This recipe was created when I made almond milk for my daughter and tried to use the almond pulp. I was literally mixing into this recipe what I thought would taste good. Turned out these cupcakes are worthy to be on my website. They are really yummy and are super easy to make. The big ones I made in two layers. 1st layer: 1 cup of almond pulp (it can be 1 cup of almonds or almond flour.) 1 cup of coconut flour (can be pretty much any other nut flour) 2 Tbsps of maple syrup 1

I am a big lover of veggie broth. I love a cup of hot broth any time during the day. Since I am a vegan and a big label reader, it became impossible for me to find a good ready to use broth. I went through many different brands trying to find one that only has healthy ingredients. Well... since I'm posting this recipe you know I didn't find any... That is how I decided to develop my own recipe. I searched online and tried different recipes, added my own ingredients and readju

This cake is very easy to make. It has fresh-(slightly sour)-sweetish taste and is now my favorite recipe to go with. It has easy to buy ingredients, and you probably have most of them in your house at all times. It has 2 layers, so you will need to make each layer separately. You do not have to wash your processor cup between layers. You can process the next layer in the same cup. I used this kind of pan to shape the cake. I love it because it helps me to remove the cake wit

This is a very healthy version of a strawberry poppyseed dressing. It goes great with any salad but my most favorite way to eat it is to serve over fresh alfalfa sprouts. Together they taste so good that it's hard to stop eating. Unlike store bought dressings, this one doesn't have sugar, vinegar and unnecessary chemicals added. All ingredients are natural and healthy to consume. The taste is sour-sweet. To make this dressing you will need to blend together in a blender the f

If you love eggplants as much as I love them, you will love these stewed dish. It can be served as is, with salad, with mashed potato, on piece of bread or in halved red sweet peppers. Ingredients: 1 large eggplant cut into smaller cubes 1 medium beat cut into cubes 1 large onion chopped fresh cilantro, dill or parsley 1/4 cup soy sauce salt to taste 1/2 tsp black pepper juice of 1 lemon 5-6 Tbsp vegetable oil - Stew eggplant, beats and onion in olive or avocado oil until alm

Hands down one of my favorite salads filled with nutrients and surprising combination of ingredients which taste perfect together! Ingredients: 3 large avocados 1 medium red onion 1 large cucumber 1 cup homemade sauerkraut (click here for my recipe) Salt to taste 1/2 tsp black pepper cilantro, dill or parsley (optional) Sour-cream (click here for my vegan recipe) Chop all vegetables and mix together. For vegan version I recommend my recipe of sour-cream. You can use a regular

This is full of nutrients, healthy option of a pasta salad. For this recipe you can use any of your favorite pastas, I recommend legume versions. Ingredients: about 10 oz of uncooked pasta of your choice 2 Tbsp lemon juice 6 Tbsp olive oil 1 tsp salt 1/2 tsp black pepper 1/4 tsp cumin 1/3 cup tahini 1 cup slightly roasted or sauteed red bell peppers (should still be firm) 4 tsp pine nuts (optional) 2 Tbsp minced parsley - Cook pasta according to instructions of manufacturer,

If you love eggplants, you will absolutely fall in love with this dish made with fried eggplant and fresh vegetables. Ingredients: 1 large eggplant sliced into 1/3 inch wide slices 1 large tomato 1 medium onion 1/3 of a bunch cilantro (or parsley) 1/2 tsp of garlic powder or 1 tsp of fresh garlic 1/2 tsp salt Vegetable oil of your choice (to fry eggplant) 3-4 full spoons of sour-cream (For recipe CLICK HERE) - Fry eggplant on your favorite vegetable oil. - Chop tomatoes, onio

For this recipe you will only need 5 ingredients. I use it for many salads, pastas and other dishes. You can use it as is or by adding garlic, green herbs and a little bit of water to make it a salad dressing. Ingredients: 1 cup of soaked overnight cashew nuts 1/2 Tbsp nutritional yeast 1/4 tsp salt 1/2 cup water Juice of 1 lemon Blend it all together in a blender and serve. This is one of the simplest and the most "sour-cream like" tasting vegan version. Options: You can sub

