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 seeds ½ cup / 90g flax seeds ½ cup / 65g hazelnuts or almonds 1 ½ cups / 145g rolled …
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. Ingredients: 2 ¼ C flour (I used wholewheat flour – nice nutty …
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 over-kneaded the dough, …
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! And it worked perfectly again. …
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 recipes of the Rouxbe Essential Desserts Course that my wife …
Vegan 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. A couple of differences – Instead of soy sauce I used Bragg’s Aminos as …
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 get …
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 of students, which made it most enjoyable. On …
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 loving it – finding out that there is …
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 guests to nibble on …