Eaten Up

Field-fresh pear cantaloupe and cling-free peaches. We could live on this.

But then there’s fresh bread to. I felt like a cat in the kitchen as a turkey bakes. What smell is better than bread baking?

Amazing start to the day.

Crumpet with a soft-ripened cheese and peppers baked.

This cheese.

Pizza night.

Whole wheat thin crust, red peppers, tomato paste pesto-like, zucchini, fresh thyme, mushrooms and “tofu feta”.

Risotto is like slow motion wet popcorn. That with herb bouillon and dried veggies. Two of probably the last of our home-grown tomatoes of the season, the last of the fresh basil, carrots and some potato herb bread in the back. With bread, not quite this level of artisan bread

Vegan “Shanger sauce” and some penne for our pots.

The very berry good flan plan.

And a couple pieces of leftovers of the banana-chocolate ripple bread:

1/2 cup 50% cocoa chocolate chips
1/4 cup hot water

1/2 cup unsalted butter
1 cup sugar

1 ripe frozen banana
1/4 cup sour cream
1/4 cup almond milk
1 tsp almond extract

2 cups whole wheat flour
1 tsp soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt

2 eggs, separated
1/4 cup sugar

Melt the chocolate in the water on a double burner and set aside.

Cream butter and 1 cup of the sugar. Beat until light.

Mix the dry ingredients. Mix the egg yolks and rest of wet except egg whites. Preheat to 350 degree.

Alternately add wet and dry to the creamed butter. Beat the egg whites until they make peaks and add sugar to stabilize. Fold the whites into the batter.

Put 1/3 of batter into a 9×3 pan and add half the melted chocolate. Add a third of batter then rest of chocolate. Run a fork thru for a ripple. Add last of the batter. Bake for an hour.

Couscous with mushroom sauce, baby potatoes (from Manitoba? when did supply chain directions flip directions? With a goddess Axo as the figurehead? Was there an ethnic overthrow among the pantheon and the Inca god lost?) with chives and green beans.

La Belle Verte is a vegan cafe in Gatineau. When we got there it there was a dozen people (so it was half-full) then a party of another dozen came and it was crammed. It looks like a mixture of Umi Cafe and The Green Door.

Here’s a close up of the raw vegan burger. There’s some pesto and another sauce.

Raw vegan burger with salad. I think the word burger threw me off too literally. The patty and the bun were pretty close in texture and density. It is pretty rare to stump me on what I’m looking at or what I’m tasting but some of this did. It’s kinda nice to not have the same options as everywhere offers.

Hubby had a raw vegan pizza. He thought it was great. It was a crisp seed crust. Those are pink pickled onions and cashew uncheese as well as a very long thread of raw beet.

Part of the menu.

A lemon tart with coconut instead of cream. A strong enough lemon taste to give fair competition to the coconut and to the nut crust.