More veggies, less meat: a flexitarian blog with simple, healthy wholefood recipes for everyday life.
The week ahead will be all about France, and its cuisine, starting with this homey, classic French dish - la blanquette. Usually made with veal or chicken, I revisited the recipe to make it vegetarian for Meatless Monday. This tofu blanquette is more a weekend lunch dish as it is quite long …
Halva is a dense, sweet confection found in different parts of the world. It can be either flour-based or nut-butter-based. The halva we found here is of the latter type, and is made of tahini sweetened with honey or sugar, flavoured or filled with nuts or not, then cooked and cut in slabs. …
These dried fruits and seeds energy bites are yummy, and I know that because I ate many while making them! The quantity in the recipe here make 16 energy bites. It's ready in 20 minutes or so. Ingredients ¼ cup of raisins ¼ cup of dried cranberries 6 dried apricots ¼ cup of …
Akko, Acre, Saint Jean d'Acre... you name it! Here are some photos I took these past few years of its old city. The Old City of Acre is inscribed on the World Heritage List since 2001. Culturally, and historically rich with its Crusader, Ottoman and British Mandate architectural remains, …
It's Monday! So here is my vegetarian recipe for Meatless Monday. I made these mushroom and barley burgers twice last week. They are good :) The quantity in the recipe here make 4 burgers. They are ready in about 60 to 75 minutes according to how long it will take for the barley to be …
Around Halloween I saw many nice recipes from bloggers using canned pumpkin purée. I would like to try and make some of them but it's nearly impossible to find some in Israel. So I simply made this wholefood, homemade pumpkin purée from fresh pumpkin I found at the souq. It couldn't be …