Maybe i should start blogging again! xD

I kinda miss blogging. It's always too long between each time, and so much that is happening. I've now moved into my new apartment! It's awesome here and we host almost weekly some vegan potluck event in the apartment <3 Today is the next one with Italian themed potluck and we will watch an Italian movie! =D I live with two Italians btw =p They hate the way i make my pizza hahahah xD

So yesterday i was celebrating "natur og ungdom" (nature and youth?) turning 50 years. So i got free cake yaaayyy =D I'm not part of natur og ungdom, I'm not even youth age hahaha. But when i was invited to eat some free vegan food there's no reason not to join haha =p

Vegan cakes from Troll Donuts

Last weekend i had raw vegan weekend challenge! It went very good even though before i started i feared i would starve to death xD But i survived!! =D i loaded up on shitloads of dates (probably ate a kilo haha), and some bananas =p i also invited people to raw vegan potluck so i got to eat some more professional food also hahaha =p Apparently I'm not a good cook anymore xD

Raw cakes <3

Raw food <3

Raw salad <3

So last Sunday during the raw vegan weekend i made a new challenge for myself this week! It was no-shop-week on food and drinks xD So far it's gone very good! I've been missing shopping, but there's nothing specific i want or need to buy so no problem there xD I might have acquired some food in non-shopping ways though, such as dumpster diving, hinting to parents I'm out of carrots, and eating at other places than home where food was served to me on someone elses bill hahaha (like the natur and ungdom 50 year celebration) xD

Wonder what my next challenge should be =p

Mothersday

Yesterday (9th February) was mothers day in Norway, so i decided to do something nice for my mother =p

When me and my sis and bro were kids we used to give breakfast on bed for this occasion (if i remember correctly xD). Last years though she normally wakes up before us so then it's a bit harder xD

This year i wanted to surprise her with breakfast though so i putted my alarm at 7:30 (but i woke up before 7 xD) and made pancakes (with this recipe from vegetarbloggen *norwegian*). That's my favorite pancake recipe. I replaced half of the flour with whole wheat flour, and i used only half of the sugar, so it would be a bit healthier =p

I figured it would be a bit awkward though if i went into her room with food while she was sleeping, so i cleaned the kitchen a bit instead and made it a bit cozy. Then when she and my dad came, we enjoyed pancakes for breakfast ^.^ (my sister and brother were sleeping so i didn't make for them xD). I forgot to take pictures of the pancakes, but they looked more or less like pancakes xD

Then later i made pineapple upside down cake (recipe from veganeren *norwegian*) and peanut butter cookies with chocolate pieces (recipe also from veganeren *norwegian* who got her recipe from theveganzombie here *english*).

I also had a blueberry banana ice cake in the freezer (basically frozen bananas blended to cream, then frozen blueberries added, followed by some soaked almonds and dates and a bit of vanilla sugar, blended good, put in cake shape and stored in freezer).

Everyones favorite was the pineapple upside down cake. It was really fresh and tasty and so easy to make! I will definitely make it again! :D

The peanut butter cookies with chocolate pieces were also pretty good :p they kinda tasted just like they sound like xD So if you like peanut butter and cookies you will like these cookies :D

The blueberry banana ice cake was nice as well xD This one is more healthy and could probably have a bit better taste xD Actually it is so healthy that you can eat it for breakfast every day without feeling guilty xD It is practically a frozen smoothie, and it can be made with infinite varieties and can be made raw xD

We kids also gave my mom an orchid flower since she likes them :D

So i hope it was a nice day for her =)

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

Kiwi icecream

The good thing about buying many of foods that are on sale is that i can experiment with new things to do with them. I dont want half of the food to turn rotten and end up in the trash, so instead when it turns very ripe, im like "oh shit, what am i gonna use it for?!?!!" followed by some hunting on the internet or in my cookbooks for recipes xD This way i ended up with making the broccoli-carrot-potato burgers, the pear cake, the kiwi cake, and the kiwi icecream =p

Here comes kiwi icecream!

Ingredients:
1-2 frozen ripe bananas
1-2 ripe kiwis

Mix in food processor until nice consistency and enjoy hehehe

More smoothie xD

Starting to be extremely many smoothies on the blog lately xD

This one is without vegetables hehehe =p

Ingredients that i used:
2 (small) bananas
2 small pressed oranges
2 kiwis
1 apple
5-10 frozen strawberries
Some icecubes
1 glass of water

It's also weird, i think im getting into a cycle where i sleep 6 hours, then 10 hours, then 6 hours etc xD I prefer the 6 hours since i get more of the day then, but only if i feel well-rested =p

Reminds me of some days ago when i had a cycle of ouchy throat one day, then next day not ouchy, then the day after it was ouchy again, then the day after that it was not ouchy xD

Wonder what next cycle will be xD

Anyone else got strange cycles?

Fresh pressed orange juice!

