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vegan gluten-free dairy-free buckwheat porridge oatmeal with apple pear compote breakfast



Preparation time: 15 mins
Main ingredients: buckwheat, banana, apple, pear
difficulty level: easy
serves: 1-2
suitable for: vegan, lactose-free, gluten-free, nut-free, low-fat

Hi Friends, i hope you all had a cozy Christmas and a not-as-quarrellsome time with your family :)

Usually porridge is made of oats (hence the name oatmeal, duh), but for this porridge recipe I experimented with cooked buckwheat for the first time, cooking buckwheat groats in soy milk with sweet banana, home-made apple pear compote and fresh blueberries.

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It's not always easy to find a vegan option at Christmas parties and dinners, especially when it comes to cookies, pastries and other sweets, so here is my suggestion for a filling Christmas meal (either sweet as a dessert or savory).

I surfed the google waves and scrolled threw several recipes for vegan buckwheat waffles (by the way, if you want to know the most gorgeous post on winter waffles, go and admire the Snow day waffles, two ways by the talented Ashlae). In the end i opted for the Easiest Buckwheat Waffles (Vegan, Gluten-Free) recipe. Because i'm a lazy little panda. I like it easy.

It has taken me approximately 8 months to bust out the waffle maker again that i used to make my Oatmeal Waffles last Easter. When it comes to new clothes and new appliances I kind of get intimidated, i want to preserve the "newness", and it takes a while until i finally try it out. But for Christmas - or actually for Saint Nicholas - i new that waffles were in order!

My Oatmeal Waffles back in April were thick, moist and chunky. Also nice, but this time i wanted something less stuffing, less gooey, something more crispy and thin. Like good Italian pizza. You know?

So instead of oats i went for buckwheat this time, and the texture was much lighter with a crispier exterior. Not bread-like or chunky at all! 

Warm waffles, hot cherries, melting coconut whipped cream... mhhh.

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I am a sucker for anything baked anyway (cake, cookies, pancakes, waffles, you name it), but gingerbread gets me every time. If it weren't for my blog, this batch of gingerbread cookies wouldn't even have lasted the day, haha! 

The recipe is very simple, and the cookies are incredibly soft, chewy, and - most importantly - vegan AND wheat-free!

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Lemonade is usually associated with hot summer days. However, it's not summer any more (at least not on my hemisphere), and since my doctor advised me to drink warm water, especially in the mornings, i thought why not make a warm lemonade? 

Citrus fruits are usually in season when it's wintertime over here, and the Vitamin C helps improve your immune system and prevent or treat common winter illnesses such as a cold. This drink is not a great way to hydrate and regenerate your body, but the orange makes it actually quite appropriate for the Christmas spirit, especially when you add a bit of ginger and/or a cinnamon stick!

You can easily turn this into a cooling summer lemonade of course by using cold water and chilling it in the fridge afterwards :)

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gluten-free raw vegan brownies blondies




Hello loves,
as i type this i'm getting more and more nervous about our trip to South Africa - when you read this, i will already be there, so yeah, i'm speaking to you from the past, hehe.

Anyway. 

These almond butter blondies are kind of a marriage between my No-bake Dirty Blondies and the Raw Caramel Fingers i made a while ago. They were a gift for my beloved boy, who took me to the Lion King musical in Hamburg on our anniversary. I don't know what else to say, i love this guy, and i feel like we've been through so much already  even though we don't know each other for that long. Funerals, birthdays, weddings, vacations, burnt-down kitchens, walks through all seasons, nocturnal conversations in bed and much, much more...

This is for you, J.

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Preparation time: 30 mins
Main ingredients: hokkaido pumpkin, coconut milk, curry, potato
difficulty level: easy
serves: 4
suitable for: vegan, lactose-free, gluten-free, paleo, low-sodium

I'm so sad pumpkin season is officially over :( This curry pumpkin soup was on point! Just veggies and spices, and aargh Hokkaido pumpkin is so frickin delicious! (excuse my language) Sweet, creamy, and satisfying. This is basically the simplified version of the Asian Pumpkin Cream Soup i made for my birthday. 

The recipe is actually so easy to make and so creamy and delicious that i don't really know what else to say about it other than: i hope you like coconut because the coconut milk makes this about 100% better!


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Hello my fellow crafters!

Long time no DIY. 

So today i come to you with a tutorial on how to decorate china ware. Because let's face it. What's better on a gloomy November day than doing something crafty whilst listening to music or an audio book? 

