Coco pine smoothie Coco pine smoothie It never occurred to me till the other day to put pineapple in a smoothie. But I came up with this tropical sounding pina-colada style concoction. And it was delicious! Coco Pine smoothie ingredients Ingredients: 1 pineapple 2 bananas 1 C coconut flakes (soaked overnight) 6 to 8 pitted …
Raw Valentine’s Day cake Raw vegan Raspberry Cheezecake I haven’t made a raw cheezecake for ages. Our latest favourite recipe books is ‘Leafy Green Cafe’ by Antonia De Luca. She has some delicious raw desserts there. I made my version of her Strawberry Cheesecake. Apparently strawberries are among the worst crops for being heavily sprayed …
Berry smoothie – raw and vegan Now for my berry smoothie. You can of course use any berries you want, and whatever you use will of course create the colour of the smoothie. This time I have used some soaked goji berries, among others, which give it the almost orange colour. Ingredients: My berry smoothie …
Pears poached in red wine – organic and vegan Pears poached in red wine – organic! As part of our drive to eat healthily, we go for organic wherever possible. A few days ago, on our boating travels, Karen spotted a pear tree next to a lock. Of course she picked a few. They were …
Raw vegan chocolate mint mousse cake Chocolate mint mousse cake – raw and vegan I just love these raw vegan desserts. They are always a hit at dinner parties, and I made this choc mint one again the other night for our guests. I did make one change to the recipe. Although agave nectar is …
Raw cracker biscuits – sweet and savoury Sweet coconut crackers Very happy to be back in our kitchen in Cape Town for a while. We have a couple of dinner parties coming up over the next few days, and I like to have a selection of snacks and cracker biscuits for guests to nibble on …
Raw and Vegan – Chocolate energy balls Chocolate balls It’s not often we make up a recipe, but we are on the boat again, and wanted something to snack on that was healthy and would keep us going. We had seen various recipes for this type of thing, so looked at what we had on …
Vegan wines and vegan sweeteners Vegan wines from Painted Wolf Wines Company I am delighted when someone actually makes a comment on this blog, even if it is to point out an error! At least it shows that somebody is reading it, and that makes it all worthwhile. Someone noted that one of my vegan …
Raw vegan tarts or desserts – tips and tricks Mocca Tort – crust at bottom only Since starting on making raw foods, my favourite and most successful have been the raw vegan tarts. The recipes I have used have come from either Peter and Beryn’s Rawlicious, or Natalie and Noel’s ‘easy living food’, but I …
Green Smoothie – raw, vegan and healthy Healthy Green Smoothie Things don’t always go according to plan, and I have not been able to do as much proper cooking on the boat as I had hoped. But we still had to eat, so we did manage to make really tasty and healthy smoothies for breakfast, …
