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This delicious dish is pure powerfood: buckwheat, kale, rose hip and red onions are superfoods that grow around the corner – maybe even in your garden. They give us all the nutrients, vitamins and minerals our bodies need after a long, cold winter. Bon appétit with our easy recipe! 300 g buckwheat,...

This recipe is a tribute to my dear Romanian grandma who passed away recently. When I think of her, I think of how passionate she was about cooking and how for holidays she always wanted to bring the entire family together at one big table to eat and drink and enjoy her feast (this kind of reminds m...

Ginger beer is a Caribbean style soft drink prepared using a ginger starter of grated ginger, water, sugar and wild yeast from the air. The first workshop by heads up! magazine „Make your own ginger beer“ was sold out quickly and we were very happy to welcome a lovely group of very curious participa...

Finally the season is back where you can go outside to the forest or fields and pick the fresh ingredients for your food yourself. While we’re still waiting for the veggies to grow we can already find some really tasty and healthy wild herbs. If you’re not sure about which wild herbs are edible, ta...

A delicious seasonal recipe with colorful winter veggies to keep us healthy and happy until spring finally arrives: creamy beet soup with oven baked Jerusalem artichokes. Easy to prepare and a pleasure both for your tummy and eyes

Autumn is here but there is still a lot of flavorful and colorful vegetables growing in the fields and woods! Go to the forest and your local market and gather what you need to get these wonderful colors and flavors onto a plate for your next cosy dinner with loved ones.

Chanterelles are pretty easy...

Are you also tired of all the meat or boring tofu sausages, now that it's BBQ season again? 

This vegetarian dish can easily be prepared at home and brought to the park or beach for a picnic on hot days. Eat the potatoes cold or reheat them on the the grill as a sophisticated alternati...

Spring is back… and with it comes a bigger variety of fresh herbs and vegetables! It’s actually my favorite time of the year when it comes to cooking. Slowly but surely everything starts growing again and you can even go out and pick some ingredients yourself.

With an abundance of wild garlic in the...

 
Spring is around the corner but it’s still all about winter veggies in my kitchen. One of my favourites of this season is savoy cabbage. I could eat it every day and it’s especially delicious if you combine it with sweet and fresh flavours.I created this recipe when I was cleaning my fridge and th...

What’s better than the delicious smell of freshly baked bread filling the apartment? Or showing up (and off) at a dinner party with amazing self-baked bread? Not much. And let me tell you, it’s even better if you bake with sourdough instead of standard yeast dough. Besides its delicious taste, its w...

During the winter season I love to warm myself up with hot AND spicy food. I just can’t get enough of all the delicious and colourful winter veggies—they’re super healthy and full of the vitamins your body needs. Add some chilis and ginger and you will survive the cold season easily!

Delicious, crunc...

I love this cosy winter season: it allows me to stay inside without a bad conscience and gives me time to work on some new recipes or homemade Christmas presents … and this one I would like to share with you – my winter fruit cake recipe, try it out!

It's really easy to make, super del...

As the weather gets colder and the nights longer, we start feeling lazy and like to get cosy at home. Cravings for chocolate arise and so, for the month of November, I would like to share this recipe for a sweet treat with you.

You will need:

150 grams coconut oil

12 tablespoons coconut flakes

10 table...

Early autumn is prime time for seasonal cuisine: harvest has just been brought in and the local farmers’ markets are overflowing with fresh, healthy and delicious vegetables. For this recipe I have chosen chard and mushrooms as the basic ingredients. Chard is highly nutritious, contains many vitamin...

The perfect recipe to use up leftover bread

After a birthday party I had a whole bag of pretzels leftover and I just can’t waste food so I created this recipe. I used pretzels because that’s what I had, but of course you can use any other leftover bread as well!

3 fresh corncobs

150 grams bread

1 bunc...