If you try to avoid any dairy intake, these dishes are a must for you to try. All lactose-free, made from plant based substitutes.
Ajvar is a dip made form vegetables, strictly speaking from peppers. There are several versions of ajvar available. The one with tomatoes is called pindjur and the one with eggplant and mustard is malidzano. If you are ever in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina or North Macedonia, be sure to try green pindjur because it is…
This is another recipe of mine for vegetable tartare. I prepared it from celeriac root but I also added tofu cheese, pesto, pine nuts and roasted onion to it. I chose not to serve the tartare with egg yolk, instead I used green pesto, which made the tartare completely vegan. Find me on Instagram: mecooksblog and Facebook: MeCooksblog…
Plums are among those fruits that can be used to prepare both sweet and savoury dishes. They work great not only in cakes but also as an ingredient for many meaty dishes. With plums I sometimes stuff ham, make a sauce to go with loin steak or stuff pork chops. In the dish below, I…
Pumpkin is a vegetable I eat very often in the fall. I usually bake it and use it as puree to prepare various dishes such as soups, cakes and sauces. Recently, I baked a pumpkin with garlic and olive oil and instead blending it, I cut it up into cubes and served it like that….
These muffins you can eat on any diet. They contain no gluten, lactose, eggs or sugar and are even vegan. I used melon not only to make the muffins themselves but also for the cream used for decoration. Find me on Instagram: mecooksblog and Facebook: MeCooksblog Ingredients for melon muffins. 300 ml melon puree 1 tablespoon of lemon…
Avocado is a fruit that comes from Mexico. It is very popular in America, Asia and Europe. It is an excellent source of vitamins, proteins and fat. You can made dips, salads, smoothies, sandwiches and many other delicious dishes from that fruit. The combination of avocado and boiled or poached egg is amazing. I make…
Hummus is a dish that comes from the historical region of Levant and from Egypt. The word hummus literally means chickpeas in Arabic. So you already know what hummus is made from 🙂 It is based on cooked chickpeas, combined with garlic, tahini (sesame paste), olive oil, lemon juice and spices. The whole thing is…
If you like the intense flavour of homemade borscht, you must try this recipe. Quite recently, I shared a recipe for beetroot leaven. I made the leaven because I always like adding it to the borscht. Homemade borscht made the right way tastes amazing. By using a large amount of beetroot, other vegetables and herbs,…
If you like red borscht and cook it quite often, I suspect that you are making your own beetroot leaven to add to it. However, if this is not the case this it is time to do so. The preparation of beetroot leaven is simple and really changes the taste of home-made borscht. Beetroot leaven…
Vegetable pate is my latest favourite thing to eat. When I told my husband that the pate that he was eating was made entirely from vegetables, he didn’t believe me 🙂 The pate differed neither in taste nor in colour from a meat pate after a first glance and bite. I used mushrooms and kidney…
Roasted vegetable tartare is a great replacement for the meat version of this dish. I used three vegetables: eggplant, tomatoes and peppers to prepare this tartare. First, I baked the vegetables in the oven, then chopped them finely and seasoned them to taste. Despite the fact that the tartare was made only from vegetables, it…
Beetroots with horseradish is a salad I usually have on Sundays as an addition to lunch. Most of the time it is an addition to fried pork chops and potatoes. It is so delicious that I sometimes make it even on weekdays 🙂 I introduced this salad to my husband a few years ago. He…