Thai curry with zoodles or cauliflower rice

2 May 2016 - 12:12 by Martine in Lunch & Dinner
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Time: preparation 15 minutes, cooking 15 minutes, total 30 minutes
Serves: 2 persons
Thai curry, low carb vegan I love Thai food. Thankfully it is very easy to make it vegan and low carb. In this recipe I go the easy route and use a store bought curry paste. The result tastes great and is very easy to make. It has about 25 gram carbs and 450 calories for a big and very filling serving.

Basic low carb seitan

24 April 2016 - 6:13 by Martine in Basics
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Time: preparation 15 minutes, cooking 60 minutes, total 75 minutes minutes
Serves: 450 g / 1 pound
Low carb seitan, vegan Seitan is one of my favorite vegan protein sources. It has a delicious meaty bite and taste, and if you can find a cheap source of vital wheat gluten, it is also extremely affordable. It is very versatile and can be made into lots of different varieties and flavors, form a simple basic meaty seitan like this one, to sausages and burgers.

Veggie carb substitutes

19 April 2016 - 8:31 by Martine in Tips & Tricks
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Time: preparation 10 minutes, cooking 45 minutes, total 55 minutes
Serves: 3-4 people
Beets, vegan sausage and mushy peas The Netherlands are very much a 'meat and potatoes' country. The traditional foods are 'mash pot' (mashed up potatoes and veggies, served with some kind of meat) and just simple boiled potatoes, meat, vegetables and gravy. These types of foods are actually surprisingly easy to make low carb, and they often end up tastier than their carb-filled cousins.

Low carb instant fruity ice cream

12 April 2016 - 9:15 by Martine in Dessert
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Time: preparation 5 minutes, cooking 0 minutes, total 5 minutes
Serves: 2 servings per recipe
Blender ice cream, low carb vegan Spring has finally arrived and that makes me think about summery treats like ice cream. If you have a high powered blender or strong food processor it's super easy and quick to make your own fruity soft serve, sherbet, ice cream or whatever you like to call it. Choose berries as your fruit to keep this really low in carbs.

Creamy sundried tomato pasta with veggies

3 April 2016 - 10:13 by Martine in Lunch & Dinner
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Time: preparation 10 minutes, cooking 10 minutes, total 20 minutes
Serves: 2 people
Creamy sundried tomato pasta, low carb vegan This recipe goes back to when I was a student and had to cook my own meals for the first time. I used to make it with crème fraîche and tortellini. Now I veganize it with soy yoghurt and make it low carb with soy noodles instead of pasta. It's still a very tasty meal and super quick to prepare.

Sundried tomato tapenade

27 March 2016 - 10:57 by Martine in Dips & Spreads
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Time: preparation 10 minutes, cooking 0 minutes, total 10 minutes
Serves: 400 gram / 14 oz
Sundried tomato tapenade, vegan Yum, tomato tapenade! I like to eat it on crackers, use it as a sauce for pasta and even as a salad dressing. Store-bought tapenade is often expensive and it can be difficult to find vegan versions, so I like to make my own. It's super easy if you use a jar of sundried tomatoes in oil as the base.

My favorite tofu scramble

19 March 2016 - 7:34 by Martine in Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
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Time: preparation 5 minutes, cooking 15 minutes, total 20 minutes
Serves: 2-3 persons
Tofu scramble, low carb vegan What's a vegan blog without a few tofu scramble recipes right? This is my favorite scramble.It's super flavorful, filling, nutritious and very fast to make. I know scramble is traditionally a breakfast food, but I actually prefer to eat it for lunch, or even dinner!

Lemony sunflower seed spread with dill

13 March 2016 - 9:48 by Martine in Dips & Spreads
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Time: preparation 10 minutes, cooking 0 minutes, total 10 minutes
Serves: 1 1/2 cup / 300 gram
Sunflower seed spread, low carb vegan I’ve been doing some meal prep recently and one of the things I do is make some spreads to use on sandwiches and as dips for veggies. I’m not very good at making time for meal prepping, so my prep is usually just an odd hour or two somewhere during the week where I make […]

Vegan blue cheese

6 March 2016 - 13:53 by Martine in Dips & Spreads
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Time: preparation 10 minutes, cooking 0 minutes, total 180 minutes
Serves: 400 gram / 1 pound
Vegan blue cheese I used to love blue cheese before I went vegan, so I really wanted to make a vegan version which has the same creamy texture and deeply savory, tangy flavor. This vegan version doesn't taste exactly like a real moldy blue, but it does a good job at filling that tangy, creamy, savory hole in my life. Even the color is a little blue-greenish, thanks to the pumpkin seeds.

Quick low-carb hot cereal

1 March 2016 - 9:45 by Martine in Breakfast
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Time: preparation 5 minutes, cooking 2 minutes, total 7 minutes
Serves: 1 person
Low carb hot cereal, vegan This homemade low carb cereal is one of my favorite breakfasts, especially during the winter months. It's super quick to make. You just mix a bunch all the dry ingredients in a jar and then in the morning you add a few tablespoons of the dry mix to some plant milk, blitz it in the microwave or heat it up in a pot and you have a lovely hot breakfast porridge that will keep you full for a really long time.