3012.07 New year is coming..Some christmas foods

This is my christmas casserolles, traditional Finnish dishes! Those above are made of pureed carrot, syrup,cinnamon,salt,water,crushed bread crumbs and cooked barley(also a little dash of nutmeg and white pepper added. Those below are made of rutabaga,water,breadcrumbs,syrup and same spices as the carrot casserolle has in it.

I definitely like that rutabaga thing really much! I have some of this stuff stil in my freezer, so I can eat it when I want! Even in summer holiday or something..

This is yours ( I eat christmas dinner with my parents and littlebrother this time) dinner settings. You can see there is some green salad in front, marinated shiitakemushrooms by that rightside, above is some mustard-curry sauce made of silken tofu and creamy mushroomsallad made of soyyughurt,mixed salted mushrooms,salt fresh parsley and dash of white pepper. Yuo can also see that seitan-roast behind those mushrooms.

This is marinated tofu(with lots of soy sauce,fresh coriander,parsley,ginger,spring onions and garlic,black pepper,sweet and sour sauce and also some tomatopuree and spices). I baked it in a owen and we eat that as starter in your lunch with homemade springrolls and dipping sauce. It was wery good, I like those Asian-style spices! Behind is sauerkraut(I LOVE it) and green beans straight from jar.. ;)

This is also kind of marinated-bean salad! It was gorgeous, we got the inspiration to made this when we were eating lunch couple a days before christmas in one restaurant which serves only vegetarian food(also serves many lovely rawfood things!) and there were a marinated beansalad like this! We checked which it contains(there is always all ingredients showed in the lists) and then made it home. It was tasted just same like this one which we were eaten in these restaurant. It contains: lot of fresh coriander, parsley,chopped leek,sweet and sour sauce and tandoori masala-spice mixture+little dash of salt and soy sauce. AND sundried tomatoes.

This is your seitan-roast. I made it with one recipe I have writtened in Finnish, but I used also that Bryanna Grogan`s Seitan turkey-recipe when making this. You see, I sometimes will mix those different recipes and then turned them more tasty then. This is really succesfull and I think it`s also great when sliced cold topp of bread. I have still little left in my fridge and freezer.

And the last ones: our dreamlike chocolate-zuchini cake! It was really moist, soft, dark and GOOD! Everyone loved this, and that`s not the first time when my mother

(she is specializing to made this cake!) made it..

There is also used some dryed figs in this time, and because we don`t have that ready bought chrushed nut-mix we used allmond powder instead and noticed it also works.

And more desserts.. Christmas is the time of lots of sweet things.. I love those dryed peaches,apricots, melon bites and apple rings. There is also home made ginger breads(which I have decorated, but saddly there was lots of more those decorated ones befor my dog eat them all during I was out ..). And those little green wasabi chicpeas are one present I got from my mother.

8.11.2007 SOME food now..

this is small post for my cookings which I have done since last weeks..

I found this recipe ( http://http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2006/05/cabbage-nori-rolls.html ) for cabbadge nori-rolls in Susan`s great blog and I love it!

This is picture of my littlebit "fake japanese" lunch, including some tofu-vegetable stirfry and norirolls+ wasabi, gari and soy sauce for dipping(that teabag-holder is my soy sauce cup..) and also some asparagus served with sweet & sour sauce(staight from bottle..). Wery nice salad combination in this time. I like nori-seaweed so much, but I`m not good to invent some new recipes where I can use it.

So, if anyone have good tips for using more nori in cooking,
come on and post yur tip in my blog! ;)

6.11.2007 First snow..Beautines of great, mighty nature.

Hello! This is first time in this month when I post something in this blogger.. I had feel little tired during the last weeks, because of that at days are getting more darker and weather is getting colder..

SO I hope the snow rains fast and makes nature outside looks more lighty.

But in last sunday there was raining little snow! I wakeup in morning and looking out window when I noticed that and I feeling I must go out to take some photos and enjoying the beautifull, sunny day with my dog friend Nelli.

We walked long time in field and I took some nice photos of frosty trees and plants.. Nature is the most beautiest thing I know!

