Vegan butternut soup Butternut soup Inspired by last week’s spicy sweet potato soup, and with her forte for using up what we have, Karen came up with this amazingly tasty butternut soup. Ingredients: 1 butternut, seeds removed and diced 1 medium onion, chopped 3 medium carrots, chopped 1 apple, cored and chopped 1 C desiccated …
Vegan and organic in Rotterdam
Vegan and Organic restaurant in Rotterdam Sweet potato and ginger soup – Gare du Nord – Rotterdam One of the unfortunate things about boating is not having regular internet access. Which is the reason this post is late. On the other hand, the thing about travelling is finding new and exciting vegan restaurants. We were …
Chocolate energy balls – vegan and raw
Raw and Vegan – Chocolate energy balls Chocolate balls It’s not often we make up a recipe, but we are on the boat again, and wanted something to snack on that was healthy and would keep us going. We had seen various recipes for this type of thing, so looked at what we had on …
Pea and Potato Curry – vegan too.
Pea and Potato Curry – vegan too Pea and Potato Curry Back in the kitchen at last. On my travels I bought a copy of the BBC Vegetarian Summer magazine. There are loads of recipes in this issue I want to try out, and make them vegan if possible. Here is my version of their …
Easy Vegetarian
Easy Vegetarian Veggie sausages and vegetarian bacon Still on the move. I passed briefly through London on my way back from working offshore, visiting my aged aunt. I had to take her shopping, and also put together a quick lunch. At the supermarket I was reminded of the large amount of vegetarian brands and products …
Vegan wines and vegan sweeteners
Vegan wines and vegan sweeteners Vegan wines from Painted Wolf Wines Company I am delighted when someone actually makes a comment on this blog, even if it is to point out an error! At least it shows that somebody is reading it, and that makes it all worthwhile. Someone noted that one of my vegan …
Raw and vegan Ice-kreem
Delicious Ice-creems – raw and dairy free – and healthy Banana cashew nut ice-creem Another of my favourite concepts is the raw vegan ice-kreem, or whip. These are so easy to make as they usually have only one or two (probably three at the most) ingredients. For some of them, you might have to plan …
More raw vegan ideas
More raw vegan ideas: At the moment I am working offshore again, so am without a kitchen! Awful. Not only that, the internet out here is not very good and I cannot seem to upload photos. I console myself with browsing the web looking for new raw food ideas and recipes to try, and thought …
Raw vegan tarts or desserts – tips and tricks
Raw vegan tarts or desserts – tips and tricks Mocca Tort – crust at bottom only Since starting on making raw foods, my favourite and most successful have been the raw vegan tarts. The recipes I have used have come from either Peter and Beryn’s Rawlicious, or Natalie and Noel’s ‘easy living food’, but I …
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 smoothies for breakfast, …