Crumbed mushrooms – raw and vegan This is another delicious and oh so easy accompaniment to a main meal, inspired, naturally, by the TASTE raw food course with Deborah Durrant. Her recipe is a slightly more spicy version. I chose a sort of Mediterranean flavour. Choice of spices is yours. The bread-crumb mixture …
Vegan ‘fry up’ People often ask why vegans or vegetarians try to make carnivore look alike meals. I am not really sure why we do this, but at the moment we have Karen’s parents staying with us, and they are not even vegetarian, let alone vegan. I think we do this to make them feel …
Cherry tomatoes dehydrated Last week I showed you the dehydrated fruit snack ideas. Here are some savoury snack ideas you can do in the dehydrator: Cherry tomatoes, onions and button mushrooms. Onion rings dehydrated Make up a basic batch of marinade using about 2/3 apple cider vinegar and 1/3 olive oil. Soak the cherry tomatoes …
As it says – The Old Biscuit Mill In an earlier post, Karen talked about the Real Food Market in London. Over the past few years loads of fresh food markets have sprung up all over Cape Town. Our favourite is The Old Biscuit Mill in Woodstock. As the name implies it was exactly that – a …
Courgette Mash with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes Been having loads of fun in the kitchen, trying out more of Johan and Len’s recipes from their book ‘Once upon a Chicken Pie’. Just to set your mind at rest – I know this isnt a vegetarian recipe book, but three quarters of the recipes are fully vegetarian. …
Our version of Veg Society’s Coutgette Latkes Christmas is upon us and we have family coming to stay, so I was hunting around for some Xmas ideas. The Vegetarian Society’s newsletter, Veggie Bites, happened to land in my inbox at that moment. I went straight to their link meat-free Xmas recipes. – An amazing selection of interesting recipes. …
Vegetarian Haggis Stuffed Peppers In the last post I mentioned Vegetarian Haggis, and different ways to serve it. A couple of weeks ago we drove inland to the Cairngorms to see snow (A bit of a novelty for South Africans). We found this inviting looking pub called the Strathmore Arms next to Glamis Castle. As vegetarians …
Warm winter salad Eating healthily out here in the North Sea is not particularly inspiring! Give them their due, they do try – but the selection is limited. Munching my way through the ‘same old’ lettuce, tomato, onion and peppers, I could not help remembering the wonderfully tasty and ‘different’ salads that Karen has come …