There is also photo for Nelli, she is over 8 years old now and I really love this sweet, fluffy friend. This is also picture which I have drawn her in year 2006.

Not any food things in this post, but its not important ;)

3.10.07 Summer memories

I was in Krakow,Poland in last summer holiday. That 3 days trip was my birthday gift for my parents and I have great time in there.. Lots of beautifull, old buildings and nice museums which I visited. And lovely atmosphere and also..Nice and CHEAP vegetarian restaurants, which also have many vegan options on their menus.

I have this sorbet in one nice, little cafe middle in green park in Krakows centrum. We visited in this cosy cafe couple of times and everytime i ordered wonderfull (and cheap) vegan sorbet portion, with lots of fresh berries! And they make also that funny serving as you can see ;)

And this is ONE of my birthday caces(It was so Good!) which i was bake in my birthday parties in August. There was also lovely chocolate truffle cace(see my resent bloggins..) and berry tofu-icing, vegan cinnamonrolls and lots of other little and bigger vegan treats.. Everyone of my guests liked it!

..And one photo of great summer salad and there is also my beand spread and marinated carrots, with carlig vegan margarine and soy yughurt sause and tasty baguettes and homemade buns(including carrot and herbs+ sundried tomatose, made with wolewheat spelt and rye flours!). The main course (which I don`t have picture, sorry!) was lentill Goulash served with brown rice. That combination works! I have nice parties..With nice sunny weather.

26.6.07 My art..

This is one picture which I have drawn. The text says something like" The way in the stomach of vegetarian goes acros the heart..)..Two carrot biters in that picture!

17.6.07 Yes,goats ARE cool, not food..

Yes, I like photographing and I like goats! They are fancy animals and looks cool with their horns and "mystic" eyes.. Little "evil" looking guy,eh ;) I have photographed lots of nature and animals, also in this summer but that photo is from last summer
when I was photographing( also goats..) animals in local farm near my house.

17.6.07 Seitan Wörship- Evil goat cult picnic 2007

When my summerholiday was begining we have onekind of "morning brunch-contest".

Your school`s students have a small groups with different themes. Me and my two friends decided to put up the "Goat picnic" which were including metal music, "seitanic"vegan goodies and mystic,dark atmosphere... Your meny was quite simple: "pizza baguettes, which I made(they were like stuffed baguetttes including "pizza"seasonings, carrot,zuchini,onion and garlic with tomato sauce and fresh herbs..They were wery tasty!), grilled seitan ribs(those pork lookig things alongside the grapes in the silver plate), marinated carrot coins(you find recipe here: http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=13971.0), green sallad with mushrooms,

sundried tomatoes and wild greens like ground-elder (Aegopodium podagraria) and

Dandelion(Taraxacum), stuffed zuchinis and tomatoes, carrot,zuchini and cucumber sticks for dipping and curried soy-youghurt dip+ chili-spiced tomato dipsauce, plum pie and plum soup for dessert, vegan candies,grapes,raisins and dried apricots.

Drinks we have "Blood"=tomato juice and burk of "Narcotic saft" which was a new theme matching name of strawberry juice..

That picture you can see your "seitanic goat altar"..

We have human skull(he have a mystically smelling "sacrifice" Incense in hes mouth..), "altar picture with goat skeleton holdindg two sacrificial knives, big,black upsidedown turned krusifix with goat-pentagram picture and ofcourse CD-player and lots of good goat-metal music records! Your bruch "music meny" includes for example bands like Archgoat(http://www.archgoat.com) , Goatsnake (http://goatsnake.tripod.com/), Goatwhore(www.goatwhore.net/), Darkthrone(http://www.darkthrone.no/), Celtic Frost(http://www.celticfrost.com/), Reverend Bizarre(http://www.reverend.shows.it/) and Electric Wizard(http://www.myspace.com/electricwizarddorsetdoom).

"Wild green sallad". Including dandelion and ground elder. Funny thig is that at in finnish language that name "ground elder" is "Vuohenputki"which straight description in english is like "goat`s tube".. ;)

My picnic plate!