Linzer Cookies on Christmas Eve

Making Linzer cookies! Happy Christmas eve everyone :) Stay safe and warm wherever you are

At the lounge at Haneda Airport

Waiting for my flight to Seoul.. from 11pm to 5:30 am
So we are staying at the airport I only have three more hours to go!

Vegan Lemon Pound Cake & Recipe

Yesterday I attempted to make a vegan lemon pound cake. It tastes ok but nothing special. I reduced the sugar content a bit and use coconut oil instead but I think the coconut oil gave the cake a weird taste.

I am not sure how I feel about this one.

But I'm sure if you followed the recipe, the cake is really yummy.

Easy Vegan Lemon Pound Cake

Ingredients:

• 1 large lemon (juice and rind)
• 1 ½ cups all purpose flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 6 tbsp. vegetable oil
• 1 tsp. vinegar (Yep, vinegar, but I promise you, you won’t taste it.)
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• Water

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350°.
Put flour, sugar and baking soda into a mixing bowl. Mix them together fairly well.
Then grate all your lemon rind into a measuring cup. (I find this is lots easier using a large liquid measure. I just lay the grater over the liquid measure and the rind falls in.)
Then, take your already sorely abused lemon, cut it in half and squeeze the juice from both halves into your measuring cup.
Next add water to your rind and lemon juice until you have filled one cup.
Pour your lemon juice mixture into your bowl of dry ingredients.
Add oil.
Add vanilla.
Add vinegar.
Mix well.
Mixture will foam.
Pour into an ungreased 8 inch cake pan. Bake 25 minutes, or until cake bounces back a bit when you touch its center.
Ice with your favorite vanilla frosting.

Rainbows come out after the Rainstorm

always :)

Choco Green Smoothie

Green smoothie recipe. good for lunch or as a snack :)

• 1 cup soy chocolate milk
• 1/2 cup soy yogurt
• 1 small red apple
• 2 medium bananas
• 2 tablespoons pea protein
• 1 tablespoon super green powder
• 2 handfuls of spinach topped with a tablespoon of ground golden flax seed

Tuna/Crab Cakes

I found a can of crab meat in my pantry, and next to it were several cans of tuna... 

So I decided to make tuna and crab cakes!

They actually turned out fantastic. The only thing I'd work on is getting them to hold up better. But who knew tuna and crab could work together?  Sadly I dropped the rest of the cakes while putting them in Tupperware... Other than that mishap, I would call this a success :)

Healthy

This was me trying to create my rendition of some salads at the whole food's cold bar (which I'm slightly obsessed with).

 Carrot and lentil salad

Quinoa salad

Yum.