The Lazy Cat Kitchen team is waving ‘hello’ from Athens. Well, we are waving, Tina is slowly recovering from an eventful day. After her first 3 years on her native Greek island, today she was brutally plucked from her beloved surroundings and stuck in a carrier to be transported to a very different country, with lots of rain (cats love rain, don’t they..?) and not that much sun. She wasn’t very happy about that obviously and we were were both feeling so guilty and worried for her.
I mean what gives us the right to pluck this little happy soul from the patch of land she knows and loves and take her somewhere scary and new? It’s not like she was unhappy frolicking in an almost limitless garden that our rented house stood on. What if she hates England and living in a city? As her petrified eyes were getting wider and wider in disbelief that we, two ‘hoomans’ that she trusted, betrayed her, we started having second thoughts. We felt it’s so cruel to expose her to 3 days of travelling (thanks to the exorbitant cost of taking pets to England by air, we are having to catch a ferry from Holland) just because we felt like we needed a change of scenery. Well, the alternative was to break her little heart and leave her behind, without food supply, medical care, cushion to sleep on or affection. We’ve seen hundreds of cats (and dogs) like this all over Paros, left behind after the end of the season, wandering around aimlessly, hurt, confused, betrayed and hungry and we simply could not do that either. So with the magic help of our cat momma friend, Suzie, we medicated the poor critter a little to make the journey more bearable for her. We kind of wished we had similar medication for ourselves as we’ve been stressing almost as much as she has, but all went well and we completed the first leg of our journey. Tomorrow is a big day – a long plane flight, followed by a train, two buses and an overnight ferry, but we hope she will be more used to it now. Onwards and upwards. Meanwhile, if you are bored of our cat saga, I also have a new recipe for you – simple and delicious vegan breakfast tacos with tofu scramble, black beans, avocado, cherry toms and some rocket. All finished off with a dollop of chilli sauce. I would love to wake up to these tomorrow, but it’s going go be jam and peanut butter on toast for us for the next few days as that’s all we can muster right now.
120 g / heaped ½ cup buckwheat or chickpea flour ¼ cup tapioca starch ¼ cup rice flour 2 tbsp ground chia seeds (or flax seeds) 1/3 tsp baking powder ½ tsp salt 4 tsp olive oil (any oil will do) approx. 3 tbsp water
WHEAT TORTILLAS (makes 10)
120 g / heaped ½ cup white all purpose flour 4 tsp olive oil (any oil will do) 1/3 tsp baking powder ½ tsp salt approx. 120 ml / ½ cup hot water
WHEAT TORTILLAS
