2011 has come to an end! Time to welcome 2012 xD
I wish you all have many yummy vegan meals in 2012, and that you all have happy lives and that the animals can have happy lives too without being abused and killed for food or other reasons ^.^
So ye, i hope in 2012 the world will be a better place to live for everyone than it was in 2011!
Happy New Year all!! <(^.-)^
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Monday, December 26, 2011
Kakemenn
Dunno what the word for it is in english, directly translated it's "cake men" which sounds kinda wrong xD Lets go for cookiemen or something instead since they are more cookie-like than kake-like =p In Norway it's normal to bake/eat these in december =p We often have to make several batches since they disappear pretty fast, which means they are yummy ;p
This recipe my mom got from someone on her work, and it's the best kakemenn recipe that i know =p
Ingredients
100 g melted margarine
2 dl milk
3 dl sugar
1 liter flour
1 teaspoon "hornsalt" (aka ammoniumhydrogenkarbonat NH4HCO3 which is kinda hard to find @_@ i once used baking soda instead since they dont really have hornsalt in supermarkets in Belgium, i think i used 2-3 teaspoons baking soda since hornsalt is stronger. Using baking soda does not give the same taste though, so now i brought hornsalt from Norway ^.^)
Mix all the ingredients, roll it pretty flat, like 0,3-0,5 cm with a rolling pin (for those lucky ones who have that, i miss it =s) and shape figures with a figure shaper or so if you want to (its possible without too xD). Bake them in the oven on 200°C for 6-8 minutes.
Mine dont look so cool since i was too lazy to shape them after finding out i couldnt roll/squeeze them flat with a spoon >.>
This recipe my mom got from someone on her work, and it's the best kakemenn recipe that i know =p
Ingredients
100 g melted margarine
2 dl milk
3 dl sugar
1 liter flour
1 teaspoon "hornsalt" (aka ammoniumhydrogenkarbonat NH4HCO3 which is kinda hard to find @_@ i once used baking soda instead since they dont really have hornsalt in supermarkets in Belgium, i think i used 2-3 teaspoons baking soda since hornsalt is stronger. Using baking soda does not give the same taste though, so now i brought hornsalt from Norway ^.^)
Mix all the ingredients, roll it pretty flat, like 0,3-0,5 cm with a rolling pin (for those lucky ones who have that, i miss it =s) and shape figures with a figure shaper or so if you want to (its possible without too xD). Bake them in the oven on 200°C for 6-8 minutes.
Mine dont look so cool since i was too lazy to shape them after finding out i couldnt roll/squeeze them flat with a spoon >.>
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Merry Xmas all!! =D
Hope you all have a great Xmas!! =D
Looking forward to opening presents, even though i know what most of it is already xD (figured it was best to pre-open it before i travelled to belgium to see if i wanted to bring all and to see if it was liquid or breakable or norwegian money xD)
Will also be interesting to see what food i get served @_@ Normally i would make nut-roast or so, but it's not me who do the cooking today, but my bfs family =p
This i made some days ago: baked potatoes and brussel sprouts with peas and carrots and mushroom sauce =p I also had a burger but i ate it before i took picture xD I guess this would work as an Xmas dinner =p Yummy it was at least! =D
I dont have Xmas feeling yet though, maybe i get when i open presents =p
How is your Xmas? =p
Edit: Here is a picture of the leftovers of my xmas dinner. For xmas i first got tortilla chips with salsa sauce <3 followed by a slice of bread with the mushroom sauce on the pic, then the dinner was alpro soya filet (and not sausage like in the pic =p) with salat, tomatoes, cucumber, shredded carrots, shredded celery root with some dressing, and vinaigrette sauce =p Then for dessert was soyaicecream with berrysauce =p
I also got many nice presents, i'm specially happy with the kitchen equipment that makes my life easier on the kitchen xD Was kinda annoying to not have an object like this (see pic), but now i got many! =D
Also got a new nice knife =p Was kinda annoying to only have one good one xD
What i didnt get was a rolling pin (like in the pic below) and the books i wanted (probably since they can only be bought on internet), but then again my birthday is soon coming up, so maybe someone gets me some of it, even though i highly doubt it ;p I also wanted gifts that helps others, or that people pledge to veganism for a period of time (preferably forever! =D) or other kind of alternative gifts, but i only got material gifts (which are also cool, but kinda isnt that good for environment and poverty etc =p).
