This Orange Polenta Cake is a gluten free version of an orange drizzle cake. You can make it in a round or square baking tin or even in cupcakes sizes. The most important aspect of this recipe is to make sure the polenta is well hydrated. To that end I soak the polenta in the …
Tortilla de Patatas
This Tortilla de Patatas recipe is another from our Demuth’s Vegan Cooking Diploma Course we did recently in Bath in the UK. Each day focused on a different country flavour profile, and this was the Spanish day – obviously! A tortilla is usually done in a frying pan, then flipped, or finished in the oven. …
Nut Roast
We have made several nut roasts before, but I have never been entirely happy with them. We have also done some vegan cooking courses, the most recent being the Demuth’s 2 week diploma course in Bath. While there we had an excellent meal at Acorn, which was originally Rachel Demuth’s but is now run by …
Berry sorbet
As usual it has been ages since I posted! 2 reasons – we have been concentrating on getting our vegan pop-up dining going again, and, I hate to post recipes that don’t work. One of the things I have wanted to get right for a while is ice-cream (vegan of course) and sorbet. We learned …
Curried Squash Veloute
A veloute is a smooth creamy soup. The name comes from the word velvet. And let’s face it, on a menu ‘veloute’ sounds so much more elegant than ‘soup’ One can make a veloute with other vegetables – cauliflower, fennel, asparagus, peas, broad beans etc. On the Demuth’s course we made a celeriac version and …
Green Pea Pate
Green Pea Pate Pates are so easy to make. And they are all generally variations of the same theme. On the Demuth’s course we made a broad bean pate or dip. Here on the boat we did not have broad beans but we did have green peas. Nor here in France could we not get …
Travelling and Cooking Vegan
Karen and I have now finished the Demuth’s Vegan Cooking Diploma and are now back aboard our boat in France – travelling and cooking vegan!. What an amazing experience doing that course – we learned such a lot, although it was demanding. And what a great group of students, which made it most enjoyable. On …
Travelling Vegan
South of France Gosh time flies! Much has happened since I last posted. We left our beloved boat Shangri La in St Jean de Losne in and headed for the south of France by train. We visited Avignon, Montpellier and Marseille spending a few days in each place. Wow things are certainly changing for the …
Vegan barging in France
I know it has been ages since I posted! Sorry. But I have not been idle. I did a 6-month on-line plant-based chef course through Rouxbe. Gosh this was quite intensive, but I thoroughly enjoyed it and learned so much. At the same time Karen (my wife) and I got going with our fortnightly pop-up …
Chickpea Cinnamon Blondies
Who would have thought of using beans in a dessert? Seems like lots of people. Anyway – it was a first for me, and turned out really well. I am busy doing an on line cooking course and needed to make two completely diffenrent dishes using the same type of bean. I made a savoury …