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This Artisan Almond Brie is the creamiest and tastiest vegan cheese I’ve ever had. If you are wondering if it melts, you won’t be disappointed!

I posted a Vegan Camembert made from cashew earlier this year. There were so people have asked me if the cheese can melt. I was always disappointed to tell them that it didn’t. I made the Vegan Camembert from cashew paste, but it can only be soft enough to spread when heated.

Ever since, I was determined to make vegan cheese that can be melted. I started to research how to make dairy brie online and adapted the ingredients and methods to make my own.

I experimented with a few methods using cashew milk, but wasn’t successful.

It turned out to be too soft and hard to keep it formed. With this reason, I had some unwanted fuzzy mold growing on it and I gave up for a while.

I knew there must be a way to make it work, so I changed my idea of using cashew milk to using almond milk. After a few attempts, I finally got the recipe and method down with an amazing result–it blew my mind.…

This Homemade Oat Milk is made from oat groats. It’s mixed with homemade coconut milk, maple syrup, a pinch of salt, and it tastes so good!

When I was trying to decrease our dairy milk intake a while ago, we stumbled on oat milk while traveling in Sweden. That was the first time my family and I tried oat milk.

While we were shopping for food and plant-based milk, we saw nice earthy design milk cartons for oat milk. We bought one, and used it for breakfast and to drink. We were so impressed how delicious that milk was. It was hard to believe that it was made from oats (and of course a few other ingredients they don’t specify).

Not long after we got back to the US, I saw the same brand of oat milk in many stores in the US!…

If you think dried cranberries are hard to make, and if you also think you need to put a lot of sugar in them, re-think and try this homemade dried cranberry recipe!

I was one of those people who thought it was too difficult. However, I re-investigated it and started looking into making my own dried cranberries.

It was intimidating as cranberries are small. To dry them, I needed to open them up so the water in them could evaporate. That must be a lot of work, I thought.

Commercial dried cranberries are very sweet, and as cranberries are tart, I knew they must require a lot of sweeteners to make them edible.

To learn about this, I started to make my own, and it turned out I was wrong about a lot!

Making homemade dried cranberries is manageable. Once you get the hang of how to open them, it doesn’t take that long. …

Aloe Vera Jelly? Yes, besides using it on skin, hair and making healthy drinks, did you know that aloe vera can make a very healthy and tasty dessert too?

Aloe Vera Jelly is no stranger to me, as I grew up eating this tasty dessert. I forgot all about it for awhile though since moving to the US.

It brought back childhood memories eating it after decided to put aloe vera back to my diet. As I always have aloe vera leaves and plants available at home now, Aloe Vera Jelly has become one of our favorite desserts.

It’s very easy to make, and the agar-agar powder makes it so much fun to et. It contains very minimal sugar, but it’s very refreshing, just like eating jelly. …

A high-quality Apple Leather costs $2.25 per piece if you buy it ready-made. Why not make your own? This recipe shows you how–from scratch!

Apple leather is meaty but soft, sweet & tangy, and most of all it’s very healthy!

For my family, I prefer to have Apple Leather over any sweet crackers or candy, even the ones labeled “organic & healthy” snacks.

For many years when my daughter was younger, she always asked to get fruit leather when we went grocery shopping. As I thought it would be too hard and too much time to make my own, I just kept buying it.

However, as it’s not cheap and I want to reduce unnecessary packaging, I decided to give making Apple Leather a try. It’s so easy, and I’m glad I did. It’s also another great way to preserve apples when they are in the season.…

Before summer ends and everything goes back to being routine, I have an urge to share this most tasty, healthy, and easy Black Bean Popsicles with you!

My teen child always wants some chilly sweets during hot days, but I am reluctant to buy store bought ice cream or popsicles. Why, there are so many “organic-healthy” popsicle options on the market, plus they can be quite inexpensive you might think.

Yes, I agree with you. However, being a conscious freak like me makes it hard to buy things that end up creating more garbage than I want.…

This single ingredient Sprouted Peanut Butter is extraordinary. It’s so raw, tasty, and best of all, it’s the most digestible peanut butter!

If you like peanut butter and want to go the extra mile making it tastier and more digestible, this Sprouted Peanut Butter post is for you.…

This is a perfect recipe for making Kale Chips without burning any. Just a handful of crispy chips contains the amount of leafy greens you need each day!

I have been making this recipe for almost 15 years, starting from a time when I harvested too much kale from the garden. I was so obsessed with planting kale then, and I still am.

Depending on where I live, I’m not always able to plant kale. Fortunately, it’s easy to get everywhere, especially from local farms.

As you know, Kale is a highly desirable superfood. There are many ways to eat it, but Kale Chips are the most fun way to enjoy it throughout the day.

They are healthy, crispy, and the nutty taste with a little bit of salt always satisfies my hunger for healthy snacks.…

If you have been intimidated by cooking plantains, but love eating them, this Baked Plantains recipe will make you happy. It is the easiest recipe for cooking to enjoy plantains as a snack. You can get it done from start to finish in less than one hour, and it only requires one ingredient, plantains–nothing else!.

Plantains have a reputation for being on healthy food menus. They are so good in curry, and especially in south african excotic dishes. As a fruit, they are in the same family as bananas, but starchier, and larger. Plantains are not good to consume raw as they are too starchy, but tasted great when they are fully ripe.…

Vegan popcorn is a great way to snack while enjoying your favorite movie without cruelty. How to get it? It’s so simple, and you can do it right on your own stove top. No need to worry about preservatives, unknown ingredients, and having to deal with any packaging. Ready for a new way to eat popcorn? Try this!

A few times before my daughter was born, my husband and I enjoyed microwave popcorn. It’s convenient, and the taste was quite good at that time. Interestingly, we never made it more than one bag at a time.

There are so many obvious things about it that pushed us away from microwaved popcorn: the bag material, the butter, unknown ingredients, and dealing with the garbage afterwards. I’m so glad we left it behind.…

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