Homemade muesli, fresh fruit and yoghurt We will be moving house at the end of the month, so was on a bit of a mission to use up stuff in the larder and fridge. Came up with this muesli mix, which turned out most delicious. About 2 cups each of: Wheat germ Digestive bran and …
Flaxseed cracker biscuits Any regular readers will know we try to go low-carb wherever possible. So Karen wanted to come up with a low-carb cracker biscuit to have in lieu of bread as a snack, or with a light lunch. Based on another homemade nacho recipe she found in a mag, she came up with …
Selection of vegan food at the Potluck Picnic Recently Karen and I were invited to a vegan potluck picnic. We are not yet vegan, but are fast heading that way. Not being that confident with vegan cooking we needed to come up with something simple to prepare. Not sure what prompted it, but dried fruit …
Raw vegan Chocolate Mousse In my last post I mentioned the Raw Food recipe book ‘Easy Living Food’. Karen started out by trying the Chocolate Fudge. In her excitement the ingredients became a bit confused with those of the Energy Balls recipe which was on the opposite page! The result tasted wonderful but was too moist to …
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 …
Guide to Vegetarian Scotland One of the challenges that vegetarians usually face is eating out. Both Karen and I bleat on endlessly about this. Paging through a recent issue of Vegetarian Living, there was a special offer on a book called Vegetarian Scotland. Of course, we bought a copy and were amazed to find out …
Amsterdam! We fared (pun intended) better than anticipated here. We spent one night in an hotel in Amsterdam before heading off on our boat on the waterways, (which I will cover in the next post) and three nights in a self catering apartment in the city centre afterwards. Bagels and Beans – Vegetarian Restaurant in …
Scrambled Tofu with salad Back home in Cape Town now, and back to eating healthily again. Karen, my vegetarian wife, loves buying cook books, and yesterday came home with one called ‘Yummidy’ – Not only meatless, but low carb as well. We have been trying to follow a low carb diet for a while now, …
