tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59601052023938080422024-03-13T21:42:30.918-07:00If only for one bite - no frills cookingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960105202393808042.post-7046814650260216892019-01-08T03:51:00.001-08:002019-01-08T03:51:56.529-08:00Red cabbage saladHappy New Year to you, I am starting with a winter recipe, but at the same time looking forward to spring. The traditional red cabbage recipe is the heated one with several good ingredients, slowly simmering in the pot which I learned when I was an apprentice in a hotel in Freiburg, a long time ago.<br />
We put pig lard, apple sauce, cloves, red wine for good taste.<br />
The worst, I ever tasted, was in a restaurant in France, Alsatia. I never thought that you could eat so bad in France. It was simply cooked in water with some salt added - let's say the way English hoseholds cooked vegetables 20 or 30 years ago - and already the cabbage smell would nearly keep you from trying it. Worse even, we decided to eat Cordon Bleu - being in France and presuming that it would be good. Worst decision ever! I don't remember the little town and the name of the place.. They took some kind of cooked meat, I think it was not even calf, filled it with cheese and ham, put some grated bread on it and then fried it. That is exactly how it tasted. Usually, I should have just given it back, but I took it home and the dogs were quite satisfied..<br />
Never mind anyway, this is really good and also for all vegetarians and vegans, no meat involved:<br />
Cut red cabbage in really thin stripes, add pomegranate seeds and pear or apple sauce (homemade of course), raspberry vinegar and olive oil. Marinate for at least two hours. Add roasted nuts before serving.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960105202393808042.post-51489377589001263472018-09-26T05:27:00.001-07:002018-09-26T05:27:50.975-07:00Ice Cream - fast, vegan, without sugarIncredible, isn't it? Do you think - well, the title might me true, but that sounds too healthy to taste also good. And I tell you - it is fantastic.<br />
Only downside is, this has to be produced and eaten - no freezing afterwards, no waiting too long because it melts. So get going:<br />
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Get the real ripe bananas - you know, the ones you don't want to eat anymore - they may also be already quite brown outside. This adds taste and a lot of sweetness.<br />
Cut them in small slices (some also write to peel them first, but I hope the people who are reading this, don't have to be told that) and put them in the freezer overnight.<br />
The next day you take the bananas, put them in the blender, frozen as they are.<br />
You might add a little plant milk or water or juice, just don't exaggerate, otherwise it will be too liquid and also other fruit of your choice or a spoonful of cocoa (this makes a fantastic chocolate ice cream) or vanilla.<br />
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What? That's it? YES - go ahead. I am looking forward to your comments.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960105202393808042.post-75820639680865259192018-09-18T05:44:00.000-07:002018-09-18T05:44:03.270-07:00GranolaBeen to DM - our local drugstore which also offers a lot of organic and vegan options at a very reasonable price. I saw that they had granola, a kind of roasted oats flakes and nuts combination. However the price with over 4 Euro seemed a bit too much. Oat flakes are really cheap and making granola yourself you know what's in it and choose your kind of nut combination. Apart from that, many cereal mixes contain lots of sugar and this is why I generally make my own muesli at home. The roasted version, however, seemed interesting and I remembered that I had eaten something like this in Costa Rica and liked it very much. They took ages to make it, I must say, but it was very good and abundant.<br />
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My first try, I put: oat flakes, cashews, brazil nuts and almonds - and also flax seed. Let's say, that the flax seed got a bit too roasted, due to their small size in proportion to the other stuff. It was still good, though, just a reminder to put them at the very end of the roasting process, or any other very small stuff.<br />
You can make the granola with any kind of nuts or seeds and then add your choice of milk or plant beverage, lemon peel, coconut pieces, any other fruit.<br />
I read, that it is really popular in America and that there are even salty versions with vegetables. Doesn't sound bad to me, you can always use it also as a salad topping. Will report about that, when the time has come. In the meantime, here is my sketchipe:<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960105202393808042.post-69239944551899362002018-08-18T22:58:00.001-07:002018-11-14T07:03:18.499-08:00Strawberry ParfaitI admit, this isn't the season anymore, but I forgot to post this one. However, take fruit of the season, right now we still have apricots, peaches, melons, blackberries and pears. I will be trying something with the pear glut we have at the moment, this is to come and will be an experiment on the salty side because actually we don't eat all this sweet stuff..<br />
The sketch recipe is in German again because it also served for another purpose, but this is the good thing about sketchipes, they are mostly understandable without translation, easier to remember and fun to make.<br />
