Cold green soup

I don't know how you guys, but I like soups. Of course it is usually winter time when we want something warm, but I some times want soup on summer too. Soup gives the sens of fullness very quickly and can be made in so different types: thick or liquid, with lots of ingredients or just with few of them.
I think the most popular cold soup in my country in Cold beetroot soup. I told you about them earlier and the vegan versions of it you can find in other post of this blogg.
Another cold soup that is loved is cold soup of sorrel (that in reality is also made with kefir). But just because I never liked it that much, I haven't tried to do vegan version.

So, one day, awesome youtuber and blogger Jenny Mustard published 2 min cold soup recipe. Just because I don't eat lots of ingredient she used, being inspired by her idea, I decided to make my own version of Cold Green Soup.

The video of how to make this soup you can find in my youtube page

And the full recipe is here:

- Coco milk (400 ml) - I used the thick version of it, because I think it is more natural

- Cup of sprouted Mungo beans

- Cup of fresh or frozen green peas

- 3 heads of fresh broccoli (or can use frozen one )

- Handful of spinach (I used fresh ones but it is OK frozen)

- Handful of zucchini peels (I leave them when making zucchini noodles)

- Salt, cayenne pepper and turmeric according to your taste (for me it was OK 2 pinches of each)

- Water as required

 So put all ingredients (except spinach) in to the blender and blend until everything is going to mix. Then put spinach and blend again until is smoothie. Water you can put from the beginning or put gradually while blending and looking what consistency you want. I used 2 cups of water.

On the top put fresh pear, corns, pickled beetroots and etc.

As always I made to much for my self to eat in one day. So used rest of soup for other recipes. In on day I ate with oven baked potatoes like source, and for other day mixed with rise noodles and other vegetables.

Have a good time. Never stop trying and tasting new recipes.

Unbaked cupcake

As I promised before I am putting a recipe of cup cake from my Birthday.

It's not me who created this recipe, it was girl who named her self as coconutalmondrecipes
In my priviest post I put direct link in to her page, but because it is not working at the moment, I decided to put it in my page. Hope that she is not going to be made on me :)

So you will need:
* 1 can of chickpea
* 1/2 cup of nut butte
* 1/2 cup of mil
* 6 - 8 dates
* 1 tea sp. of vainly

Very good dried and soaked chickpea put in to the food processor.
Nuts butter you can use what ever you want. I used almond butter, which I made by my self.
Milk is of your choose (almond, soy, oat and other). I used the top of coconut milk, that thick cream.

All ingredients we put into food processor and mix almost for 1 minute. Taste, if it is not enough of sweet for you, you can put dates or put some syrup of your taste.
The mass you get put in to the forms of your choice and freeze for 4 hours.

BONE APPETITE!!!

A little bit of sweets

In these couple days, when the sun started shinning a little bite stronger, lot of people in my country rushed to undress and started eating ice cream.
I am not warm at all, but thought, why do not enjoy with them. The healthy ones, that don't have lot of calories, of witch you can eat and don't think, don't be worried about fats and growing kilos, and pimples.

And there is my STRACCIATELLA vegan ice cream:

- First of all take very very good ripped bananas and put them in the freezer (I put 3  bananas in to the plastic food container and freeze one day)

- Wen frozen put bananas in to food processor and mix until solid mass (if needed mix in the process)
- With grater grate dark chocolate and some of it mix very slowly in to the mass.
- Some of the chocolate I left to put on the top.

And veil. BON APPETITE!!!

Rogaining

On Sunday I participated on rogaining race. Would you ask what it is, according to Wikipedia (rogaining) - it is long distance team orientation racing.

Mill dam

Those race held for cycling, it was necessary to find 14 photo check point and it was necessary to fit in 3 hours. All the distance was 38 kilometres. 
Points are cold photo check, because both members of the team have to make photo of them self in front of the object.

Fountain

Eifel

Dam

I was like absolute extremer, for the first time sited on the bike for this year and never participated in any other kind of raising decided to go. I harnessed my sport bike (every one else in raising participated with road bikes) and took friend with me, I concluded to try my power.

Five hart monument

Tumulus of Naikiai

I need to admit, that the weather was horrible, especially wind, who tried to overthrow from the bike, was not our ally.

Church of Tirksliai

Hermit tomb

Scat of Venta

But after overcoming distance and marked at 10 points, we reached finish.

And we took up 2 place and have got medal and even prises.

I am so happy of my self and the fact that I resolved to participate. I liked that tip of free time spending, very good sport and lots of good memories.

We promised to participate in the next year. Waiting for new challenges. 

Birthday

Last week I celebrated my BIRTHDAY

 This Birthday for me, is the first absolutely vegan one. Some one migth say, that it is not possible to celebrate birthday without sweet, fat cakes, lots of snacks and junk food, but I would tell you it is not true. It can be celebrated absolutely different. In my one I even had real birthday cake.

First sweets - truffle, witch reached me on evening before. They were made by my loved mum. Sweets are made from dried fruits and nuts, mixing them in food processor and then forming the shape you want. They were so tasty - I couldn't stop eating.

Next dessert were exotic fruit. I wanted to taste them for so long, but just because they are so expensive in my country I couldn't do it before. And now I thought, why not to cheer my self for this great occasion with great combination. I must say that taste of some of them was disappointing for me. I think it is just because they are brought still green and don't have chance to ripe. Hope some day I could try them in the original country.

During the day I ate very tasty and easily made dishes: coconut soup

Potatoes baked in the oven with fresh tomato

Fresh salad with vegan bread (also made by my mum) and grounded hemp seeds on the top.

After very tasty lunch, we had unbaked cupcakes. It was so tasty. Recipe find here

And so the time to look presents came. Perfect place to do this is by warming my self next to wonderful source of warmness - fireplace. I miss this goodness so much. And the present is very grate: book of  R. Ferguson "Juice" - this book is wonderfull encyclopedia about juice, that talks you about what good gives you every ingredient, and is adapted for every moment: from bettering your mood to detoxication. First look let my to hope, that after reading it fully, it will become my every day helper.

And what Birthday without birthday cake. We tasted it on evening. Very different taste with Goji berries or grilled lime zest on the top (I liked both of them). This cake was made by my mum (recipe inspired by Gražina Gum).

And what Birthday without flowers :)

This year I understood that exactly Birthday signify to me. I felt, that it is necesary to celebrate. Also it is like persons New Year, when you can change something in your life and to start lots of things from new or to change these you didn't liked before.

But finally I am happy, that my life is changing in a good way. I hope, that this first Birthday is just a begining...