Six Month Veganniversary!

Well, about 6 months and two weeks really, but who is counting? We're celebrating by having dessert for lunch today, and I'm finally inspired to blog about it. A Flylady/Facebook friend of mine put me onto a recipe for a "zucchini apple pie" filling (from http://allrecipes.com). We have a zucchini glut (of course - Italy, July, what else?). I happened to have some store-bought wholemeal pastry in the fridge (for those of you in Italy, I use Buitoni Pasta Sfoglia Rustica, which is accidentally vegan). Only enough for bottom crust though, so the idea for Strudel came about.

I turned the pie filling into a strudel filling by adding 3 tbsp pinenuts, 6 chopped, pitted dates, 3 tbsps soaked sultanas and 2 tbsps breadcrumbs. I wrapped the whole lot in the pastry, and baked it at 200°c for 30 minutes (brushed the top with soy milk, first). And it came out like this:

When I cut into it, it looked like...STRUDEL!

And with soy icecream on top, it looked like...DESSERT!!

YUM YUM!!

Happy 6 month veganniversary to me :-)