Cherry tomatoes dehydrated Last week I showed you the dehydrated fruit snack ideas. Here are some savoury snack ideas you can do in the dehydrator: Cherry tomatoes, onions and button mushrooms. Onion rings dehydrated Make up a basic batch of marinade using about 2/3 apple cider vinegar and 1/3 olive oil. Soak the cherry tomatoes …
Chocolate Brownies – Raw, vegan and healthy as well
Chocolate Brownies I am back offshore again, but Karen is still, home trying out more dehydrator recipes. Over the last few years, having realized how bad refined sugar is, I have managed to lose my taste for sweet things. However, I have now found all these delicious and healthy raw food sweet things. This is …
Onion Bread – Raw, vegan and low carb
Karen`s Onion Bread I have mentioned this onion bread a couple of times already in previous posts. Were we served some at the Raw Food Seminar, and we have made it twice at home already. But I never actually gave you the recipe – so here it is: My attempt at onion bread Ingredients: 5 …
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 …
Raw vegan ice-creem and chocolate sauce
Raw vegan ice-creem and chocolate sauce The dessert for our second raw dinner party was raw vegan ice-creem and chocolate sauce. Served up with a small slice of classic cheezecake from the first evening. When we attended the Raw Food Seminar (see this post), we received a set of DVDs in which Peter and Beryn …
Entertaining Raw – butternut, carrot and ginger soup
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 …
Raw Food Seminar
Green juice So – the Raw Food Seminar presented by Peter Daniels of Rawlicious here in South Africa. A fascinating day – loads of information on nutrition, healthy eating and raw food concepts, along with a couple of demonstrations on juicing and smoothies, as well as lots of really tasty food to sample. Its opened …
Raw brocolli cheeze and other raw delights
Brocolli cheeze Last week I promised you brocolli cheeze. So here it is. The original recipe came from “easy living food” by Natalie Reid and Noel Marten and they used cauliflower. The book is available on line from the Rawlicious website. Ingredients: 2 or 3 cups of brocolli florets Boiling water for blanching 1 C cashew …
More and more raw food
Raw hummus on bread with side salad Back in Cape Town and in our new house. I still have to find out where everything is in the kitchen, but Karen in the meantime has been really getting into this raw food concept. And delicious it is too! The first raw recipe she tried was a …
Vegetarianism, veganism and healthy eating
Fresh green salad We are still between houses, travelling up North, and I am going offshore in the pursuit of my proper job. While there is not a lot of cooking going on, I thought I would step back and see where this blog is going. When I started the blog, my wife Karen was …