I am still experimenting with different styles and pencils. The colors are made with Derwent Intense pencils. They can be used just like normal pencils or diluted with water like watercolors (only once however, once you did this, they remain like this but you can layer with other colors).<br />
So: blend 500 g of strawberries (or any fruit you like), add 2 spoons of lemon juice, 100 g of sugar and the yolk of two eggs, one package of vanilla sugar until creamy. Then add the 250 ml of whipped cream carefully and fill it in parfait forms (coffee or tea cups will do also).<br />
Freeze for at least three hours. Nice dessert for friends which doesn't take too long to make and can be made in many different ways. <br />
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Mostly plants, but sometimes fish is also a healthy option. Still going on with sketchnote studies, so you will have to accompany me on my trip in this new experience and hopefully see me improve. If somebody reads this, let me know your opinion. So this is also an occasion to learn German.</div>
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50 g capers (Kapern), olive oil (Olivenöl), 1 onion (Zwiebel), 3-4 garlic cloves (Knoblauchzehen), 2-3 fresh tomatoes (Tomaten), 1 chili, salt (Salz)</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960105202393808042.post-16704308367484353042018-07-23T04:30:00.001-07:002018-07-23T04:30:43.221-07:00Battered apple cakes Let me present you a Swabian recipe this time. In fact, a friend asked me for it and I nearly forgot about them. This was one of my childhood's favorite dishes, perfect accompanied by vanilla sauce (recipe to come yet) but also good just alone or with vanilla ice cream.<br />
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Flour 90 g, sugar 25 g, 1 egg, 75 ml milk, 1 bit of salt - this makes the dough, Then slice the apples and take away the middle piece, dip them into the dough and fry them in the hot oil. In the end turn them around in the sugar and cinnamon mix and enjoy!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960105202393808042.post-48116166043002700842018-07-09T23:59:00.000-07:002018-11-15T07:28:10.910-08:00Vegan Raspberry-Chocolate-Muffins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Here we go, some yummy vegan muffins with one of the best combination of ingredients: dark chocolate and raspberries. Why not make a vegan cake once in a while, it really tastes just as good as a cake made in the classic way but you don't need eggs, milk, cream, butter etc.. You don't even need plant drinks like almond or soy milk and can replace it with water instead.</div>
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Sketchnote recipe is in German again, but should be understandable:</div>
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225 g sugar, 300 g flour, 150 ml oil, 1 pinch of salt, 250 g of plant milk or water, 3 tea spoons baking powder, 4 spoons cocoa, if you wish you can add a bit of dark chocolate as well, I did because it adds this great surprise in the middle of the muffin. </div>
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I brought these to one of our dog sports encounters where they asked all the members if they could contribute some kind of cake.</div>
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When I brought it, I said "these are vegan, but you don't have to write it"- "Oh no, we have to write it, there are people who don't want vegan" ??</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960105202393808042.post-29313494941325347982018-04-27T02:01:00.001-07:002018-04-27T02:01:22.037-07:00New ideas - doodles for recipesEverybody is taking pictures of what they are eating or cooking nowadays - don't you think? This is why I am returning to a more old school and creative way and discovered sketch note recipes by different authors in the net. Right now I am still learning - I found a <a href="https://iqdoodle.com/">great doodle course</a> for beginners from Adam Sicinski. Please drop by and have a look, it is awesome. At the same time I am still trying out different pencils and drawing techniques. It is such a great way of relaxing and creating something at the same time. So here is my sketch note recipe for a plant-based potato-lentil-soup.<br />
Vegan, soy-free, gluten-free, low fat and healthy. Great to prepare ahead and freeze. I like to add some fresh herbs before eating like parsley, coriander or chives.<br />
Recipe is in German, but I think it is quite understandable.<br />
The basis is a vegetarian broth made of onions, garlic and as much vegetable as you can find - I put my leftovers and cut offs always in one of the drawers in the freezer and make a big pot when it is overflowing.<br />
Then you just have to add a part of potatoes and red lentils, cook for about 15-20 minutes and then blend everything. Add salt, horseradish and other spices and enjoy.<br />
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Olive oil<br />
1-2 gloves of garlic<br />
1 large onion<br />
chili to taste<br />
coconut<br />
cilantro<br />
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Make your base with olive oil, garlic, onion and chili, add coconut, rice and squid - add water or something else like juice or wine - I added water and a touch of gin which provides an interesting counter point to the coconut. Rum would be great as well<br />
