I had no idea you could make your own vanilla extract until I just happened to do it by chance! Last summer, when I was making licorice vanilla bean ice cream, I was looking at the vanilla pod after I had scraped out the seeds and thought it would be a shame to just throw […]
Roasted Peppers – An Easy How To Recipe
A quick and easy recipe for smokey, sweet, delicious roasted peppers. I used to buy roasted red peppers in a jar all the time. For some reason, I was intimidated by the idea of roasting them myself. And when I finally did try to do it, the first few recipes were so time consuming I […]
Healthy Mexican-Inspired Vegan / Vegetarian Pizza
I love Mexican food and we eat lots of it, but the idea to put beans on a pizza had never occurred to me until I had the super delicious San Clemente pizza at Pizza Port in Solana Beach a few years ago (Solana Beach is a bit north of San Diego, CA – […]
Coconut Milk Vanilla & Licorice Ice Cream
Licorice is one of my favorite flavors. It’s hugely popular in Sweden; I’d say it’s up there with chocolate as people’s favorite candy. Swedish licorice candy is different from the kind you find here in the US though, much more intense, sometimes salty and very sharp (it will clear out your sinuses!). That intense […]
Ginger Coconut Milk Ice Cream
I absolutely love this ginger coconut milk ice cream (and ginger is so good for you)! Regular ginger ice cream was always a favorite too, and I used to get that all the time when buying ice cream “out”, but for some reason I hadn’t gotten around to making my own non-dairy version until now. It’s not vegan because I use […]
Summer Beer: A Taste Test
I usually prefer wine, but when the weather gets really hot, I think even white wine is cloying, and all I want is a nice, refreshing, preferably low alcohol beer. Corona, Hoegaarden and Kingfisher are usually my warm weather go-to beers, but this year I thought I’d give a few of the many summer beers around […]
My Favorite Kale Chips Recipe
Kale chips are perfect for tricking picky eaters and vegetable-haters into eating this super-healthy green. I used to be one of those picky eaters myself: I’ve only recently come to like kale. Growing up, the only time I ever saw it was as an unappetizing dish (“långkål”) on Swedish Christmas smorgasbords and never even […]
Super Easy Chickpea Spread
This chickpea spread recipe is based on the Chickpea Salad With Halloumi I wrote about earlier this summer. I was trying to come up with a new dip for veggies and thought why not try to do something with the chickpea mix from that recipe, since it’s so good I can eat it as is out […]
Chickpea Salad With Halloumi Cheese
I love chickpeas and eat them several times a week. They are not only tasty, they are so good for you: full of fiber, protein, folate, calcium, etc. I’m always trying to come up with new ideas for how to use them, and in this version, they are starring alongside halloumi cheese, that fabulous cheese from Cyprus […]
Vegan Raspberry Rum Coconut Ice Cream
I have certain favorite ice cream flavors which you can easily find in Sweden but that I have not been able to find here, so last summer, I thought I’d take matters into my own hands and make my own ice cream instead. I bought a Cuisinart Ice Cream Makerand started experimenting, and I […]