stuffed like a vine leaf

and so i am now 18 as of 9.05pm last night :D
i woke up to 18 banners everywere! we lit my cake (while i was in my works uniform!) so that i could cut it to take to worky.




i worked all day but it was realy fun, mich made it realy nice day and i even got flowers delivered to work!.. with peonies ofcourse!
I will post a better picture of them next time, along with the other flowers i got from my sister erica.


SUCH a diffrence from my last birthday, i usualy always cry on it and get depressed but i didnt! i almost did but i thought to myself "i can make this day amazing or i could make this day depressive and boring" i chose to make it amazing :)
i had some lovely things that i received that i will post about in my next post as it goes on for abit.

i got nasty burns from the cake oven at work :( it like liturly had my skin stuck to it when i looked at it after i put it down! it dosnt look bad in the picture but it was horrible when i did it!


i made a lemon cake for my birthday :) with lemon peel and grated vegan white chocolate on top and vegan wipping creme in the middle with lemon extract it wanst that good though unfortuntly but i will addapt the recipe on a later date (vegan gluten free cakes never were the same!)

I was going to post the recipe but once i change it around abit i will!
was huge step though as ilast year my cake was of this :
A TRIP BACK IN TIMEEEE
I wanted to show the diffrence between this birthday and last
and the year before that (so basicaly my 16th, 17th and 18th) defently the cakes;
this is me at my 16th.. ergh! i dont think i cared at all about foods at that time judging by the pre bought cake i had;


this was my 17th, no face picture as i looked realy triggeringly thin, to be honest it was a break through for me to even make a cake, not that it was much of a cake (last year by the way) it was oats in water and cloves baked in the oven.
i mixed strawberries and banana to make the "icing" and then decorated it with the remainder, i think i had like 1 tiny slice of this "pudding cake" (even though it was the size of like two of my palms) and some bean sprouts.. cooked in water for my dinner and then went to bed and cried for hours.

and this years!


back to the 2009!!

We went out to dinner too,
Fat Fig a greek resturant in southampton, Ive always loved greek food but didnt eat it because of the oils before, it was amazing being able to go to a resturant and not have to have just a salad as nothing was gluten free, egg free, dairy fre.. e.c.t free because it had a massive selection of foods i could eat!



I had the spicy tomato rice stuffed vine leaves with salad, i didnt eat the chips and passed them over to my mum


i finished all the vineleaves and half the salad because i thought "why the hell not!?!"

it was yummy defently! but sorry about the bad picture, i was doing it on the sly so the other people wouldnt think i was odd, wow could have told them i was a food critic or somthing hehe


my mum and sister loved their meals too and we all decided it was a definate place we would come back :D yay


i realised i didnt have enough money to get my tattoo today:z my friend lewis got the day off to come with me aswell! my mum really needs to pay me back!

brighton on saturday! god my fav place ever/
MY PEONY PLATE!!



as to other eats this week!


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Flapjacks i made for my mums firefighter work colgs. they are allways requesting my baking yayy, i dont need to explain about them, the lable says it all



and i will stop here before i bore everyone to death

bu byee xxxxx

CAKE

Dairy free chocolate cake for my sisters 15th birthay (on the 18th july)
only problem is it has two eggs in.. :( but as im 6 stone 6/7 lbs and im seposed to be putting on a pound a week to get to a healthy weight im not too bothered about eating some egg because it will probily help.. for the time being anyway.

I searched many vegan cake recipes and tryed one the day before but unfortuntly it died haha and didnt rise or anything so i gave in and made one with eggs.
i replaced the milk with soya milk an marg with vegan marg in the recipe but it has soo much oil in eeeek :/ ive eaten so much of it though its soo good but realy sweet..
ingredients
170g flour
2 tbsp. cocoa power
2 tsp. baking powder
2 pinches salt
200g sugar
1 tbsp. vanilla essence
1/2 cup soya milk (could use water-i used soya milk)
1/2 cup oil (i used sunflower oil)
2 eggs (egg replacer if making vegan version-i used eggs)

prehead oven to 180 deg c (gas mark 4 or 350 deg F)
grease a 9 inch tin
mix flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, salt, sugar and vanilla essence in a bowl.add soya milk, sunflower oil and eggs.
mix everything together untill smooth, either by hand or an electic mixer at a slow speed.
bake in tin for about 35/40 mins- mine took around 38 mins to cook.
after cake has cooled cut through the middle and cover bottom layer with filling.
Ice top with chocolate icing made with melted dark chocolate.
Filling made by mixing soya marg,melted choc and icing sugar.



This is my sister cutting it open! but i was the only one to actually eat it last night (everyone was major full from the indian/chinese takeaway we ate for dinner- i had veg curry with mushroom veg rice and chinese pineapple fried rice, eww calories but still it was vegan i think? hopeeeeee)





I also bought some things from the shops while mum an her boyfriend took my sister into costa for a coffee and some buns (i didnt have eather)


*organic Spelt flour pizza bases
*organic peanut and choc butter
*waitrose vegan pizza (roasted veg no cheese)
*vegan cola bottle gummy sweets
*reduced salt soy sauce
* organic three bean chilli
*gluten free tinned organic spaghetti in tomato sauce
*TOFU RAVIOLI!! cost me like 5 quid! owtch but it looks gooodd ;D
and various other bits and bobs including some free mags and free tea samples of "african spice" flavor , they smell amazing!

This is a picture of my fridge now : look at the takeawayyyy ergh, even tho ive been eating it cold >.< the top cake is the vegan one that didnt work (probily will chuck it) the bottom one is the yummy one and the side one is the dairy one my sister took to school for her friends (left overs) basicaly were all going to be well fat after all this cake and stuff

work work and workkk

This week has been arghhh
birthday tomorrow 17th :D
trying to find the perfect vegan birthday cake recipe though... not going well
anyway i thought i would update u on my work this week :)


foood ! i love tescos :p


only a couple of the pages ive done this week for my project :| my hand hurts from writing !!


and finally!! the two bags i stayed up till 3am making the other night, the designs actually upside down >.< but i dont careee lol
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