Seven weeks until New Year!! And I have not one, not two but three potential new projects to sort out by then…. phew!!
Also there is a hole in our kitchen ceiling. Something burst in the hot water tank and the first we knew about it was when water started seeping through. Then the whole thing collapsed. While Himself was in the middle of a teleconference! The hot water tank is fixed now. The hole is not. In my kitchen of all places. My beloved kitchen!!! (don’t worry dear readers, I am still able to cook and bake and take semi-OK photographs of the process!).
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* rose scented shower gel – it’s like waking up to Turkish Delight every morning.
* making plans for Christmas – I know it’s still early, but six weeks will fly by!
* good progress on my anatomy revision – skin, muscles, bones and nervous system done and done!
* managing 3 massages back to back without dying. Got to get that up to four or five over the next few weeks and I’m ready!
* Bramley cooking apples. These came in the veg box this week.
I made puree out of most of them (so good with soy ice cream), but turned one into apple bread.
Would you like the recipe?
Ingredients
150g/6oz self raising flour
200g/8oz plain flour
0.5 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
50g/2oz vegan margarine
1 large Bramley apple
2 tablespoons of golden or maple syrup
1 flax egg
250ml/half pint of apple juice
A handful of sultanas or other dried fruit
1 curious cat
Method
1. Remove cat from kitchen. Several times.
2. Make up your flax egg (see here for more on this) and leave to sit.
3. Sift the flour into a bowl and add the salt and bicarb, give it a good stir to mix the flours.
3. In a saucepan over a low heat melt together the margarine and syrup.
4. Add the syrup mixture and apple juice to the flour mix and give it a good stir (wooden spoons preferable!)
5. Stir in the flax egg and the sultanas
6. Finally grate your apple. You can peel it first if you like but I grated the peel too. Stir in.
7. Grease and line a loaf tin and tip your mixture in the tin.
8. Bake for one hour 180*C/350*G/Gas Mark 4.
Let it cool in the tin for about half an hour and then have the first slice whilst still warm so the margarine melts right in. I’m told this is also good with a sharp cheddar for the non-vegans.
Curious cats get into EVERYTHING!
I really love that cat shot! (and your apple bread looks yummy too!)
I found your website recently when looking for yoga sites and have been catching up on your old posts gradually. I am not vegetarian, though one of my daughters is, and for that reason I do eat a lot of vegetarian food. Your recipes sound wonderful – I am collecting a few of the best sounding to have a go at. This one sounds particularly lovely: I adore bramleys too.
Apple bread… mmmmmm…
Not sure I can make it though, not cat in these parts… Step 1 seems integral to the process and I’m not one for recipe modifications anyway, especially when they come from a source like you.