Hi everyone, this is Nevila from Bake My Day Happy, but today you can call me Mandarina :), I won’t mind. I’ve initiated this guest-posting game between us food bloggers not only to share our experiences, but most of all to have fun. When I proposed this to Valbona and Ejona they welcomed it and…
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Spinach & strawberry salad
I am a huge salad fan. They’re easy to make, colorful, tasty, healthy, and you can have so much fun experimenting with them. I try to have salads at lunch and dinner, apart from the main dish, or sometimes transform the salad into a main dish itself by adding grains, beans, seeds and nuts etc….
Stuffed dates dipped in chocolate
I love creating delicious sweet bites with dates. They are ready in few minutes and you can play endlessly with flavors. I like filling dates with nut butter, like almond butter, or peanut butter, or my favorite plant-based butter, tahini. They pair perfectly also with ricotta or mascarpone, and also with lightly toasted almonds. I always…
Sun-dried tomatoes pesto
While having a quick lunch in Amsterdam, I ordered pasta with red pesto, which was something I had actually never heard. I couldn’t wait for it to be ready, partly because I was super hungry, and partly because this was a type of pesto out there that I hadn’t tried. The big bowl of pasta…
Spinach balls
I don’t eat meat, since 1 year now, so I’ve experimented with vegetarian balls all the time. I’ve tried them with beans, quinoa, cauliflower, spinach etc. This is a very simple and healthy recipe, which happens to be also one of my favorites. I usually add a yogurt sauce and transform it into a great…
Creamy polenta with sautéed porcini
When you’re in hurry, but still want a delicious meal cooked at home polenta with sautéed porcini mushrooms comes to help. It’s super easy, quick and you need only 5 ingredients to make it. I’ve chosen porcini mushrooms because I love them so much, but in case you cannot find them, feel free to use your…
Easy cauliflower soup
I loveeee vegetables, and preparing soups is such an easy way to enjoy them. I haven’t been a soup lover, until lately. I don’t know what happened, but a big bowl of soup with crunchy croutons on top, a warm blanket, Netflix and my furry babies, is my favorite way to spend the evening lately….
White cabbage and fruits salad
After all the cookies, and cakes, Panettone, baklava, kadaif and other luscious food, my body desperately needed vegetables, soups, salads. The first thing I made was this white cabbage & fruits salad that I promised to post since last year. It is fresh and crunchy, light and flavorful, with the perfect touch of winter fruits…
Homemade gnocchi with pesto
I love winter days because we naturally stay more at home, so I spend more time cooking. One of my all-time favourite recipes is making gnocchi from scratch. Gnocchi is a pasta type that contains potato in the dough, and it’s one of the easiest pasta to make at home. The best part about it is…
Baked ricotta & spinach crepes
Sunday is a stay-at-home day! I like to wake up slowly, read a nice book, take a walk and then prepare some delicious food that needs a bit more time, which I can’t do during the week. Oven-baked crepes are a great choice for lunch on Sunday. If you have some leftover crepes from Saturday’s…
