Today we pay a visit to Nepal where we cook the Nepali classic dal bhat tarkari: lentils, rice and vegetable curry. For once, we don’t have to make any form of vegan version since this popular dish is vegan by default*. Nepal also happens to be one of the countries […]
Country
76 posts
Our first stop in Northern Europe brings us to Latvia where we try a Latvian vegan recipe called rupjmaizes kārtojums, or Latvian ambrosia. Based on the ever-important Latvian dark rye bread, rupjmaize, this dessert greatly resembles the more familiar trifle but with two Latvian twists. Read on to learn a […]
Rupjmaize is sweet and sour Latvian rye bread flavoured with caraway seeds and molasses. This vegan Latvian recipe makes a loaf of sourdough rupjmaize.
This week, we make our first stop in Southern Africa as we visit South Africa. We cook a South African vegan dish which is a real classic comfort food: samp and beans (isistambu in Zulu and umngqusho in Xhosa). Rich and creamy and seasoned with fried onion and curry powder, […]
It’s time to pay our first visit to Micronesia on our global, vegan adventure. We stop by Nauru and turn their national dish into a vegan Nauru recipe: coconut crusted cauliflower. Yum Nauru is the world’s smallest island nation (the world’s third smallest country, after the Vatican and Monaco [1]). […]
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 […]
Today’s stop on our vegan world tour brings us to Turkey where we cook a delicious vegan Turkish recipe. Here I have veganized the popular lahmacun, a thin crust Turkish pizza or flatbread. In place of the traditional meat, I made a paste from lentils and bulgur inspired by the […]
This week on our vegan world tour, we return to West Africa and cook a Ghanaian vegan recipe for Red Red. Read on to learn a bit about Ghana's cuisine or jump straight to the recipe
Today on our vegan world food tour we make a stop in Afghanistan and make a delicious Afghan rice dish – Kabuli Palau, the country’s national dish. Read on to learn more about the Afghan kitchen and find a vegan Afghan recipe for Kabuli Palau. Yum Afghanistan lies in the […]
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 […]