Posted in breakfast, smoothies on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Green Banana-Kale Smoothie
Ingredients
4 bananas, peeled
½ cup kale leaves, torn up
10 raw almonds
2 raw brazil nuts, shelled
2 sweet dried dates, pitted
1 tsp probiotic powder
1 tsp spirulina powder
water as needed
Method
Put everything in a blender with about a cup or two of water. Blend it, blend it good - for two minutes at most. Add more water (if [...]
Posted in breakfast, raw food, smoothies on March 20, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Ingredients
1/4 cup raw almonds
1.5 cups filtered water
a crushed vanilla bean or 1 tsp alcohol-free natural vanilla essence
1 tsp dairy-free pro-biotic powder*
2 ripe or overripe bananas
1 tbsp (or be more generous! yum!) raw carob bean powder
pinch to 1/2 tsp spirulina powder
tiny pinch of sea salt
Method
Add almonds, water, vanilla and pro-biotic powder to blender, blend until smooth [...]
Posted in breakfast, juice on March 17, 2008 | 9 Comments »
For breakfast I made an interesting juice with my Compact Juicer (great little electric juicer, can munch through anything easily, including wheatgrass).
Ingredients:
1 large carrot
2 small apples, deseeded
2 sticks celery
1 small-ish tomato
1-2 handfuls red (purple) cabbage
small cucumber (5″-ish), peeled
Stirred into the juice just before drinking:
large pinch psyllium husk
large pinch flaxseed (linseed) meal
large pinch spirulina powder
It was [...]
Posted in blurt, breakfast on March 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Leftover masoor tamatar dal on toasted gluten-free bread makes a superb breakfast.
I’ll post further updates on this very important issue as they come to hand.
Posted in Thai, breakfast, cakes, curry, dinner, easy meals, pancakes, raw food, sweet things, tempeh on February 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There’s nothing like a great whopping pile of vegan stodge. Exhibit A:
Simmer potatoes in water and salt until very tender. Add Nuttelex or Earth Balance or similiar. Pinch of nutmeg. A clove or three of crushed garlic, some mixed dry herbs of your choice, a heaping of nutritional yeast, and mash like you’ve never mashed [...]
Posted in beans, breakfast on September 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Guess what? Baked beans are supposed to be baked in an oven, not poured out of a can! It’s true. Who knew? Anyway, here’s my version of homemade baked beans…
Ingredients
4 cups of cooked beans, eg. navy beans or mixed beans
1-2 cloves of garlic, minced
1 large onion, diced
Sauce ingredients:
3 cups vegetable stock
2 tablespoons Braggs (dark soy [...]
Posted in breakfast, tofu on August 21, 2007 | 6 Comments »
This recipe is long overdue… so here goes…
Most scramble recipes use hard tofu. Personally, I think that’s a bit gross and far too dry… I usually use momen tofu, but silken tofu or maybe a soft medium tofu are also fine for this recipe. The softer the tofu, the more careful you have to [...]
Posted in asian, breakfast, dinner, lunch, noodles, soup, vietnamese on June 26, 2007 | 4 Comments »
In Vietnam, people eat pho for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Personally I like to have it for breakfast on Sunday mornings! This is a version that best imitates the veg pho that I had when I was travelling in Vietnam with my partner - it is his recipe. Quantities may be a little rough, so [...]
Posted in bread, breakfast, cookies, pizza, sweet things, tofu on April 30, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Fear not, I’m still alive. I’ve just been going through some wisdom teeth hell… but I’ve still been eating and photographing! Here’s a few of the latest pics:
My first ever gluten-free pizza: a success!
Getting our slice on.
Scrambled tofu with spinach and mushroom on toast. Tastiest breakfast in the universe.
Chocolate sugar cookies, made with rice and [...]
Posted in breakfast, pancakes, sweet things on April 11, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m sure these brownish-purplish creations aren’t everyone’s idea of sexy food, but I sure like them!
What you need:
generous half cup black rice flour
generous half cup besan (chickpea) flour
heaped tablespoon baking powder
cup of soy or rice milk
splash of sunflower oil + more oil for pan
What you do:
1. Sift together flours and baking powder.
2. Create a well [...]
