Welcome to a stunning, but way too hot start to the day. It's late March! You know, autumn, that the season after summer where it starts to cool down, not do the exact opposite!
Hanging out for cooler days! Still, this kind of greeting is stunningly beautiful.
Small blessings :)
The past few days have been filled with interesting events. Hubby and I had our amazing church pastors over for lunch yesterday. Hubby and I shared our heart and vision for helping build connections over way too much pizza and carbs. It was a great lunch all round, and left us feeling as encouraged as we were full.
I managed to go for a long needed walk and talk yesterday evening with a dear friend, and one of bubby's Godparents, beautiful Margy. Love this woman too bits, and I always find our brief walks uplifting. It's just been way, way too long between catch ups. So annoying when life gets in the way all too often, and we forget what matters, like connecting with friends. Real friendships are healing.
While on this walk, I ran into my previous landladies daughter. It was quite amazing I did, as I had been thinking of her lately, and turns out, she had been thinking of me too. To keep it short, tomorrow at 10am, hubby, bubby and I are looking at a potential, much cheaper rental. I hear it also has a large yard! Fingers crossed it's suitable. I'm busting with excitement just to look at it! This lovely lady, and her family, own several rentals. Because I'm a respected previous tenant, I am first in line for when a house becomes vacant. There is hope!
I also took a leap of faith and applied for a casual job! I'm still in shock that I did, and got asked to attend an interview based on my 'be myself' cover letter. I don't have a large amount of specific experience for this role, however, I am extremely capable and do pick things up quickly. The job involves being around arty individuals- another reason I'm so keen! I am nervous/ excited to attend- change is a leap of faith at times. Three hourly shifts are manageable, but returning to work with a bubby is always going to tear at heart strings. Honestly though, without an overseas teen, and based on our current rent, we need a little extra coming in. We shall see what transpires after Friday afternoon at 2 pm!
All I really want to do is lament about the heat. I am not a huge summer fan, so when we are still getting 30 degree days (Celcius people!) in late March, I just want to hide. A walk to the shops pushing bubby today was torture. It's way too hot. Instead of continuing my whine, take a look at my past few days...
Mondays veg brekky feast: lightly fried zucchini, marinated tofu, tomatoes topped with avocado balls. Deeee-Lish!
Had to throw this in. Babette left us a massive pineapple. It took over half an hour, much mess and lots of containers to chop and store this baby! Well worth it :)
Monday night's dinner- another version of my cauliflower pizza. This time, I topped it with sweet potato puree as a sauce, some steamed pumpkin, fresh corn, basil, onion, tofu, fetta, grated cheese and a hint of lemon juice. Nice, but not as 'wow!' as the last attempt.
Now, here is my attempt at
Raw Vegan Carrot Cakes
Ingredients:
3 cups finely grated carrot
1 cup chopped, pitted dates
1 cup walnuts
1/2 cup coconut flakes
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground ginger
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1 tbsp coconut oil
Icing:
1 chilled can coconut cream
pinch of cinnamon
vanilla
few drops of stevia liquid.
Method:
Process all the filling ingredients until well combined.
Press into molds and chill.
Whip icing ingredients together. Pour over chilled cakes.
The bases, pressed into a coconut oil greased muffin tray.
I didn't find they set well, so I removed them and placed onto a plate before icing.
I found the icing a dud. I only used the actual cream, not the liquid in the coconut cream, but it still looked like water. Tasted great though! Here is my feeble attempt at a recipe (tweaked, of course!) I found on Face Book!
I am rather impressed with my first homemade, yeasted pizza base. Considering it has 4 cups of flour in it though, it won't be making itself into family dinners too often!
The flour, yeast, warm water, pinch of sugar and olive oil made a small ball of dough...
which quickly rose into this a little over half an hour later.
I spread the dough out over a well greased pizza tray, spread it with some tomato chutney and baked it for 3 minutes in a pre heated, 200 C oven. Then I piled it high with topping!
It was deep pan pizza heaven for lunch yesterday, but believe me, way, way too much dough!
I shall leave you lovely people with this, yesterday's sunrise. The humidity does make for pretty greetings to the day :)
Until next time, thanks for reading!
No comments:
Post a Comment