Thai green curry – Raw and Vegan Raw vegan Thai Green Curry Finally got around to making this raw vegan Thai Green Curry again. I first discovered it on the FEAST and TASTE raw food courses run by Deborah Durrant of Deliciously Raw. There are a couple of differences from her original recipe as I …
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 …
Veggie wraps – go organic Veggie wrap I have never been mad about standard type of wraps, as I try to stay away from those bready sort of carbohydrates But a wonderful alternative is to use spinach leaves instead. You hardly need a recipe as such. Just try and use as much fresh organic produce …
Sainsbury’s £10 pound Valentine’s Day meal for 2 We are generally not keen on ready made meals, preferring to cook ourselves. But for last Valentines day, we went mad and tried the Sainsbury’s Special £10 meal deal. For our £10 we got: Spinach and Ricotta Cannelloni with cherry tomatoes Potato Dauphinoise with Gruyere and Garlic …
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 …
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 – Vegetarian Restaurant in …
Homemade Soy Burgers We visited a friend a while ago for a braai (barbeque), and he produced the most wondeful vegetarian burgers! “Where did you buy these?” we asked. ” I made them” said Paul. We were most impressed as they were very tasty, and I have to say, a lot better than the usual …
Butternut and sweet potato soup The other day, being the shortest day of the year and thus exactly the middle of winter, together with being rather chilly, it seemed like a good idea to make a warming winter soup. This one I made up as I went along with whatever we had in the house. …
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 …
Vegetarian patties Well – Karen has numerous low carb vegetarian cookbooks it would appear. Spent some time browsing them and found a lovely recipe for vegetarian burgers or patties. I replaced the ordinary green beans with edamami beans, to improve the protein content. The original recipe came from the book ‘CARB Conscious vegetarian’, which has …
