Sprouting broccoli with sweet tahini dressing (Goma-Dare) Goma-dare is a Japanese sesame sauce, normally used in Shabu Shabu. It is the most popular of all the sauces, is salty sweet and can be used for many dishes. Mr. B and I like to use the sauce when looking for something light and quick in the …
Sesame Sweet Potatoes Umami in Japanese means I will give you my right hand and first-born child for a bite of that! There aren’t many vegan dishes at Zuma, the Japanese Peruvian restaurant in London and now New York, as we found out one Friday night, but the few they have are all delicious and …
Raw Vegan Matcha Cheesecake ‘Dessert is like a feel-good song, the best ones make you dance’. This is one of those life-changing recipes. It tastes beautifully decadent due to the silky texture but is gluten, dairy and refined sugar free. As you can see from the combination of ingredients, it is all natural and pretty …
Vegan Pulled Pork is soul food and food for the soul. ‘Food for the body is not enough, there must be food for the soul’ When I first came across this dish I was so excited. I don’t actually like pork enough to order it, but it always looks and smells so good, so what …
‘I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that’ Jose Andres Puerta I recently spent some time in Puglia in the south of Italy, the birthplace of Mr. B’s parents. The Apulian people are …
When people think about veganism they think lentils, grains and Birkenstocks but vegan cooking is really all about imagination and innovation. It’s about taking the humble healthy vegetable and creating something new that you would never logically associate with it, a new flavour profile – a new way of looking at something all together ‘Logic …
‘The voice if the sea, speaks to my soul’… I serve this in the summer, instead of real Oysters as Mr B isn’t so fond of the real things having been spoiled by spending so much of his childhood eating seafood in his parent home town in Italy I do in fact love oysters, but …
You are a work of art, not everyone will understand you…that’s okay…but those that do, will be in awe as they fall in love with you… This is a beautiful summer dish, inspired by Alain Passard, my favourite Parisian chef. His cookbook, ‘The Art of Cooking with Vegetables’, is more like a book of art …
‘And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer’ —F. Scott Fitzgerald This is an elegant vegan dessert bursting with summer flavours and combining the texture of silky …
‘Each day is a gift, don’t send it back unopened’ I like to eat every two hours or so, little and often is my motto, so it’s important to have healthy easy snacks with me at work and when I travel. I like this recipe as it can be used as a snack or a …
