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Pumpkin Banana Smoothie

Heart healthy fiber packed Pumpkin Banana Smoothie made with Greek yogurt, milk, and pumpkin puree! Perfect way to start your day Get the Recipe: Pumpkin Banana Smoothie

Crema Pasticciera (thick Italian custard)

This is a thick Italian custard, perfect for filling, but also a quick home-made dessert. Easy step by step and fully illustrated recipe (also in Italian). foodfulife.com Get the Recipe: Crema Pasticciera (thick Italian custard)

Whole Wheat Streusel Pancakes

100% Whole Wheat Streusel Pancakes made with Greek yogurt, cinnamon and vanilla. Topped with a buttery cinnamon streusel Get the Recipe: Whole Wheat Streusel Pancakes

Pumpkin Spice Latte

A creamy latte made with real pumpkin, spices, and frothy milk. Get the Recipe: Pumpkin Spice Latte

Dark Chocolate S’more Pretzels

Sweet and salty dark chocolate pretzels covered in graham cracker crumbs and stuffed with mini marshmallows. Get the Recipe: Dark Chocolate S’more Pretzels

Shrimp Tostadas with Avocado Cream

Shrimp Tostadas with Avocado Cream. Fried corn tortillas layered with refried beans, rice, shrimp and a zesty avocado cream. Get the Recipe: Shrimp Tostadas with Avocado Cream

Limeade

A tart and sweet limeade made with only three ingredients, sugar, water, and lime. From the original site: 4 cups water ¾ cup sugar ½ cup fresh squeezed lime juice Get the Recipe: Limeade

Grilled Caesar Salad

Grilled Caesar Salad — smoky, crisp around the edges, perfect paired with wine. From the original site: Deep into summer grilling season now, I’m grilling everything that isn’t nailed down. Summer stone fruit? Check. Garlic bread? Check. Pizza? Check. Caesar Salad? Check. Wait, what? Grilled lettuce? Get the Recipe: Grilled Caesar Salad

Traditional Barley with Ginkgo Nuts Desserts

Barley has a long history in healing, and in the Traditional Chinese Medicine, Barley is considered to have cooling properties. If your kids do not like traditional Chinese desserts, serve your Barley chilled in cute #hellokitty bowls like these to tempt them. Get the Recipe: Traditional Barley with Ginkgo Nuts Desserts

World’s Best Turkey Meatballs

My son’s favorite dinner made by his friend’s mom. We begged for the recipe — a family heirloom — and here it is! From the original site: Healthy turkey meatballs in a 2-ingredient sweet-sour sauce is a kid-pleaser that makes the adults smile, too. Get the Recipe: World’s Best Turkey Meatballs

Red lentil soup

Great warming soup, very easy to make. 30 minutes and supper is ready! Get the Recipe: Red lentil soup

Brown Sugar Chicken

This is a delicious, yet simple dish to make. If you’re tired of the same-old chicken dinner week after week, sweeten it up with this gluten-free recipe. Get the Recipe: Brown Sugar Chicken

Grilled stuffed zucchinis

It is a great alternative to the ground meat version my mom used to make when I was a kid! Ingredients: 6 zucchinis 1 cup (250ml) of organic red lentils 1 1/2 cup (375ml) of water 1 cup (250ml) of cooked organic rice 1/2 cup (125ml) of organic raisins 1 tsp. (5ml) of curry powder […]

Yuan Yang Crispy & Crunchy Hong Kong Kailan

It’s Twin Kailan Attack!! Yap, you’ll get nice & thick crunchy Kailan stems, & crispy Kailan leaves deep-fried to perfection in this Yuan Yang Crispy & Crunchy Hong Kong Kailan. Get the Recipe: Yuan Yang Crispy & Crunchy Hong Kong Kailan

Gluten free chocolate and nut bars

It is a very good bar recipe that is a bit like cake but not as sweet, great anytime with a coffee or tea but kids will enjoy it too. Ingredients: 2tbsp. (30ml) of organic grounded flax seeds 6 tbsp. (90ml) of water 1/3 cup (83ml) organic sorghum flour 1/3 cup (83ml) of organic oatmeal […]

Tasty Flower Crab Soup

Chinese loves adding Flower Crabs when making Steamboat as the meat is really sweet. Steaming it in a distinct sauce is also one of the most common methods of cooking this crab.

Red Pepper and Hazelnut Spread Recipe

We all love the crunchy sweetness of raw red peppers, but their flavor is so much more complex when freshly roasted. Lightly rub with olive oil and place over the flame of your stove on high heat or under the broiler; roast until completely black, turning occasionally while prepping other ingredients. When charred, but not […]

Yam Ring Treasures

I’m featuring one of my dishes for my My Chinese New Year Feasts – Yam Ring Treasures. For the non-Chinese, this is a very popular dish for all occasions.

Screaming For Frozen Desserts, Lemon Sorbet!

The Lemon Myrtle in this recipe, combined with the sweetness & sourness of the sorbet, was ethereal. A pinch of the scented herb from Gryphon Tea gives this dessert an exotic feel, perfect for the festive season & leaves you yelling for more!

Turkey soup with tomatoes and herbs.

Great soup, if you have turkey leftovers from holidays or if you just wish to have a rich, hearty soup for lunch. Any part of turkey will be good (I cooked mine from turkey neck and some leftovers). It takes 30-40 minutes to cook and the taste is amazing. The key to great taste are […]

Top 5 christmas vegan dishes

Christmas is when you spend a lot of time with your family, give a lot of presents and cook a lot of food. Even if you have a vegan or vegetarian family member or friend there’s virtually million of dishes you can treat them with. I chose my 5 favorite Christmas vegan dishes for the […]

12 Cookies of Christmas: Sugar cookies

The 11 days before Christmas are dedicated to cookies. At the end of the day you have to choose the best cookie recipe to treat Santa! So this is my first and favorite cookie recipe! Sugar cookie recipe: This sugar cookie recipe is very simple and yet delicious. It is cooked by my mom for […]

Healthy Fall Dessert: Baked apples with walnuts, honey and cinnamon.

This recipe is as easy as it can only get. I think the hardest part is to take the apples’ seeds out, so that the apples would be intact. I am cooking these apples since the time I remember myself cooking. My Daddy cooks these apples in red wine, but, let’s not get too crazy […]

Apple, cinnamon and walnut rolls + cream cheese crispy rolls!

This is the simplest recipe of rolls in the world. The dough is very easy to cook and it’s very tender, almost melting in the mouth. This is also a very good dough for cookies. Ingredients: stick of butter 1 cup of sugar 1.5 cups of flour (sifted, self-rising) 1 teaspoon of baking powder 1 […]