Berry smoothie – raw and vegan Now for my berry smoothie. You can of course use any berries you want, and whatever you use will of course create the colour of the smoothie. This time I have used some soaked goji berries, among others, which give it the almost orange colour. Ingredients: My berry smoothie …
Chocolate Smoothie – raw and vegan Chocolate smoothie Smoothies and juices are rather the staple diet of a raw foodie. I have done posts on smoothies before, but we have improved, and I decided to share our favourite smoothies and juice over the next few posts. Also, we had Karen’s parents staying with us for …
Veggie rice paper wraps – vegan and raw Rice paper wrap ingredients One of Karen’s specialties is these rice paper wraps. We have now served them up at dinner parties a few times, and they have always gone down well, particularly as a starter. Soaking the wraps The rice wraps should be available at most …
More vegan tart ideas Vegan tartlets Here is a different version of last weeks tartlets. The crusts are ones I still had left over. They keep well in the fridge. Vegan tartlet We were in a bit of a rush for a quick lunch, and used a bought organic hummous, a bought organic vegan pesto …
Smoked mushroom and red pepper tartlets – raw and vegan Smoked mushroom and red pepper tartlet We made these tarts while on the Taste course but they were rather a class effort as they are quite labour intensive. I now wanted to make the whole dish myself. We used predominantly walnuts for the base, which …
Seed cracker biscuits Seed crackers and nut cheeze I am not at all a fan of these fad ‘diets’ that keeping popping up, rather preferring the overall healthy approach to eating. The recipe book that is all the rage in South Africa at the moment is ‘The Real Meal Revolution’ by Prof Tim Noakes, Sally-Ann …
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 quite taken with how much the carrots now resembled …
Raw and vegan – more with the dehydrater – beetroot toast Dehydrated vegetable powders As promised in last week’s dehydrating post, the outcome of my dehydrating sessions – My 1 bag spinach 3 beetroot 5 carrots and 3 large red peppers which I dehydrated in the next session, Jars of vegetable powders produced a small …
Raw and vegan – Dehydrating in our new kitchen Maca-roons – raw and vegan At long last our new kitchen is in operation! Much more worktop space, place for all our gadgets, and a good spot for the dehydrator. I was missing all the tasty raw sweet things, so to get back into the swing …
Raw kitchen gadgets Our new Raw Food ‘must haves’ So much for our new kitchen. Three weeks and it still looks like a building site! So no recipes this week.. Some time ago I did a post on the Raw Kitchen and gadgets. Blendtec Blender and attachments While on the Feast and Taste courses we discovered …