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So I got inspired by the recipe for Zaalouk, a Moroccon recipe. As I heard in the podcast, these are the ingredients: Garlic, shallots, olive oil, eggplant, diced tomatoes - very ripe or canned -, salt,<br />
turmeric, cumin, paprika, black pepper, cilantro and parsley.<br />
More or less it went like this:<br />
make your base with olive oil, minced garlic and diced shallots, add diced eggplant and let it simmer with a medium low temperature. - It takes some patience because the eggplant needs time to take up the oil and get cooked, maybe even 30 minutes, add the rest and let it simmer for another 10 minutes. With a fork, mash the whole mixture up, so there will still be texture but not large pieces of eggplant<br />
Since I still have frozen eggplant here which I brought from Italy, I took up the idea at once.<br />
Here is what I did:<br />
1 onion<br />
1 cup of wild garlic<br />
olive oil<br />
1 eggplant<br />
1 can of italian cherry tomatoes<br />
turmeric<br />
cumin<br />
chili powder<br />
cilantro<br />
parsley<br />
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I was a bit disappointed because it somehow seemed to bland for me, I would have thought that it is more interesting - and I am not talking about spiciness from the chili. Maybe it was the absence of garlic and the wild garlic wasn't strong enough in taste or just not enough, who knows.<br />
So the next day, I cooked it some more, with a little water added, lots more of turmeric and cinnamon. I mashed it some more with a food processor and added a generous sprinkle of lemon.<br />
Next time I would even add more of these spices, maybe roast the cumin in a pan first. However, it is a great vegan and gluten-free dish to eat with some rice or couscous or use it as a spread on some toasted bread.<br />
For the whole procedure, why don't you listen to this <a href="https://www.acast.com/harvesteatingpodcastglutenfreepaleodietlocalfoodseasonalcookingrecipeshomesteadingprepping/384-morrocan-food-zaalouk">podcast</a>. It is called harvest eating and really worth listening to.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960105202393808042.post-91527154041365081392016-11-24T11:37:00.001-08:002016-11-24T11:37:12.297-08:00Stew season againFall is the right time for soul food like stews. Still with lots of vegetables..<br />
This time I mixed chick peas, fennel and cauliflower.<br />
Start with a large pot and roast onions and garlic in olive oil (like always), add carrots, leek and celery in dices until they have a roasty aroma.<br />
If you wish to add some meat, this is the right time to do so, possibly two or three different kinds of it, otherwise the vegan version is perfectly fine, too.<br />
Fill up with water and add chilies to taste. <br />
I cooked all the other ingredients separately. It is a little more effort and more to clean up, but this way you have better control of the cooking times and maybe you want to do a different combination next time.<br />
This is what I added to the mix:<br />
Cauliflower, cooked in salt water, about 10 minutes<br />
Chick peas which were soaked in cold water for 24 hours, cooking time about 30 minutes<br />
Pearl barley, about 30 minutes in salt water<br />
Fennel and scallions, diced small, about 10 minutes<br />
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In the end, add as much of everything as you like and keep up all your options for different combinations - don't forget: sprinkle with lots of chopped parsley and some grated Pecorino cheese<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960105202393808042.post-12063534488085096982016-11-23T05:12:00.000-08:002016-11-23T05:12:50.857-08:00Carbonara is easy to makeSpaghetti Carbonara - or in this case Bavette Carbonara is one of those dishes you can throw together in 15 minutes when you arrive home late or don't have much time to cook. Always better to cook yourself than to get some processed convenience food from the supermarket.<br />
The original Carbonara was made with "guanciale - pork cheek", salt, pepper, eggs and pecorino cheese - so no cream is added!!<br />
This is my variety - since I don't always have pork cheek at home, I added diced smoke-dried meat to a small diced onion in a spoonful of olive oil. Roast slowly while waiting for the pasta water to boil. When the pasta is ready, add it directly to the mix in the pan and add two or three eggs directly. Stir the whole mix until the eggs are mixed up with the rest and serve with lots of chopped parsley.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960105202393808042.post-66712499702391632322016-11-23T04:47:00.001-08:002016-11-23T04:47:54.796-08:00Clementine jellyI have been to Italy, recently, and brought loads of vegetable and fruit. Sometimes it is easy to exaggerate when you see all the good aromatic stuff, unfortunately in Germany there is much less sun and much more rain. So I had a whole box of clementines which were going to rot (of course also not treated, so they won't last in eternity like those from the supermarket - which is a good sign, of course). Last year - and also this year - I made <a href="http://ifonlyforonebite.blogspot.de/2015/12/end-of-quince-season-quince-jelly.html">quince jelly</a> which was great to eat on toast or also with a spicy cheese. So this time it will be clementine jelly:<br />
Ingredients:<br />
clementines non treated<br />
