Cake (Lick's cake design)
4gbp (€4.68 / $4.93 / £4)
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food (16 out of 2080)
- Caught up on Co-op stuff that I've been neglecting.
- A grey week, in contrast to last week, warm and cold.
- Finished Shadow of the Hegemon, started The Vampire Lestat.
- Baked vegan quiche, mincemeat tarts (still dragging out the christmas leftovers), and made jelly at the Community Kitchen.
- Made khichdi, a victoria sponge cake, spaetzle/knoepfle (Liechtenstein) and kanom krok (Laos).
- Went to the Black Cat Cafe, and discovered many exciting new things down the far end of the High St where I don't normally go.. a new veg shop and organic food store! Also got top Kirkcaldy gossip in the cafe.
- Harvested more dryad's saddle from the early warning tree.
- Potted up French beans. More aubergines sprouted, and sweet peppers, better late than never. A few nasturtiums and mystery seedlings sprouted in footpath garden. Planted out tomatoes in footpath garden. Only inkycap mushrooms are coming up in the new chilli farm, but Hungarian black peppers are ripening.
- Soya beans hadn't come up, and some digging around revealed they seem to have rotted. Will be contacting Johnson's..
- Hung out with Max.
- Put yellow and pink cellophane (that I found in Furniture Plus!) in my bathroom light to make it warmer and less stark. Definite improvement.
- Started a series of posts on cooking experiments from countries I've never been to. In lieu of actually travelling, and inspired by worldle generating a new inspirational country every day.
- Went to the Scottish vegan festival in Edinburgh, spent about £100 on hot sauce and other tasty things, then stayed over with K&M and poor wee Lowenna who is recovering (well) from emergency surgery.
- Took the week off work! But still had loads to do.
- Took part in a panel for the W3C AC meeting, about sustainability and web standards.
- Planted chillis and potted up romanesco.
- Made coconut chia puddings at the Community Kitchen, peppers stuffed with lentils and mung beans with tempeh on top, and krompirusa again.
- Called the fire brigade for the first time ever. Fortunately nothing turned out to be on fire, but better safe than sorry..
- K, M and Lowenna came to visit.
- Dryad's saddle season is beginning. The early warning tree is fruiting, but nothing so far anywhere else. Did clean up a load of stuff from the woods when we were out looking though.
- Went in the sea. Some beautiful days.
- Caught up on Picard.... quite disappointing tbh.
- Got various little DIY things done... or partly done... door thresholds in hallway, internal kitchen cupboard improvements, clocks/hooks on the walls..
- Went on an adventure to [redacted] woods in Perthshire, where we discovered large quantities of amazing shiny rocks...
- Finished Shadow of the Hegemon, started Shadow Puppets.
- Wrapped up the Woodland Trust 'LaboraTree' project, for now. Did some stuff with DeepNote dashboards for the first time, which was interesting.
- Made Mauritanian-style cherchem, carob brownies, and finally got back to the Community Kitchen.
- Planted a load of things in the footpath garden on Friday afternoon, but was so foggy from lack of sleep that I forgot immediately what I put where. Sunflowers, nasturtiums, wildflowers, carrots and chard... I'll just have to wait and see what pops up.
- My oxalis is flowering, tradescantia are taking off, inside cherry tomato has more fruit, and all four remaining chilli plants are bearing fruit or starting to flower now, despite the aphid infestation. Seeds planted in the polytunnel last week are sprouting.. french beans, romanesco, aubergine, onions.
- Got up to watch planets aligning, but didn't see them. Saw sunrises instead.
- Watched Y Tu Mama Tambien and The Lady in the Van.
- Made a website for The Tiffin so I don't have to depend on facebook to check their menu. This was the first time I've made a simple website in years and ohemgee the state of the ecosystem. It's amazing. The CSS Grid? The browser dev tools? Lightyears ahead of what I remember.
- Started another crochet project.. writing the pattern for this one.
- Went on an adventure to Glenrothes and Falkland and around.
More food (Parallel7)
7gbp (€8.20 / $8.64 / £7)
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Food for K&M (The Tiffin)
10gbp (€11.71 / $12.34 / £10)
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Lunch and chocolate (The Sly Fox)
12gbp (€14.05 / $14.81 / £12)
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Lunch part 1 (Gillie Food)
5.50gbp (€6.44 / $6.79 / £5.5)
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Coffee (The Refillery)
2.80gbp (expensed) (€3.28 / $3.46 / £2.8)
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Lunch (The Refillery)
8.40gbp (expensed) (€9.84 / $10.37 / £8.4)
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Week in review: 2nd - 8th May
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Brownies (Zola's Bakery)
6gbp (€7.02 / $7.39 / £6)
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Kanom krok, Laos: food I've never eaten
One day I'd love to visit Laos, and making kanom krok made me even more keen. They are small coconut pancakes, vegan without any modifications, also commonly found as street food in Thailand.
I made the pancake batter up ahead of time and left it in the fridge for a couple of hours. It seemed quite thin. I combined coconut milk (the thickest parts from a can that had separated in the fridge) with rice flour, desiccated coconut, some leftover cooked rice, and brown sugar in the blender. For the filling, I whisked coconut milk (again, the thick part) with a little white sugar and cornstarch. Lacking a proper kanom krok pan, I made do with a muffin tin and the oven on high. I heated the tin to melt coconut oil in each one first, then poured the batter in. It sizzled.
Baking these until they had a small skin on top took about 7 minutes. I pulled them out, added the filling, topped with sweetcorn and spring onion, and put them back in for another 12 minutes or so. I could/should have probably cooked them slightly longer to make the edges crispier.
They were delicious, if a little soggy or droopy. I waited just long enough for the tin to cool enough to hold it with a tea towel before removing them with a spoon. They came out surprisingly easily and had more structural integrity than they looked like they should. I got eighteen in total out of the mix, and most of the first twelve were eaten before the second batch were done. An eater-of-eggs who tried them swore they would have passed as eggy desserts without question.
They were easy and quick to make, and so so good, I'll definitely be making them again.
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Kasknopfle, Liechtenstein: food I've never eaten
This week I checked out cuisine from Liechtenstein, and came across kasknopfle or spaetzle. I more or less followed this recipe for a veganised version.
The texture of the batter was surprisingly compliant. I used a chopping board and bench scraper to make strips to drop into the boiling water. The main mistake was making them far far too big. But they nonetheless cooked quickly and tasted fine.
I layered the dumplings/pasta with grated not-cheese. In lieu of dried onions to top with, I used the tops of home-grown onions, which caramelised a bit in the oven, and baked it all together. I would have just eaten that alone, but I was feeding my brother too who has greater quantity and diversity requirements for his evening meal, so I served it with breaded chicken-of-the-woods from my freezer (the closest thing I could think of to thematically appropriate schnitzel) and steamed broccoli from the garden.
There were plenty of leftovers, and they reheated well for a substantive lunch.
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Coffee and cake (Black Cat Cafe)
5gbp (€5.92 / $6.25 / £5)
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Week in review: 25th April - 1st May
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Late dinner (The Tiffin)
0gbp
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Week in review: 18th -24th April
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Lunch for two (Pillars of Hercules)
10.50gbp (€12.46 / $13.47 / £10.5)
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