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 …
Carrot flax cracker biscuits I am beginning to sound like a stuck record, but this raw food concept is just amazing! (I usually hate that word!) The food is not only so tasty, but extremely satisfying without leaving you feeling full or bloated. Another of my pet hates is wasting food. The other day I …
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 …
Raw vegan parmesan cheez In a couple of recent posts, raw courgette pasta and raw pastas pestos and sauces I talked about raw pastas and sauces. And of course pasta wouldn’t be pasta without parmesan cheese. At our last dinner party, we served a raw sweet potato pasta and tangy tomato sauce, with a vegan parmesan cheez. Vegan parmesan …
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 (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 …
At Kensington Olympia – London I’ve left our boat in the Netherlands now, and on the way home to South Africa via London. I’d seen in the latest Vegetarian Living mag, that the London Vegfest would be on at the Kensington Olympia exhibition centre while I was there. I couldn’t miss that opportunity! Gosh I wish …
Getting ready to cook Cajun Spiced Tofu Steaks One thing we have not found often in the Netherlands is tofu. Not surprising I suppose, seeing the number of cattle farms around! But amazingly we found plain tofu in a supermarket in Sneek in Friesland. Of course we bought some. We made Cajun Spiced Tofu steaks. …
Karen’s raw veg salad When eating out, vegetarians or vegans are very often offered a boring old salad as their only option. But salads don’t have to be boring, They can be fun, colourful, tasty and healthy as well. Karen loves making salads and comes up with the most amazing ones. Here are 2 salads …