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Squeeze the clementines and add peel to taste if you like the more bitter variety, the jam sugar indicates the proportion of sugar and juice. I prefer to add less sugar so I usually take the 2:1 version, 2 parts juice, 1 part sugar.<br />
Be sure to have your jars ready, sterilized in hot water.<br />
Boil the juice with the sugar in a pot and stir for about 10 minutes. Then fill them in the jars directly and put the jars on top for about 10 minutes.<br />
Done - great gift also to bring along for friends and family.<br />
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The important thing about squash is to add flavors - especially spicy ones - otherwise it is too bland for my taste.<br />
Lamb's lettuce is a typical salad of fall season and it has a great earthy taste. I only buy the German one because the French lettuce is planted in sandy ground and you can even wash it ten times and there will still be that grain of sand which you feel between your teeth at a certain point - a really nasty taste!<br />
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For the dressing I roasted red onions cut in dices, adding a spoonful of water and a teaspoon full of raspberry vinegar, give the dressing over the salad when it is still warm, add a sprinkle of lemon and a spoon full of olive oil.<br />
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The squash was cut into pieces, adding a chili and some sea salt, roasting it slowly in a pan, adding a little bit of water or white wine.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960105202393808042.post-12728990951968563952016-09-15T05:22:00.002-07:002016-09-15T05:22:29.397-07:00Calf cheek with red Camargue rice, buckwheat, carrots and hokkaidoI am reading lots of vegan blogs and recipes right now. Some time ago it seemed to me that vegan was all about imitating meat and sausages with other ingredients like soja. I still have this memory of school. When we went on our school trip for one week in the north of Germany to an old farm house where we cooked ourselves, one of our teachers was a vegetarian so we had very little meat we brought along - which didn't really disturb me. However we had some kind of fake meat made of soja which had such a terrible taste (not like meat and not like vegetable but like licorice - really nasty) that I couldn't really understand the idea of eating badly imitated meat products.<br />
Now vegans have really understood how important it is to cook yourself using all the great ingredients which are offered from nature.<br />
I really got great ideas from some of those blogs:<br />
I tried chia pudding which has become one of my favorites, I tried buckwheat and am absolutely flashed by it's taste. Amaranth has been a bit of a delusion until now. I tried to pop it, didn't work out, and somehow these grains are really really tiny. Maybe I will rather stay with quinoa.<br />
More experiments to come.<br />
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I still had red Camargue rice which is really good but takes an awful long time to cook, about 40 minutes. Separately I cooked some buckwheat for about 15 minutes. Both together, topped with some roasted cashews have a wonderful nutty taste, you don't even need onions or garlic with it.<br />
Vegetables were roasted carots and hokkaido pumpkin, made in the oven just topped with salt and some pumpkin seed oil.<br />
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The meat - veal cheeks - were made like this:<br />
Cut dices of onions, carots, parsley roots, celery and roast altogether in a large pot, add some slices of garlic and wild garlic. After 10 minutes add the calf cheeks and braise until they have a nice dark color on all sides, then slice them up in pieces thick about 1 finger, add tomato juice and wine to taste and continue until the meat is done.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960105202393808042.post-20738569608197762132016-06-09T05:02:00.002-07:002016-06-09T05:02:43.551-07:00Nearly vegan curryI still have been cooking but not posting about it - a first this year. I hope I can go back to blogging about food again. I was very busy with our B-Litter and with our other three giants among whom there are two quite stubborn teenagers who need a lot of training and discipline.<br />
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I have been to an Indian restaurant these days and got a great curry. Very nice, go visit them when you are in the region. It is called <a href="http://www.restaurant-suriya.de/">Suriya</a> and is situated in Ludwigsburg, South Germany. We forgot to tell them precisely if we wanted mild, hot or very hot.. So we got the mild version. I said then that I would have liked to have some spice and got an extra sauce for conditioning. They didn't fail to tell me to be very cautious because it is extremely hot. In fact it was but mixing I got just the right taste.<br />
So I wanted to try make a curry myself. Actually, reading all over the internet, there are so many recipes that it is difficult to choose.<br />
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This is where I got the <a href="http://de.allrecipes.com/rezept/1358/grundrezept-f-r-currysauce.aspx">basic idea:</a><br />
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2 table spoons of peanut butter / <span style="color: red;">ok</span><br />
15 g butter/ <span style="color: red;">had none put none</span><br />
1 large onion, diced/ <span style="color: red;">ok</span><br />
