Red cabbage, leaf, feta and tomato salad with Finn Crisp crackers

Here is a typical lunch for us when we are at home. When we are out and about, I must confess it’s a different story. When eating on the run it’s a  hundred, thousand times harder to find good wholesome food. And I can never u…

Profanity Stout

Daily specials at Stereo

In the last two blog posts, Patrick and I have spoken about eating out in Glasgow. We would not have found any of the places we visited were it not for the Vegetarian Guides. And I can’t help but wish we had such a thing here in Cape Town. I am serious…

Sweet Treats – last of Feast 2014 – Raw Food course

Lime custard tartlet – raw and vegan

Everybody seems to make smoothies these days.

They tend to be a bit hit and miss – very good or merely ok.

Here we learnt a whole lot about the basics of a smoothie and how to construct a good smoothie f…

Dried banana

The last few recipes have made use of our new dehydrator.

The thing with a dehydrator is you have to generally dehydrate things for anywhere between 8 to 30 hours, or even longer.

Our one (Excalibur) has 9 shelves. So if you are going to be running it for that length of time, you …



Pea and Asparagus Salad with Vegetarian Cumberland Sausages

I’m still helping Patrick with his blog while he is working flat out. His intention with this blog was to show what we eat every day as he was always being asked what we eat. It is a well meaning question but it is surprising that peopl…

Fresh fruit and yogurt with nuts and seeds

This is Patrick’s morning creation. Every now and again Karen needs a break from what Patrick would happily eat every single day of his life – muesli.

We know muesli is good for you but most commercial muesli’s are full of sugar and refi…

El Piano – vegan eatery in York

According to Happy Cow, there are quite a few vegetarian places, but only one vegan establishment – El Piano.

Very Spanish sounding, not surprisingly, as the other two branches are in Granada and Malaga in Spain.

A main course cost £ 9.95 and was made up of your…

Spinach and rocket salad

A while ago I promised the recipe for the salad I served with the fritata.

For meat eaters, salads tend to be some variation involving tomato, lettuce, cucumber, onion or carrot.
Occasionally this is made a bit Greek by adding olives and feta cheese.
And of course there…

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 veg…

Amsterdam!
We fared (pun intended) better than anticipated here.
We spent one night in an hotel in Amsterdam before heading off on our boat on the waterways, (which I will cover in the next post) and three nights in a self catering apartment in the city centre afterwards.

Bagels and Beans – Veget…