Low Carb Bread
Low Carb Bread This Low Carb Bread is really delicious, tasty and filling and is so easy to make. Recipe thanks to My New Roots. Recipe exactly as in their blog – Ingredients: 1 cup / 135g sunflower seeds½ cup / 90g flax seeds½ cup / 65g hazelnuts or almonds1 ½...
Vegan quiche variation
Vegan Quiche slice I have posted vegan quiches before – see here and here. Quiches can be complicated or easy, and this vegan quiche variation came about from a need to use up some veggies, and a desire to brush up my pastry making skills. For the pastry I used...
Vegan Short Crust Pastry
I much prefer making my own pastry, and this vegan short crust pastry is easy – and the recipe works. I found it here. Thanks to Veganlovlie. Check out their blog and website. I have just used this recipe to make a quiche. Quiche with vegan short crust base...
Mushroom Duxelles
Mushroom Duxelles I included this mushroom duxelles recipe in by Beet Wellington post, but thought I would make it stand alone post as well. Mushroom Duxelles Ingredients Ingredients: 300 grms mushrooms1 large shallot or medium onion2 x 1T vegan butter1 t dried...
Tofu Mayo Sandwich
As we cannot do our Green & Vegan pop up dining due to this Covid pandemic, we have started doing take out sandwiches. This Tofu Mayo Sandwich is my favourite. Tofu Mayo Sandwich It uses my ‘vegan egg’ recipe, along with a commercially bought low oil...
Sweetcorn Fritters
Sweetcorn Fritters Been trying for a while to make good sweetcorn fritters. The ones you get at restaurants are great, but they are deep fried. And deep frying is something we try to avoid. Found this recipe on Domestic Gothess and it is great! Lovely served with a...
Arancini
Arancini?? I had never heard of this till Karen came up with it for an idea for one of our pop-ups. Sounded wonderful – but needed to learn how to make it. So, what are they? – Basically, deep fried risotto rice balls. Which of course was immediately a problem because...
Vegan Rice Paper Bacon
Rice Paper Bacon This Vegan Rice Paper Bacon makes a great tasty snack. And pretty easy to make. I found several videos on You Tube with vegan bacon recipes, and my recipe is based on the one by Brett Cobley. Check out his video. Vegan Rice Paper Bacon ingredients A...
Vegan Eggs
I have been wanting to try making vegan eggs for a long time now! It look so impossible that I kept putting it off. I found this recipe on the “exceedingly vegan” blog. It was actually very easy, and worked! So often I find a recipe on line and it actually...
Panisse
Panisse served up Panisse is a dish from Provence. Typically served in fingers (almost like fries), it has a crispy exterior, and a creamy almost custard-like interior, reminiscent of polenta. Panisse can be served as a side to almost any meat, but also...
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...
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...
Homemade Tomato Sauce
There’s something quite satisfying about making your own tomato sauce. And this one is delicious and oh so simple. Thanks to Jamie Oliver’s “Jamie at Home” video series for the inspiration. Ingredients: 5 ripe tomatoes 2 T white wine vinegar...
Beetroot toast – Raw and vegan
Since I last posted Karen and I have been very busy in the kitchen. We have just hosted another successful pop-up dinner at our house. Check out our Green and Vegan FB page . I am also studying on-line, doing the Rouxbe Plant-based Proffesional Chef course. I am...
Carrot Lox (Vegan “Smoked Salmon”)
Way back in 2014 I this post featuring my version of a vegan “smoked salmon”. I would like to think I sort of invented this – but probably not. Now, since we have been doing our vegan pop-up dining, featuring vegan sushi, I have improved it a lot.....
Sweetcorn Chowder
When we decided to make this sweetcorn chowder as a starter for our pop up dining event, (check out our Green & Vegan FB page) we originally opted for a raw recipe. When we tested it, yes it was tasty, but to be honest – tasted – raw! So we changed...
Tomato Consomme
This very tasty Tomato Consomme is thanks to Jamie Oliver’s “Taste” video series. We made and served it at our latest pop-up vegan dining event last Saturday, and it seemed to go down a treat. Check out our Green & Vegan FB page Ingredients: 5 or...
Basil Pistou and Oat Creem
These were the two extras I used in the cucunber mint soup in the last post. As promised, here are the recipes. Both very quick and easy. Basil Pistou – Ingredients: 2 C fresh basil, loosely packed 4 cloves garlic, minced (use only 2 if they are the very large...
Chilled cucumber-mint soup with a basil pistou
We are back in the thick of doing vegan pop-up dining events at our house – every second Saturday. Haviving to make and serve up a four course meal for up to 12 people, we have found doing a chilled soup is a great starter – easy to prepare well before...
White Bean Pate
Vegan Recipe Books We keep discovering new vegan recipe books. They are popping up all the time. Our latest new find is one called Vegan Bible, by Marie Laforet. I am loving it because the few recipes I have tried so far actually seem to work. And pretty well every...