Fritata a la Grecque Fritatas are a great way to use up odd leftovers from the fridge. Looking for inspiration the other evening, I found half a dozen organic eggs, some cherry tomatoes, a nearly empty jar of olives and some feta cheese in the fridge. A fritata with a Greek spin was the obvious …
Apricot Clafoutis Clafoutis is originally a French dish, from the Limousin area, and was traditionally made with cherries. We are great ones for using up what we have in the fridge. So with both fresh apricots and eggs needing using up, and wanting to serve something different for our guests that night, this Apricot clafoutis …
Flaxseed cracker biscuits Any regular readers will know we try to go low-carb wherever possible. So Karen wanted to come up with a low-carb cracker biscuit to have in lieu of bread as a snack, or with a light lunch. Based on another homemade nacho recipe she found in a mag, she came up with …
Selection of vegan food at the Potluck Picnic Recently Karen and I were invited to a vegan potluck picnic. We are not yet vegan, but are fast heading that way. Not being that confident with vegan cooking we needed to come up with something simple to prepare. Not sure what prompted it, but dried fruit …
Chilled Pea Soup On hot summer evenings, a chilled soup always goes down well. I found this pea soup recipe in Johan and Len’s “Once upon a Chicken Pie” book. We have served this 2 or 3 times already when entertaining and everyone loved it. Its a very simple and easy recipe: Ingredients: 1 large …
Raw vegan Chocolate Mousse In my last post I mentioned the Raw Food recipe book ‘Easy Living Food’. Karen started out by trying the Chocolate Fudge. In her excitement the ingredients became a bit confused with those of the Energy Balls recipe which was on the opposite page! The result tasted wonderful but was too moist to …
As it says – The Old Biscuit Mill In an earlier post, Karen talked about the Real Food Market in London. Over the past few years loads of fresh food markets have sprung up all over Cape Town. Our favourite is The Old Biscuit Mill in Woodstock. As the name implies it was exactly that – a …
Courgette Mash with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes Been having loads of fun in the kitchen, trying out more of Johan and Len’s recipes from their book ‘Once upon a Chicken Pie’. Just to set your mind at rest – I know this isnt a vegetarian recipe book, but three quarters of the recipes are fully vegetarian. …
Our version of Veg Society’s Coutgette Latkes Christmas is upon us and we have family coming to stay, so I was hunting around for some Xmas ideas. The Vegetarian Society’s newsletter, Veggie Bites, happened to land in my inbox at that moment. I went straight to their link meat-free Xmas recipes. – An amazing selection of interesting recipes. …
Cooked Carrot Salad At last I am getting back into cooking! In a previous post, Same Day Pickles Karen mentioned the restaurant La Petite Tarte run by Johan and Len, and their recipe book, Once upon a Chicken Pie. I too love the book and the recipes, and simply had to try them out. I started …
