Vegan spelt crust quiche Karen has wanted to try vegan baking for a while now. When I was at the London Vegfest a while ago, there were loads of recipe books on special, and I bought her the “Whole Grain VEGAN BAKING” by Celine Steen and Tamasin Noyes. This spelt-crusted quiche was the first dish we tried, …
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. …
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 …
Smoked Bean Curd Bakes and salad In a post on Courgette Latkes a while ago, I mention a Smoked Bean Curd Bake with a Walnut and Mushroom stuffing recipe. Both these came from the Vegan Society Xmas recipe selection – see here Well, the thing with this recipe is that the dish needs to be sort …
Chilled Pea Soup On hot summer evenings, a chilled soup always goes down well. I found this pea soup recipe in Johan and Len’s “Once upon a Chicken Pie” book. We have served this 2 or 3 times already when entertaining and everyone loved it. Its a very simple and easy recipe: Ingredients: 1 large …
Our version of Veg Society’s Coutgette Latkes Christmas is upon us and we have family coming to stay, so I was hunting around for some Xmas ideas. The Vegetarian Society’s newsletter, Veggie Bites, happened to land in my inbox at that moment. I went straight to their link meat-free Xmas recipes. – An amazing selection of interesting recipes. …
Pumpkin fritters, gem squash and salad NO! Whatever you are thinking – it isn’t that. Something much more basic and down to earth: Simply – NO GREASE! Which means – No greasy oven to clean. No smelly kitchen waste bin. The washing up is a doddle…. and….. …….we save a fortune on washing up liquid! …
Spicy Eggplant and Tofu Stir-fry We were visiting a friend of Karen’s the other day, and guess what? – Discussing healthy eating! The usual comment – that it is difficult to know how to eat healthily, particularly when you come home from work and need to knock up a meal. So yes – you resort …
Scrambled Tofu with salad Back home in Cape Town now, and back to eating healthily again. Karen, my vegetarian wife, loves buying cook books, and yesterday came home with one called ‘Yummidy’ – Not only meatless, but low carb as well. We have been trying to follow a low carb diet for a while now, …
Vegetarian larder items Last time I promised you a list of the items the staunch vegetarian keeps handy in the kitchen or larder. If you go to our website which is now up and running Meat Free Everyday you will find a full list. That list includes a few things that might well be in any …
