Christmas

I completely forgot to mention my lovely Christmas meal. We were invited at a friends house and she cooked for the meaty people. The soup would be vegan, but to be on the safe side, I brought my own main course and dessert.

For starter we had a lovely onion soup. For my  main course, I'd made a yummy vegan puff pastry filled with veggies and covered with vegan cheese. All the trimmings my friend had cooked, I could eat.
As a dessert I had made an apple-up side down cake with warm custard.

As a vegan you don't have to miss out on the Christmassy stuff. I had a lovely Christmas!

losing weight...

Yep,
A lot of people ask me if I loose weight now I'm vegan. I don't know where the idea comes from, but let me tell you that since I started my vegan lifestyle in October I've gained quite a few kilos :-(

Cooking is much more fun now it's a challenge and all the baking I'm doing to find nice cake and cookie recipes... Ohohohohoh. I don't have to go on the scales, the mirror tells me all I (don't) want to know.

10 kilo has to go.

Apple Up-side-down cake

It's been quite a while since I posted. The up side down cake I made last time got mixed reactions. I made another one. This time an Apple up side down, and that got very good marks from my neighbours.

Here's the recipe:

It's for a small 11cm springform, so really for max. two people.

50 gram vegan butter
100 gr plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp soya milk
50 gr caster sugar
300 gr cooking apples, peeled, cored and chopped
50 gr sultanas
1 tbsp sugar

Method:

Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.

- Place apples, sultanas and sugar with a little water in a pan and simmer for approx. 5 minutes. Leave to cool.

- Mix flour, butter and baking powder
- Rub the butter in the flour mix
- Add the milk 1 spoon at the time and mix till you have a smooth batter

- Line the springform with bakingsheet

- Put the apples at the bottom of the springform
- Poor over the batter and bake the cake in the oven for approx. 40 minutes


Bon appétit!