Monthly Archives: June 2017

Patriotic Strawberries With Natural Food Coloring

Patriotic Strawberries With Natural Food Coloring

Patriotic strawberries are such a fun 4th of July dessert. And you don’t even need artificial food coloring! These red, white & blue strawberries are naturally colored with homemade natural blue food coloring! 😀 Continue reading Patriotic Strawberries With Natural Food Coloring

All-Natural Blue Banana Milk – Dairy-Free

All-Natural Blue Banana Milk - Dairy-Free

This delicious blue banana milk is vegan and all-naturally colored with red cabbage! I love naturally colored blue food! 😀 But it’s difficult to color drinks blue with natural red cabbage food coloring because red cabbage dye is ph-sensitive. And most drinks and beverages are acidic; so the amazing blue color turns purple. But banana milk is just slightly acidic, so it’s possible to color banana milk naturally blue with red cabbage! Yay! 😀 Continue reading All-Natural Blue Banana Milk – Dairy-Free

How To Juice Wheatgrass In A Blender

If you don’t have a juicer, juice wheatgrass in a blender!

How To Juice Wheatgrass In A Blender

It’s so much fun to grow wheatgrass at home for fresh wheatgrass juice! 😀 Wheatgrass juice is supposed to be healthy and isn’t the green color just amazing? You can use  wheatgrass juice to make healthy smoothies or to color ice cream green. Continue reading How To Juice Wheatgrass In A Blender

Vegan Wheatgrass Pineapple Ice Cream

Dairy-Free Wheatgrass Pineapple Ice Cream

I made naturally colored green ice cream again! 😀 This time I used fresh wheatgrass juice to color the ice cream. The wheatgrass pineapple ice cream is dairy-free and egg-free, even vegan! It tastes fresh, grassy and sweet of pineapple and coconut. Continue reading Vegan Wheatgrass Pineapple Ice Cream

Chickpea Leavened Bread Without Commercial Yeast

Chickpea Leavened Bread Without Commercial Yeast

I tried out another one of the historical bread recipes which are made without commercial yeast. This time I made the ‘Turkish Pea Yeast’ of 1819. It’s a recipe for bread which is naturally leavened with pea starter. Even today, bread is naturally leavened with yeast-free chickpea starters: In Greece chickpea leavened bread is called eftazymo, in Cyprus arkatena and in Turkey it’s called nohutlu ekmek. And here are two more recipe for chickpea leavened bread: chickpea yeast bread and arkatenio or eftazymo recipe. Continue reading Chickpea Leavened Bread Without Commercial Yeast