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We’re women and we rock.. except for Alex who just isn’t

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Today is the international womens day and while I do appreciate it as a day for hanging out with friends and being able to nag at Alex to do things for me because of what day it is I still think it’s sick that we need this day every year to bring up issues of inequality and womanhood. It’s sick that women still get paid less for doing the same job and it’s sick that women have to work twice as hard to get the same cred men do. And don’t even get me started on rape, women’s health problems that go unnoticed because we need to just ‘go home and rest a little and take an aspirin’, how women are treated in school and sick beauty standards. Anyway, this is a food blog and I don’t want to rant much.

I celebrated being a woman today by hanging out with my sister and eating good food. We had a great time together.

Here’s Sofie in all her glory!
She has the pretties

And here’s the gang at Sofie’s house. It’s Alex, Elin (a friend of Sofies) and Sofie herself. I was taking the picture of course..
The rest of the gang at Sofies

And the food, omg the glory of the food. I bet cooking runs in the family because I’m not the only one that makes good food. We had borscht with home baked bread and hummus and some hemp seeds and tomatoes on top. It was delicious.
Borstj and homebaked bread with hempseeds, hummus and tomato

And for dessert we had raspberry cupcakes with litchi and mandarin frosting and some fruit salad. Putting litchi juice in the frosting was genius, it’s such an awesome flavour.

Litchi and mandarin frosted raspberry cupcake with fruit salad

(And it looks damn good too!)

 

Happy anniversary!

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Today is my two year veggiversary and a lot has happened these two years. I’ve changed as a person (for the better I hope) and sometime last summer I decided to go vegan. Going vegetarian was a big step for me and a very positive one and when I later decided to go vegan it was yet another big step forwards. I’ve learnt so much since going veg and have done some awesome things.

Today is also the one year anniversary of this blog. It’s been a great year with lots of delicious food, nice people and plenty if good things going on. We’re celebrating with lunch out and maybe a trip to the book store, there’s sales going on right now and there’s a few cookbooks I’ve had my eyes on.. we’ll see! Today is also the day I get this months paycheck, so yay it’s a good day!

Feast your eyes on these pretties! A couple of days ago we had the Walnut, white bean and spinach phyllo rolls from Eat, Drink and Be Vegan with a salad of leafy green with raspberry vinaigrette and nuts. It was absolutely fabulous. I like phyllo dough a lot but it can be quite hard to work it as it dries out so quickly and is quite delicate. Next time I make these I’ll be making some baklava as well. Baklava is heavenly. For dessert a no bake raspberry pie with lime. Look at the colour of that pie! That’s what it looked like, it was hypnotic.I changed the recipe for the strawberry pie around a bit and this wonderful pie was what we got. Next I think I’ll make it with blueberries.

Walnut, spinach and red pepper phyllo rolls (edbv)

no bake raspberry pieRaspberry pie

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