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 cups /...
Vegan quiche variation
Vegan Quiche slice I have posted vegan quiches before – see here and here. Quiches can be complicated or easy, and this vegan quiche variation came about from a need to use up some veggies, and a desire to brush up my pastry making skills. For the pastry I used this...
Buckwheat Crepes
Buckwheat Crepe – Sweet Buckwheat crepes are extremely nutritious, high in fibre and gluten free as well. They can be made both sweet or savoury. Buckwheat Crepe – Savoury There are loads of recipes for buckwheat crepes online – using an array of different...
Mushroom Duxelles
Mushroom Duxelles I included this mushroom duxelles recipe in by Beet Wellington post, but thought I would make it stand alone post as well. Mushroom Duxelles Ingredients Ingredients: 300 grms mushrooms1 large shallot or medium onion2 x 1T vegan butter1 t dried...
Tofu Mayo Sandwich
As we cannot do our Green & Vegan pop up dining due to this Covid pandemic, we have started doing take out sandwiches. This Tofu Mayo Sandwich is my favourite. Tofu Mayo Sandwich It uses my ‘vegan egg’ recipe, along with a commercially bought low oil mayo on a...
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 you!...
Vegan Eggs
I have been wanting to try making vegan eggs for a long time now! It look so impossible that I kept putting it off. I found this recipe on the “exceedingly vegan” blog. It was actually very easy, and worked! So often I find a recipe on line and it actually does not...
Carrot Lox (Vegan “Smoked Salmon”)
Way back in 2014 I this post featuring my version of a vegan “smoked salmon”. I would like to think I sort of invented this – but probably not. Now, since we have been doing our vegan pop-up dining, featuring vegan sushi, I have improved it a lot.. Here is my updated...
Travelling vegan
Sometimes it’s hard to be vegan! I must apologize for not posting for ages! I seem to spend a lot of time travelling or working and not being anywhere near a kitchen. At the moment I am in Azerbaijan, in Baku, working. Not the touristy nice bit of Baku! The poor run...
Smoked Tempeh Bacon
Smoked Tempeh Bacon Last week I used smoked tempeh ‘bacon’ in the stir fry recipe, and here is the promised tempeh smoking recipe. But before I do that, there is one aspect I must touch on – Carnivores often ask why us vegetarian/vegans keep making ‘meat look-alike’...
Breakfast Mix – Raw, vegan and healthy
Breakfast Mix – Raw, vegan and healthy Healthy breakfast mix I must apologize for not posting for a few weeks now. I have had other things on my plate – pardon the pun. But I have been eating a hearty healthy breakfast every day! Along with a green juice or a...
Vegan ‘NOT smoked salmon scramble’
Vegan ‘NOT smoked salmon scramble’ Among the new gadgets I discover at Deborah Durrant’s Taste course was the cold smoking gun. A very simple device but effective. At the course, we used the smoke gun to smoke some marinated veggies, namely moolie and carrots. I was...
Delicious and healthy Green Smoothie.
Green Smoothie – raw, vegan and healthy Healthy Green Smoothie Things don’t always go according to plan, and I have not been able to do as much proper cooking on the boat as I had hoped. But we still had to eat, so we did manage to make really tasty and healthy...
Vegan in Brighton
V-Bites vegan breakfast Travelling again so not much time in the kitchen lately. But travelling does give us the chance to try out vegan eateries. We took a weekend break in Brighton on the South Coast and before going, checked out Happy Cow V-Bites in Brighton There...
Vegan ‘fry-up’
Vegan ‘fry up’ People often ask why vegans or vegetarians try to make carnivore look alike meals. I am not really sure why we do this, but at the moment we have Karen’s parents staying with us, and they are not even vegetarian, let alone vegan. I think we do this to...
Eating aboard – Healthy green smoothie
Healthy green smoothie for breakfast Eating raw, vegan and healthy aboard is a challenge in a number of ways, but the one thing that actually makes it easier is we do not have an oven. We have an electric hob, but to operate that we need to run a generator. So we...
Eating aboard – Raw courgette pasta
Raw courgette pasta Apologies for being somewhat late with this post. The boating keeps us busy, and then we don’t always have internet access. Raw pasta is something we have been trying to get right for a while, and not too successfully. But here in the Netherlands,...
Breakfast – Homemade muesli
Homemade muesli, fresh fruit and yoghurt We will be moving house at the end of the month, so was on a bit of a mission to use up stuff in the larder and fridge. Came up with this muesli mix, which turned out most delicious. About 2 cups each of: Wheat germ Digestive...
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 peanut butter or a slice of cheese and I’m full for...