For our virtual visit to Peru on this vegan world tour, we cook some vegan papas rellenas. These stuffed potatoes are popular throughout South and Central America and likely originated here in Peru. Peruvian vegan papas rellenas are made from mashed potatoes, stuffed with ground walnuts, olives, and raisins and […]
Americas
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This week, we’re back in Central America where we stop in Honduras to cook some vegan sopa de caracol with a vegan conch substitute. This Indigenous conch soup is based on coconut cream with sweet richness added by cassava and green banana. The resulting soup is rich, thick and sweet, […]
Welcome back to our vegan world tour as we stop in Grenada to make vegan oil down. I have not had the fortune to visit Grenada but my wife got to go a few years back. While visiting, she saw the omnivore version of oil down and requested a vegan […]
We’re back in South America for a visit to Venezuela were we make vegan hallacas, a Venezuelan Christmas must-have. These treats are cooked in banana leaves and consist of corn dough filled with a sweet and sour stew, raisins, olives and almonds. Read on to learn more about Venezuelan cuisine […]
It is time to make some vegan pupusas from El Salvador! From our last stop in West Africa, a quick skip over the Atlantic Ocean brings us to Central America where we visit El Salvador. Pupusas are a very popular street food in both El Salvador, neighbouring countries and across […]
This week we are back in the Caribbean as we pay a visit to the Bahamas. To get more acquainted with Bahamian cuisine, we make a vegan conch salad, a ceviche-style dish popular throughout the islands. This post is a bit of an outlier on this blog as my wife […]
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 […]
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 […]
We have reached Guatemala on our vegan world tour and it is time to make chuchitos, a smaller version of Guatemalan tamales. In this delicious Guatemalan, vegan recipe, a sauce made from toasted sesame seeds and roasted vegetables is wrapped in corn dough and steamed to perfection. Yum Guatemalan cuisine […]
Yum The turn has come to visit Canada, the country in which my wife and I have lived for the past 3 years. I chose to post Canada specifically today when we celebrate the National Indigenous Day across the country and I wanted to showcase this from the outside often […]