I came up with this recipe by a pure accident while was trying to be creative and make something that could be used as cheese for a vegan macaroni and cheese option. No, it doesn't taste like cheese but it turned out to be a truly the best pumpkin soup ever! I had to force myself to walk away from it and stop eating. My whole family loved it too. I am confident even those who don't like pumpkin, will love this soup. If you are using a heating blender, you can put all ingredie

My daughter Sasha, who is 6, likes making her own dishes. Some of them turn out so yummy that she wants me to share them with the world. Here is her fruit salad she made completely on her own to surprise mommy. It's really yummy! You have to try it! Ingredients: Strawberries sliced Raspberries Bananas sliced Raisins Hemp seeds Coconut flakes Granola cereal Dark chocolate shaved Maple syrup for dressing Amounts are not strict. Just mix all together and enjoy this fruit salad f

This is a highly nutritious soup which is also anti-parasitic, alkaline and is good for the whole family. I used blender to cook pumpkin puree. If your blender doesn't have soup setting, you can use instant pot or a regular stove and pot. Add together below ingredients, cook until ready and blend or smash pumpkin pieces. Slice any kind of pumpkin into smaller cubes. About 2 lbs or 1 kg Add: 1 tsp of any salt you like. I added black Himalayan 2 Tbsp onion. Fresh or dry. 1 Tbsp

Very light, simple, easy, healthy and yummy cookies for breakfast or snack, with only 3 ingredients. Preheat oven to 350F (180C). It is very important to put cookies into already hot oven. They don't turn out right if you put them in before oven reaches to right temperature. Ingredients: 2 ripe bananas. Best is when they already start having dark spots on skin. 1,5 cup of oat flakes 1/2 of any nuts or/and raisins Mix all well with spoon and put small portions on baking paper,

This cheese is very easy to make right from first time and is very delicious. Even non-vegans love it. Just put into blender all below ingredients and blend on low power. The mix will be thick. You will need to often pause blender and push mix from walls of the cup to the center. Ingredients: 1 lbs (450 gm) of firm tofu 2 Tbsp of soy sauce (or any milk, or water after tofu) 2 Tbsp lemon juice 2 Tbsp nutritional yeast 2 Tbsp of coconut oil 1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar 1 Tbsp whi

Here are couple of ideas for what you can do with pulp left after juicing. Fruit Pulp If you made all fruit juice, you can add honey or maple syrup, hemp seeds or whole sunflower seeds, a little bit of almond or peanut butter to it, mix well and eat as a raw porridge or as a paste on a toast. Veggie Pulp For veggie pulp you can add garlic, vegenaise, Nama Shoyu or pink/black salt and any spices you like. Mix well and serve on a piece of toast. Here is an example of such paste

Highly nutritious and healthy salad, which tastes really good. You will need: 2 medium beets, peeled and cut into 4-5 parts, then warmed up in oven on 125-135 F (50-60 C) for 15 minutes. It shouldn't be cooked but slightly softened. Such beets are easier for digestive system (especially for children's). When ready, cut it into small cubes or long strings. 1 medium raw carrot, peeled and grated on fine grater 1/2 of a large cucumber, peeled and grated on fine grater 1 small zu

This is a very accidental dip I made, which turned out to be so good that my family couldn't leave the table until ate it all. Now it's our favorite dip. I had left over chunky spicy guacamole and some sunflower seeds I soaked couple of days ago but never used (Always refrigerate soaked seeds and nuts!) What you need: 3-4 full tablespoons of guacamole (I used spicy one) 1 full tablespoon of vegenaise, or any mayo you have 2 full tablespoons of soaked sunflower seeds, or pine

I like making my own salad dressings instead of buying them in a store. It helps to avoid harmful chemicals and preservatives, This recipe has 2 steps. First, you make a dry mix, which you can store in your pantry as a ready to go any time you need Ranch dressing. Second, you will mix it with wet ingredients. I am giving you 2 versions. One is thicker and you can use it for Ranch dip with your favorite vegetables or dishes. Second version is not as thick and is best for salad

A perfect soup for hot summer. It is full of nutrients and is very delicious. Okroshka is a traditional summer soup in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other European countries. It is always made with boiled potato, eggs, some kind of meat, radish, cucumbers and other ingredients. It is never boiled and is always served cold. I would like to offer you a completely raw vegan version of it, as it has a lot more nutrients which are responsible for immunity, anemia, heart health and

