I have survived another week.

[rax]

• I have a new stove. It is a gas stove with a real convection oven and it is not the Nicest Best thing I could have gotten but it was a Nice Good thing and I could get it installed on Saturday. While I might have shopped around more if I had been able to cook in the meantime, I knew I was losing the microwave yesterday, too, and so I found a stove I

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[gaudior]

Hugs. Glad that things went as well as they could have gone, under the circumstances.

<3

[sovay]

This went as well as my ex-fiancee coming into town with her boyfriend to take all of her stuff and two of the house's three pets could go.

I'm glad it went as well as it could. *hugs* to everyone.

[shatterstripes]

Oh, wow, congratulations on unpacking. We still have three boxes lingering in out bedroom that I think are never going to get unpacked; I just quit caring about making this place feel like Permanent Home after my decision a few months ago that living with these people is simply not good for me in the long run...

[rax]

It is a good feeling! I am totally moved in, although there is still another room to move into maybe if I decide to do something with it.

Hopefully you will get this feeling at some other place in the future...

[greyooze]

I bought my new house well over a year ago, and I still have boxes I didn't unpack. I ended up sticking some of them in the roofspace and calling it a day. Victory through superior laziness! \o/

[greyooze]

But baking [...] largely eludes me.

I thought you might be interested in this article of egg replacements. That seems like it'd be the biggest problem for trying to bake vegan stuff. One of the suggestions is mashed banana, which I find surprising and interesting; here's a nice simple recipe for vegan banana cake (the obvious cake to try first, since you can be assured the extra banana won't interfere with the flavour of the cake!). Apparently puréed unseasoned tofu makes a decent replacement too

[autumnesquirrel]

Vegan Yum Yum has a number of recipes for baked goods. And I bet the dough from this apple tart would work fine with strawberries.

Replacing eggs depends on what function the eggs are serving. Bananas, apple sauce, or other mushed up vegetables are good for moistness and a little binding. Things like flax seeds and agar agar are better for more binding. Thar said, a banana bread or something similar is a good place to start if you don't bake much.

[greyooze]

Tartastic, thanks! I'll be doing some shopping on Wednesday, so I'll check out what fruits are in season and have a try. I don't remember seeing any strawberries when I was in last week, think they're probably all gone by now, but there might have been some blueberries? I'll post a photo of the results, good or ill (will be good for a laugh if nothing else).

[autumnesquirrel]

Jam works as filling too.

This is a recipe for a jam tart. It is not vegan, but taking the vegan tart crust, replacing some of the flour with corn meal, and using that to make this tart would most likely work fine. You might need to fuss with the crust recipe a little bit more? Anyway, depends on how confident you are feeling.

[baniszew]

I baked a cake yesterday that the recipe called "Crazy Cake" (from the book Bakewise). While trying to figure out what was "crazy" about it, I noticed that it happens to be vegan. It came out very tasty, too. I've generally found that food which is incidentally vegan is tastier than food which is vegan by substitution, so I may have to copy the recipe for you sometime.