Also, you will be using your personalized cup (for warming tea, hot chocolate or coffee) or your bowl (for warm oatmeal, soup, cereal, casserole) a lot during winter time. Or you could make this a present for Christmas! For your mother, child, partner, grandma...

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banana split, banana, chocolate, strawberry, vanilla, ice cream, dessert, vegan


Quick banana split without ice cream maker

Preparation time: 15 mins + 3 hours freezing time
Main ingredients: banana, strawberry, vanilla, cacao
difficulty level: easy
serves: 1-2
suitable for: vegan, lactose-free, gluten-free, nut-free, soy-free, paleo, raw food, low-fat

Yep, this messy heap of deliciousness is a Banana Split. My very first one actually.

There are many variations, but the classic banana split is made with scoops of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice cream served in a row between a banana that is cut in half lengthwise (hence the name). In no particular order, pineapple, strawberry and chocolate sauces are spooned over the strawberry, chocolate, and vanilla ice cream. It is garnished with crushed nuts, whipped cream, and maraschino cherry.

My variation also has vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. It even has mango cubes, crushed nuts, pear, shaved chocolate and homemade dark chocolate sauce! I will probably have to make this dish again because you can barely recognize the banana split as it is completely buried in toppings, lol!

(For my next one, i want to work with raspberries, caramel sauce, shaved chocolate, caramelized bananas(!), perhaps coconut whipped cream and vanilla ice cream only.)

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Preparation time: 20 mins
Main ingredients: oats, zucchini, banana
difficulty level: easy
serves: 1
suitable for: vegan, lactose-free, gluten-free, nut-free, low-fat

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I share many recipes on my blog. Most of them are simple, some of them more time-consuming, some of them garnished with love. However, i only post 2 times a week usually, adding up to 8 posts a month. That means, you will only see a maximum of 2 meals out of 21 per week, or 8 meals out of 84 per month. The remaining 76 meals are not photographed, undocumented, and usually not very photogenic to be honest, lol.

So. I'm a student and i do not eat off brownies, cake, chocolate ice cream, truffles and pancakes (though i wouldn't mind too much).

Instead, i base my meals on plain carbs (oats, millet, potatoes, sweet potatoes, rice, quinoa), vegetables (broccoli, peas, carrots, zucchini, PUMPKIN!) and fruits (banana, apples, pears, berries). And the best thing is: The least expensive food items - at least in my country - are rice, oats, potatoes, vegetables and bananas.

Besides money, another factor is time. Most of my meals will be easy and quick to make because i usually come home starving, and i don't have the nerve nor the time to spend 1 or 2 hours in the kitchen in order to prepare sushi rolls, pizza, falafel, burgers, banana bread or whatnot. So my "usual suspects" are something as shown in the picture above, simple but real tasty: potato wedges, steamed broccoli and roasted carrots.

As much as i love to include dates, nut butters, cacao powder, matcha powder, maca, almonds, walnuts, chia seeds, stevia, coconut blossom sugar and quinoa in my recipes - you don't need them on a regular basis. Simplicity is key!

Here are some options for meals when you are on a budget, taken from the archive of "Maisy's unphotogenic pictures", along with some tips on how to save money:


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Preparation time: 20 mins
Main ingredients: oats, buckwheat, banana, non-dairy milk
difficulty level: easy
serves: 2
suitable for: vegan, lactose-free, gluten-free, nut-free, low-fat

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// 24 //



Hello my lovelies,

on Monday i turned 24 (didn't manage to publish a novel by 23 unfortunately, but oh well), on Sunday i held a small family get-together and an "un-birthday" buffet. Completely vegan of course. 

The buffet, which was homemade - mostly by my boyfriend and me - , consisted of an Asian Pumpkin Soup, Millet Avocado Bean Tofu Salad, Chickpea Tofu Salad, Dark Chocolate Zucchini Brownies + one Pear Cinnamon Cake not pictured above, and condiments such as baguette, hummus, pumpkin hummus and homemade herb butter (the only non-vegan part of our buffet). EVERYTHING except for half the herb butter was gone after three hours!

Here are some buffet impressions and ingredients:

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This is one of the things that my boyfriend and i took with us on our hiking trip back in April, and i've made this recipe several times now, so i really wanted to share it with you! It's free of gluten, dairy, refined sugar and even free of nuts, if you like. This is a true "lembas" bread (lord of the rings reference) because it is dense, filling, and a bit on the dry side. To make it more moist, add more bananas or less flour, or use ground nuts instead of any flour. 