I got one of the cool objects to juice oranges with, so recently, i've been juicing a lot of oranges!
I prefer juicing eating-oranges (stonefree and more pulp) and not the juicing-oranges (with stones and little pulp, and annoying smell/taste on the skin =s).
I always add the pulp into the juice, so with eating-oranges, it becomes "pulp with juice" while with jucing-oranges it is normal "juice with pulp".
Edit: now i prefer the juicing oranges since too much pulp in the other ones, but here in Norway i think they only got eating oranges.

Before i came to Belgium i didnt even know there were different types of oranges! Maybe since i didnt buy oranges in Norway, since i didnt like eating them (i always got covered by juice then, and it was boring to peel) and i didnt have a cool juicer =p

Green smoothie2

Made another green smoothie now =p This one i wanted to drink so i added water =)

Ingredients:
1 orange
1 banana
2 hands of fresh spinach (although mine was out of date so not that fresh, but got them for half price xD)
Water, for exampel 0,5-1 glass, im not sure howmuch i used.

Sour smoothie ;(

In today's smoothie i added lemon so it's very sour =p I also added basil, so most of the taste is lemon+basil xD

Ingredients:
1 banana
3 (frozen) strawberries
1 ball of frozen spinach
1 orange
1 lemon
1 carrot
0,5 red bell pepper/paprika
2 cauliflower florets
Some basil leaves (maybe 5-10?)

Green smoothie

I like to have healthy smoothies, so i often add some ingredients that arent normal to add =p This one taste very neutral and un-specified (dunno if thats a good or bad thing xD) but i like the color of it! =D It is again very thick consistency, so if you decide to make it and want it more liquid then add more liquid =p

Ingredients i used:
4 (frozen) strawberries
1 frozen chopped spinach ball-thingy
1 orange
1 banana
1 pear
2 pieces of cauliflower (dunno what its called)
4-5 cm cucumber

Blend it and tadaaaa: you got something green drinkable (or eatable by spoon again xD)

Smoothie =p

This smoothie i have for breakfast today =p Very yummy! And nice fluffy consistency (i actually eat it with spoon rofl, since it reminds more about yoghurt than liquid in consistency).

Well heres the ingredients i used, but you can use different if you want ofc! And if you want to drink it instead of eating it with spoon, then add more liquid =p
5 (frozen) strawberries
1 carrot
1 orange
1 banana
1 apple

Then just blend it all together in a blender or foodprocessor (i actually have blender now so i did it in blender ^.^) and enjoy =D

Smoothie2

Today i made another smoothie, with a bit different ingredients, so i thought i would post it ^.^

The stuff i used is: 2 bananas, 1 apple, 1 orange, frozen red currants (rips), ice cubes, water

The result was pretty sour, but yummy xD

Smoothie

Yesterday i wanted smoothie, so i made it =p

In this smoothie i added 2 ripe bananas, 1 orange, some frozen blueberries (maybe 1 dl or so), some flax seed and some ice cubes for coldness =p It was very thick, but yummy ^.^ I kinda wanted to put apple in it too, but i was too lazy xD I think some more liquid in it would be good too, so it would be more "drinkable" =p

Smoothie is handy since you can add what you want/have in it =D I always use bananas in them though =p

Banana ice cream

I don't know where i found the recipe for this, but its extremely easy to make banana ice cream! xD

The only ingredient you need is a frozen ripe banana! xD (also some liquid is handy, for example soymilk or water)

So put the frozen banana in a blender/food processor (you can mix with other stuff too, like chocolate or nuts or whatever you want, add liquid also so it gets creamy) and mix till its creamy (my banana normally gets stuck to the edges if i dont use liquid, so i just end it there and let it melt a bit more  or use liquid, before i eat it full of chocolate sauce and caramel sauce xD njam! =p)
 

So if you got some ripe bananas, the freezer is the place they should be! =p or in one of the other cakes/cupcakes/breads/cookies! xD


Edit: I recently started adding liquid to the bananas in the food processor so it would rotate better and not just get stuck on the edges, and the consistency gets really great then! It's just perfect! =D I tested with soymilk and water, both works ^.^ Here's pic of ice cream like it's supposed to be! xD

 

I also once added soymilk and stawberry jam and got a creamy sauce-thingy tasting like strawberry cream or something xD Could be handy in case someone needs strawberry cream =p

Cauliflower-thingy xD

Last night i was fooling around on internet and i found this recipe: Raw cauliflower couscous

So for breakfast this morning i decided to make something similar since i had a cauliflower that needed to be used soon =p

The ingredients i used are:
Cauliflower
Cucumber
Cherry-tomatoes (or normal ones)
Sun dried tomatoes
Zucchini (optional)
Salad
Soy sauce

But of course you can skip some ingredients or add some =p Use what you got ;)

I putted the cauliflower in the food processor until it has a couscous-like consistency (actually it was until the cauliflower stopped spinning rofl xD) Then i fried the zucchini a bit on each side in oil (i guess you dont need to do this if you like raw zucchini). Then i chopped the cucumber and tomatoes and salad and added everything on my plate and putted soy sauce on top ^.^

I forgot to take picture of the first plate, but plate 2 i remembered, but then i had no zucchini and salad left, but it was still yummy! =D maybe even more yummy =p I will definitely make this again if i have more cauliflower to be used ^.^