These delicious appetizers can actually be eaten for breakfast, snack, or lunch. Don’t let the appearance fool you, these are not actually beet pancakes and I don’t really recommend eating them as such unless you make them thinner than the ones shown. Keep reading to learn why. I am so excited for another Virtual Vegan Potluck! […]
Archives for June 2020
5 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Crack Your Neck
Our neck is one of the most important parts of our body. It supports our head and is where the main arteries that provide blood to the brain reside. Without this vital connection between the heart and the brain, we’d be dead, so to say that our neck is vital for good health is pretty […]
Pros and Cons: Dangers and Benefits of Apple Cider Vinegar
Apple cider vinegar is all the rage in many natural health circles, and seeing how popular it has become, I decided to do some research into it and see whether it really lives up to the hype or not. I dug around for scientific evidence for each of the proposed health benefits, and was able to […]
How to Eat Out On A Gluten-free Diet: 3 Bullet-Proof Tips
In the last two weeks I visited 9 cities and towns in 3 countries in Europe, from Tivat in Montenegro – a sweet town in the middle of nowhere, to cities like Gdansk located at Baltic seaside loved by foreign tourists to Manchester and London in the UK. As you can imagine, how I fuel […]
Cranberry Pumpkin Bread: Halloween recipe for Mariano’s Chicago
This fantastic Cranberry Pumpkin Bread was created as a Halloween recipe for a sponsored post for Mariano’s via Collective Bias®. I’ve been itching to check out the new Mariano’s store in Chicago’s Greektown neighborhood ever since they opened a couple of months ago. We have one in the suburbs and I’ve been to it and my […]
Chocolate Cupcakes with Cherry Buttercream Frosting
It’s been a while since I posted a recipe. These darling little cupcakes were made for a special occasion a while back. I made them as a thank-you to everyone I worked with during my Internship. I have no sugar or all purpose flour at my place so you already know these cupcakes were gonna […]
Egg White-Battered Grilled Cheese with Mixed Greens
How often do you have breakfast for dinner? I actually have breakfast for dinner quite often. It’s one of my favorite things to have for dinner to tell you the truth. This kind of “Breakfast After Dark” is not only easy and quick, it is also so delicious and comforting! Especially the Egg White Grilled […]
Honey Szarlotka or Polish Apple Pie with Honey, Nuts, and Raisins
Is it too soon for another szarlotka recipe? Pfffft, please! It’s never too soon for another recipe of any kind! Well, this one actually wasn’t my doing. And to tell you the truth, I would have waited longer before making this one but my mom insisted on making it. After we made Traditional Szarlotka two weeks […]
4 Favorite Spices and Their Amazing Health Benefits
What spices do you use the most often? There are some spices I use once in a while, but there are also some spices that I use very frequently. So frequently, in fact, that you would never find my kitchen without them. I wanted to outline which spices I use most often and my reasons […]
How Polish people spend their Thanksgiving
Note: be sure to enter my current giveaway for AZO! Ends on Friday! Okay so this is probably not how most Polish people spend their Thanksgiving so the title is slightly misleading but it is how WE spent out Thanksgiving so it is fitting in a way too! 🙂 Thanksgiving is a national holiday and I […]
How does the effect of alcohol change on us with age?
[caution: rant ahead! Don’t mind the negative tone, I wrote some of this when I was tipsy] They say alcohol makes us think the thoughts we normally try to suppress: thoughts that come straight from parts of us that we try not to visit when sober. Inhibitions and defense mechanisms go aside and the true […]
Chocolate Hazelnut Fudge
Sometimes we try to do something and something else comes out of it instead. Not necessarily bad or good. Just different. It came out to be good in this example, actually. While I was still at my parents’ this weekend, we bought a whole bunch of hazelnuts to make some homemade Nutella. Well, we didn’t […]