Photos from cafe koba

 These are the photos from Cafe Koba; a review of which you can find here.  I was going to upload these to the review but I never got around to it.  My bad.

The is the seating area.  As you can see, lots of earthy tones and art. 

This is the view to the street entrance, sorry it's not rotated properly.  It took so long to load that I couldn't be bothered fussing with it by the time I realised I couldn't rotate it in Blogger.

This is where the original fireplace would have been.  I'm actually surprised they were allowed to strip it out like this but it gives the room a nice effect.  You can see how tiny chimneys actually used to be - and little children used to be forced up them to sweep!

The salt and pepper pots.  This is a feature I actually really didn't like.  This is so wrong from a hygiene perspective.

Fancy looking menu, of course :)

Water, cause it's free. :)  It was all clearly filtered so tastes better the  local tap water anyway. :)

This was one of the starters we tried.  Rice balls deep-fried with a cheesy centre.  The green dip on the other side is a garlicky home made pesto. 

My vege soup with a dollop of pesto and sough dour bread.

This was a Sussex beef burger with goats cheese and chips.  I was surprised by how nice the Sussex beef was.  Although next time we will have to remember to ask for it to be well-cooked.

This was a Serrano Ham and Peach salad with mozzarella cheese.  Very nice summer option.  Had to eat around the cheese though; mozzarella is a little too milky for me.

Spiced Banana Muffins

More evidence of my banana obsession.  But, hey, they are really good for you.

Ingredients:

Gluten-free flour, 2 cups
Soy Milk, 2 cups.
Egg replacer, 2 teaspoons
Bicerbonate of soda, 1 1/2 teaspoons
Sugar, 1 cup
3 large Bananas; Mashed, 1 1/2 cups
Cinnamon, 1 1/2 teaspoons
Nutmeg, 1/2 teaspoon
Ginger; minced, 1/2 teaspoon

Directions:

Pre-heat the over to 180 degrees. Sift the flour into a large mixing bowl and stir the egg replacer, sugar, bicarb and spices.  Mix in the soy milk thouroughly; an electric mixer may need to be used as gluten-free flour has a tendendcy to form lumps.  Mash the banana in a seperate bowl and stir it into the muffin mix.  Grease a muffin tray or two.  If you have muffin paper cups it is advisable to line the muffin tray with these as it makes it easier to remove the muffins from the tray.  Place the muffin mixture into the lined trays and pop into the oven. The Muffins will be ready when a poker through the center comes away clean.

Coffee

Writing helps my brain work.  It's like oil for the engine.  For some reason this one was difficult.  I must be tired or maybe Coffee was just an awkward word to use.

          Coffee, bitter-sweet,
       mOrnings favourite treat
          Flavour calls to me
 breakFast, lunch, and tea
  coffeE calls to me
          Early everyday.

Spiced Strawberry Muffins

This one is a little more unusual - strawberry muffins.  These are worthy of a dollop of cream, regardless of the dairy allergy. :)

Ingredients:

Gluten-free flour, 2 cups
Soy Milk, 3 cups.
Egg replacer, 2 teaspoons
Bicerbonate of soda, 1 1/2 teaspoons
Sugar, 1 cup
Strawberries; de-leafed and diced, 1 1/2 cups
Cinnamon, 1 1/2 teaspoons
Nutmeg, 1/2 teaspoon
Ginger; minced, 1/2 teaspoon

Directions:

Pre-heat the over to 180 degrees. Sift the flour into a large mixing bowl and stir the egg replacer, sugar, bicarb and spices.  Mix in the soy milk thouroughly; an electric mixer may need to be used as gluten-free flour has a tendendcy to form lumps.  Gently stir in the strawberries.  Grease a muffin tray or two.  If you have muffin paper cups it is advisable to line the muffin tray with these as it makes it easier to remove the muffins from the tray.  Place the muffin mixture into the lined trays and pop into the oven. The Muffins will be ready when a poker through the center comes away clean.

Hey readers :)

I've noticed a fair bit of regular traffic.  If anyone would like to request recipes/culinary help, give tips, or has allergen friendly recipes of their own to share, please send me an email.