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 …
Eating aboard – Raw courgette pasta
Raw courgette pasta Apologies for being somewhat late with this post. The boating keeps us busy, and then we don’t always have internet access. Raw pasta is something we have been trying to get right for a while, and not too successfully. But here in the Netherlands, while on the boat, we found these lovely …
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 …
Raw classic cheezecake
My raw classic cheezecake As promised, here is the recipe for the raw classic cheezecake. This is the same dessert that was served up at the Raw Food seminar a while back, and I am pleased to say, I think my one turned out just as well as the pro’s one. The pro version – …
Breads and Cracker Biscuits
Onion bread A little bit late this week with my post! Good excuse this time – We have been having a wonderful time in our new kitchen, trying out our new gadgets and even entertaining. One of our views on healthy eating has always been to avoid refined carbohydrates. The dehydrator is perfect for making …
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 …