Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Tortilla chips with rice dip

This happened one evening after work when i got home with a tortilla chips bag that i had bought since one of the recipes in my cook books (carrot dip) was calling for tortilla chips (and just for the record, i still havent made the carrot dip, and the tortilla chips bag is empty now :x).

Sooooo, i was snacking on tortilla chips with salsa sauce/dip/whatever until the salsa was empty, and then i started dipping in the leftover boiled rice of my parents dinner, and it actually worked out pretty well!! =D The crunchy salty tortilla chips went very nicely along with the soft, chewy rice. So if you ever have leftover rice and tortilla chips, its not a bad idea to mix them =p Maybe would be even better with salsa on top of it too xD Sorry for bad pic btw =p


Yesterday i went to doctor and checked my blood, seems my iron is lil bit low, but i've been kinda slacking with my healthy eating lately (or always), so mostly just eating bread with jam, fruits, snacks, more snacks, even more snacks, bunch of chocolate and nuts etc kinda every day >.>

My willpower is extremely weak ._. And weird thing is i'm too lazy for baking too, normally i baked cakes and stuff all the time (really, all the time, like, every day), and now i've barely baked something since xmas except for cookies when i went on trip, and some muffins i baked to use some blueberries, pineapple, lemon and orange. I followed this recipe a bit except for the obvious substitutions.


So in the back is orange-chocolatechip muffins (with bit lemon in too), to the left is blueberry lemon muffins, and in front is pineapple muffins. My favorite was the blueberry-lemon one with pineapple as 2nd and orange last.

Friday, February 15, 2013

Valentines day

Since i went to school and worked whole day (8-20) and wasnt home until 21 i didnt really have time to prepare something fancy (i know i could have done on wednesday, but i was too lazy then xD).

So i ended up with love hearts, fanta exotic, chilinuts, chocolate and watching the movie Love Actually with my bf =D So very sweet for valentines evening <3 I love you my sweetheart! <3

Love hearts and fanta exotic

Hope you had a nice valentines day too =D

Monday, February 11, 2013

Mothersday + trip + fastelavn + sausage testing

Today it's both mothersday and fastelavn (better if they do it on 2 seperate days i think xD), so me and my sis decided to give a family trip as mothersday present, and i also made cookies for the occasion and i also wanted to make a cake, but would kinda be too much with the fastelavn boller too @_@

Sadly i didnt take pic of the cookies but they were yummy =p With carrots, hazelnuts, chocolate and raisins =D If i make them again i'll try to take pic and post recipe xD

So ye, whole family went on a hiking trip to a small mountain nearby called Storrinden. From there we can see the airport, so it's pretty cool =p It was nice sunny weather, but ground was frozen snow on it, so was kinda slippery some places, but luckily no one fell even if it was pretty close sometimes xD (a different story on saturday when i went to work and i fell 2 times in a row >.>) We ate the cookies when we reached the top =p

Here are some pictures from the trip (all pictures are taken by my sister):








When we got home after a bit, fastelavn boller was ready =D It's normal bolle with jam and cream in it and powdered sugar on top. Recipe on boller you can find here. We also had hot chocolate with it =p


Later in the evening i shared some Wheaty ToRo sausages i had bought on veganlife with my bf =p They were really good =D He said the taste was really the same as with meat sausages, but the texture was bit harder and drier, but they were still awesome! We ate the whole package in short time, so time to buy more now xD Hopefully they will arrive before he has to leave again =(


We also ate some Spacebar Chorizo and vegan white chocolate that were also very yummy! The white chocolate is more or less just as i remember it, but it melted bit quicker in my mouth i think, and i missed some crunch in it (probably cuz the other white chocolate i ate in my non-vegan days was toblerone xD). The spacebar chorizo was really yummy too and sausagy =D

So i think everyone should test out those things if you like it =D It's really nice that you can get everything vegan version so theres no need for the more cruel animal based products =D

Monday, February 4, 2013

Pizza!

I kinda started eating pizza way more rarely after becoming vegan, mostly because im used to pizzas with meat and cheese, so the carrot pizzas werent really the same xD (+ i mostly had tiny crust and a huuuge layer of filling and no "meat" or "cheese", so wasnt really pro xD). So other food was mostly more tempting.

Ofc there is a bunch of vegan meat and cheese options, im mostly just too lazy to buy it cuz i dont wanna spend too much money so i just didnt make it xD But it really is possible to make any kind of pizza as vegan version as you can see from the menu of this vegan pizzeria Sfizy Veg in Berlin (one day i wanna go there! xd). Why use meat/cheese when you can do a more animal friendly option =D

Well, i got inspired by some blogs to use bearnaise sauce on the pizza, so i wanted to try that. Here are some of the blogposts that inspired me: Brennheit and Harrypizza from veganeren, and the pizza from hverdagsveganeren.

Sadly not all bearnaise sauces are vegan, so check before you buy! In Norway these from Toro are vegan: lett bearnaise sauce (light), and krydder bearnaise sauce (spiced).


So ye, here for the "recipe" aka what i used for this pizza xD But as you all know, you can put whatever you want on pizza =p

Pizza crust/dough (mom always makes pizza saturday evenings so if i want i can have some of the dough so i just used the one she made =p)
Tomato sauce (i just use pasta sauce from jar, but homemade sounds more pro =p)
Pizza spices
Vegan bearnaise sauce with a bit of nutritional yeast (this time i used the spiced one and 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast, next time i will try the light one, nutritional yeast is optional, can skip it too ofc, i also added salt and pepper in it)
Mushrooms (i used canned)
Corn (i used canned)
Pineapple (i used canned)
Green bell pepper
Olives
Sun dried tomatos
Cherry tomatos

Then i putted in oven on 225°C for a while until i felt it was ready xD


It came out very well, so i think i'll make more of this =p It's probably the best pizza i have made for years =D