Apple Cake

I found another food blog that seems interesting. They post a monthly recipe and participants bake it and post about it. I decided to take part in the September bake at Sweet and Simple Bakes' when I noticed it was to do with apples. Seeing that we are trying to go eggless I used baking powder and vinegar instead of the eggs. I didn't have any vanilla so I left that out. I also used a larger cake pan so it came out flatter. I especially liked the cinnamon and sugar topping!

White Cake

I had some guests for dinner last week and I wanted to make a cake but as I'm trying to be eggless the recipe couldn't have eggs in it. I used a basic white cake recipe but with less corn starch and ½ water, ½ orange juice. When I took the cake tins out of the oven the middles of both of them fell. After I let them cool 10 minutes, I turned them out onto a cooling rack and the middle of the bottom of one of them was still quite moist so I put it back in the oven. I didn't have time to make new ones so I decided to serve them anyway. I used the whipped cocoa cream from this recipe for the icing (we could probably eat it without any cake!). Everyone took a second slice and seemed to enjoy it. I'll use the recipe again.

Oatmeal Patties

I found an interesting recipe for Perfect Patties made with a lot of oatmeal from dinner's ready. I didn't have any Italian seasoning so I use 1 ml of many different spices. I'm eating them today cold with some raw zucchini hummus. I looked at a lot hummus recipes and then just winged it.

Zucchini Bread Testing

I tested another recipe from swell vegan. I wasn't sure what TS would think of it as it had zucchini in it and he doesn't like it but I didn't find that the zucchini was noticable at all. TS liked it too.

Lemonade

We can't buy lemonade here and so I haven't had any for a few years. I searched for a recipe and came up with one that doesn't have as much sugar as many of the recipes online. My son made some for us.

Lemonade

1 part sugar
2 parts water

Heat until sugar is disolved and then remove from heat and let cool down.

2 parts freshly squeezed lemon juice (include the pulp too if you like it)

Add lemon juice to sugar water.

8 parts cold water

Mix cold water and lemony sugar water and serve with ice cubes.

Raw Food Weekend Failure

On Wednesday I put some chick peas to soak in water so that I could sprout them and make some raw hummus. I've been wanting to have a raw food weekend for a while and I've been gathering recipes for it. I made some almond milk on Friday evening so that it would be cold for my breakfast. I put in a few soft dates to make a bit sweet because most recipes seem to call for something sweet in it. I used double the amount of water to almonds but I lost some because it overflowed with so much liquid.

There was enough left to have on both mornings with my raw muesli that I made. I ground the nuts up in the food processor a little while so that they wouldn't be so big. I enjoyed the almond milk with the muesli.

Lunch was zucchini pasta with a tomato sauce. Unfortunately I don't really like tomatoes anymore and I found the sauce to be too tart and left half of it uneaten. Next time I'll try some other kind of sauce.

Supper was suppose to be hummus in a red pepper. Some of the chickpeas sprouted faster than others, so when it was time to make the hummus I picked out the ones with longer sprouts and left the rest to use on Sunday so that they would have another day to sprout. The hummus was really horrible! I struggled to eat it but I couldn't and gave up on my raw food weekend. I threw the rest of the chickpeas, tomato sauce, chopped up red pepper and hummus into a saucepan with some veg broth and cooked it. Much better, but I won't do that again!

I also had a simple raw coleslaw with supper. I like it a lot.

I'm hoping to try again someday but I'll have to find new recipes.

Recipe Testing

I didn't realize it might be a bit difficult for me to do recipe testing. I'm so used to omitting from recipes ingredients that we don't eat or can't get here, that I didn't think about it when I volunteered to recipe test for swell vegan. I've only tested two recipes so far because TS hasn't been home much. The first was a kidney bean dish which I liked because the kidney beans tasted milder somehow.

The second was a chick pea stew. I added some potatoes instead of serving it with rice because we just had rice the day before. I left the cumin out because TS doesn't like it, meaning to add some to my portion, but I forgot all about it! I hope to remember next time.