1 table spoon of fresh sliced ginger/ <span style="color: red;">had none, will put it next time however</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">2 table spoons of sliced garlic</span><span style="color: red;">/ put one garlic clove, should be enough</span><br />
1 tea spoon of cinnamon/ <span style="color: red;">ok</span><br />
1 tea spoon of black pepper/ <span style="color: red;">a</span><span style="color: red;">ctually I forgot it, but I prefer chili</span><br />
2 table spoons of ground coriander/<span style="color: red;"> ok</span><br />
2 table spoons of cumin/ <span style="color: red;">ok</span><br />
1/4 tea spoon of turmeric/<span style="color: red;"> ok</span><br />
2 tomatoes/ <span style="color: red;">had only cherry tomatoes but leftover tomato juice, about 1/4 liter</span><br />
1 tea spoon of cayenne/<span style="color: red;"> dried chilis</span><br />
2 red chilis without seeds/ <span style="color: red;">more dried chilis</span><br />
2-4 table spoons of fresh coriander herbs/ <span style="color: red;">I put only 1 tea spoon. In my opinion too much coriander herbs can destroy a whole dish. Got once an otherwise great ceviche in Costa Rica which was so full of it that it was really a pity for the taste of the fresh fish.</span><br />
110 g yogurt/ <span style="color: red;">I put 150 g of yogurt</span><br />
680 ml water/ <span style="color: red;">since I put tomato juice I didn't add any water</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Next time I will add the ginger, roast the spices in a pan before adding them and make lots more of this curry, so I can freeze it for next time.</span><br />
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The curry sauce goes well with this combination: sliced avocado - avocado is always good - roasted banana and mango, whole grain rice with chick peas and yogurt with sunflower and pumpkin seeds.<br />
Yogurt seems to be served quite often as a side with Indian dishes and it seems it is to take away the hot feeling of the chilis and cayenne, works really good!<br />
If you use a dairy-free yogurt for the sauce and side dish you have a vegan, yummy and nutrient meal!<br />
For my restart I want to add a nice youtube music video which goes well with the dishes every time now. So India - there must be lots of different kinds of music but I am not really into them.<br />
This one is from an older movie, very nice scenes and dance, music starts around 4.00<br />
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Cut the quinces up in pieces, leave the peel on, just take off the stem. Put them at once in a bowl of water with lemon juice, so they will keep their color (more or less.) Cook in water until soft - about 30-40 minutes. Then use a linen cloth or kitchen towel as a strainer and let the juice drop off. Add a little bit of orange or lemon juice to taste. Then I added the special canning sugar which contains pectine in order to make the liquid become jelly - measure about 1:1. You can also use sugar and add the pectin so you need less sugar, I guess I will try this next time.<br />
Stir in pot about 5 minutes then put at once in the before sterilized glass jars.<br />
I made some of the jars with chili pieces. They went to the top. Next time I guess I will put whole chilis inside, also for the look of it. - Perfect side dish for goat cheese - sweet and spicy!<br />
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Now, in fall season, our quince tree left us with lots and lots of quinces. Some of them were given to others and with the rest we have to be creative. The classic recipe for quinces are jams and jellies but that isn't enought. I already made cakes with quinces and quince mustard (great together with goat cheese) and now I am trying quince carpaccio, quince vinaigrette and quince and pumpkin stew. Another interesting recipe was for quince punch - great for the cold fall days. I discovered that my <a href="http://k9scout.blogspot.com/">dogs,</a> which are great apple and pear eaters, also like raw quince, so that makes part of their diet, too. Although - actually we had two quince trees last year but the puppies peeled off the whole bark and the poor tree dried out and died.<br />
Now for the quince carpaccio.<br />
I grated one quince - it is important to sprinkle lemon or lime juice at once, otherwise the pieces won't keep their yellow color but go to a kind of ugly brown - and mix it. Then add some salt. I had a grapefruit in the fridge which I added, in the style of a vegetarian ceviche. I must say, the aroma of quince and grapefruit combined perfectly and were a great side dish to the roasted prawns I made. -<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960105202393808042.post-56498235444094960012015-10-08T01:30:00.000-07:002015-10-08T01:30:07.907-07:00White fish in foilI had lots of vegetable still from my shopping trip to the farmer's market. Sometimes there is so much good stuff, I buy a little too much. Solution: chop up part of it and freeze for the next minestrone or vegetable curry. The other part came in my fish dish in the evening:<br />
Yellow and green zucchini, cherry tomatoes, carrots, spring onions and chilis.<br />
whatever is to your liking, just pay attention to cut them according to their cooking time. You don't want part of the vegetables to be overcooked and the others to be still raw.<br />
