*vegan living and traveling in style*
I thought, if I’m going to make chocolate muffins, I’ll be really serious about it. And what’s even better than chocolate? Exactly. Irish cream. Luckily, I stumbled across the vegan Bailey’s recipe by Oh She Glows a while ago, and based on that I came up with these muffins.
When I visit my family in Holland, we often have Indonesian food. Every time I come there, the food gets a little more vegan. This satay is my specialty, and I decided for bami goreng as a side dish and a refreshing iced lemongrass tea.
This sesame noodle salad was inspired by one that I once got at a little shop in New York for my flight home, and I liked it so much I took a picture of the label with the ingredients to experiment with them at home. I also added smoked tofu and red cabbage. The final…
Whenever I’m in Sao Paulo, I have lunch at an all-you-can-eat veggie buffet close to our hotel. The buffet always varies a little. Once they had a banana cake that was just the perfect dessert and at home I found that it might be even more fun with raspberries and white chocolate. It turned out…
There is a vegan restaurant at Tokyo main station called T’s Tantan. They have this amazing tantan soup that makes me get on a train through half the city, walk forever through the giant station and even buy a ticket for a train I don’t take, to get to the area where the restaurant is.…
Last year I went to Boston with my mom for Christmas, and for our holiday dinner we picked the vegan restaurant MyThai. This dish was the first thing I noticed on the menu and it kept it’s promise! Fragrant lemongrass and Thai-basil, spicy BBQ soy beef and crispy mini spring rolls!
This recipe started with a tortilla omelette I had at a vegan place in Madrid. I tried around at home with potential ingredients and as so often the outcome was totally different from the original, but I like it lot and I hope so will you. When I tried to open a pomegranate for the…
This fragrant Asian spice should best be used fresh. You can buy it in Asian grocery stores.
Thai Sweet Basil (or Bai Horapa) is widely used in Southeast Asian cuisine. It tastes of anise and liquorice and is added at the end of the cooking process. It is available in Asian grocery stores and meanwhile in some organic supermarkets. It is delicious with
Thai Holy Basil (or Bai Krapao) is widely used in Southeast Asian cuisine and is unfortunately not very well known over here yet. The fragrant leaves remind of pimento and cloves. They are added towards the end of the cooking process, that’s the best way to release their aroma. Holy Basil is available in most…