This was our sunrise yesterday. 
Though it turned out to be a calm gentle day full of gardens, food and family.
The Vegan Sunflower Crackers is more of a method than a recipe. Heat your oven to 300F. Take one cup of sunflower seeds and 3 fat juicy cloves of garlic and grind well in the food processor. Then I added another cup made up of buckwheat groats, poppy seeds and flax seeds. (Use whatever seeds are in the pantry.) Salt to taste. Pulse until the mixture is smashed up. Add a little water and pulse again until it forms a ball that you can knead.
Place a sheet of baking paper on your baking tray. Empty the mixture onto this, flatten out with your hand, place another sheet of paper on top and roll out until very very thin. Score into little squares. 
Peel off the top sheet of baking paper and bake for about 20 – 35 minutes or until the edges are browned and crispy. Cool on the tray. Then break up. But stand guard. Every person who passes through the kitchen will try for a nibble!
We collected baskets of vegetables and jars of produce for our Young Vegan Cook to take back to her flat in the big city. Weeded the grapes.
After Tall Sid had shown her the joyfulness of playing with Sheila. 
Good morning. We are on a change over day. Sid and I will redress the spare room for another set of visitors coming tonight from the wilds of Canada. I am going to force myself to the supermarket to buy more ingredients and on the way back I will drive over to pick up the pork. The ham and bacon is not ready until Saturday, but tomorrow I am looking forward to a slap up roast of milk fed pork with Eldest Son and his Lovely Lady.
Good morning. Yesterday our washing machine spat the dummy and filled the house with smoke. Dead! But there was worse to come – John has been working on the coffee machine since 4.30 this morning. It is now 5.30 and we are both still dry. If Mercury is back where she belongs then I guess I just blame this on old well used machines breaking down at the most unfortunate times!
Have a lovely day. There is a bit much on my list for today actually but my visitors will be arriving late tonight so I think I have time. White Cat drinking his milk with the honey won the day yesterday and is up on my Pinterest page. I think my favourite today is the crackers! Of course there are none left so we will be making more of those today too.
I love feeding people!!
celi
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49 responses to “How to make easy Vegan Sunflower Crackers with Garlic”
Wow. Wow. Wow. It’s all so gorgeous and yummy and full of life and goodness. I’m going to try those crackers…anything with garlic in it is great by my book. Seeds too. Next: that vegetable garden is over the top gorgeous, lush, healthy. Celi, what a life you’ve made for yourself and your family!! Have a wonderful day. And thanks again for giving so much joy and inspiration to those of us “out there.”
Morning charlotte, Just as I wrote that it started to rain! a lovely shower. YAY!! This is why the gardens are perking up, we have had a few wee showers lately! We will have a wonderful day, after i have got the house clean and tidy again.. c
Good morning, I thnk a stack of crackers is just the best – to photograph and eat 🙂 And I’m trying hard not to drool at the thought of your bacon next week, trying but not actually succeeding!
Do you yell Bacon! Out your car window when you drive past a pig sty!? or maybe apple sauce!! c
🙂 and Rabbit Pie. Funny for someone who so rarely eats any meat!
Wow, I love that recipe. The death of a washing machine is to be mourned – especially in the season of visitors. But look on the bright side: you can find a much more environmentally friendly one: ours uses much less water, takes 35 minutes for a perfectly adequate wash and fast spin
(instead of about 2 hours for the old one) thus uses much less electricity. We have cheap electricity between midnight and 5am, and the new machine can be programmed to finish at 5am.
Enjoy your visitors and relish the roast pork!
Love, ViV x
Miserably this IS one of those efficient washers, (only 3 years old) all the right ticks in all the right boxes except it is always breaking down, never spins properly, unbalanced all the time.. I hate it. Anyway how cool that you get cheap power in the early morning.. that is an excellent idea! c
Take it back as not fit for purpose! A washing machine should last at least 10 years.
I absolutely agree viv! what a bore and i just cannot deal with it this week!! waaaa.. c
The crackers most definitely! How typical that things break at the most inopportune moments – really, how rude! Hope you get it all sorted soon. Have a lovely day and how exciting that your eldest and his lovely will be visiting with you.
🙂 Mandy
Just not cricket is it Mandy!! ah well, i will take a load into the matriarchs.. sigh! c
Oh your own free range happy pork, yum. There is nothing like home raised pork belly, succulent on the bottom and crispy on the top. Enjoy with your family.
I have never really had that cut, I must look into how to cook it, it does sound divine! c
It does sometimes seems like when one thing goes wrong, many do. Hope today is better for you.
Machines!! They get their own back.. c
I’m impressed by how you rolled your cracker dough between paper, Celi. I should have tried that with my seed crackers, which were hard to roll without paper. Yours look fabulous. Hope you get your coffee maker going soon — it’s good to have a filter cone and filters for back-up.
My back up is a little italian coffee pot that i bought in Amalfi.. after the language really started to break down this morning I climbed up to the top shelf and got it down.. he was better after he had a cup!! c
We’re visitor free until September which is why everything is working happily NOW !
I remember you having a certain visitor and your cooker broke down!! c
Okay – I am booking you to feed us for tomorrow around 5pm – I wish!!!!
5 sounds good!!! ha ha ha .. c
to me, the recipes are a grand idea! i am always curious as to how you make this or that, using your home made foods!!! i guess it is time for a new coffee maker and washer, it always seems to come in threes when something goes wrong with appliances, be aware and on guard!!! LOL
terrifying isn’t it!! c
you do good work!!!
THAT is a coffee catastrophe (as read before I’ve had my first of the day). Lovely crackers.
hope you have had it by now!! c
Great photos of your your yard and farm! Have fun with your son…family is always perfect visitors!
Linda
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What a beautiful sunrise, C – good morning! And such lovely, healthy crackers.
I love feeding people too C ! And I love this simple, easy recipe! I’ll be whipping up those crackers pretty often, and I bet as you said they will go very quickly!
You don’t seem to have much luck with machines this summer 😦
That’s a beautiful looking basil plant in your garden and even I will eat the vegan food if it contains garlic 😉
exactly!! my basil is going to make the best pesto this year, i am making some this afternoon.. Morning Mad! c