Trying to be healthy offshore I have been offshore again recently, working, and we are now travelling in Holland, so I haven,t been in the kitchen much. Karen was helping me with recipes for the blog, but now she is also with me in Europe. Being vegetarian and eating healthily when working offshore is difficult …
Ginger biscuits – dehydrated If you have a sweet tooth, but want to avoid the refined sugars, going raw is a good option. Here is a recipe for tangy ginger biscuits: Ingredients: 1 C almonds 1 T coconut oil (melted) 2 T honey about 4 soaked dates 2 t finely grated ginger 1 t clove …
Dried banana The last few recipes have made use of our new dehydrator. The thing with a dehydrator is you have to generally dehydrate things for anywhere between 8 to 30 hours, or even longer. Our one (Excalibur) has 9 shelves. So if you are going to be running it for that length of time, …
Chocolate Brownies I am back offshore again, but Karen is still, home trying out more dehydrator recipes. Over the last few years, having realized how bad refined sugar is, I have managed to lose my taste for sweet things. However, I have now found all these delicious and healthy raw food sweet things. This is …
Karen`s Onion Bread I have mentioned this onion bread a couple of times already in previous posts. Were we served some at the Raw Food Seminar, and we have made it twice at home already. But I never actually gave you the recipe – so here it is: My attempt at onion bread Ingredients: 5 …
Lunch – salad with raw vegan lemon tart My very first attempt at a raw vegan dessert was actually a lemon tart, from the Rawlicious recipe book, available from Amazon here. It uses avocado as the bulk for the filling. The trick here is to make sure you have enough lemon flavouring in it to mask …
Raw red pepper and tomato soup Thrilled with our first successful raw dinner party, we held another the next evening. Red pepper and tomato soup, with the rest of the onion bread for starters. Main course was sushi and veggie wraps with 2 salads – a red salad and a green papaya salad. Dessert was …
Brocolli cheeze Last week I promised you brocolli cheeze. So here it is. The original recipe came from “easy living food” by Natalie Reid and Noel Marten and they used cauliflower. The book is available on line from the Rawlicious website. Ingredients: 2 or 3 cups of brocolli florets Boiling water for blanching 1 C cashew …
Raw hummus on bread with side salad Back in Cape Town and in our new house. I still have to find out where everything is in the kitchen, but Karen in the meantime has been really getting into this raw food concept. And delicious it is too! The first raw recipe she tried was a …
