Low Carb Bread
Low Carb Bread This Low Carb Bread is really delicious, tasty and filling and is so easy to make. Recipe thanks to My New Roots. Recipe exactly as in their blog – Ingredients: 1 cup / 135g sunflower seeds½ cup / 90g flax seeds½ cup / 65g hazelnuts or almonds1 ½...
Vegan Short Crust Pastry
I much prefer making my own pastry, and this vegan short crust pastry is easy – and the recipe works. I found it here. Thanks to Veganlovlie. Check out their blog and website. I have just used this recipe to make a quiche. Quiche with vegan short crust base...
Hot Cross Buns
Hot Cross Buns I have never done much baking, let alone vegan hot cross buns. Take my hat off to people who bake. It is never as easy as it looks. I took me 3 attempts to get these right. The first attempt I managed to kill off the yeast, and in the second I...
Gluten Free Bread
Gluten Free Bread I am not sure why, but I have never made bread before – let alone Gluten Free Vegan Bread!! Karen made this one recently for one of our Green and Vegan pop up dinners. I thought I would also give it a try. The recipe came from Elavegan. Thank...
Choc Chip Cookies
Choc Chip Cookies Found this recipe for Choc Chip Cookies on the Plant Based Chefs FB site. Some really good recipes here! At time of writing this we are in the Corona Virus lockdown – so spending my time in the kitchen trying recipes, and working through the...
Vegan Rice Paper Bacon
Rice Paper Bacon This Vegan Rice Paper Bacon makes a great tasty snack. And pretty easy to make. I found several videos on You Tube with vegan bacon recipes, and my recipe is based on the one by Brett Cobley. Check out his video. Vegan Rice Paper Bacon ingredients A...
Green Pea Pate
Green Pea Pate Pates are so easy to make. And they are all generally variations of the same theme. On the Demuth’s course we made a broad bean pate or dip. Here on the boat we did not have broad beans but we did have green peas. Nor here in France could we not...
Travelling and Cooking Vegan
Karen and I have now finished the Demuth’s Vegan Cooking Diploma and are now back aboard our boat in France – travelling and cooking vegan!. What an amazing experience doing that course – we learned such a lot, although it was demanding. And what a great group...
Beetroot toast – Raw and vegan
Since I last posted Karen and I have been very busy in the kitchen. We have just hosted another successful pop-up dinner at our house. Check out our Green and Vegan FB page . I am also studying on-line, doing the Rouxbe Plant-based Proffesional Chef course. I am...
Sweet and savoury raw cracker biscuits
Raw cracker biscuits – sweet and savoury Sweet coconut crackers Very happy to be back in our kitchen in Cape Town for a while. We have a couple of dinner parties coming up over the next few days, and I like to have a selection of snacks and cracker biscuits for...
Onion Bread – Raw, vegan and low carb
Karen`s Onion Bread I have mentioned this onion bread a couple of times already in previous posts. Were we served some at the Raw Food Seminar, and we have made it twice at home already. But I never actually gave you the recipe – so here it is: My attempt at...
Breads and Cracker Biscuits
Onion bread A little bit late this week with my post! Good excuse this time – We have been having a wonderful time in our new kitchen, trying out our new gadgets and even entertaining. One of our views on healthy eating has always been to avoid refined...
Low Carb Irish Soda Bread
Low Carb Irish Soda Bread my flour at left and Atkins flour at right I have made Colette Heimowitz – Atkins – low carb bread – see here – and here – so many times now. It’s great bread. Two slices for breakfast with...
Cheese Herb Bread – low carb
Cheesy low carb bread Much as I am enjoying baking and being able to eat sweet – low carb – treats, my craving is not for sweets, but rather savoury flavours, like cheese and Marmite. I made Lemon Poppy Seed bread from the New Atkins Cookbook a few weeks...
Lemon Poppy Seed Low Carb Bread
This bread is more like a rich moist cake. It’s yummy and filling. The recipe is from Colette Heimowitz Atkins Cookbook in the breakfast section. Lemon Poppy Seed Bread My version of this bread had a few changes to accommodate our store cupboard. I didn’t...
Low carb and fruit and cinnamon bread
We love Rose Elliot’s cook books. Great to find a low carb cookbook for vegetarians. I have made her low carb bread before but Karen wanted a sweet version. She used Rose Elliot’s “Cornbread” recipe but added stevia, cinnamon and mixed dried...
More low carb breads
Almond and Ricotta (low carb) bread Back on the low carb trail. Here are two low carb bread recipes which my wife Karen has just tried. They were both tasty and filling. For more low carb and meat free recipes go to the recipes home page on – this link....
Low Carb Bread
Low carb bread I am really getting into this low carb eating, but I do miss the occassional slice of toast. Browsing through our cookbooks, I came across this quick and easy to make low carb bread. In fact it is the first time I have ever made bread at all. I have...