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 6 ripe large tomatoes 1/2 t horseradish sauce (preferable to …
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 hand and can be …
Fun with Raw Pizza
Pizza 1 – Red pepper, sweet onion, spinach, fennel & walnuts We first tasted these raw pizzas a while ago. They were delicious and filling, and I have been wanting to make them myself for some time. Finally got around to it. I did a test run before letting them loose on our guests. I …
Raw Carrot flax cracker biscuits
Carrot flax cracker biscuits I am beginning to sound like a stuck record, but this raw food concept is just amazing! (I usually hate that word!) The food is not only so tasty, but extremely satisfying without leaving you feeling full or bloated. Another of my pet hates is wasting food. The other day I …
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 about 10 minutes to soften. You could use the same basil pesto as the …
Eating aboard – Raw courgette pasta
Raw courgette pasta Apologies for being somewhat late with this post. The boating keeps us busy, and then we don’t always have internet access. Raw pasta is something we have been trying to get right for a while, and not too successfully. But here in the Netherlands, while on the boat, we found these lovely …