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 …
Karen’s coriander pesto In an earlier post here I showed Karen’s raw courgette pasta with a basil pesto. Butternut or sweet potato also work very well as the ‘pasta’, though these vegetables need to be dropped into hot water and left for about 10 minutes to soften. You could use the same basil pesto as the …
Raw butternut, carrot and ginger soup As I mentioned last week, our first go at entertaining with raw food went off really well, with even our carnivore friends being suitable impressed. The menu comprised raw butternut, carrot and ginger soup, raw vegan pizza and classic cheezecake for dessert. I have to confess the pizzas were …
Onion bread A little bit late this week with my post! Good excuse this time – We have been having a wonderful time in our new kitchen, trying out our new gadgets and even entertaining. One of our views on healthy eating has always been to avoid refined carbohydrates. The dehydrator is perfect for making …
Butternut, Spinach and Blue Cheese Salad with Pumpkin Seeds I’m still sharing recipes on Patrick’s blog while he is short on spare time. Last week I blogged about meals we had at Strathmore Arms in Scotland. This week I am sharing a meal we had at The Lookout Deck – Hout Bay in Cape Town. It’s …
Vegetarian Haggis Stuffed Peppers In the last post I mentioned Vegetarian Haggis, and different ways to serve it. A couple of weeks ago we drove inland to the Cairngorms to see snow (A bit of a novelty for South Africans). We found this inviting looking pub called the Strathmore Arms next to Glamis Castle. As vegetarians …
Butternut and sweet potato soup The other day, being the shortest day of the year and thus exactly the middle of winter, together with being rather chilly, it seemed like a good idea to make a warming winter soup. This one I made up as I went along with whatever we had in the house. …
