Joan Murphy, I'll just leave this here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iAYhQsQhSY
Saturday, January 16, 2016
Saturday, January 9, 2016
Fairly Vegan.
I know it's January, the month of abstinence after December the month of gorging, so I shouldn't really be be talking about food. However...
Well, we all have our likes and dislikes when it comes to food. I, for example, don't like meat. I'm not strictly vegetarian, I just don't like the taste of meat so I don't eat it. When I tell people this, they always seem to think I am a bit odd or a 'save the planet and the animals' person (not that there is anything wrong with a 'save the planet and the animals person', as I do try very hard to be kind to both!). Nobody bats an eyelid when I say I don't like mushrooms, but it always seems to be an item for discussion when I say I don't like meat. But, everybody has something that they dislike when it comes to food, it's all about choice.
So...
Kevin got an invitation to dinner this evening. A dinner party being hosted by a Vegan, and I can't remember if I volunteered or was requested to make a cake, but I did exactly what I give out about everybody doing when I say I don't like meat. I said "OMG, what do you feed a Vegan for dessert!"
Of course, thanks to Google, there are hundreds of things you can make to satisfy the 'rules' that apply to Vegans. It's just hard when your store cupboard is full of non-vegan stuff. For my part, I think it must be a really hard diet to keep too, and I spent ages in Tesco reading labels and searching aisles to ensure I had all the right ingredients for my cake. Although I'm sue if you made this your lifestyle choice you would know what to buy and not have to read the tiny print that all manufacturers seem to use when they are putting the ingredients on their products.
After a lot of too-ing and fro-ing between Google and my cupboard, I eventually settled on a dairy and egg free chocolate cake. Strangely enough, this recipe had both baking soda and vinegar in it. (Vinegar in a chocolate cake! Blasphemy!!). As I was mixing the ingredients together a friend (also a competent baker) called for coffee and we had a good discussion re the merits and drawbacks of being a Vegan and of baking without eggs and butter. She came to the conclusion that the baking soda and vinegar mix were what would make the cake rise as they would produce some acid-alkaline chemical reaction. I have some very clever friends. Curiosity got the better of me, so this theory I also looked up...
She was right, baking soda and vinegar mixed together make the ultimate fizz bomb, and also a very good drain cleaner. In fact, you can use this solution to clean everything, yes everything (!!) in your house.
Jeez....
Anyway, after sifting and mixing and not being entirely happy at how the mix looked, this is how my Vegan chocolate cake turned out:
The strawberries are Vegan too, I checked that with the man in Tesco. He had a very strange look on his face when he answered. You see, he had the same reaction as I had!! :-)
Let's hope it tastes as good as it looks and smells. I will have to wait until tomorrow for the verdict. And if it's doesn't taste nice, they can always use it to clean the drains.
Also, while I had the oven on, and in the interest of 'equality and fairness' to butter, I made a batch of shortbread.
Cup of organic green tea anybody?
Well, we all have our likes and dislikes when it comes to food. I, for example, don't like meat. I'm not strictly vegetarian, I just don't like the taste of meat so I don't eat it. When I tell people this, they always seem to think I am a bit odd or a 'save the planet and the animals' person (not that there is anything wrong with a 'save the planet and the animals person', as I do try very hard to be kind to both!). Nobody bats an eyelid when I say I don't like mushrooms, but it always seems to be an item for discussion when I say I don't like meat. But, everybody has something that they dislike when it comes to food, it's all about choice.
So...
Kevin got an invitation to dinner this evening. A dinner party being hosted by a Vegan, and I can't remember if I volunteered or was requested to make a cake, but I did exactly what I give out about everybody doing when I say I don't like meat. I said "OMG, what do you feed a Vegan for dessert!"
Of course, thanks to Google, there are hundreds of things you can make to satisfy the 'rules' that apply to Vegans. It's just hard when your store cupboard is full of non-vegan stuff. For my part, I think it must be a really hard diet to keep too, and I spent ages in Tesco reading labels and searching aisles to ensure I had all the right ingredients for my cake. Although I'm sue if you made this your lifestyle choice you would know what to buy and not have to read the tiny print that all manufacturers seem to use when they are putting the ingredients on their products.
After a lot of too-ing and fro-ing between Google and my cupboard, I eventually settled on a dairy and egg free chocolate cake. Strangely enough, this recipe had both baking soda and vinegar in it. (Vinegar in a chocolate cake! Blasphemy!!). As I was mixing the ingredients together a friend (also a competent baker) called for coffee and we had a good discussion re the merits and drawbacks of being a Vegan and of baking without eggs and butter. She came to the conclusion that the baking soda and vinegar mix were what would make the cake rise as they would produce some acid-alkaline chemical reaction. I have some very clever friends. Curiosity got the better of me, so this theory I also looked up...
She was right, baking soda and vinegar mixed together make the ultimate fizz bomb, and also a very good drain cleaner. In fact, you can use this solution to clean everything, yes everything (!!) in your house.
Jeez....
Anyway, after sifting and mixing and not being entirely happy at how the mix looked, this is how my Vegan chocolate cake turned out:
The strawberries are Vegan too, I checked that with the man in Tesco. He had a very strange look on his face when he answered. You see, he had the same reaction as I had!! :-)
Let's hope it tastes as good as it looks and smells. I will have to wait until tomorrow for the verdict. And if it's doesn't taste nice, they can always use it to clean the drains.
Also, while I had the oven on, and in the interest of 'equality and fairness' to butter, I made a batch of shortbread.
Cup of organic green tea anybody?
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