Substitute substitute

 What to do when you want to bake a cake for your sweet-tooth husband and there's no butter and only one egg.

You could go and buy half a dozen eggs but the shops are 6ks away and tomorrow is shopping day. 

Substitute of course. 

I made a chocolate/coffee cake.

It called for 2 eggs. I used 1egg and a tbsp of vinegar.

Butter? Olive oil is even better.

Vanilla? A good slug of my homemade rose geranium liqueur instead.

Coffee? We always have plenty of that, Greek, nescafe classic and decaf. We don't drink as much coffee in the winter so there are 2 tins left in the cupboard. During summer all visitors are offered iced coffee and we drink it anytime of the day. 

Cocoa?  A few months ago I read something about problems with the cocoa bean harvest and stocked up on good plain unsweetened cocoa while it was still available and cheap.  I don't see any lack of cocoa in the shops. Chocolate has gone up in price but what hasn't. 

Flour? We always have kilos of the stuff, just in case.

 Flour, macaroni, rice, beans and lentils, olive oil, preserved olives and wine . In an emergency we wouldn't go hungry. These are the basics. 

Oil? Spit spit spit that we should ever run out of olive oil. We still have half a 17 kilo tin of last year's oil. It's just about harvest time and we will be shopping around for fresh oil.  'They say' that this year the price will be slightly lower. 

We'll See! 

On a Christmas plate

Which I use all year round. 

It's too cheerful not to use and the 2 plates and cups were a present from grandchildren

Not bad at all.  He doesn't like it too sweet. 

I always halve the sugar when baking, including this cake. 

On the menu today

Lentil soup, bread, olives and salted sardines for K. 

Leftover tuna for me. 

A fisherman friend of Ks yesterday gave him 4 big tuna straight from his fishing boat. We have kept one and given the rest to family and friends. 

******** the cake passed the K-test

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