The trick is to use only the ripest bananas you can find. Once the skins start to develop freckles and the fruits are just a little too soft for pleasurable snacking, then it's banana bread time. Letting your bananas ripen even longer - until the skins are brown and the fruit falls apart when you peel it - will make your bread even more strongly banana-flavoured and richer.

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Preparation time: 10 mins + 50 minutes baking time
Main ingredients: walnuts, almonds, apple
difficulty level: easy, fool-proof
makes: 1 loaf
suitable for: vegan, lactose-free, gluten-free, low carb


This is the other bread/cake that we brought along on our hiking trip through the highest mountains of Northern Germany (as well as our weekend trip to Rügen Island). Such perfect provisions for a journey! I like the one-bowl simplicity of this recipe, and i love love love the outcome. So nice and moist and juicy and satisfying.

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Quick ice cream without ice cream maker

Preparation time: 5 mins + 3 hours freezing time
Main ingredients: banana, white chocolate
difficulty level: easy
serves: 1-2
suitable for: vegan, lactose-free, gluten-free, paleo, nut-free, and delicious "even so"


I love chocolate. 

Can relate? Well, welcome to the club of the ever-cursed "hate it and love it but can't stop it".

Also, if you have taken a closer look at my blog, you will not that I love ice cream. It's no secret that i even ate nicecream for breakfast every day for a while. 

You can imagine that combining chocolate and ice cream into one gorgeous breakfast meal was perfection for me, all vegan of course :)

This is not exactly "healthy", and i do try to stay away from chocolate or make my own chocolate creations using dates and cocoa powder (check out my Chocolate Pudding or my Dark Chocolate Brownies or my Double Chocolate Ice Cream), but sometimes i just need a piece of real chocolate to melt on my tongue and make my brain produce the happiness hormone serotonin.

The chocolate i'm using for this recipe is from a brand i recently discovered, called iChoc White Vanilla, which sell vegan organic chocolates in at least four flavours which i've tried all of them.


Ingredients

3 large ripe bananas, peeled, chopped and frozen
around 1/2 bar (50g) vegan white chocolate, chopped
content of 1 bag of vanilla green tea OR 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
dash of soy milk or almond milk (optional)

chocolate chunks and buckwheat groats to garnish

also:
- a high-speed blender or food processor (NO NEED FOR AN ICE CREAM MAKER!)


Instructions

Way too simple to resist: Throw your frozen banana pieces into a high-speed blender or food processor (i always use the latter), and blend. Add a dash of water or plant milk to get the blender running. Then add the chocolate pieces and blend some more. Lastly, add the content of one bag of vanilla green tea - or simply vanilla extract. Blend once more, spoon into a bowl and dig in!





♥

Maisy



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http://be-alice.blogspot.com/2015/09/no-bake-dirty-blondies-raw-vegan-gluten.html




These blondies were made in my PJs. 

I don't know if this says something about the sluttishness of these "dirty blondies" *, but I definitely recommend rocking the kitchen in your jammies while singing along to These Boots Are Made For Walkin' by Nancy Sinatra. Great song. Which will hopefully inspire you to create some greatness yourself as you are prancing through the kitchen, holding your spatula like a microphone. 

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After making Buckwheat Wraps with "Aioli" Bean Cream + Spinach Pesto i decided to make my own vegan, gluten-free Falafel served with homemade flatbread and salad.

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As i was procrastinating by thinking about what to make/bake for Mother's Day as well as my boyfriend and I's monthly anniversary, i stumbled across the 5-ingredient "Ferreraw Rocher" truffles by Erika @loveliveraw on instagram - who by the way is the most beautiful human on earth and a huge inspiration to me. Unfortunately - or fortunately? - she didn't give any instructions or measurements on how to create her delicious looking truffles (the only instructions are to "mix dates, hazelnuts and cacao"), so i had to come up with my own. #fromscratchwithlove

So here it is!

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Preparation time: 5 mins
Main ingredients: strawberry, banana, oats
difficulty level: easy
makes: ~ 750ml
suitable for: vegan, lactose-free, gluten-free, nut-free, soy-free, paleo, raw food, low-fat

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Hello lovely,
do you remember my 2014 Ice Cream Galore? Then you know what time it is!

The agenda is the same as last year: over the course of July i presented to you a total of 21 raw vegan Ice Creams. Yep, that's right. 21 raw, vegan, dairy-free ice creams made of plants (or rather: fruits) only! Different ones than last year, obviously. Because i actually do eat nicecream for breakfast pretty much every day, and try to change up the flavour as often as possible. The possibilities are endless!

