Vegans

First of all, my flight is leaving next Wednesday (the 17th) and my classes start the 22nd (a lovely Monday).

But before that is the fair! One of the reasons I stayed at home so long, besides a general tendency to procrastinate, is to at least help at the fair. It will be opening the day I leave, so I won't actually get to go, but I am both entering things and helping sporadically. I was able to help check in youth entries all day Wednesday, which is fun, and then organize them, which is exhausting.

The weekend is off, and starting Monday are the food entries! I've entered vegan banana muffins that are actually delicious and scones.
The book that the scone recipe comes from has a lot of off-the-wall recipes, mostly scones. It's from a tea shop, and a lot of the recipes are based on tea, which is why I bought it. These particular ones are peppermint stick. I've made them before, using almond milk so I could actually taste-test them, and was planning on entering them as such, and so put 'vegan' on my form. A few weeks later I realized that vegan actually includes eggs and started mildly panicking and looking up substitutes, some of which are quite interesting.

As it turns out, there are NO eggs in my scones, so they are still vegan (yay!), but we did run out of eggs this morning, which meant experimenting!

I recommend using eggs.

I'm not sure if it was a combination of 'interesting' pancake mix, almond milk AND half of banana instead of egg, but my pancakes came out thick, burnt, and just plain odd. I ate them anyway, which is why it's a bad idea to experiment when you're hungry.

I really don't understand why anyone would be a vegan by choice. I would happily eat their cheeseburgers for them. But maybe I'm biased.