Vegan “Sour Cream”

Let me start by saying that this doesn’t actually taste like sour cream…but don’t run away just yet! It may not taste exactly like the real deal when on its own, but I think it serves pretty well as a substitute!

After all, I don’t know about you, but some of the vegan substitutes you find in stores scare me: I recently came across a fake mozzarella cheese made from rice that actually resembled mozzarella in taste and looks (obviously ;)), and that kind of scared me; I didn’t read the ingredient’s list, but I’m sure I would have found some weird ones.

Anyway! back to the recipe.

This is one of the few recipes I make that has Elisa’s (my youngest sister) stamp of approval, and she is no fan of vegan cuisine. She actually went as far as to say she likes it better than the real deal…so it can’t be that bad, right?

Vegan “Sour Cream” 

makes approximately 1, 1-1/2 cups

175 g. (circa 6 oz) silken tofu (soft if you want it creamier, but firm works too)

1 tbsp lemon juice

1 tbsp apple cider vinegar

1 tbsp sunflower oil ( or other light oil)

1/2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

1 tsp rice syrup (or other mild-tasting sweetener)

1/4 tsp salt

1/16 – 1/8 tsp paprika 

1/16 – 1/8 tsp black pepper

Singing, although optional, is highly advisable: it just makes everything better!

The process? just put everything in a food processor and whirl away!

Chill in the fridge before serving.

With taco-chips:

On some stir-fried veggies and lentils:

 

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Weekend

Sorry if I’ve been missing, but I was at my boyfriend’s for the weekend and didn’t have much time to blog, plus internet didn’t really work so I couldn’t have blogged even if I wanted to!

Finally, after more than a month, I went running on friday! Since I’ve never ran in cold weather I had to go and get some gear:

       

The pants I actually bought in the men’s section: for some reason they costed half the price than the women’s! And had no pink in them 😉

I also bought one of those tube scarfs for skiers which I’ll use for running: the only thing that really bothers me of running in the cold is breathing cold air and having a cold throat, so that settles it!

Friday’s run was beautiful! The sky was perfectly blue and the air not too cold ( the fact that I ran at 11.30 helped ;)); of course, after the first seconds of glory i felt as if I would die, but I managed to squeeze 5 km out of me, and am super happy about it! My back hasn’t been bothering me, so I’ll try and make my runs regular!

As I said before, I spent the weekend at Mattia’s, and we had a mexican party with some friends! I made a variation of my vegetarian chili and everybody loved it! Yay!

After chatting a bit a group of us played “Munchkin”, an awesome game!

And how can you not like it with a name like this?!

I hope everyone had a great weekend!

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WIAW

It’s that time of the week! And I even managed to take a picture at everything! shocking, I know :).

For a start, breakfast was peanut-butter oats with half a wacky cupcake and a glass of orange juice served in a fancy Shrek glass.

Lunch (yesterday’s dinner left overs) was enjoyed in between classes, cold because the cafeteria microwave is broken 😦

Thankfully, pesto pasta isn’t that bad cold! Along with the pasta I had 2 clementines

Which I also enjoyed, along with a piece of chocolate, as a pre-swim snack (more on the swim tomorrow!).

Finally, dinner was mexican style, my favourite!

In the tortillas went salad, beans, tomatoes and mexican salsa. As you can probably tell, I had some difficulty with closing my wrap, but the messier the better I think!!

And that’s all I had! I’m off to bed because exhausted, see y’all tomorrow!

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