Day One

  We started the day off with pancakes- oh yes! Vegans do get pancakes! In fact, if you are reading this and you aren't vegan-our pancakes are nicer than yours!! We're pretending that today is Sunday, for complicated reasons, so trying to have a nice relaxed chilled-out sort of day.
   We all had a hot drink mid morning- a gold star for four year old 'Mouse' for  spontaneously choosing to ask for his hot chocolate in French! Vegan coffee is a bit of an acquired skill as even much improved modern soya milk is still prone to curdling, so has to be made in the right way- coffee, small amount of boiling water, stir, add soya, nut or rice milk, stir, add more boiling water and keep stirring,and that usually avoids curdling. We're all used to it but I'm not sure that handing a non-vegan their first cup of gently swarming, seething, vegan coffee is ever going to be the thing that converts them instantly to The Cause!!
 A very nice Twitter vegan has sent us a link to a vegan meringue recipe,which we are very excited about- meringues are a bit of a Holy Grail for vegans- rumours have abounded in the vegan world for years about 'people' who have succeeded in making vegan meringues; there's always someone who knows someone else who knows a person who successfully made them, but I don't know.. tell me honestly, have YOU ever met one..?