Do you know you can ferment beet greens into a delicious side for your entree? Plus, as any pickled vegetable which is pickled in the right way, without use of chemicals and vinegar, beet greens also develop probiotic. You will nourish your intestine while pleasing your taste buds. Ingredients: Beet greens from 6-8 beets Garlic - 5 medium size cloves Chilly pepper - 1 small fresh or 1 tsp dry Black peppercorns - 10 pcs Dill seeds - 1 tsp Brine: Water - 1 gallon (3,5 litters)

This is by far the most delicious way to eat dates according to my daughter who believes these are candies. 10 large dates 1/3 cup coconut butter 1/4 cup hemp seeds 2-3 Tbsp maple syrup or any other sweetener you prefer Cut dates along way but don't cut them completely into two halves. Prepare the stuffing. Mix coconut butter with hemp seeds and maple syrup well. Stuff dates and close them tightly. Make sure you hide a few for yourself as these will disappear really fast :)

1/3 cup raw almond nuts (soaked over 12 hours in cold water) 1/3 cup raw sunflower seeds (also soaked) 1/3 cup of raw cashews (soaked as well) Juice of 2 large lemons (or 3 medium size) 1/2 head of romaine lettuce (or 3 celery sticks) 1 whole tomato 1/2 cup of any bell peppers, chopped 1/4 of large onion 1/2 cup chopped parsley 1/2 cup chopped cilantro 2 garlic cloves 3 tsp pink salt (you can skip salt if have health issues) 1/3 cup water Throw all together in a blender and b

I am originally Russian, If you have Russian or Ukrainian friends, you are almost guaranteed heard of our traditional soup called Borscht. It is a stew-like soup with a lot of white cabbage in it, beats (optional), carrots, onions, tomatoes. Some add beans. It is served with sour cream. Today I want to share with you one of RAW versions of Borscht, which will be new even for Russian and Ukrainian people. This soup is ideal for summer hot weather and is full of healthy, unproc

This is a very good substitute to a dairy cream cheese. You add any flavor you like to it, such as blueberries or garlic, chives, etc. 1 cup raw cashews, soaked for at least 12 hours in cold water 1/2 tsp salt 1 Tbsp of fresh lemon juice for plain or sweet additions. For salty additions add 2 Tbsp of lemon juice Blend all ingredients in a blender till smooth. Keeps in refrigerator for 2-3 days.

This is my favorite way to substitute dairy-based sour cream, which creates a lot of mucus in our body. This one doesn't taste exactly like sour cream but it has its texture and is actually much tastier when you use it in dishes where normally would use the regular sour cream. 1 1/2 cups raw cashews 2/4 cups raw sunflower seeds 1/4 cup raw almonds Soak all nuts for at least 12 hours in cold water. Drain water and put seeds into blender Add 2 cups of any plant-based unsweetene

I must say it is the best homemade substitute I got so far, out of all that I experimented with. If I figure a better recipe down the road I will sure share with you. For now it seems like a pretty good alternative, It is very easy to make too. It doesn't really taste like an egg. More like an egg pancake. It's also very filling and goes great for omelets or scrambled eggs, or anywhere else where you would use eggs. Blend all the ingredients in a blender. Make a thin but not

I do not buy salad dressings. Instead I make them myself. Some of the dressings are so incredibly easy to make that you won't even think twice about buying another full of chemicals and preservatives salad dressing in a store. I recommend you buy all needed ingredients and have them available any time you need to make a dressing. I went a little further and just mix all dry ingredients together in a bigger container. When I need to make the dressing, I just add about 5-6 Tbs

We love salads in my family. We literally have them almost every day and at times few times a day. Salads for me though it's not just lettuce and tomatoes. Salads are pretty much any raw vegetables I can throw in together and put some dressing over them. I make dressings myself too and one of these days I will share some recipes with you. Today I would like to share one of my favorite salads which is so high in nutrition that it could replace the whole dinner and make you fee

Do you sometimes feel like there is nothing to eat, because there is always something bad about almost any food you can buy in a store? Well, unfortunately it is true and it's the reality of our life. It gets really challenging at times to wrap your head around all those ingredients on the food labels and the more you learn about them, the more you feel like there is not much healthy to eat. I genuinely believe there is an absolute way to eat anything you want and not to worr

