Buckwheat crepes are extremely nutritious, high in fibre and gluten free as well. They can be made both sweet or savoury. There are loads of recipes for buckwheat crepes online – using an array of different ingredients. I have found this one simple and it seems to work every time. The basic ingredients are the …
Who would have thought of using beans in a dessert? Seems like lots of people. Anyway – it was a first for me, and turned out really well. I am busy doing an on line cooking course and needed to make two completely diffenrent dishes using the same type of bean. I made a savoury …
Since getting into raw foods, and going vegan, I have not done any baking at all. Not sure why this is, but probably linked to the idea of a low-carb diet being healthy. We’re not so now sure that is the case, and carbs have stated creeping back into our foods. Add to that the …
Pears poached in red wine – organic and vegan Pears poached in red wine – organic! As part of our drive to eat healthily, we go for organic wherever possible. A few days ago, on our boating travels, Karen spotted a pear tree next to a lock. Of course she picked a few. They were …
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 …
Raw vegan pecan cookies We are just loving all these raw foods, and particularly the sweet or dessert ones. These raw pecan cookies were so easy, and of course delicious. The original recipe came from Anya Ladra’s book – ‘Raw Food detox’ Her recipe called for maple syrup, but that is ridiculously expensive, so I …
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 …
