Almond Marzipan Balls
These are our new favorite holiday cookie. They are delicious and easy to make.
Yield: 36- 40 balls
Ingredients:
1 cup ground almonds
1 cup powdered sugar
4 tablespoons ginger syrup
colored decorates
Directions:
Make sure you are using blanched almonds so that the ground almond ?meal? is white.
In a large bowl, mix the ground almonds and the powdered sugar.
Add 4 tablespoons of [...]
Maple Almond Fig Galette with Vegan Maple Mascarpone
The flavors of fall. Maple syrups enhances the lovely tastes of figs and almonds with these simple galettes.
Serving Size: 2
Ingredients:
3 sheets ready made frozen vegan puff pastry, thawed
3 tablespoons maple syrup
4 tablespoons almond meal (ground almonds)
3-4 figs, sliced
1/4 cup soy yogurt
2 tablespoons cashew nut butter
2 teaspoons maple syrup
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 200 C / [...]
Apricot Almond Galette
Apricot season has just begun, so we joyfully celebrated it with this tasty apricot galette. It’s surprisingly easy to make, and if you patiently take time to arrange your apricot slices nicely, it turns out quite pretty.
Yield: one 8″ galette
Ingredients:
4 sheets vegan puff pastry, thawed
6-7 fresh apricots, pitted and sliced
2 tablespoons apricot jam
1/4 cup almond [...]
Pockets Full of Nuts
These are so light and tasty, and easy to make. We do hope you give them a try.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
4 sheets of puff pastry, thawed
2 tablespoons almonds, chopped ad ground
2 tablespoons pecans, chopped and ground
2 tablespoons walnuts, chopped and ground
2 tablespoons vegan margarine, melted
2 tablespoons powdered sugar
pinch sugar
Directions:
Thaw the puff pastry.
Preheat the oven [...]
Asparagus Almondine
This is really an elegant tasting recipe. White asparagus has such a delicate flavor that you wouldn’t want to over-power. The toasted almonds were a delicious condiment that we look forward to enjoying again.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
2 lb. fresh white asparagus.
pinch salt
pinch sugar
1/4 cup of slivered almonds
1/4 cup of fine olive oil
splash lemon juice
1 teaspoon almond [...]
Fruity Couscous Salad
This colorful salad taste good hot or cold and even better on the second day. We enjoyed it as a winter salad, but we are also looking forward to having it again as spring approaches.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
1 cup couscous
2 cups boiling water
1 can mandarin oranges
2 tsp. cinnamon
6-7 fresh apricots, cut in segments
100 grams almond slices
3 [...]
Pumpkin Tagliatelle with Beet Alfredo Sauce
Wow, this was delicious. I was especially pleased with the sauce, which really tastes great.
I can’t wait until we get a spiralo and can have “proper” shaped vegetable pasta. But, in the meantime, we were very happy with the tagliatelle made by the vegetable peeler.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
1 med. butternut squash or Uchi Kuri pumpkin, peeled
for [...]
Quinoa salad with smoked tofu, grapes and almonds
What a lovely and healthy salad this is, especially on a warm summer day.
Serving Size: 4
Ingredients:
1 1/3 cups quinoa
1 cube vegetable bullion
1/2 cup sliced almonds
2 tbs. rice vinegar
1 pkg. Italian salad dressing herbs
2 tbs. olive oil
2 cups spicy tofu, cut in small pieces
1 1/2 cups green [...]
Vegan Key Lime Tartletes
I come from Florida, where the key lime trees grow in each backyard. As a vegan, I do miss having key lime pie and lemon meringue pie. But recently I have been inspired to try using almonds or cashews to make the filling with and thus, not needing eggs or milk. I was quite pleased [...]
Pasta with Kale, White Beans & Almonds
Kale, also known as Borecole (Dutch: Boerenkool), is a typical winter vegetable here in the Netherlands and Germany. Traditionally it is being used in a dish called stamppot. But there is much more you can do with kale and this is one of our favorite recipes. When we cooked the kale for this meal, it [...]
Delightful cookies for a vegan Christmas
Rum Balls
Recipe updated on December 3rd, 2006
Ingredients:
3 cups vanilla wafer crumbs or digestive biscuits
1/4 cup cocoa
1 cup pecans or walnuts, finely chopped
1/2 cup rum or bourbon
1 cup confectioners’ sugar
1/3 cup corn syrup
Directions:
The trick to keep this vegan is to make sure the cookies are vegan.
Read the labels carefully, you can find vegan cookies and [...]
