fruit smoosh

I decided to make smoothies today.

We looked in books. We wrote down ingredients. We missed out the spinach. Then Dad went to get it while I was at dance.

When I got back I had lunch then I made smoothies.

Strawberry, Banana, Mango and Peach smoothie served with physalis shaped like flowers (serves 3)

1) get 6 of your strawberries  chop the top off (ps careful knives are sharp thank you xxx)
2) get your adult to chop a mango or chop it yourself if you are an adult
3) peel and chop a banana
4) put them all in a blender or hand blender as we did it
5) pour in some peach juice and some oat milk or other milk
6) blend, blend, blend
7) pour it into glasses
8) put a physalis on the top but tear the skin so it looks like flower petals.

Finished masterpiece

In process

Piescream

Pieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Icecreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeam.

They are nice on their own but they taste better mashed together to make...

Pieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeescream.

Take 1 tub of DF ice-cream and 2 DF pies (I used mince pies). Crumble up the pies in a mixing bowl

Let the ice cream melt a little bit more than normal and mash it into the pies. Put it back in the freezer.

Soften to scoop or slice if you want to eat it without waiting

yummmmmmmmmmmmmmm

It goes well with Pokemon

Close up piescream

Other flavours that I think would be nice are strawberry ice cream and bakewell tart, chocolate ice cream and cherry pie or apple tart and plain ice cream.

123 Fudge

Hi, I haven't done any blogs since the summer. I am still doing my blog but I have just been very busy. Here is one today.

It is 123 Fudge.

This is how you make it.

1) Put 1 cup icing sugar (250ml) in a bowl

2) Put 2tbsp (30ml) cordial in the same bowl and stir until it is like icing

3) Melt 50g df white chocolate very slowly and carefully in the microwave and tip it in the bowl with everything else and stir then smooth into a tin. The end.

I used sloe and raspberry cordial which makes it go pink.

My mum made it with chestnut liqueur and brown chocolate for grown ups.

Yummy yum 

Pink fudge!

Martha's Top 10 Festival Treats

Hi it is Martha here.

I am writing this post because I like food. But it is sometimes hard to find dairy free foods. It is especially hard when a place is new to you because you don't already know where things are. At the moment it is the Festival so there are lots of people in Edinburgh who don't know it very well. There might be some other dairy free people too and this list might help them to get some extra special dairy free treats. It is a list of my top 10.

1)Yo Sushi 
In Yo Sushi the train is really fun. You can choose your sushi from it, and there are lots of dairy free choices. And there are push-y taps on the tables that water and fizzy water come from. They have chopsticks, and kiddy chopsticks and it is OK to use your fingers too. In the middle you can watch the chefs cooking.

2) Luca's Sorbet
You can get Luca's sorbet in different flavours. I have tried lemon, mango and bubblegum (but not all together - bleurgh). On their own the flavours are yummy and there are others I have not tried yet. They also make lots of flavours of ice cream too, but they are not dairy free. There is a special Luca's shop in Morningside, and they sell it in other places including Mimi's Cake Cabin, and sometimes Mimi's have a dairy free cake choice too, so it is worth asking.

Mango at Luca's

Lemon at the Mimi's festival hut

3) Henderson's
All of the food in Henderson's is either vegetarian or vegan, and all of the vegan things are dairy free. So there are always choices of cake, salad, sandwiches, soup and hot things. The date slice is my favourite thing to have there, and my Mummy's favourite thing is the soup. There is a Henderson's in the city centre and another one near Dynamic Earth [- and not far from the Pleasance - Mum!]

4) Pie Maker
This shop sells all kinds of pies. They have both sweet and savoury ones that are dairy free and vegan. In the festival it is open until really late at night. There are a few seats in the shop and you can takeaway too. It would be good for picnics. The one that I had was apple.

It's over there...

5) Dumpling Hut
The little hut in George Square Gardens only sells vegan dumplings. They are very crispy fried, and you dip them into special soy sauce. They are amazing for lunch.

Definitely thumbs up!

6) Sugar Daddy's
All of the things in Sugar Daddy cake shop are gluten free and lots of them are dairy free too. The peanut butter cookie is fandabbydosy. I had it for my breakfast when we went away on a big car journey to go on holiday - that was fun!

7) The Baked Potato Shop
If you go here you can get veggie haggis baked potatoes. Or humous and crunchy salad. [There are lots of other choices too which are all veggie, and lots vegan - Mum]. They are very uber big. It is mainly a take away - they also have exciting juice flavours in their fridge.

8) La Favorita
If you get your pizza from La Favorita, you can have dairy free cheese on it. mmmmmmmm mmmmmm. My favourite topping is haggis, sweetcorn and dairy free cheese. (They do takeaway, delivery and have a sit-in restaurant too - Mum)

Takeaway pizza feast (the night we moved house!)

