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 …
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 …
Cooked Carrot Salad At last I am getting back into cooking! In a previous post, Same Day Pickles Karen mentioned the restaurant La Petite Tarte run by Johan and Len, and their recipe book, Once upon a Chicken Pie. I too love the book and the recipes, and simply had to try them out. I started …
Indian accompaniments with my stuffed peppers I am still having a bit of an Indian moment and enjoying using recipes from Monisha Bharadwaj’s book – ‘healthy Indian in minutes’. I made the Gajar Ka Salaad, or Carrot and Cashew salad with Honey, and the Lal Kobichi Bhaji or Red cabbage with Mustard. I love the …
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! …
Kampen – Holland – Monday Market We are always happiest self catering when we travel. And it was no different this time while we cruised the Dutch waterways on our hired motor cruiser. Have a look at our boating holiday in Holland We did venture up to the towns, but more often that not, the …
Warm winter salad Eating healthily out here in the North Sea is not particularly inspiring! Give them their due, they do try – but the selection is limited. Munching my way through the ‘same old’ lettuce, tomato, onion and peppers, I could not help remembering the wonderfully tasty and ‘different’ salads that Karen has come …
Endive, roquefort and walnut salad Although healthy eating is one of my passions, at the moment it doesnt earn me any money. For that, I am still involved in the marine industry, which is why I am at the moment in Point Noire in the Congo. I arrived after a long day travelling feeling somewhat …
Ricotta rissoles and salads Entertaining again last night – and a number of tricky people to feed. 1 wheat intolerant and fussy eater, 1 on diet, 1 vegetarian and a couple of runners who always want to eat healthily. A chance for me to experiment a bit, and for Karen to use one of her …
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 is the ubiquitous …
