Allergen-free 5-colored vegetables

Again, colors are my things. More colors, more nutrients.

Vegetarian English muffins

Those are pretty rich for breakfast.

Vegetarian Braised Food

Braised food is very popular in Taiwan. You cook all sorts of ingredients, such as meat, bean curds, eggs, seaweeds and vegetables with soy sauce and spices. When I was an university student in Tainan, my classmates love to gather in braised food specialty restaurants. With a big plate of braised food and beer, we enjoyed a great time together.

 

Noodle Soup with braised food:

Italian Home Cooking: Roasted Eggplants, Roated Eggplants Salad and roasted potatoes

Recipe source: My dear friend, Antonietta, an all-heart Swiss-born Italian.

My sons had a play day with Antonietta's youngest son and we had lunch together. That was my first time ever tasted Italian home-style dishes and I love, love, love them. I have to reproduce them at home. Again, I ate too much!

To be frank, I do think Italian home-style cooking is a lot healthier than Chinese one. Simple ingredients, simple cooking methods and the results? Simply beautiful dishes! You get to taste the pure essences of the food itself.

That's the beauty of home cooking. Of course you can find fancy dishes in fancy restaurants. They are like beautiful women with heavy make-ups. Home-cooking is like your mom without any make-up on. Who do you want to give a big hug first?

Have you ever tried a pizza without cheese?

My son with food allergies keeps asking for pizzas recently so I made one. With his food allergies against milk products, his pizza doesn’t have any cheese. It is not bad with the new allergen free veggi meat made of mushrooms. He said it’s better than what he had in Italy. Ha! He will say anything to make his mom work!

Vegan soy-free Pizza

Prezels: Salty and sweet ones

I made two kinds. Salty ones with coarse salts and sweet ones with cinnamon sugar.

Vegan soy/gluten-free Vanilla Muffins with Chocolate swirl

Sadly, most of time, my younger son cannot enjoy the cakes from his classmates' birthday parties because of his food allergies against milk and egg products. I usually prepare a nice cupcake/muffin like this for him whenever there is a birthday celebration in his class so he won't feel so left out.

Vegan soy/gluten-free raw food Mango "cheese" cake

Vegan soy/gluten-free Vanilla Pound Cake with Cinnamon Swirl

This is a very nice snack for traveling.

Vegan soy-free Chocolate cupcakes with macadamia nuts

This is the birthday Znüni for my elder son's 1st birthday, 7-year-old, in Switzerland. I was still waiting for our stuffs shipping from U.S. that time.  I didn't have good tools so they look ugly but still taste very good.