healthy and balanced recipes
Spring calls for fresh desserts – and lemon and poppy seeds are a combination that never disappoints. This lemon and poppy seed cake is beautifully moist thanks to the yogurt, delicately sweet, and pleasantly lighter than classic pound cakes. It goes great with coffee, for a weekend breakfast, or as a simple dessert after lunch. You can serve it on its own or top it with fluffy whipped cream cheese and a little high-quality raspberry jam.
Light, fresh, and full of spring flavors. Crispy toast with whipped ricotta and cottage cheese cream, seasoned with lemon zest and olive oil, is the perfect base for simple spring toppings. Roasted peas, fresh sprouts, and basil add color, flavor, and freshness—ideal for breakfast, a light lunch, or a quick dinner, and even better when combined with creamy eggs.
Sometimes all it takes is a few basic ingredients to create several great meals in the kitchen that you can use throughout the week. Today I'm bringing you a combination of simple roast chicken, flavorful bread and a few quick side dishes that you can assemble in different ways to make a salad, bowl or tortilla. Perfect meal-prep and quick dinners for hectic days.
Do you have leftover cooked rice and don't know what to do with it? Or maybe you just don't feel like standing at the stove for a long time today, but you'd like to have something warm, tasty and in perfect balance? This kimchi fried rice is exactly the kind of dish you can make in minutes - full of flavour, nutrients and a nice spiciness. You can add just about anything you have in the fridge - whether it's a variety of vegetables, meat or tofu.
Perfect comfort food for autumn days - creamy, fragrant and full of flavour. The baked pasta with leeks, mushrooms and chicken or turkey is simple to prepare, deliciously filling and also great for the next day's box. Thanks to the seasonal leeks, they have a lovely mild flavour and the combination of two types of cheese gives them just the right amount of zing.
A combination of a crunchy base, soft and extra fluffy vanilla cream, fragrant apples and cinnamon crumble on top. A lighter version of the popular cheesecake, perfect with coffee or as a sweet after-dinner treat.
This is a meal that will make you look forward to every morning. Crunchy shepherd's bread, delicate pesto of sun-dried tomatoes and almonds, fresh arugula, creamy cottage and perfectly runny egg yolk. Add to that a crispy prosciutto that will perfume the whole kitchen - and your morning will taste completely different.
Summer calls for simple, fresh recipes that don't take too much time but taste great and fill you up. Looking for a healthy dessert that's moist and full of flavour? This chocolate gingerbread with zucchini and summer fruits will delight you with its simplicity and texture. Sweetened just slightly, softened with kefir and topped with cherries or jam - perfect as a quick snack, breakfast with coffee or a healthy dessert for summer. And the bonus? No one will know there's zucchini in it!
Are you looking for a quick summer recipe that uses seasonal vegetables and tastes like it comes from a restaurant? This creamy spaghetti with zucchini, ricotta and asparagus is the perfect choice for dinner on warm days. They're light, full of flavour and ready in 20 minutes - plus you can adapt them to whatever you have at home at the time.
Summer calls for simple, fresh recipes that don't take too much time but taste great and fill you up. This baked flake pie is the perfect choice - it smells of banana and cinnamon, has soft cottage cheese on top and strawberry puree, which you can also make with a variety of seasonal fruits. It's perfect as a nutritious breakfast, or even with coffee on the balcony, or as a quick snack for work. And best of all - it will keep for several days in the fridge, so you don't have to bake it again every day.