Oh the smell of a Chana dal curry cooking on the stove, what a delight, hey? It’s a smell that can take you places you only dream of going.
When eating out I often choose restaurants that serve Indian food. All the different aromas in the air, the bread, and the spicy sauces, just yum! I’ve been trying my best to make good Indian inspired food. I want to use the word inspired because I am not Indian nor have I ever been to India. Not yet at least. Hopefully, I will be blessed to go there someday.
In the meantime, I will just dabble with my Indian inspired cooking. This lovely Chana dal will fill your senses with its rich aromas and booming flavor. It’s the perfect thing to make on a cold winter night when all you want is to get warm and cozy and snuggle up with a warm dinner.
There’s one thing I’m going to confess about this dish. I forgot to soak the chana dal before I made it so my lentils were a bit crunchy when we ate them. I kinda liked it, nevertheless, I think it might be better for your digestion to soak them before you cook them.
How to make vegan chana dal curry
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Vegan green pesto breadsticks
In this recipe, I will show you how to make light and fluffy vegan green pesto breadsticks that will be a total hit on your table. Using green pesto will give them a great kick and beautiful green vibrant color.
On the day I baked these, the house smelled so wonderful. The smell of freshly baked bread is just something else, isn’t it? When the kids came home from school they came straight to the kitchen and I knew instantly that my breadsticks were not gonna make it to dinner. However, that’s completely fine. I love it when I make something that my family likes so much they want to eat it straight away.
These breadsticks will go lovely with any pasta dish or as a side to soups, stews or pizza. They are easy to make and a total crowd pleaser. But, make sure to make enough because they will disappear quite quickly!
How to make vegan green pesto breadsticks
Fancy more bread recipes? How about these olive and garlic flatbreads?
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Vegan olive and garlic flatbread
In this blog post, I want to show you how to make vegan olive and garlic flatbread. When I was working on my hemp seed hummus recipe I suddenly realized that I didn’t have any bread to go with it. Instantly, I decided to whip up a bread recipe that would go well with it.
This flatbread will go great with the hummus, but also as a side with your soup or a stew. It is now one of my favorite recipes and I’ve made it a few time now, so I wanted to share it with you.
These flatbreads are so easy to prepare and then you bake them on a frying pan instead of in the oven which will give them a fun crispy texture.
Vegan olive and garlic flatbread
Fancy more bread recipes? How about this vegan green pesto breadsticks?
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How to make a vegan hemp seed hummus
I can not begin to explain how much I love hummus. It is without a doubt the best thing in the world. I have been in countless situations where the only thing I can find to eat is bread (or crackers) and hummus. In this post, I’m going to show you how I make my vegan hemp seed hummus. It’s so creamy and packed with nutrition and good healthy fats.
Hummus is always there for you
As a vegan sometimes there just aren’t any options available. However, hummus is always a friend. It will never let you down…. unless it has dairy in it! Why would anyone do that?
Hummus comes in all forms and flavors, I, however, am team plain. Yep, sorry to let you down. Nothing can compare to creamy plain old hummus. Preferably in the company of quality Italian olive oil and Dukkah. These things together, with crunchy baguette, yum! But how about adding some hemp seeds to the mix?
Hemp seeds to the rescue
Hemp seeds are probably one of the healthiest seeds you could ever put in your mouth. According to Medical News today They are packed with healthy fatty acids such as Omega-3 and Omega-6. Hemp also contains phytosterols, which help in reducing the amount of cholesterol in the body. Studies have also shown that eating hemp seeds may reduce your risk of heart disease and lower blood pressure.
Protein
Fat
Calcium
Iron
Magnesium
Potassium
Zinc
Folate
Vitamins C, B, A & E
Hemp seeds are a nutritional bomb for the body and the skin and eating hemp seeds or hemp oil on a regular basis can be very beneficial to those suffering from skin problems such as Eczema or Atopic dermatitis.
How to make vegan hemp seed hummus
Need a bread to go with that recipe? This vegan hemp seed hummus would go perfect with my olive and garlic flatbread recipe, why don’t you head on over and check it out.
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How to make the vegan green pesto pasta
I fell in love with green pesto a few years back. Usually, I would just buy it, however, when I found out how easy it is to make yourself I have loved doing that ever since. This is how to make vegan green pesto pasta.
Green pesto is perfect as a topping for bread and sandwiches or just as a dip. But I really love using it as a pasta sauce. It’s a quick and easy recipe, perfect for a weekday dinner or a lunch. All you need is a food processor, a pot and the ingredients.
Vegan green pesto pasta
You can also use this pesto recipe to make my vegan green pesto breadsticks.
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Starting fresh
I feel like I’m standing at the bottom of the mountain again. Sometimes this has felt like an unachievable task, starting from the ground again. But I’ve been here before when I started steina.is. This time, however, I feel like I’m equipped with more tools and helpful tips to get me started. I know I’m starting fresh, on a new domain. I have no DA yet, my website isn’t fully built but I’m so happy my heart could explode.
www.steina.is is gone! Well, at least somewhat resting for now. You can still type in the URL and it will land you here on a bite of kindness. So many people already know steina.is and it’s only fair that they can still reach me through that URL.
Beautiful new website
This feels a bit bittersweet, I had put a lot of work in creating a beautiful webpage, I truly loved what I had accomplished. But I felt like I couldn’t reach my full potential with that domain. After I switched to English I didn’t feel truly authentic with my Icelandic domain name. There was a connection missing. So I felt the only right thing to do was to rebrand.
I’ve had this vision for a while now, I wanted to find a way to be more relatable to my friends who don’t speak Icelandic. The old domain was according to some a bit hard to understand and also wasn’t related to my niche. This beautiful domain came to me one day when I was thinking about what I wanted to call my website. I wanted it to reflect kindness, the connection to food, of course, and be in English.
A bite of kindness
This was the perfect name for my blog so I hurried up and grabbed it and I am so happy with it. Now starts the fun part. Writing blogs again, building the website with fantastic recipes, educating and entertaining blog posts and pictures. I hope you’ll hop on the journey with me!
So here I am, still Steina, but with a new beautiful domain name that finally reflects what I want my webpage to stand for. Kindness and good bite 🙂