More vegan tart ideas Vegan tartlets Here is a different version of last weeks tartlets. The crusts are ones I still had left over. They keep well in the fridge. Vegan tartlet We were in a bit of a rush for a quick lunch, and used a bought organic hummous, a bought organic vegan pesto …
Smoked mushroom and red pepper tartlets – raw and vegan
Smoked mushroom and red pepper tartlets – raw and vegan Smoked mushroom and red pepper tartlet We made these tarts while on the Taste course but they were rather a class effort as they are quite labour intensive. I now wanted to make the whole dish myself. We used predominantly walnuts for the base, which …
Seed cracker biscuits
Seed cracker biscuits Seed crackers and nut cheeze I am not at all a fan of these fad ‘diets’ that keeping popping up, rather preferring the overall healthy approach to eating. The recipe book that is all the rage in South Africa at the moment is ‘The Real Meal Revolution’ by Prof Tim Noakes, Sally-Ann …
Vegan ‘NOT smoked salmon scramble’
Vegan ‘NOT smoked salmon scramble’ Among the new gadgets I discover at Deborah Durrant’s Taste course was the cold smoking gun. A very simple device but effective. At the course, we used the smoke gun to smoke some marinated veggies, namely moolie and carrots. I was quite taken with how much the carrots now resembled …
Raw and vegan – more with the dehydrater – beetroot toast
Raw and vegan – more with the dehydrater – beetroot toast Dehydrated vegetable powders As promised in last week’s dehydrating post, the outcome of my dehydrating sessions – My 1 bag spinach 3 beetroot 5 carrots and 3 large red peppers which I dehydrated in the next session, Jars of vegetable powders produced a small …
Raw and vegan – Dehydrating in our new kitchen
Raw and vegan – Dehydrating in our new kitchen Maca-roons – raw and vegan At long last our new kitchen is in operation! Much more worktop space, place for all our gadgets, and a good spot for the dehydrator. I was missing all the tasty raw sweet things, so to get back into the swing …
Raw kitchen gadgets
Raw kitchen gadgets Our new Raw Food ‘must haves’ So much for our new kitchen. Three weeks and it still looks like a building site! So no recipes this week.. Some time ago I did a post on the Raw Kitchen and gadgets. Blendtec Blender and attachments While on the Feast and Taste courses we discovered …
More from Taste
More from Taste Nut cheeze One of the hardest things about going vegan and raw is getting over cheese. Using the basic nut cheese we had made the previous day, we all came up with our own flavour variations. I made a peppercorn goats cheeze, using Deborah’s recipe, and attempted to achieve a cheddar type …
Taste – Raw Food Course
Taste – Raw Food Course Tom Kha Soup Last week I attended Deborah Durrant’s Taste course – a 1 week intensive hands on course – it follows on from her Feast 2014 course, and is geared to fine dining, menu planning and plating techniques. Shame that Karen had to be back in SA and was …
Raw courgette pasta
Raw courgette pasta – with tomato sauce At the moment I am killing time between the 2 raw food course, doing some maintenance on our boat in the Netherlands. Compared to our kitchen at home, the equipment on the boat is pretty basic, but it’s surprising what you can do with raw food with limited …