carob walnut chip cookies (gluten-free, vegan)
These cookies have crunchy edges with a soft centre, a rich buttery flavour, and studs of walnuts, oats, and carob chips. It’s surprising how delicious they are! Chocolate contains theobromine – a stimulant. Like all stimulants, it is unsupportive for yogic practices that require focus of the mind. Carob is an excellent replacement for chocolate and has […]
Andreia’s coconut cookies (vegan)
These delicious cookies have shreds of crunchy coconut on the outside and a soft, silky, cakey interior. They started with a cookie Andreia from Soul Food Vegan baked for us when she was preparing lunches for Jivana Week. I adapted them slightly, inspired by a coconut cookie recipe in Kim Boyce’s ‘Good to the Grain’. […]
tofu with five spices, coconut sugar & baby basil
As a Christmas present, Ben and I were given a beautiful Taiwanese cookbook from Ben’s sister, Sarah and her husband, Phil. The book is a collection of recipes by Jade & Muriel Chen, a mother and daughter team from Blue Eye Dragon, a Taiwanese restaurant in Pyrmont, Sydney. Sarah and Phil took us there when we were visiting, as the […]
