Friday Favourites

This weeks Friday Favourite will be a little short, because I'm just in the middle of my move from Iceland! I left Iceland yesterday morning and am now spending two days in Kumla, Sweden to get some stuff before I move on to Gothenburg tomorrow. I will stay there for one month, with my family. I grew up there, so it will be fun to get back!

Vegan Eats & Treats Potlucks
Just check these two out:
Rainbow potluck
Travel potluck

Donuts! 
Ever since I learned how to make donuts at home, it's been a favourite of mine. The other day, we made yeasted donuts rolled in cinnamon sugar.

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This  pretty picture is taken by Julia at Islaborg.

Creamy iced latte
While I've never had protein powder in my life, using it to make your iced latte creamy makes me want to head to the store and get it right now. 

Japanese green tea and red bean marble bread.
Can someone please come up with a recipe for a bread like this

Persian New Year
Amey over at Vegan Eats & Treats made an amazing spread of dishes for Persian New Year, check it out and get hungry!

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This weeks Froday Favourites will be dedicated to Ai from Japan, who writes one of my favourite blogs, it will stop raining*.  I know she has a lot to deal with right now considering what's happening in her part of the world, so what better time to give her some credit for the work she is doing? She photographs everything (?) she eats and every single photo is beautiful. I don't know how she does it, but I'm totally impressed. I've followed her blog for several years, and never get tired of being shown her daily eats, pastries for breakfast, restaurant visits or snapshots from travels around Japan. And the blog title gives me hope on those rainy days.

Both photos above are taken by Ai at it will stop raining*

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365 days of breakfast
One beautiful breakfast photo every single day by Camilla Sundberg. The best thing about it is that it looks like it's summer in her kitchen every morning.

Photo Kitchen Blog
Thoughts and pictures from a team consisting of a food stylist, a graphic designer and a photographer based in the Philippines. It's interesting to get an insight to their work, and follow the process from beginning to start.

15 food photography tips for bloggers
Want to take beautiful photos of your food but don't know how to start? This guide from Happy Healthy Life covers some of the basics.

My plan was to have photography as the theme this Friday,  but this was to good not to share:

Jurassic Chocolate
Archaeology and chocolate in the same box? Count me in!

Friday Recipe Favourites + Winter swimming video!

This week has been all about recipes, and this Friday Favourites will follow the theme. For me, this week has been more about photography, since I've found some really awesome food photography blogs, more about them next Friday! I just realized that all the links below are for sweets, and realised that that is what I use recipes for the most. I cook most of my food without a recipe, but almost always use recipes for the sweet stuff, guess that's why there's such an unbalance. If you have any recipes for food or sweets that you like to share, please do in the comments!

Molasses and ginger granola bars
This recipe from Good Life Eats is not only a recipe, but also a standard formula for granola bars!
Cinnamon roll pancakes
My heart stopped for a second when I saw this brilliant idea. A cross between a pancake and a cinnamon roll, that's just perfect.
Chocolate filled raspberries
This makes me want summer NOW.
Apple Butter
A recipe for apple butter that doesn't require a slow cooker.

So, recipe week is over, what did you think? There's been Vegan Skagen Mix, Mug Brownie, Orange Ginger Tofu, and Date Bars.  Was there something in particular that you liked/disliked? Have you used any of the recipes or are you planning to?

Below is a special treat for you, me swimming in the North Atlantic Ocean today!

The quality is lacking in most departments, and the wind shook the hole camera in the end, but still, gotta love it.

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Friday again! This week went on so fast, and I'm quite happy about it. Working in the evenings is NOT my favourite thing, so next week I will opt for more daytime work. I also have some fun food projects that I might share here next week. How about a killer orange-ginger tofu recipe? 

The Makers Project
This IS slightly connected to food, I promise! Jennifer Causy, who is the photographer behind this site also runs the blog Simply Breakfast, which I've been following for years. The project is all about handmade products in Brooklyn, and in every part you get an insight in a different makers work. Weather it's a florist, perfumer or a baker, they are beautifully showcased in a lot oh photographs. In my head, I'm already off to Brooklyn!

Apricot and Almond Yeast Braid
Mihl over at Seitan is my motor made the most lovely sweet braid this week. Filled with apricot and almonds, it looks like it would be perfect for the weekend.

Muffins
Celine Steen is constantly sticking photos of muffins in my face here. Some kind of muffin-project is obviously in the making, and it looks as beautiful as ever.

The beautiful thing above is a chocolate version of the very traditional Swedish Semla. Usually it's no chocolate in there, but once it was. The Semla-day is coming up in less than two weeks, so you will not have to wait long for a post with recipe and all you need to know to indulge this sweet treat. Have you ever had a Semla?

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We have a Friday tradition at work, at 11 we go swimming in the ocean. Swimming in the north Atlantic Ocean in February might sound crazy, and it is, but in such a good way! The water is merely above the freezing point, and makes your whole body go numb within seconds. That is, if you aren't used to it. There are men an women at this beach that is really used to it, and can be in there for more than 5 minutes. I'm very happy with 10-15 seconds thank you, then I'm heading straight to the steaming hot pot. That's the nice thing about doing this in Iceland, they heat there water with geothermal activity, so they can have hot pools outside even in winter for barely no costs. It's an amazing feeling sitting in the hot pot looking out over a beautiful Icelandic bay, in the middle of February. I will miss it so much when I leave here.

Speaking about Friday traditions, here's a new one of mine. Sharing the love a little for all those funny and a interesting things happening on the internet.
 

Bonzai Aphrodite - Diversity In A Vegan Diet
Sayward Rebhal writes the great blog Bonzai Aphrodite, and this week she wrote a blogpost named Diversity In A Vegan Diet. It's about showing how diverse a vegan diet can be, despite all the "restrictions". Check it out and feel inspired! Is your diet as diverse or do you eat the same things over and over?
  
Veganmage - Delicato ball eating contest
The Swedish Blogger Fido is hosting a contest where the challange is to eat as many Delicato Balls as possible in a row. That is, a super creamy and also extremely filling chocolate ball sold in Sweden, vegan by nature. The current record is 12. I would totally try to beat it, but they're not sold in Iceland.

Update Saturday 19 February: The record is now 1 KG, 18 balls. Hard to beat I would say.

Vegan Culinary Crusade
When Amber Shea, the author of the blog Almost Vegan, finished her education at the 105 Academy, I was sad. No more detailed stories and photos about her days in training, it felt a bit empty. Until I found another woman who is now in training there, and is blogging as detailed about all amazing things she's wipping up there. Just look at the raw chocolate chips!