A Vegan easy, hearty, filling, protein-packed and flavor-filled Italian Bean Soup which requires only a few ingredients, just like my Nonna used to make!
Italian Bean Soup, because winter is not over yet
Top 24 Vegan Valentine’s Day Recipes
Happy Valentine’s day to all lovers, singles & undecided out there. Whether you celebrate it or not, love it or hate it, once again I could not refrain from bringing you another incredible round-up of all the marvelous Vegan Valentine’s Day recipes out there after last year’s epic post. These recipes will be particularly useful if you: A) forgot all about Valentine’s Day and are in need of a last-minute gift; B) previously decided not to give into the consumerism-based gift-giving tradition but still want to make something special for someone special; C) are looking for a fun activity to do together with your loved one – and cooking is...
Last minute gift idea: homemade Vegan Irish Cream Baileys + freebie
Make this luscious creamy homemade vegan irish cream baileys with just a few simple ingredients & print the free labels for a unique last-minute gift idea!
50+ Epic Vegan Thanksgiving recipes
It’s that time of the year again, the golden colors of Autumn and slowly leaving space to the first snowflakes and that means only one thing: the holiday parties’ season is about to begin! What, already?! :-O …So once again, I’ve gathered the BEST of the best Vegan Thanksgiving recipes in order to give you, my friends, 50+ Epic Vegan Thanksgiving recipes. I’ve asked some of my fellow blogger ladies that belong to the fantastic “Finding Vegan” project to share with me and my readers (you!) their favorite Thanksgiving recipes. The response was overwhelming and I had to select a few among the 100+ recipes that I received. So, whether...
Easy Vegan lasagna – like my mom used to make, but Vegan
Delicious, easy vegan lasagna recipe, quick to assemble and yummy to eat. Perfect for holiday gatherings and Sunday meals. Short ingredient list, too.
Lunch in 10: Vegan Alfredo with hemp seeds and tomatoes
Now that the days are getting warmer, simple, quick lunches are a must in our household. This is the perfect example of a balanced meal packed with proteins and that will keep you full for hours: a creamy pasta dish loaded with tomatoes complete with super-healthy hemp seeds. The “Alfredo sauce” is ridiculously easy to make and delicious, too – it’s rich, flavorful and velvety: it’s made from a packaged organic rice cream for convenience, garlic powder and nutritional yeast. The idea for this recipe came from an amazing soy-based Swedish fettucine pasta. Fettuccine are probably among my favorite types of pasta, but as the Italian tradition wants, they often contain eggs,...
Cruelty-free Mother’s Day Gift Ideas
Whether you’re the daughter to a mom, a friend to a mother, or a mother yourself it’s always fun to spoil the special moms in our lives the cruelty-free way. To help you with your gift giving for that extra special mom that probably has everything and who’s interested in living a more compassionate lifestyle, this Mother’s Day I’ve created a list of my favorite Cruelty-free Mother’s Day Gift Ideas to spoil that beautiful Vegan mama in your life :) Vegan Snack Box – $25* from: Urthbox – Plus Special Mothers Day Deal: $10 Off any UrthBox Subscription | Vegan Farm Charm 24 Karat Gold plated charm – $49.00* from:...
Rich and creamy Vegan coffee ice cream
One thing that you’ll find out once you go Vegan, is that you will want to experiment with food much more than before, most people agree on this. Your taste buds get “detoxed”, you become curious in the kitchen and you’ll try ingredients you’ve never tried before. In this sense, a Vegan diet is much more varied than a “standard” one. I could give you hundreds of examples, but I’ve never thought I’d make my own version of a Vegan cream cheese (super easy, too, stay tuned for the recipe soon) or my own Vegan ice cream at home. And yet here I am, happily churning away some rich and...
The easiest 4-ingredient, vitamin-packed Spring smoothie 🌸
This easy-to-make, 4-ingredient vitamin-packed, pink-colored "Welcome Spring smoothie" is the perfect way to fuel your energy, body and spirit at once
Easy 4-ingredient Vegan scones
This is a super easy, little recipe that will deliver warm, soft-hearted Vegan scones in under 15 minutes. What's not to love?
Valentine’s Day Vegan recipes roundup ♥
Hey my beautiful friends, so Valentine’s day is just around the corner. Love it? Hate it? ….I so want to hate it but I always end up preparing at least one special dish, usually a dessert, not because it’s a special day (when you’re in love, everyday is a special day) but because cooking is a way to express my love (again those Italian roots, you know?). That’s why these Valentine’s Day Vegan recipes come in handy! Whether you love it, hate it, loathe it, if you want to spoil someone (your other half, your best friend, yourself?) I’m sure you’ll find one good reason to spread some Vegan love...
Vanilla custard pots
Custard is one of the most famous desserts of the world, and it can be easily declined in many flavors: classic lemon, sweet vanilla, naughty chocolate, sophisticated green tea and so on. The majority of people still thinks you need eggs and dairy products to achieve that perfect luscious texture, but this couldn’t be farther from the truth! Let me show you how with these Vanilla custard pots :) Just like you don’t need eggs to make a perfectly fluffy cake (ladies and gentlemen, proof 1 & 2) you don’t really need any animal-derived ingredients to cook just about anything, in this case you only need to take advantage of what...
Vegan sponge cake
This super simple vanilla cake will be a crowd pleaser: fluffy and moist on the inside, nice and golden on the outside, this Vegan cake brings back childhood memories!
50 epic Vegan Christmas recipes
If you think that being Vegan makes the holiday gatherings a challenge, read on! Whether you are hosting the Christmas meal or bringing a dish while visiting a friend or family, I want to make sure you’ll have plenty of yummy, vegan foods to cook & share. So here we go, 50 epic Vegan recipes for Christmas or for the holidays… are you ready? Jolly Appetizers: Ultimate Stuffed Mushrooms | One Green Planet Fall Color Vegetable Appetizers | Farm Fresh Feasts Black Bean, Pomegranate & Avocado Salsa | Two Peas & Their Pod Brussels Sprout Slaw with Maple Cider Vinaigrette | The View from Great Island Cinnamon & Orange Scented...
Free printable: Santa’s Vegan Cookies and Milk
Do you (or your kids) leave out a little snack for Santa and his Reindeer the night before Christmas? I remember I used to leave out a little dish with a few cookies and a glass of milk for Santa when I was a child. The best part of it, was getting up in the morning and finding out that he indeed ate all the cookies, only a few crumbles were left behind! So today I am sharing some fun Christmas Printables for Santa’s Vegan Cookies and Milk, so that every household can carry out this tradition. This will be a wonderful midnight snack for Santa, because of course he’s...
My favorite skincare oils
Today I’m very happy to talk to you about something that has been requested many many times: my favorite skincare oils. I’ve been using oils in my skincare for the past few years, way before the whole “coconut oil frenzy” started, as I’ve always known that pure, natural oils like olive oil was used in very simple beauty routines by my own grandmothers – extra-virgin olive oil being the jewel of the Mediterranean area. A little dab of olive oil was used to moisturize face and hair already a long time ago, when skincare creams were a luxury. The products I’m going to show you are 100% natural, cruelty-free and...