Louis Widemer

Did you know that Louis Widmer is a totally vegan company which doesn’t test on animals and which doesn’t use any animal ingredient? The ultra good news is that it’s widely available in Belgium, where I live at the moment.

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Strawberriez kream cheezcake by Ani Phyo

This is my first attempt at a raw cake and the result turned out amazing. The recipe is in Any Phyo’s book Any’s Raw Food Desserts: a little raw food dessert bible to own.

For the base you’ll need:
* 1 cup almond meal
* a pinch of sea salt
*1/2 cup of pitted dates

For the cream:
* 1 table spoon grated lemon zest
* 1/2 cup lemon Juice
* 1,5 cup of cashew nuts
* 1/4 cup coconut oil
* 1/4 cup of filtered water
* seeds of 2 vanilla beans

Topping:
* some strawberries
* agave syrup

The crust is obtained mixing the almond meal and the salt with chopped dates: use a mixer to chop off the dates into smaller pieces and work them into the almond meal by hand. Sprinkle a pan with some almond meal and push the “dough” into a cake pan so that the border rises halfway around the pan side. To make the cream combine the cashew nuts, the water, the melted coconut oil, the lemon juice and zest and the vanilla beans into a blender until smooth. Spread the cream onto the crust ad keep the cake in the refrigerator for about two hours. Decorate with fresh strawberries and the strawberry sauce made combining the fresh strawberries and the syrup into a mixer: my suggestion is to make it when yous serve the cake as the taste will remain fresher. Voilà: le gâteau est prêt! Incredibly easy and delicious. Thanks Ani!

strawberriez kream cheezcake

Filed under: Any Phyo, Raw, raw vegan

Let’s do it (almost) raw!

I have been experimenting with some raw recipes recently. Today I felt like something raw, fresh and easy to make so I tried my fingers at raw sushi. Yes pure raw vegan sushi. The recipe is incredibly easy and calls for some cauliflowers and some soaked sunflower seeds to replace the rice. I soaked the seeds overnight, this tends to make all nuts and seeds more nutritious and digestible (I have learnt to do it with almonds, cashew nuts, etc..). I chopped roughly the cauliflowers in the mixer until it resembled rice than I added the sunflower seeds, I mixed the mixture with a spoon and added a spoonful of cider vinegar. I let it stand for a while until I chopped the vegetables: carrots, avocado, cucumber and mushrooms. I laid the rice mixture on top of a nori sheet and added the desired vegetables, some toasted sesame seeds and obviously one of my favourite tastes: wasabi without which there is no sushi. I then rolled the nori sheets,left them aside for few minutes and rolled them again in another nori sheet to add resistance to the rolls. I cut them and eat them straight away, the pics were taken in a hurry, I was so hungry I could not wait! Voilà les fotos:

raw sushi

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Herbivore clothing

There is something very refreshing in the way this collective of young arty vegan Herbivores is running their business: everything is pointing at happy, teasing, vegan messages delivered with a touch of irony and a lot of graphical appeal. Do check their on line shop where they sell t-shirts and accessories or their physical shop in Portland, USA. Items available through mail order all over the world and they also sell some interesting books and informative material.

Eat like you give a damn

Church of Seitan

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