Guacamole – raw and vegan In a previous post I mentioned cheeseless snacks, and here is the promised recipe. Ingredients: 2 ripe avocados 1 large clove garlic juice and pulp of 1 lemon (no pips) salt to taste chili flakes to taste (optional) Method: Put all ingredients in the blender and blend till smooth. Some …
Chickpea Hummus As promised, here is Karen’s chickpea hummus recipe. Never really sure of the correct spelling for ‘hummus’, but that close enough. Ingredients: 1 tin chickpeas, rinsed and drained 1 – 2 large cloves garlic 1/2 t ground cummin (optional) juice of and pulp of 1 lemon (no pips) 1 T tahini salt to …
Who needs cheese! It seems getting over cheese is the hardest part of going vegan. Here are a couple of examples of quick and easy cheeseless snacks to get you through the day. In this picture is vegan creem cheeze on beetroot toast, humus on onion bread and guacamole on onion bread. The spreads are …
Raw lemon, ginger and mango cheezecake In case you hadn’t noticed, raw cheezecake desserts are among my favourite things to make. Here is another raw vegan tart that was posted recently by Deborah Durrant from Deliciously Raw. Check out Deborah’s website for more fabulous raw food ideas As usual I have made a few amendments to …
Crumbed mushrooms – raw and vegan This is another delicious and oh so easy accompaniment to a main meal, inspired, naturally, by the TASTE raw food course with Deborah Durrant. Her recipe is a slightly more spicy version. I chose a sort of Mediterranean flavour. Choice of spices is yours. The bread-crumb mixture …
Coco pine smoothie Coco pine smoothie It never occurred to me till the other day to put pineapple in a smoothie. But I came up with this tropical sounding pina-colada style concoction. And it was delicious! Coco Pine smoothie ingredients Ingredients: 1 pineapple 2 bananas 1 C coconut flakes (soaked overnight) 6 to 8 pitted …
Lemon sponge, lemon creme dessert – Raw and vegan Lemon sponge I mentioned this absolutely amazing lemon sponge dessert we made while doing the Deborah Durrant TASTE raw food course. See this post Finally got to make it again at one of our dinner parties, and of course it was a hit! So thanks to Deborah …
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 smoothie, I always have …
Veganaise – or egg free mayo Our veganaise on our burgers from previous week This is something we have being trying to get right for some time. Both Karen and I have had a good few flops. The taste is generally good, but the texture and consistency has never been right. Non dairy recipe book …
Onion Tart – Vegan Vegan onion tart We have not done much vegan baking at all but Karen wanted to try this dish as a starter at our last dinner party. The original idea also came from the Leafy Green Cafe recipe book by Antonia De Luca, but we also needed to make this one …