9) Mademoiselle Macaron
I only tried these yesterday - and there were lots of rainbow colours and flavours. There were 2 that were dairy free: raspberry and orange - so I got to try them both! I give them 20 out of 10.

Look out for market stalls - they also have a cafe

10) Union of Genius
This is a soup cafe. It has different types of soup and different types of bread which you can choose. And you can easily see which ones are dairy free. You have to be careful because it can be hot hot hot hot hot!

Enjoy!

Recipe: Dhal

Today I made dhal. This is not the same as Roald Dahl. It is d-h-a-l not d-a-h-l.
Dhal is from India and it is made of lentils.
Somebody also made it on Masterchef.
It is very healthy because it has vegetables in it.

We ate it with bread (chapatti), and rice and salmon curry.

I think it was 10 out of 10. Next time I would not put the courgette in. I would do the same recipe but with no courgette.

Two thumbs up - ingredients and owl at the ready 

We put in onion and spices first

I chopped the courgette into big bits so I could pick them out easily after because I do not like it.

I put in three scoops  of lentils. 2 were red and 1 was puy 

It already looked really nice. 

I added the courgette one bit at a time.

We stirred it a lot 

It was very good.

Lentil and Courgette Dhal (Serves 4 as main dish, 6-8 as side)

• 1 courgette
• 100ml scoop dried puy lentils
• 2x 100ml scoops red lentils
• 1 veg stock cube
• 2 heaped table spoons jar onions, or 1 onion, chopped
• 1 tbsp oil
• 1 tsp cumin
• 1 tsp hot spice blend (the one we used has turmeric, saffron, cumin, chili, garlic and fenugreek in it)
• Pinch salt
• Pepper

Fry the onion and spices then mix in the lentils.
Chop up the courgette
Add the stock cube and cup of water to the pan with the onion.
Stir well.
Put in the courgette and salt and pepper.
Cook on a low heat for about 40 minutes.
Serve with other types of curry.


The end, bye bye, it is time for stories and bed.

Recipe: Dairy Free Apple Frangipane Tart

I made this. We took it to my friend's house. We played and had tea there. There was lots of Apple Frangipane cake for afters.

I saw this cake on Mary Berry on TV in my Granny's house. But it had dairy in it. There was lots of butter. So we used coconut oil and margarine instead and made this one.

It was very very good. We did a fan of apples.

We had a rolling pin to bash up the biscuits

I squashed my fingers under the rolling pin. Be careful!

It was very hard. My Mummy did cutting after I tried, and I did arranging.

Arranging the apples. Always use flat bits of apple.

The finished fan of apples.

It smelled very very good. Then I burned my chin on the tin because I went too close!

My Mum has written the recipe we used for me.

Dairy Free Apple Frangipane Tart (Serves 8-10)
(It's also gluten free too)

For the base:
90g "free from" digestive biscuits
90g "free from" shortbread biscuits
40g dairy free margarine
40g coconut oil
2 tsp cocoa powder
5 small eating apples

For the topping:
50g coconut oil
75g caster sugar
2 eggs
75g whole skin-on almonds
2 tsp ground almonds
1 tsp vanilla extract

Preheat the oven to 180C

Crush the biscuits in a bag.
Melt the margarine and coconut oil together in a mixing bowl.
Add the biscuits and cocoa powder and stir until well combined.
Press into the bottom of an 8" tin.

Core and thinly slice the apples (We didn't peel them). Arrange them all over the biscuits.

Beat together the eggs and sugar. Melt the coconut oil, allow to cool slightly then mix into the eggs and sugar. Blitz the whole almonds until they are coarsely ground, then mix them in, along with the pre-ground almonds (which will help absorb some of the liquid), and vanilla extract. Pour over the apples.

Bake for around 30 minutes until golden brown. Cool in the tim before serving.

Review: Akva, Edinburgh

Where we went: Akva

What meal did we go for: lunch

Companions: Martha, jono, ruth, and vicky

What we ate: French toast with banana and honey... and the grownups ate other things too

The review: They served me first - they did actually! It was nice being asked first. The waiter checked that everything was dairy-free (just to make sure) and they made a special French toast for me. The honey came in a tiny pot and I dunked the banana in, poured it over my toast and I was able to lick the honey from the pot at the end!  [NB - activity not condoned by parents!]

In the toilets they had a waterfall tap and a really big sink. 

The cafe was a bit cold because we were sitting near the door  

Next time I go I want to try the other type of French toast - bacon and maple syrup!

How many thumbs up: 10 out of 10