Best of all- this recipe uses only FIVE ingredients and takes only 20 minutes of hands-on time to make! Spanakopita is traditionally made with filo (or phyllo) dough, like baklava. I love filo dough, but it can be a bit tricky and time consuming to work with. Usually, you create stacks of filo by placing individual sheets in a tray and brush melted butter on each sheet (…YUM), filling the inside with yummy things such as this mixture of spinach and feta....

This post contains helpful tips and tricks! If you’re in a rush, please use the “Jump to Recipe” above! 📖 How to make puffed quinoa Step 3:Place a large, heavy-bottomed skillet or pot on the stove over medium-high heat. Allow it to heat up for a few minutes until it’s very hot. You can test the heat by sprinkling a few drops of water into the pan – if they sizzle and evaporate immediately, the pan is ready....

After the success of my bao bun recipe, jackfruit has become a bit of an obssession…The trouble is, no one sells it here 🙁 . There is one shop, which orders them for me, but as it takes a few weeks between me placing an order and the order actually arriving, I need to be organised about my recipe testing and creation when it comes to this elusive ingredient....

This recipe is 100% vegan, Whole30/Paleo compliant, and aligns with the Mediterranean Diet in that it’s plant-based and has healthy fats from olive oil and nuts. For those of you following along, I’ve been posting Mediterranean Diet recipes all during the month of January, to start the year off with one of the healthiest diets out there. This definitely fits the bill! If you are looking for a lower carb (or just saltier) option, skip the raisins and substitute with capers or olives instead....

While I am taking a bit of a break from eating nothing but soups as I am finally able to enjoy more solid food again, there is a particular soup recipe that I enjoyed while I was getting used to braces. I asked you on Instagram and Facebook if you fancy the recipe and quite a few of you were keen, so here it is! This soup came about from the fact that I didn’t quite anticipate how much I won’t be able to chew in my first week of braces and bought way too many raw veggies as I got too carried away veg shopping, as usual....

I’ve had some tests done recently and the results have reminded me that I have slipped up on eating seaweed lately and I want to correct it straight away. I love rice wrapped in nori (vegan sushi, onigirazu and the like), but I haven’t had the time to make it in a while so instead, I made a quick rice seasoning that I can sprinkle on my rice every day – we do eat quite a lot of rice....

I’m a sucker for good wings. But they often come at a cost. Most restaurant versions are battered and deep fried, then smothered in a really buttery buffalo sauce. Delicious, but not the healthiest! Plus, it’s often hard to get all the meat off of the bones depending on how they are cooked, leaving those precious morsels to go to waste. These crockpot wings are the perfect healthier solution. Here’s why:...

This post contains helpful tips and tricks! If you’re in a rush, please use the “Jump to Recipe” above! Jump to:💭 Why you’ll love this recipe 📋 Ingredients & notes📖 Assembling the summer saladFinally, prepare the lemon vinaigrette and assemble the salad🍴 Serving suggestions & storage📖 Recipe💬 Comments 💭 Why you’ll love this recipe Great way to use up avocados: If you’re bored of making avocado toast and guacamole, then this is a great way to use up avocados in a delicious summer salad!...

Homemade oat milk shaken with espresso, brown sugar syrup, and cinnamon make this delicious Starbucks drink. Trust me, homemade oatmilk makes all the difference and is worth the extra 5 minutes of labor. The quality makes a brown sugar shaken espresso taste better than Starbucks-no joke. Try it today and let me know what you think! A spring and summer 2021 must have! With the addition of homemade milk of course....

I know, I know. It sounds weird. I thought so too, when one of my old roommates made this as a side to her dinner one night years ago. Then I tried it, and I’ve made it countless times since. It’s absolutely DELICIOUS, low-carb, and perfect on the side of an Asian dish (we had it with sushi from our grocery store for dinner tonight), or simple seared steak, chicken, or fish....

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Cinco de Mayo is right around the corner. HOW IS IT ALMOST MAY ALREADY? These super nachos are such an easy thing to whip up for a Cinco de Mayo celebration. We also call these “dad nachos.” Zach usually makes these for us, and his father is the original super nacho king. I love how EASY these nachos are to throw together. With only four ingredients and 5 minutes of prep, I don’t know how I don’t eat these every single week....

Whether you’re serving mashed potatoes at Thanksgiving dinner or making them on a casual weeknight, I’ve got you covered with this foolproof homemade mashed potato recipe. Other recipes require adding sour cream or cream cheese to get a creamy consistency. But this recipe keeps things simple by using only the bare necessities for mashed potatoes: whole milk, salted butter, and yukon gold potatoes. There are a few tricks to making the BEST mashed potatoes every time with these simple ingredients, and also some tricks that will save you time and energy, so it’s easy to whip these up in a jiffy....

When I lived in London, I fell in love with banana bread. I used to treat myself to a slice of it with a coffee in the afternoon and this often was a highlight of my working day. I used to tell myself that the banana content made it “practically a health food”. When I ditched eggs, I was a tad worried that I may have to say goodbye to my banana bread addiction forever....

It’s Pancake Day tomorrow in the UK and inspired by my food hero Ottolenghi’s article in the Guardian about pancakes from all over the world, I felt compelled to create a vegan version of dorayaki (Japanese pancakes) to shake things up a little. I have a lot of, both sweet and savoury, pancake recipes on the blog already, but I haven’t tried veganising dorayaki yet and I got so excited that I spent my Sunday working on these....

Hope your summer is making up for the miserable weather we are having here? Is the rest of Europe hoarding all the sunshine in revenge for Brexit, I wonder? Those of us who have not voted for it should walk under a personal sunny patch, surely? 😉 Instead, the sky is constantly light to dark grey and drizzle continuously morphs into rain and vice versa. I’m sooooo sick of it!...

With the outside temperature dropping to the lowest it’s been this year yet (we had a bit of snowfall this morning and it’s was so nice to wake up to it, it’s all melted by now unfortunately), the need for comfort food has increased steadily and Christmas is approaching fast too so I figured a low effort dinner centerpiece would do nicely. With that in mind, I made a deliciously creamy and cheesy vegan mushroom pie, which continues my mushroom theme I started on Wednesday with this festive layered pâté ....

I hope you have a relaxing weekend planned? We certainly do as the last three weeks have been really quite stressful for us due to all the building work we are having done, and the constant mess and chores resulting from it. On Friday, we were supposed to have our living room plastered, which we were looking forward to being done as that was the last task to be done this side of Xmas before we can move on with a proper clean-up and redecorate....

What a hectic week this has been! I’m exhausted and I’m so looking forward to the weekend, and this one in particular! It’s my birthday this Sunday and Duncan is treating me to a break in breathtaking Santorini where I will be able to put my feet up at last. And what an idyllic place to do that in! It’s such a thoughtful present and although the hammock I got last year was his best b’day present yet (I love sinking into it at sunny weekends with a book and a coffee in hand), this is a close second!...

I will make my today’s post short and sweet (literally!!). I have been experiencing quite a lot of anxiety over the past few days and I therefore need to spend as much time away from the computer as possible. Today’s recipe could not be simpler, it literally requires you to melt something over a water bath, stir some other ingredients in, pour into a mould and wait a little and you can enjoy delicious, homemade, vegan white chocolate....

While things are upside down right now, I am trying to look for a silver lining in this unprecedented situation. One upside is that the sun has been shining beautifully here this week and while this may be a trivial point for a lot of you, sunshine is never to be taken for granted in the UK, no matter what time of the year. So I am grateful for the weather as it has made the whole idea of confinement way less miserable....