What is in your ketchup? One person once told me, "what do you mean I don't eat veggies at all? How about ketchup? It's made out of tomatoes, right?" Right! It is in fact made out of tomatoes. Heavily processed tomatoes, to be exact. It also has distilled vinegar, which is very very bad for us. Every single time you eat anything with distilled vinegar (it's pretty much all of vinegar including balsamic and except for Apple Cider) your blood cells become sticky and a lot of th

I tried many recipes and most of the time it doesn't really taste like real butter. This recipe I am going to share with you turned out so close that It's even hard to tell the difference. It is also very delicious This butter can last for a long time in your freezer and for about a week in refrigerator. It doesn't have any of those nasty unhealthy chemicals they often add to vegan butters in stores. Super easy to make and tastes like real butter. Just mix all the below ingre

These are the pickles which will be free of all the store chemicals and vinegar. And they will also have good probiotics in them. Pretty much any pickled in the right way veggie will make probiotics. Some less some more. The most important part in it is not to add vinegar and not to put it under high temperature. Stores add a lot of white vinegar and used hot water upto 3 times over cucumbers in order to kill all bacteria on them. For this reason they are not as healthy (if h

Do you have a cat? You know how crazy cats go from catnip. Do you know that catnip can help people to solve different health issues? It soothes stomach and nerves and helps to have good night sleep. Catnip is also used to treat bronchitis and diarrhea. Don't tell your cat who told you about this 😬😂 1 cup of boiling water 1 tsp of dry catnip Steep catnip in boiling water for 20 minutes. Take 1/4 cup at a time, over several hours, up to 1 cup a day for a child and up to 2 cup

In this article I want to share with you how to make the very best probiotic possible, with your own hands, at home and for very little money. What are probiotics? They are live microorganisms, which help gut flora to restore or improve. If you like taking probiotics, you probably know how much it can cost and how many different options are available on the market. I would like to share with you the recipe of something that can beat even the very best probiotic product you ca

This sauce tastes really delicious with salads and pasta, in a sandwich and over cooked vegetables. Just add all below ingredients into a blender and blend until creamy. Keeps for 3 days in refrigerator. Ingredients: 1/4 cup lemon juice 2 cups cashews (priory soaked for at least 12 hours in cold or room temperature water) 3 whole celery sticks 1/2 cup chopped bell pepper 1/4 cup chopped onion 2 Tbsp fresh parsley, minced 1/4 cup chopped tomato 1 Tbsp minced garlic Enjoy, an

Takes not more than 10 minutes to prepare and 23-25 minutes baking on 325F. Ingredients: 1 1/3 cups almond flour 2/3 cup coconut flour 3/4 cup sugar 2 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon coconut oil Any egg substitute equaled to 4 eggs 3/4 cup almond milk or other milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon I used mixer on slower setting to beat until well blended. but hand beating will be just fine. Bake on wax paper. You do no

Here is one of such salads which turns out super nutritional and tastes good. Ingredients: Carrots Black Spanish Radish Butternut Squash (raw) Hemp seeds (can put any other seeds. Only make sure they are raw.) Truffle oil (only for flavor) A pinch of black salt *For veggies can be zucchini, raw white potato, white cabbage and many others Grind carrots, radish and butternut squash, add hemp seeds approximately 2-3 Tbsp, salt to taste and about 1 Tbsp of Truffle oil for flavor.

A super quick treat and a healthy substitute for candies. Ingredients: Dates Any nuts (I use raw almonds) Coconut butter mixed with a little honey (optional) Cut a date along side, insert one nut and close it :). As simple as that. Tastes really good. You can experiment with different stuffings. Naturally dates taste the best with walnuts.

Ingredients: Spaghetti squash Bell peppers (any color) Green peas Onion Carrots Tomatoes Mushrooms (optional) Spinach (optional) Pasta sauce (optional) Salt to taste Black pepper to taste Red hot pepper (optional) Any herbs to your taste 1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F 2) Cut squash in 2 parts. Remove seeds. Grease with avocado oil. Sprinkle with salt and put in oven the cut side down on the pan until completely soft turning. I use avocado oil and coconut oil for cooking. T