So there was a blog post every single day for the month of July, until you get sick of it - which let's hope you won't. I joked about changing my blog name to The Ice Cream Girl last year, but right now i'm thinking, maybe The Nice (Cream) Girl would be even better, haha! (still joking though)

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https://be-alice.blogspot.com/2015/07/after-eight-mint-chocolate-ice-cream.html


The most amazing ice cream without ice cream maker

Preparation time: 10 mins + 3 hours freezing time
Main ingredients: banana, mint, cacao
difficulty level: easy
serves: 1-2
suitable for: vegan, lactose-free, gluten-free, nut-free, soy-free, paleo, raw food, low-fat

I'm not sure if the pictures do this knock-your-socks-off ice cream any justice. Because this might just be my Number One favourite!! Hands down, this is the best-est ice cream creation i have come up with so far. It's seriously soo good, i can't even put into words, you just gotta make it yourself! 

You should probably be fond of chocolate and mint though, cause this is basically "After Eight" in ice cream form. Nomnomnom! I love love love the mixture of the fresh mint and the sweet chocolate... and the texture of the brownie bites of course which are just to die for! 

I don't know what else to say except for: make this. eat it. cherish it.

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Quick 4-ingredient ice cream without ice cream maker

Preparation time: 10 mins + 3 hours freezing time
Main ingredients: banana, mint, lime
difficulty level: easy
serves: 1
suitable for: vegan, lactose-free, gluten-free, nut-free, soy-free, paleo, raw food, low-fat

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Quick 2-ingredient ice cream without ice cream maker

Preparation time: 5 mins + 3 hours freezing time
Main ingredients: banana, raspberry
difficulty level: easy
serves: 1-2
suitable for: vegan, lactose-free, gluten-free, nut-free, soy-free, paleo, raw food, low-fat

After experimenting with banana-free Raspberry Sherbet and whipping up both Raspberry + Matcha Mint Ice Cream, Raspberry + Chocolate Ice Cream AND a Raspberry Swirl Ice Cream over a year ago, it is time to make some proper clean Raspberry Ice Cream! Don't you think? So there it is. Hot pink, healthy and gorgeous.

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Hi to all of you little earthlings :)

Following My Little Garden (Earth Day) project in April, i want to show you the progress that our balcony has made since then! For those of you who are new to my blog, this planting project is part of my Day Zero Project, task 8 being to "Plant a windowsill herb garden", task 13 being to "Plant tomatoes and or other fruit and vegetables" and task 75 being to "Plant a tree on Earth Day". So far, task 8 and task 75 have been successfully accomplished, but task 13 (planting tomatoes and or other fruit and vegetables) have not really come to flower yet, so to say :)

But that changes now! On our tiny but sunny balcony and on my windowsills, we have planted thyme, lettuce, chives and parsley (not pictured), lavender and two tomato plants! And they're growing like crazy. See for yourself!

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Quick ice cream without ice cream maker

Preparation time: 5 mins + 3 hours freezing time
Main ingredients: banana, melon, vanilla
difficulty level: easy
serves: 1-2
suitable for: vegan, lactose-free, gluten-free, nut-free, soy-free, paleo, raw food, low-fat

Honestly, i didn't think the Honeydew Melon Ice Cream from a few weeks ago could be any better than it already was. But i was wrong. 

By accident - because i had nothing else at hand, and because i had accidentally ripped open the bag - i ended up adding the content of one Green Tea Vanilla bag to the ice cream, and it was so so good! The sweetness of the melon, and the vanilla flavour of the green tea bag work together perfectly! 

And the little spots from the tea leaves actually look like vanilla bean specks, don't they? :) 

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Quick ice cream without ice cream maker

Preparation time: 5 mins + 3 hours freezing time
Main ingredients: banana, cacao, mint
difficulty level: easy
serves: 1
suitable for: vegan, lactose-free, gluten-free, nut-free, paleo, raw food, low-fat

I eat nana ice cream pretty much all day erry day! Mmm mm so good! And this here is one of my current go-to nicecreams. It is creamy and chocolaty but also sort of "fresh" and "fluffy" due to the added soy yogurt and the mint, and it's not too sweet.

The consistency is gorgeously fluffy and creamy, and the combination of mint and chocolate has always been my favourite :) It doesn't really taste like "after eight" yet, but close. In any case, it's delicious and will make your morning better. Try it!

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