Kampen – Holland – Monday Market We are always happiest self catering when we travel. And it was no different this time while we cruised the Dutch waterways on our hired motor cruiser. Have a look at our boating holiday in Holland We did venture up to the towns, but more often that not, the …
Amsterdam! We fared (pun intended) better than anticipated here. We spent one night in an hotel in Amsterdam before heading off on our boat on the waterways, (which I will cover in the next post) and three nights in a self catering apartment in the city centre afterwards. Bagels and Beans – Vegetarian Restaurant in …
Al fresco healthy breakfast in Finland Finally arrived in Holland for our boating holiday. But we had a whirlwind week in Stockholm before that, and now feeling rather fat and unhealthy! And Karen had a few days there before me, so she is really feeling it. Dont get me wrong – we had a wonderful …
Warm winter salad Eating healthily out here in the North Sea is not particularly inspiring! Give them their due, they do try – but the selection is limited. Munching my way through the ‘same old’ lettuce, tomato, onion and peppers, I could not help remembering the wonderfully tasty and ‘different’ salads that Karen has come …
Homemade Soy Burgers We visited a friend a while ago for a braai (barbeque), and he produced the most wondeful vegetarian burgers! “Where did you buy these?” we asked. ” I made them” said Paul. We were most impressed as they were very tasty, and I have to say, a lot better than the usual …
Oatcakes Here we are back offshore again. It is not all that easy eating healthily in this environment. The meals are always heavily meat orientated, loads of pasta, rice and potatoes, not to mention the desserts like apple crumble or bread and butter pudding. I was thus reminded of a tasty and healthy snack we …
Butternut and sweet potato soup The other day, being the shortest day of the year and thus exactly the middle of winter, together with being rather chilly, it seemed like a good idea to make a warming winter soup. This one I made up as I went along with whatever we had in the house. …
Spicy Eggplant and Tofu Stir-fry We were visiting a friend of Karen’s the other day, and guess what? – Discussing healthy eating! The usual comment – that it is difficult to know how to eat healthily, particularly when you come home from work and need to knock up a meal. So yes – you resort …
Vegetarian patties Well – Karen has numerous low carb vegetarian cookbooks it would appear. Spent some time browsing them and found a lovely recipe for vegetarian burgers or patties. I replaced the ordinary green beans with edamami beans, to improve the protein content. The original recipe came from the book ‘CARB Conscious vegetarian’, which has …
Scrambled Tofu with salad Back home in Cape Town now, and back to eating healthily again. Karen, my vegetarian wife, loves buying cook books, and yesterday came home with one called ‘Yummidy’ – Not only meatless, but low carb as well. We have been trying to follow a low carb diet for a while now, …
