Our vegan world tour has arrived in Greece where we cook vegan tomatokeftedes, a fried snack celebrating tomatoes by pairing them with herbs and feta cheese to create fritters to enjoy with some tzatziki. Read on to learn more about Greek cuisine and tomatokeftedes or jump straight to the recipe. […]
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With this post, I am continuing on the project to collaborate with ChatGPT-4 for a food blog post. Last week we saw the result, a post about Sweden and Swedish vegan semlor written by ChatGPT-4. In this post, I will share how the post was generated and my experiences working […]
Welcome back to the vegan world tour and a post about my native Sweden, where we make vegan semlor, a delicious pastry eaten on Shrove Tuesday in February every year. For this post, I wanted to do something different so I decided to collaborate with ChatGPT-4 to write a food […]
This week we are back in Western Europe for a stopover in Belgium. Here, we prepare a vegan toast cannibale, a sandwich covered in the Belgian version of steak tartare. So our first mission in creating this vegan recipe, is to make vegan steak tartare. Read on to learn a […]
Today we visit the Vatican on our vegan world tour and bake a vegan Ezekiel bread. The Vatican is a bit of a special place for the world tour so I had a hard time choosing a dish that could represent a country with such a unique demographic. In the […]
Glögg is the Swedish version of mulled wine and is immensely popular in December. My wife and I have been making our own for more than a decade, even before we left Sweden and could still buy it everywhere. Here in Canada, we still make it and bring it to […]
This week, we visit Finland and cook a vegan lanttulaatikko. This rutabaga casserole with nutmeg, cinnamon, and ginger is a Finnish Christmas classic, continuing the theme set by our recent visit to Venezuela where we made vegan hallacas, a local Christmas favourite. Read on to learn more about Finnish cuisine […]
For today’s visit to Bulgaria, we bake vegan tikvenik. Tikvenik is a traditional pumpkin and phyllo dough pastry spiced with cinnamon and often eaten at Christmas. The multiple layers of crispy phyllo dough, the cinnamon and the sweetness create a dish that reminds me a lot of baklava but with […]
Our next stop on this vegan world tour is quite close to Hungary. We take a quick skip from Eastern Europe and land in Western Europe to learn a bit about Luxembourg. Here we cook kniddelen, a type of dumpling where a simple dough or batter is boiled in water […]
This week we head north from The Democratic Republic of the Congo and find ourselves in Hungary in Eastern Europe. Here we prepare vegan langos, a delicious Hungarian street food. These deep fried dough pieces are found at many street vendors and food trucks, often frequenting different festivals and events […]