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Living in the North of Scotland, vegan, home educating, cake eating, woodland walking... no set subject matter here really though :)
The more ancient archives are the old home ed diary starting in June 2005 and evolving on from there.
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Tag Archives: cake
walnut cake and sheep
Vegan Easter has been updated
Walnut cake with a tablespoon of Nocaf added to the mix. It is not coffeeish as had intended but is very nice:
1st of March tomorrow, so will it get more springlike?
Scottish macaroons
If you’re looking for a Scottish dish to make for Burns night other than haggis*, these are very good – nothing like the English item of the same name and containing the somewhat surprising ingredient of potato (undetectable, is lovely fondant) – the recipe is still up on Cat’s old blog with pics of them properly covered in coconut, of [...]
white chocolate buttons
ooh ooh ooh Humdinger are now doing these, available from health food shops and supermarkets and Goodness Direct here They are really delicious on cakes along with their darker counterparts….
a flower, nice eats and beach
Chocolate mint layer cake made by a clever friend who is generally good at making things (recipe now in the comments below)
White chocolate mousse with red berries. Melt about 100g of cocoa butter and blend into a block of silken tofu with some icing sugar and vanilla…
Just loving all the veg and fruit from [...]
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cake, Kroner and garden
A celebratory cake for Davie’s return from working in Denmark Made with coconut fat, tastes very nice.
Kroner:
a stroll round the garden this morning:
more of similar ilk below:
vegan millionaires shortbread
These and many other gorgeous vegan and wheat free goodies from Lazy Day Foods here in Scotland Some National Trust places had them in their cafes last year – hope they still do Also stocked by Goodness Direct
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seeds and scones
Had a most industrious day – planted up seed trays with aubergine, sage, lettuce, rocket, brocolli and chilli pepper seeds - greenhouse has expanded our repetoire, more to come yet :)
randomly:
the greenhouse has other, lazier uses too
interesting shelf constructed by Davie out of parts of the kids old beds… and as you can see I’ve very cleverly [...]
gorgeous glasgow
food:
Well we started off as we meant to go on at the 13th note - amazing food, loved the fact that the things that were not vegan were the ones marked with at V – made a nice change that
this was spotted on Cat’s shelves
ooh, Cat made fab ice cream sundaes
Daniel declared the Indian [...]
cake again
So Dan and Charlotte have been unloading washing machines and hanging laundry out, cleaning and baking a bit less aided than usual – they’re so pleased to have me as a mother sometimes, I can tell ;) Other than that weve all been reading lots out in the sun I’ve finished another one of these – may [...]
ladybird
Couldn’t help myself in the end – I had to make something seasonal. Recipe very similar to this except I used spelt flour.
Not exactly going out like a lamb then – it’s really cold. We saw our first ladybird a couple of days ago in the woods though – look very hard in the picture [...]
amazing language, wonderful poems
a beautiful ballet book.