There is something about chocolate! Chocolate desserts are always a hit, and this Chocolate and Coconut Log was absolutely scrumptious! We served it up with fresh raspberries at our last vegan pop-up dining event. (Check out our Green and Vegan FB page) The inspiration once again comes from Vegan Bible, by Marie Laforet, but I needed …
As promised, here is my recipe for coconut-banana vegan ice-creem. I would love to call it a fool-proof recipe, but I have tried out many so-called fool-proof ones that actually don’t work. So I will just say it is the first successful vegan ice-creem I’ve managed to make. My ingredients: 1 (400ml) tin coconut milk …
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 …
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 …
Goji chocolate balls These delicious treats go under all sorts of various names – energy balls, truffles etc etc and are generally variations on a mixture of nuts, dates, healthy berries and/or superfoods. Whatever – they are delicious and can be served as a dessert or as a snack with tea or coffee. This basic …
Raw cracker biscuits – sweet and savoury Sweet coconut crackers Very happy to be back in our kitchen in Cape Town for a while. We have a couple of dinner parties coming up over the next few days, and I like to have a selection of snacks and cracker biscuits for guests to nibble on …
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 …
Rustic coconut tart Another heavenly and healthy raw dessert from Natalie and Noel’s ‘easy living food’. We served this at our last raw pizza dinner party – see previous posts. Their recipe called for mature coconuts. I used dessicated coconut. This tended to soak up the liquid so to up the liquid a bit, i …
Raw mini carrot cakes Here is another delicious raw dessert from my recipe book of the moment – ‘easy living food’ – by Natalie Reid and Noel Marten. Cake: 4 C carrots, finely grated 2 C almonds, or other nuts 1 C date jam 1 C dessicated coconut 1 C orange juice 1/2 C raisins …
