One of my favourite discoveries in raw food are the absolutely amazing raw vegan cheezecakes or tarts. Everybody seems to love them, so here is the easiest one to make – Pineapple Cheezecake. The original recipe is from Natalie and Noel’s “Easy Living Food” recipe book which has become one of my main “go to” …
Fermented Nut Cheeze
Fermented Nut Cheeze Giving up cheese is one of the hardest aspects of going vegan, but these fermented nut cheezes are really great. Of course, the inspiration and basic recipes for these come from my raw food guru – Deborah Durrant. Check out her website at Deliciously Raw…. and if you are ever in a …
Raw lemon, ginger and mango cheezecake
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 …
Trail Mix – great healthy snacking
Healthy snack – make your own Trail Mix Trail mix One of my latest discoveries since going a bit raw is the trail mix. You can buy it ready made, but I prefer to make up my own. We recently did a 3 day hike and I took some of this along. It is really …
Raw vegan chocolate ganache with superfood crust
Raw vegan chocolate ganache A few things happened that got me going on the raw vegan desserts again. – Peter and Beryn’s new book, the Magic of Superfoods was launched, and naturally we bought a copy. – We have started a round of entertaining again. – And the other raw desserts that I made, particularly …
Mocha Tort
Raw (and healthy) Moch Tort We are really getting into this raw concept, and just loving it. Karen recently bought “Raw Food detox” by Anya Ladra, and having friends for dinner the other evening was just the excuse to try out her Mocha Tort with cacao almond pastry. It was absolutely delicious, and all our …
Raw vegan lemon tart
Lunch – salad with raw vegan lemon tart My very first attempt at a raw vegan dessert was actually a lemon tart, from the Rawlicious recipe book, available from Amazon here. It uses avocado as the bulk for the filling. The trick here is to make sure you have enough lemon flavouring in it to mask …
Courgette Latkes
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. …