culinary benefits, it’s also known for it’s cosmetic benefits.   Benefits Of Gram Flour For Skin 1. To Remove Tan Mix 4 teaspoons of besan, 1 teaspoon of lemon, 1 teaspoon of yogurt and a pinch of turmeric to form a smooth paste. Apply it all over your face and neck. Wash it off with cool water after it dries. It makes your skin smooth and radiant.…

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Homemade chickpeas flour

                 There are as many different types of flours as many grains we can find. In my house we were only using wheat flour for cakes,pancakes, basically for any type of pastry, rye flour , when my mom was making bread and spelt flour. Those three were the basic one in my house.  I also was using oats flour when I started eating more healthier. Few years back when Poland was going through…

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               Who doesn’t like brownie!? Who doesn’t like cheese cake? And who does not like to have both of them in one vegan cake? This recipe is easy to make and it has everything I love! It’s on a shortbread base, with chocolate and tofu! Vegan friendly, lactose intolerance friendly, and if you change flour will be gluten free!!

  Try this recipe and let me know how you like it !!

Ingredients:

Shortbread for the base

1/2 cup flour – self raising or plain flour

2 Tbsp cocoa powder

1 Tbsp vanilla sugar

3 Tbsp frozen coconut oil- put coconut oil for 5 minutes into a freezer, it doesn’t have to be freeze completely, but have to be really cold.

2 Tbsp cold water- really cold, best you can do is to put water into the freezer for few minutes, or take 2 ice cubes and combine them with the rest of the ingredients for shortbread. The ice cube will not melt so fast and in this way you will only use as much water as you need. You will know when the consistency is right for the shortbread. Ice cubes leftovers just throw .

1/2 tsp lemon juice

Creme :

200 g normal tofu- if you find only 180g it’s also fine

1/2 cup water or almond milk

2 Tbsp coconut oil

2 Tbsp sugar- normal sugar, stevia or any other kind of sweetener you are using

4 Tbsp lemon juice

1 Tbsp potato starch – potato starch works as a glue, it will connect all ingredients and we will get nice thick and soft consistency, more like polish “budyn” or pudding. Be careful with potato starch, if you add too much, your nice creme during baking will transform into gooey thing, similar to thick glue, which is not very nice to be eaten.

How to make:

Vegan shortbread:

In non-vegan recipe for a shortbread butter is been used instead of oil, in this recipe I’m using coconut oil. It is a very good replacement for butter unless you have vegan butter, which I heard about but never tried, anyway coconut oil and any other oil will work nicely here.  First put coconut oil into freezer for 10 minutes, it doesn’t have to be solid, but has to be thicker, any other oil put for 1 hour, it has to get thicker. If you don’t have coconut oil use normal oil or olive oil. Prepared baking tray with parchment paper. When oil is frozen, mix it with cocoa powder and sugar. In separate bowl mix lemon juice with very cold water , then add it to the rest of the ingredients and knead it very quickly.  Divide dough into 2pieces, one piece spread onto baking tray, the other one put into fridge, this will be used as a crumbs on the cake. Puncture dough with fork  and bake for 15 min in 200 degrees.

Tofu creme:

Put tofu, water and oil into blender and mix everything nicely until you have smooth mass. Add sugar, vanilla sugar and lemon juice. Mix until it’s smooth. At the end add potato starch and combine everything nicely. There should not be any lumps, use high speed of the blender or mixer.

After 15 minutes take to shortbread out from the oven and decrease the temperature to 160 degrees. On baked base pour mass and spread it evenly with a spoon, next take the other half of the dough form the fridge and crushed it onto tofu mass. Ready cake put into oven for 45-60 min. After 45 min check with the tooth pick the consistency, if the pick is dry your cake is ready, if it’s wet keep the cake for another 10 minutes. When the cake is ready cut it into squares and wait until it cools down or enjoy immediately. Keep the cake in a fridge, it will be good for another 5 day unless you finished it sooner!:)

 Vegan tofu brownie.                Who doesn't like brownie!? Who doesn't like cheese cake? And who does not like to have both of them in one vegan cake?

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Apple pancakes with chickpeas flour

Few days ago I made homemade chickpeas flour.  You can read more about it here.  And I decided to use it in my pancakes. I’m a big fan of pancakes and I’m trying them in any form and with any flour I can.  For 8 pancakes you will need: 1/2 cup Chickpea flour  1/4 chopped apple 2tbsp sugar  1/3 cup warm water 7 grams yeast  1 tsp oil- which ever is suitable for you  First dissolve yeast in warm…

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Pulp smoothie

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Green smoothies

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Vegan crepes

I’m a big fun of crepes! I can have them every day ! With different toppings, small, big, fluffy, chocolate, vanilla or any other. When I was a child I loved when my mom was making her crepes with cottage cheese and sugar and yogurt. That was the best lunch ever! My mom’s “nalesniki” were always perfect and delicious, she never burnt any, never make too much or too less, always right. And she…

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Chocolate peanut butter cups

Chocolate peanut butter cups

I’m a big fun of sweets, everywhere I go I’m trying new treats. I remember first time when I came to UK and found Reese’s cups! OMG that was something completely new for me and so delicious! I could eat 3 at once! Of course that time I wasn’t a big fun of healthy eating and calories didn’t matter to me. When I came back to Poland I was looking for them but couldn’t find them anywhere. After few…

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Sweet squares and balls.

Sweet squares and balls.

I’m  foodie person! I really enjoy eating and I am sweet-tooth person. What can I do? I really like sweets and can not imagine my life without them. All that challenges to try not to have sweets for a week or 30 days are not for me. But it does not mean that I can eat all package of cookies alone and I’ll be fine. No, of course not , but sometimes my craving is so big and so hard to control that…

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Sweet casserole

Hello!

So it’s winter and I am craving for something  warm and filling but most importantly something new & different. You get those cravings too !!?. Something that’s not only delicious but also healthy, warms you up and make us feel good! And not the usual things like soups or cocoa to keep warm in those winter cold days – but something that not on the usual menu for the most winter days.

Today…

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Rhubarb kissel

Hello!

It’s winter and the only thing I can think about right now is Summer. Warm mornings, hot days, nice evenings and the sky full of stars, my grandma’s garden with vegetables, fruits and food which is the best at that season. During the Summer there is one vegetable which is available in Poland. It’s rhubarb. I am lucky we have it in our garden. My early memory with this fruit is my aunties…

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