Chocolate Cupcakes
Chocolate Cupcakes These Chocolate Cupcakes are part of my getting to grips with baking while carrying on trying recipes from the Rouxbe Essential Desserts course my wife Karen did a while ago. There is so much more to baking – understanding flours and yeasts and...
Chicken Seitan Skewers
I made theses Chicken Seitan Skewers a while ago but never got round to posting the recipe. The original inspiration for this came from this recipe from Sam at “itdoesnttastelikechicken”. Just to make sure, I made them again yesterday. The original recipe...
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...
Arancini
Arancini?? I had never heard of this till Karen came up with it for an idea for one of our pop-ups. Sounded wonderful – but needed to learn how to make it. So, what are they? – Basically, deep fried risotto rice balls. Which of course was immediately a problem because...
Crème Caramel
Crème Caramel Crème Caramel is another of these classic French desserts. Having perfected Crème Brulee, I thought this would be easy. Not so – had a few unsuccessful attempts but finally came up with this one. Check out the notes at the end of the post. Here at Green...
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...
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...
Orange and Almond Cake
Almond Orange Cake I have to say I much prefer being in the kitchen making wonderful vegan food than writing about it! But I do like to share the recipes. This dessert has gone down so well at a couple of our pop-up dinners (check out our FB page here), and if you...
Aubergine and Lentil Lasagne
One of the most interesting aspects of or Green and Vegan pop up dinners is that each evening the menu is different. (Have a look at our FB page here). We do sometimes do things backwards! Decide on an appetising menu first and then make up or test the recipes....
Orange Polenta Cake
This Orange Polenta Cake is a gluten free version of an orange drizzle cake. You can make it in a round or square baking tin or even in cupcakes sizes. The most important aspect of this recipe is to make sure the polenta is well hydrated. To that end I soak the...
Tortilla de Patatas
Tortilla de Patatas This Tortilla de Patatas recipe is another from our Demuth’s Vegan Cooking Diploma Course we did recently in Bath in the UK. Each day focused on a different country flavour profile, and this was the Spanish day – obviously! A tortilla...
Nut Roast
We have made several nut roasts before, but I have never been entirely happy with them. We have also done some vegan cooking courses, the most recent being the Demuth’s 2 week diploma course in Bath. While there we had an excellent meal at Acorn, which was...
Berry sorbet
As usual it has been ages since I posted! 2 reasons – we have been concentrating on getting our vegan pop-up dining going again, and, I hate to post recipes that don’t work. One of the things I have wanted to get right for a while is ice-cream (vegan of course) and...
Curried Squash Veloute
A veloute is a smooth creamy soup. The name comes from the word velvet. And let’s face it, on a menu ‘veloute’ sounds so much more elegant than ‘soup’ One can make a veloute with other vegetables – cauliflower, fennel, asparagus, peas, broad beans etc. On the Demuth’s...
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...
Travelling Vegan
South of France Gosh time flies! Much has happened since I last posted. We left our beloved boat Shangri La in St Jean de Losne in and headed for the south of France by train. We visited Avignon, Montpellier and Marseille spending a few days in each place. Wow things...
Vegan barging in France
I know it has been ages since I posted! Sorry. But I have not been idle. I did a 6-month on-line plant-based chef course through Rouxbe. Gosh this was quite intensive, but I thoroughly enjoyed it and learned so much. At the same time Karen (my wife) and I got...
Chickpea Cinnamon Blondies
Who would have thought of using beans in a dessert? Seems like lots of people. Anyway – it was a first for me, and turned out really well. I am busy doing an on line cooking course and needed to make two completely diffenrent dishes using the same type of bean....