late great summer

 / book on lend and payment in succulents

/ elderflower water at the pump house

/ field walks in hungerford with rachel and meg (the dog)

/ tiny grey feather

/ veggie bagel boy

/ hand tied hydrangea and sedum and eucalyptus

homeslice

 

Vegan Vanilla Cheesecake

crust

three cups crumbled vegan digestives

half cup vegan margarine, melted

quarter cup sugar

filling

three and a half cups cashew nuts, soaked and drained

two thirds of a cup coconut oil

two thirds of a cup agave nectar

two thirds of a cup lemon juice

one vanilla bean, scraped

soak cashew nuts overnight.
preheat oven one hundred eightyC.

blend digestives in food processor, mix in melted margarine and sugar.  press crus evenly into springform cake pan, and bake in oven for ten minutes. place on cooling rack.

in food processor blend together nuts, oil, agave, lemon juice and vanilla paste. blend until very smooth, as thin as possible with no lumps. pour filling into cake pan and smooth out top. place in the freezer overnight.
take out cheesecake an hour before you want to serve. top with fruit or chocolate, or just eat plain.
trick your friends, let them guess your secret ingredient.

orange you glad

blood orange breakfast, good breakfast, hi friday.

fruit fancy

choose your colour, via griottes

simple and sweet, i just want to bite into those juicy red berries. hello spring colours !

dip dye

fallen ombre petals from my congratulatory bouquet, one week to go and the new job begins !

good gravy

 

poutine

double fried chips

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wensleydale cheese, crumbled

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vegetarian gravy

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pint of cider

a canadian treat i mention fondly, my british man decided something needed to be done.

cheese curd being hard to find here, wensleydale subbed in nicely. homemade veggie tamari gravy was delish, a la Vegetarian Meat and Potatoes Cookbook. and the chips, perfection, skins on, proper shoestring fries.

hot and cheesy, these pommes frites were finished off slowly, and washed down with cider, pretty alright combo.

little days

i couldn't help but choose these plums, greens and reds and oranges, slightly oblong and specked with much more colour than the spanish plums they sat next to. i managed to nip to the shops before the rain hit today, and i felt the warmth on my back as i headed home. now it's pouring, leaves dripping.

something sweet and tart, the ground almond makes it hearty, on the edge of fall it's necessary, especially on this grey day. a touch of colour, and symetry never hurt.

almond english plum cake

via la tartine gourmande

six or seven small english opal plums

two thirds of a cup butter, softened

half cup sugar

two eggs

one cup almond flour

quarter cup flour

quarter teaspoon baking powder

preheat oven to 160C, prepare baking dish by greasing bottom and line with parchment paper.
wash and slice plums, and remove the pits. place facedown in a frying pan over medium heat, sprinkle with sugar and cook until dissolved.
cream together butter and sugar until smooth. mix in eggs, both flour and baking powder, until just combined. pour mixture into prepared dish. place plum halves face up equally throughout the batter. sprinkle with sugar and bake for thirty to forty minutes. eat warm with a cup of tea as the rain falls outside your second floor flat.

the fruit sings and the cake holds a nice crumb. equally good cold with a glass of red on the couch, still grey skies and projector movies up on the wall.

home cooked

homemade ciabata, white bean salad

espresso, shreddies with berries

tempeh and roasted beets, lemon couscous, homemade sourdough

veg sausage and gravy, turnip and runners and roast potato

sunday

donut nectarines, from brockley farm shop.

four left, these little guys are delish, soft and sweeter than i expected. bum nectarines i will call them.

northern direction

aldermere curve

rug cliff

big bass rock

lady whaler

vaccinium augustifolium

mowly fang island

rugosa

ducktrap harbor hopper

harmons exterior

harmons burger

mostly i like his photo titles, or maybe these just remind me of summer in ontario. slight differences, provincial park and coco-cola signs on the drive, dewy mornings at camp and warm evenings with corn and a beer. maybe next summer, lake dives and mosquito bites aplenty.

grassdoe, Jonathan Levitt

pinks and blues

a few nice photographs via on montague