Sometimes all it takes is a few bites to invent a new favourite recipe. At Tiger Club in Berlin-Steglitz, my favourite restaurant for shopping trips with my mum, I had a mango-avocado bowl with mint that I simply couldn’t stop thinking about. You can find […]
Making vegan chocolates at home is much easier than it looks. None of the three recipes below need an oven or years of pastry experience. What you do need is a little patience for tempering chocolate and good base ingredients. The result: little treats that […]
Banoffee means banana and toffee combined as a classic British flavour combination, best known from banoffee pie. It works just as well for my banana ice cream. This vegan version for your ice cream maker or no-churn is made with a coconut milk and banana […]
When I first became interested in vegan food almost 20 years ago, things like vegan scrambled eggs were basically unheard of, and there wasn’t much out there about vegan cooking in general. It mostly meant leaving everything non-vegan out. What did exist, however, were the […]
Hot chocolate is always a good idea, but this one is something special: Mexican inspired, with a pleasant heat from cayenne pepper that only shows up on the finish. Warm, dark, a little exciting, and ready in five minutes. Mexican cacao is one of the […]
I’m a Berliner and have been vegan for over 15 years. Which means I’ve tried a very, very large number of vegan restaurants in Berlin. Places come and go, but a few have established themselves and impress me time and again. What fascinates me most […]
There are many ways to make a vegan BLT sandwich, but my absolute favourite is the version with smoked tofu. Sliced thin and fried hot, it gets wonderfully crispy and is the perfect vegan bacon substitute, with a flavourful marinade of maple syrup, soy sauce, […]
Like most of my recipes, the Snickers protein shake has a story that starts far away. When my friend Anne was studying at Harvard, I requested a lot of flights to Boston. We’d either meet in the impressive cafeteria of her institute, the kind of […]