No outro dia foi o aniversário do meu mais que tudo! Pedi-lhe para escolher um bolo que eu fazia e levava para o restaurante onde seria o jantar, o Máfia das Pizzas, que tem pizzas de forno em lenha. Esqueçam as opções vegan e se quiserem vegetariana têm de pedir para retirar ingredientes ... mas a massa da pizza e o sítio são bons. De qualquer das formas, ele pediu-me um bolo com macã ou ananás e eu pensei logo num bolo de ananás ao contrário!! Nunca tinha feito, mas acho o bolo lindo e arregacei as mangas e atirei-me ao trabalho! Fiz a receita daqui e alterei umas coisas... ;) Para a calda usei açúcar de cana integral e para o bolo usei açúcar amarelo. Como não tinha apple sauce, usei mel. Usei 2 cerejas que tirei de um bolo rei, porque não tinha mais em casa e usei ananás de lata (penso que o natural fica bem melhor, mas este não ficou muito mau). O resultado foi este:
O bolo estava um bocadinho doce de mais para o meu paladar, mas mesmo assim muito agradável de se comer. O ananás deixou o topo do bolo um pouco húmido e sabia muito bem! E foi bastante elogiado :)
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Um dia destes decidi ir a Lisboa de transportes públicos (CP), por várias razões e devo dizer que foi deprimente... Apanhei com greve de transportes e serviços mínimos, que se traduzem num comboio de manhã, outro ao meio do dia e um ou dois à tardinha! Resultado, para Lisboa até tive sorte, esperei 10 minutos e depois fui num comboio sardinha-em-lata, mas consegui lugar sentada e até fui a ler o meu livro, coisa que já não fazia há uns tempos! Tratei dos meus assuntos e chego ao Rossio por volta das 12h... O comboio era só depois das 13h... sem comentários! Fui ao celeiro ver se complementava o meu almoço de 2 tangerinas do Alentejo com qualquer coisa e acabei por comprar uma empada de lentilhas óptima, vegan, que tenho de tentar fazer e uma empada de legumes, também muito boa. Almocei com esta vista fantástica para o Castelo de São Jorge e um sol lindíssimo!!
Depois, lá apanhei o comboio e cheguei a casa, não muito contente com o comboio e a greve mas feliz com as empadas!!
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The other my love had his bday! I asked him to choose his favourite cake, so I could bake it and take it to the restaurant where we would have the dinner, the "Máfia das Pizzas" restaurant. They have pizzas baked in a wood fire oven, but forget vegan options and if you want vegetarian you have to choose the pizza and ask them to remove the unwanted ingredients ... but anyways, the pizza dough and the place itself are great. And either way, he asked to bake a cake with apple or pineapple and I immediately thought a vintage vegan upside down pineapple cake!! It was my first time doing it, but I like the cake so much, it is so beautiful that I immediately started the work! I did this recipe, with some minor changes... ;) For the syrup I used whole sugar cane and for the cake I used "yellow" sugar, quite common in Portugal. Since I did not have apple sauce, I used honey. I used 2 cherry's I took from a x-mas cake, because I did not have them at home and I used canned pineapple (I think that the fruit would be much better, but this one was fairly ok). This was the result:
The cake was a little bit too sweet for my personal taste, but still quite good. The pineapple added some moisture to the top of the cake and it tasted marvelous! It received a lot of compliments :)
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The other I had to go to Lisbon by public transportation (CP), for several reasons and I must say it was depressing... There was a strike and minimum services, meaning that you would have only 1 train in the morning, another one at the middle of the day and maybe 1 or 2, if you're lucky, during the afternoon! So, I had luck in the morning, I only had to wait 10 minutes, I had a seat although the train was full and I managed to read my book, which was a thing I wasn't doing in a very long time! I took care of my business and I went to Rossio around 12 o'clock... Departure was after 13 o'clock... no comments! So I went to this organic, biological product shop, Celeiro, to see if I could had a thing more to my 2 tangerines lunch, from Alentejo and I ended up buying a lentils pie, vegan and very tasty, which I have to replicate at home and a veggies pie, also very good. I had lunch with this amazing and wonderful view of the São Jorge castle, in a beautiful sunny day!!
After that, I got the train and arrived home, not so happy with the strikes, but quite happy with the pie experience!!
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