This week we are back in Southern Europe and pay a visit to Portugal. The dish this week is a vegan migas recipe, where old bread is given new life. Simply tear old bread into crumbs and cook with olive oil, garlic, kale and beans. Yum Portuguese cuisine Despite not […]
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Our first stop in Melanesia finds us on Solomon Islands where we cook poi. Made from fermented taro, poi an important staple food all across the pacific islands, offering a simple to prepare, long shelf life product great for sea voyages. Read on to learn a bit more about Solomon […]
For our virtual visit to Senegal, we cook a vegan thieboudienne or ceebu jën. This flavourful rice dish dish is the Senegal version of jollof rice, the immensely popular dish eaten in different versions across most of West Africa. Read on to learn a bit more about Senegalese cooking or […]
This week we’re back in Southeast Asia to visit Malaysia where we cook a vegan version of their famous rendang, a slow cooked coconut curry with toasted coconut. Read a bit about this vegan Malaysian dish or jump straight to the recipe. Yum Malaysian cuisine After hiking in Nepal, my […]
This week we visit Jamaica, one of the larger islands in the Caribbean. For our visit, we cook a vegan recipe for Jamaica’s national dish ackee and saltfish. This vegan version of the Jamaican classic is served alongside bammies – coconut-soaked fried cassava cakes. Jamaican cuisine As Jamaica is an […]
Welcome to a virtual trip to Laos where we cook a vegan Laos dish in the form of vegan khao piak sen, a rice noodle soup where the hero is a fragrant broth full of Southeast Asian flavours like lemongrass, lime leaves and galangal. Yum Laotian cuisine Laos lies in […]
This week, we’re back in South America and pay a visit to Uruguay. Here we make some vegan churros and a delicious, vegan dulce de leche, caramelized milk and sugar. Read on for some info about popular Uruguayan dishes and a highlight on churros and dulce de leche or jump […]
Yum Have you ever tried to make your own kombucha from scratch? It is surprisingly simple, very interesting, and incredibly tasty. Kombucha is made by feeding a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast (SCOBY) with sweetened tea. The yeast and bacteria help each other convert the tea to a really […]
To make your own kombucha, as described here, you absolutely need a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast, also known as a SCOBY. If you ask around or check online, someone in your network or community might be making kombucha and have SCOBY colonies to give away. Failing that, this […]
Our first stop in Central Asia brings us to Tajikistan where we make a Tajik vegan dish in the form of pumpkin sambusa, a local version of samosa. Read on for a brief introduction into Tajik cuisine or jump straight to the recipe. Enjoy! Yum Tajik cuisine Tajikistan is a […]