Looking forward to opening presents, even though i know what most of it is already xD (figured it was best to pre-open it before i travelled to belgium to see if i wanted to bring all and to see if it was liquid or breakable or norwegian money xD)
Will also be interesting to see what food i get served @_@ Normally i would make nut-roast or so, but it's not me who do the cooking today, but my bfs family =p
This i made some days ago: baked potatoes and brussel sprouts with peas and carrots and mushroom sauce =p I also had a burger but i ate it before i took picture xD I guess this would work as an Xmas dinner =p Yummy it was at least! =D
I dont have Xmas feeling yet though, maybe i get when i open presents =p
How is your Xmas? =p
Edit: Here is a picture of the leftovers of my xmas dinner. For xmas i first got tortilla chips with salsa sauce <3 followed by a slice of bread with the mushroom sauce on the pic, then the dinner was alpro soya filet (and not sausage like in the pic =p) with salat, tomatoes, cucumber, shredded carrots, shredded celery root with some dressing, and vinaigrette sauce =p Then for dessert was soyaicecream with berrysauce =p
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What i didnt get was a rolling pin (like in the pic below) and the books i wanted (probably since they can only be bought on internet), but then again my birthday is soon coming up, so maybe someone gets me some of it, even though i highly doubt it ;p I also wanted gifts that helps others, or that people pledge to veganism for a period of time (preferably forever! =D) or other kind of alternative gifts, but i only got material gifts (which are also cool, but kinda isnt that good for environment and poverty etc =p).
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Orange cake
After my friend told me once that she had made an orange cake (i didnt taste it xD) i always wanted to make it =p So here it is =p I based it on the easy vegan chocolate cake recipe and googled to find out how much glacing to do xD
This recipe is for my mini-cakeshape of 13x13 cm, so if you want normal size just multiply with 4 =p
Ingredients
1.5 dl flour
1 dl sugar
0.5 teaspoons baking soda
1 dl freshpressed orange juice (i also add the pulp since i dont wanna waste it)
1/3 dl vegetable oil
0.5 tablespoons vinegar
Mix the dry stuff together, then add the wet stuff and put it in the cakeshape and bake in oven on 175°C for about 40 minutes. Cool the cake before adding the glacing.
Glacing
35 g powdered sugar
Freshpressed orange juice (where i also add the pulp xD) until it gets nice consistency, i think maybe 1-2 ts should be enough maybe.
Bit bad picture, but taste is definitely good (if you like oranges) =p
This recipe is for my mini-cakeshape of 13x13 cm, so if you want normal size just multiply with 4 =p
Ingredients
1.5 dl flour
1 dl sugar
0.5 teaspoons baking soda
1 dl freshpressed orange juice (i also add the pulp since i dont wanna waste it)
1/3 dl vegetable oil
0.5 tablespoons vinegar
Mix the dry stuff together, then add the wet stuff and put it in the cakeshape and bake in oven on 175°C for about 40 minutes. Cool the cake before adding the glacing.
Glacing
35 g powdered sugar
Freshpressed orange juice (where i also add the pulp xD) until it gets nice consistency, i think maybe 1-2 ts should be enough maybe.
Bit bad picture, but taste is definitely good (if you like oranges) =p
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Sorry for no updates for a while
Finally done with exams!! And back in Belgium now too, so hopefully some more action here on the blog now xD I think exams went good, but we will see when the results arrive =p Now it's time to relax a bit before i start searching for job. It's very nice to be with my sweet bf again atleast! <3 But i will probably miss Norway and the people there too =/
Before i left Norway i celebrated both my birthday and x-mas =p X-mas/exam celebration with nut-roast (norwegian) (njam njam! =p), and then a birthday party celebrating me and my dad (who really had birthday then, and not in like 2 weeks like me xD) =p So then i got to meet some family before leaving again. I also went out with friends to see pepperkakebyen (kinda like a town made of cookiehouses decorated with candy xD)
For the birthday party i made like 100 cookies into around 27 oreo and 27 bourbon from this recipe (norwegian): Oreo cookies. Was kinda horrible making that many in the middle of the night, so now i dont like them anymore =p But my sis likes them xD But i'm not making more, 100 is enough! >.> I also made banana spice cake and orange juice cake xD (the orange juice cake i liked the most ;p)
Here's also picture of lussekatter which we eat for lucia day =p They are extra cool since they are yellow!! =D I should really start cooking more colored food since i love the colors xD Maybe green next time xD
Hopefully some of the recipes comes soon too xD Btw do you wanna see more pictures from pepperkakebyen? Since i got some more xD
Before i left Norway i celebrated both my birthday and x-mas =p X-mas/exam celebration with nut-roast (norwegian) (njam njam! =p), and then a birthday party celebrating me and my dad (who really had birthday then, and not in like 2 weeks like me xD) =p So then i got to meet some family before leaving again. I also went out with friends to see pepperkakebyen (kinda like a town made of cookiehouses decorated with candy xD)
For the birthday party i made like 100 cookies into around 27 oreo and 27 bourbon from this recipe (norwegian): Oreo cookies. Was kinda horrible making that many in the middle of the night, so now i dont like them anymore =p But my sis likes them xD But i'm not making more, 100 is enough! >.> I also made banana spice cake and orange juice cake xD (the orange juice cake i liked the most ;p)
Here's also picture of lussekatter which we eat for lucia day =p They are extra cool since they are yellow!! =D I should really start cooking more colored food since i love the colors xD Maybe green next time xD
Hopefully some of the recipes comes soon too xD Btw do you wanna see more pictures from pepperkakebyen? Since i got some more xD
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