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I put them in the oven with about 180 Centigrade for half an hour, adding just salt and dash of white wine, the vegetable kept the beautiful colors. For an extra taste, I then put them in a pan for about 10 minutes in order the finish the dish.</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960105202393808042.post-12221962475459246632015-10-04T00:40:00.001-07:002015-10-04T00:40:41.331-07:00Chinese cabbage saladYou know Chinese cabbage? Maybe you agree with me that it can be one of the most boring vegetables. I have seen it many times on the salad buffet, mostly as staff food in large hotels. When it is cut and remains outside for some time, it gets even more boring because it gets dry, not even the greatest salad dressing (and believe me, they don't put that out for staff either) can help it. Most of the time I avoid to buy it, also because you have a really large chunk of vegetable to work.<br />
The trick is to let the dressing get inside the china cabbage and let it rest for at least 20 minutes, the leaves take up the dressing beautifully then. I decided to make a fancy dressing with different flavors: sweet, spicy and hot:<br />
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Many recipes with China cabbage are with fruit because this combines quite well.<br />
My ingredients for the dressing:<br />
2 shallots<br />
1 pear<br />
2-3 table spoons of orange mustard<br />
(if you don't have them use normal mustard and orange peel)<br />
a dash of white wine<br />
a dash of water<br />
sea salt<br />
different oils - this time I used grape seed oil and sunflower oil.<br />
Would be perfect with a walnut or peanut oil, too.<br />
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Fry the shallots until they have that glassy look, then put them on the salad with a little bit of the frying oil.<br />
Mix up the other ingredients and blend them.<br />
In the end I added roasted cashews.<br />
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And remember, it is worth a try and a great salad to bring to a barbecue, goes fine with meat, too.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960105202393808042.post-90801314852679887762015-10-01T04:50:00.000-07:002015-10-01T04:50:34.339-07:00Chili con carne - texan style (mostly)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I am listening to a nice audio book called<a href="http://www.audible.com.au/pd/Fiction/Texas-Cooking-Audiobook/B00FPFK5AU"> "Texas Cooking"</a> right now that gave me the idea to try a Texan recipe. First thing which comes to mind: Chili con carne, of course. I found a really nice recipe on another blog and was amazed how many types of chili there are. Of course I couldn't find the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jalape%C3%B1o">chipotle</a> in one of our stores, so I had to cheat a bit. The chipotle would be a smoked jalapeno which gives this special flavor to the dish. I didn't want to buy any of those bottles in the supermarket, nor liquid smoke, so I used smoked bacon instead. </div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">1 diced onion</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Beef, cut in small pieces - about 1 pound</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Minced beef - about 1 pound</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Smoked bacon - about 1cup</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">All different kinds of chilies, I only had the two types you see below</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">half a glass of beer</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">1 can of diced tomatoes</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">My special homemade spicer in the glass made of garlic, almonds, white wine, bread crumbs, olive oil and sea salt</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">coriander</span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;">clove (just 1!)</span></div>
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Next time I would put more spices and add diffent kinds of chili, hopefully also the chipotle.</div>
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Usually a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceviche">Ceviche</a> would be raw fish, marinated with lime, originally from Peru but I also tasted it in Costa Rica. Very yummy. This time I stole the word for a purely vegan dish. The important thing is to slice the pieces in very fine stripes and leave it at least two hours - better more with the marinade.</div>
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VERY thin slices of butternut and zucchini, marinate with lots of lime juice and sea salt. After two hours add the oil. I used grape-seed oil this time.</div>
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I have two types of mint in my garden, one sourced from a mojito drink in Cuba many years ago and planted in the garden without roots, still going strong. The other is the more spearminty type. The added an extra freshness to the salad.<br />
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Parsley roots and carrots - I let them simmer with a little bit of olive oil and a dash of water in the pan.<br />
Cherry tomatoes, a half avocado and two kinds of mint, cashews.<br />
The cashews are slightly roasted to give them more flavor.<br />
Mix everything with lime juice, a little sea salt and olive oil.<br />
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