Cashew cheese avocado canapes

I discovered the avocado-cashew cheese combination when post-workout brunching with a lovely friend in Abu Dhabi. Despite my good manners, I was just eating one after another and couldn’t stop. This is my attempt at recreating it. Cashew cheese is something a lot of vegans use to replace the real thing because it contains nutritional yeast, […]

The best broccoli recipe ever

As a kid, I always wondered how anyone could like broccoli. As far as I was concerned, this cruciferous vegetable’s awful smell was a self-defense mechanism against adults who wanted to eat it. That was until I discovered 2 things: tenderstem broccoli (or broccolini) and the art of not overcooking. Tenderstem is much more pleasant to […]

Show-stopping quinoa beetroot salad

Beetroot is one of those vegetables that has a long list of benefits, from helping to control cholesterol to detoxifying one’s blood and managing blood sugar. You can cook, roast or steam it, but my favorite way of serving it is raw, like in this bright and lively salad. It is so beautiful and a real show […]

Fancy pants sunchoke puree with rocket hazelnut pesto

I was first introduced to sunchokes, otherwise known as Jerusalem artichokes, when I was living in France. Over there, these artichoke-tasting little roots are called “topinambours” and they are often made into a puree or a creamy soup. In this one, I add a fresh rocket hazelnut pesto, which I sort of hijacked from Yotam […]

Show-stopping Asian salad

I don’t know about you but sometimes, the more I cook, the more everything ends up tasting the same. These days my salads somehow all end up with some form of quinoa, avocado, tomato and feta. So today I decided to live with intent 🙂 and changed up the flavor palette completely. This Asian-influenced cold noodle salad takes a […]