• A time of plenty

    Summer is a time of plenty… a time to rejoice in tomatoes bursting with flavour; perfect, tiny, sweet wild raspberries; fresh, golden corn; huge zucchinis from the garden. A time when “cooking” is almost trivial. Go for a stroll in…

  • Summer grillin’ and baked green polenta

    Summer grilling season is upon us! I thought I would share a couple of vegan bbq guidelines so y’all have ideas about what you can throw on the grill this summer. And a baked polenta “pizza” recipe, because there will…

  • Berry buckwheat borridge

    Berry buckwheat borridge. That’s like porridge, except raw and made from buckwheat à la Green Kitchen Stories and My New Roots. This version is also made with raw buckwheat soaked overnight, then blended with a bunch o’ berry-like fruit (strawberries,…

  • Bärn märit

    Happy to be back at the Bärn märit 🙂 All Swiss produce haul: rainbow chard, red, mustard and zebra tomatoes, pattypan squash, tiny fennel, a bunch of mixed herbs (including borrage!), apricots from Wallis, wild huckleberries, plump raspberries and the…

  • Summer melon salad

    This is exactly the kind of light meal a lazy summer day calls for – easy, fast, raw, fresh.

  • Yet another smoothie

    Blueberry lemon balm smoothie. Yield: 500-600ml 1 frozen banana, 250g blueberries, leaves picked from 10g fresh lemon balm sprigs, a splash of plant-based milk of choice or water (I used rice-coconut with delicious results), some ice cubes. Optional superfood-y+protein-y add-ins:…

  • Pink morning

    Pink morning: melon strawberry smoothie. a small, incredibly sweet chanterais melon, a handful of forest strawberries, some almonds, a small drizzle of maple syrup and topped with a few thyme leaves.

  • Rockin’ basil pesto

    Cleaning out the fridge before a trip means spontaneous pesto time! This time it happened to be a few handfuls of rocket salad, a bunch o’ basil, a little parsley, a decent sized garlic clove, a few almonds, generous glug…