My flatmate and I are having a running bet on how Germany will play the World Cup. Before every game we put a bet on the Germany vs.XX goals, and the one who guesses right (or alternatively guesses the right goal difference) gets a homemade dinner of his or her choice. We both love to cook & eat, so everyone’s a winner here.
Flatmate has a vivid interest in football, he’s quite the expert when it comes to stuff like offsides, dives, foul and Bundesliga. So far he won once and I scored twice. So I made potato salad for him and he made apricot streusel cake for me today and braai next week. After that I’ll go on a diet or I’ll choose salad. We’ll see.
I’m still undecided on how to bet on tomorrow’s game (Germany vs. Algeria) – any tips and hints are very welcome. Flatmate’s bet is 4:1. I’m tending to say 3:1. What do you think?
However, this morning I’ve been helping making the cake (vegan btw.), peeling apricots and stealing dough and streusel. Yumm! I also took some photos. Then I ate cake, went cycling and ate more cake :-) A lovely Sunday it was. Sod the rain.

The recipe:
350 g spelt flour
4 tblsp. soy flour & 9 tblsp. water
75 g brown sugar
200 g Alsan (vegan butter)
1 pkg. baking soda (Weinstein)
Lots and lots of apricots and wild peaches

100 g Alsan + 2 tbsp. flour & sugar + a dash of cinnamon for the streusel

Stir soy flour and water until it looks like fake beaten egg white. Add Alsan (room temperatured), sugar, baking soda and spelt flour. Stirr until it looks like proper dough. Try and taste in moderate portions (or make more dough ;-) ). Spread dough on a pan. Slice apricots and peaches, flour them (to prevent the dough soaking too much fruit juice) and spread them on the dough. Combine Alsan, flour, sugar and cinnamon with a fork until crumbly. Cover the fruit with streusel. Pre-heat oven until 175 °C. Bake for 40 mins.
Enjoy with soy or oat cream and a good cup of tea. :-)

Jun 29, 2014 @ 23:50