Halloween 2014

I love holidays, they give a good opportunity to celebrate =D

As always, halloween is a time for spookiness =D And gross (but still yummy) food =D

So for this years meny i chose to eat mummies, larvaes, blood, and gore ^.^

Followed by way too much candy (and also before and while making the dinner xD)

And some chips and popcorn too =p

I even made some green spooky muffins with some bugs, brains and other nasty stuff in it, but everyone was too full to eat, including me :x

I dressed up as a witch who had been in a witchfight xD

In the evening we watched a movie called the collector. This movie had too much torture and blood and stuff so i was watching computer screen instead luckily, else i would have nightmares still. My brother and sister weren't the biggest fan of it either, but they wanted to know how it ended so they kept watching. I read the summary on wikipedia instead, gave me enough info, without all the visual details :x

Was a nice halloween, looking forward to next years halloween already =D

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.

Pineapple muffins

Pretty cool muffins =p Had some leftover canned pineapples in the pineapple juice thingy, so decided to make muffins from it, which turned out really well =p I'm not sure if this is the exact amount of ingredients i used, but its something like this =p Just add more flour or liquid if not =p

Ingredients:
1,5 dl flour
1 dl oatmeal
0.5-1 dl sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla sugar
0,5 teaspoon baking powder
1 can chopped pineapples in juice including the juice (my can is 227 g if im correct, but if you got bigger can just add more flour =p)
2 teaspoons oil
Soymilk or water if more liquid is needed (which it probably is =p)

Mix dry ingredients together, add wet ones, mix and add more liquid (soymilk/water) if its needed. Pour into muffin shapes and bake in oven on 175°C for about 30 minutes.

I remembered a bit late to take picture; aka when i was 1 bite from finishing the last pineapple muffins xD

Chocolate-zucchini muffins

Zucchini rocks, specially in baking ^.^ (and for dinner =p)

I found a recipe for chocolate-zucchini muffins here at happy herbivore (english), and i just had to make it! =D

I'm happy i did, this stuff is yammie! =D

I also added nuts in, which made it even better ^.^

So if anyone got leftover zucchini that they wanna use, chocolate-zucchini muffins is a yammie way to do it =p

Pink/purple stuff

One of the first things i saw when i came back to Norway was that mom had kale in the garden. I was like wtf xD I had been reading about other people searching everywhere for kale, and i find it in my garden, very nice surprice!! ^.^

Here is a pic i found when i searched on ecosia for kale:

She also has other greens and berries in the garden =D For example beetroot that i have been experimenting a bit with lately.

Pic that i found on ecosia of beetroot:

I like to color stuff, so i thought; Why not add it in food!

Here is why:

Before: Looking nice and pink ^.^

After: Me disappointed =(

So i guess it's best to use in raw stuff, like smoothies ;)

This one is made with 2 bananas, 1 apple, 1 orange, 2 leafs of kale, and 0,5 beetroot.

The muffins is this recipe + 0,5 beetroot or so.
Btw the taste changed a bit, but neither to the worse nor to the better, it was just a bit different xD

Pumpkin muffins/cake

I wanted to use the spare pumpkin i got to make pumpkin muffins, but when the dough was ready, i couldn't find muffin shapes, so i putted it in cake shape instead hehe.

I followed mostly this recipe on vegweb: Pumpkin Spice Raisin Muffins 
The idea for pumpkin puree i found here on Vegandads cool blog (i wanted to make this too but got too lazy xD) and i searched with ecosia on how to make pumpkin puree (but i was too lazy to do/remember what they said) =p

Well here is what i did:

Ingredients:
1 dl whole wheat flour
0,5 dl sugar
About 0,5 teaspoon baking powder
About 0,25 teaspoon baking soda
About 0,5 teaspoon vanilla suger
About 0,25 teaspoon ginger
About 0,25 teaspoon nutmeg
About 0,5-1 teaspoon cinnamon (i just poured in hehe)
And you can also add cloves if you got, i dont have =(
About 0,5 teaspoon lemon juice
About 0,5 tablespoons vegetable oil
And then i have no idea how much pumpkin puree* i added, but i guess it was about 1 dl or so =p
And i also radded some raisins, i guess 0,25 - 0,5 dl xD

*First i cutted my remaining pumpkin (maybe 10x5 cm or so, i dont remember =p) in pieces and had them on a sheet in the oven on 200°C to try to make pumpkin puree. I think they were there for 20-30 minutes and i turned them once, then i putted them in a blender and blended them to a puree-like consistency. There's probably better ways to make it, but this worked more or less xD
For the cake i first added the dry ingredients and mixed, then the pumpkin puree, lemon juice and oil and mixed it, and last i added the raisins. Depending on your amount and liquidity of the pumpkin puree you may need more flour or liquid =p
Then i poured the mix into my beloved 13x13 cm cakeshape after a wild search for the cupcake shapes that i didnt find (so if you want cupcakes then do that hehe, should be like 2-4 cupcakes in this recipe @_@) and had it in the oven on about 200°C (i think, my oven is a bit evil on the temperatures so could be im wrong xD) for about 20 minutes =p

I managed to take a picture before i ate all as well hehe =)

Red currant cupcakes

Some days ago i made cupcakes with red currents, i used the vanilla cupcake recipe from here and about 4,5 dl red currants. They became pretty sour lol, but was yummy ^.^

Vanilla cupcakes

Here's the recipe of my favorite vanilla cupcakes! I've made them very many times and they are very yummy =D You can also do chocolate in them for making chocolate cupcakes =p


The recipe i found here on vegweb (english): Vanilla cupcakes

Here is what i used, more or less following the recipe from the link.

Ingredients:

3 dl nondairy milk
1 tablespoon vinegar
0,67 dl vegetable oil
0,5 dl maple syrup or other type of syrup
2 teaspoons vanilla
4,33 dl flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1,5 dl sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt

Mix together the wet ingredients and set aside, then mix together the try ingredients. Then add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix well. Then fill the dough into muffin cups and bake in oven on 175°C for 14-15 minutes.

Lol i got tempted to make these again now! Yammie! *drool* =p I will definitely make them many times more in the future =D