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Popeye's pal: Spinach myths unravelled

For today's lunch we prepared mashed potatoes and chickpeas along with a spinach and lentil sauce. Before we get into all of the tasty...

Vegetable risotto and three-green salad

This time we prepared a mushroom risotto and a salad with a combination of greens for our lunch. That means today we have two ingredients...

Mama chia, here we go again ♫

Now that the requisite ABBA reference is out of the way, it's time to make good on our promise and share some information about chia...

Pancake day

Chia and banana pancakes from buckwheat and chickpea flours. A few posts ago we mentioned that at some point we would get around to...

Quinoa minestrone and lucky chia pudding

We're all familiar with the basic formula that stories should follow: there should be an introduction, a core, and then a conclusion. As...

A bowl full of rice, a mind full of questions

Everything you've always wanted to know about rice. Today, your Hungry Pumpkin team is diving into another of life's great mysteries for...

Two hills of health

One of the main things we advocate in this blog is that vegan food can be very simple. Today we get to prove that in an even more extreme...

Food and calories: How do we measure them?

Some time ago a part of our Hungry Pumpkin team was on a business trip and found themselves eating at the hotel's buffet. The food was...

Garlic: food or medicine?

You've probably heard a lot about garlic. From fighting off vampires, to protecting sailors from magic in The Odyssey, this plant has...

A little something from Peru...

Not long time ago our colleague Nina returned from a trip to Peru, so we asked her to bring us a little bit closer to Peruvian culture....

Four or five basic tastes?

Do you remember learning about different flavours as a kid? You probably did the time-honoured experiment of eating different kinds of...

Agrainst all odds

Vegetable buckwheat with mâche and red bean salad This time around we prepared a vegetable buckotto (very fancy culinary talk for a...

Plant proteins? Yes please.

What are proteins? Proteins are molecules composed of at least fifty smaller units known as amino acids. Though many naturalists of the...

Our salty life...

How much salt do we need and when do we eat too much? Vegan eating is famous for being very focused on nutrition in order to ensure that...

Symphony of yellows

Creamy vegetable soup, curry-spiced sauerkraut with tofu, polenta, salad Are you one of those people who rush around all day, skips lunch...

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