Raw Pecan cookies – vegan too!
Raw vegan pecan cookies We are just loving all these raw foods, and particularly the sweet or dessert ones. These raw pecan cookies were so easy, and of course delicious. The original recipe came from Anya Ladra’s book – ‘Raw Food detox’ Her...
Raw vegan parmesan cheez
Raw vegan parmesan cheez In a couple of recent posts, raw courgette pasta and raw pastas pestos and sauces I talked about raw pastas and sauces. And of course pasta wouldn’t be pasta without parmesan cheese. At our last dinner party, we...
Vegan Quiche
Vegan spelt crust quiche Karen has wanted to try vegan baking for a while now. When I was at the London Vegfest a while ago, there were loads of recipe books on special, and I bought her the “Whole Grain VEGAN BAKING” by Celine Steen and Tamasin...
Raw pastas, pestos and sauces
Karen’s coriander pesto In an earlier post here I showed Karen’s raw courgette pasta with a basil pesto. Butternut or sweet potato also work very well as the ‘pasta’, though these vegetables need to be dropped into hot water and left for...
Mocha Tort
Raw (and healthy) Moch Tort We are really getting into this raw concept, and just loving it. Karen recently bought “Raw Food detox” by Anya Ladra, and having friends for dinner the other evening was just the excuse to try out her Mocha Tort with cacao...
A must for vegans – the London Vegfest
At Kensington Olympia – London I’ve left our boat in the Netherlands now, and on the way home to South Africa via London. I’d seen in the latest Vegetarian Living mag, that the London Vegfest would be on at the Kensington Olympia exhibition...
Eating aboard – vegan or raw
Broccoli Cheez meal aboard I can’t decide which is easier – going vegan, or going raw. We manage a bit of both while on the boat. Here is a quick and delicious light meal we had one evening: Soy schnitzels, broccoli cheez and green peas. Not entirely raw...
Eating aboard – Cajun tofu steaks
Getting ready to cook Cajun Spiced Tofu Steaks One thing we have not found often in the Netherlands is tofu. Not surprising I suppose, seeing the number of cattle farms around! But amazingly we found plain tofu in a supermarket in Sneek in Friesland. Of course we...
Eating aboard – Salads
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...
Eating aboard – Healthy green smoothie
Healthy green smoothie for breakfast Eating raw, vegan and healthy aboard is a challenge in a number of ways, but the one thing that actually makes it easier is we do not have an oven. We have an electric hob, but to operate that we need to run a generator. So we...