Avocado and celery cocktails with vegan mayo and edible flowers

This is a delicious raw and vegan dish, serves 4 as a starter or side salad, and 2 as a main

Ingredients

2 avocados
1 tbsp lemon juice
2 crunchy legs of celery
2 tbsp vegan mayonnaise
cherry tomatoes and edible flowers to decorate

Cut the avocados and remove stones, drizzle with lemon juice. Clean the celery legs and remove the strings (I use a carrot peeler for this). Cut into small bite sizes and mix with the vegan mayonnaise (click here for the recipe). Fill the avocados with the celery and decorate with cherry tomatoes and edible flowers.

Photos and recipes by Alessandra Zecchini ©

Celery, cucumber and coriander juice

Green, cleansing and refreshing! 

Celery stalks and leaves, cucumber, and a few sprigs and leaves of coriander (to taste, it can be really strong).

Happy detoxing!

Photos and Recipes by Alessandra Zecchini ©

Raw juice magic: celery, lemon and apple juice… and Atlas Power Coffee in Cambridge

I am so into juicing these days, and the kids drink all sort of vegetable and fruit juices, the greener the better! This one is particularly good: for four glasses I used half a stalk of celery (I use the stalks and only a few leaves - mostly to give it colour, usually I keep the leaves for cooking) then half a lemon and  to top a little (about 10-20%) natural apple juice. I will make this again and again, too good!

And now for my coffee indulgence: recently we went on holiday (will post about it later on) and on the way south of Auckland we stopped in Cambridge for coffee here (yes, the coffee shop is in a old church!).

And then I noticed that the coffee was from my friend Mark from Atlas Power Coffee! Mark, just to let you know, the coffee was good, and in fact we decided to stop there on our return trip to Auckland too!

And now for something completely different:

Nearly bought this one… :-)

 Photos and recipes by Alessandra Zecchini ©