hummus

You know those recipes that you make again and again and you could even make them while sleeping?
This recipe is one of those. Most hummus recipes just don't have the right amount of lime or lemon juice, contain not enough tahin, there is no parsley in there or have the wrong texture. So I've started to make a hummus recipe after my taste.



Hummus:

200 g (7 ounces) cooked chickpeas/garbanzo beans
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon tahin
2 tablespoons lime or lemon juice
1 or 2 garlic cloves depending on their size and how garlic-y you like it
3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
6 tablespoons water (or cooking liquid from chickpeas)
1 teaspoons salt
freshly ground pepper
1/4 teaspoon cumin, 1/4 teaspoon cayenne, 1/4 teaspoon ground coriander (all optional but good)

Chop the garlic and let it swim in olive oil. Put the chickpeas with water and lime/lemon juice into a blender and blend, then add tahin and the olive oil with garlic and blend again. When the desired texture is reached, add parsley and season with salt, papper, cumin, cayenne and ground coriander.

pizza bruschetta

2 weeks ago our football ("soccer" ;-) ) team had a party and we ordered pizza. I wondered what I could order, a vegetarian pizza without cheese? french fries instead of pizza? well it wasn't really hard, because my sister's boyfriend works at that Italian restaurant where we ordered so I asked him what I could order. His answer: pizza bruschetta. that was the best pizza I've ever had! and because I don't have the money to order it all the time I "copied" it, which wasn't really hard since my sister's boyfriend works there and knows the recipe :-) .



what you do is really easy, you bake a pizza crust without tomatosauce or vegetables on it, but you should brush it with olive oil. meanwhile you prepare the topping.

you need:

2 tomatoes
1 big garlic clove or 2 small ones
a lot of olive oil
some fresh basil leaves
some dried oregano
green or black olives
salt and pepper

Chop the garlic and let it swim in olive oil, because you want the oil to taste like garlic! Cut the tomatoes into very small dice, chop the basil and olives. When the olive oil smells like garlic throw everything together in a bowl and wait till the crust is ready. Let it cool and slightly cut it, pour the tomatoes on it and breake the pizza with your fingers into pieces. Yum!

banana-nougat-stollen

I love nougat and my mom has a recipe for a nougat stollen that is everything else than vegan, so I veganized it and added bananas to it because they pair lovely to the spices, nuts and the nougat. Tastes very good, though it's a bit dry, so I have to work on the recipe till it's perfect.

Spaghetti and more

When I don't know what to cook, I cook Spaghetti with Marinara Sauce. This one is a bit creamy, because I mixed leftover béchamel sauce with tomato sauce and added a lot of basil and instead of parmesan I put nutritional yeast on top.

And I finally baked the Apple-Peanut Butter-Caramel Bars from Veganomicon. But I didn't had Graham Cracker Crumbs neither Vanilla Cookies, so I made the Basic Single Pastry Crust and doubled the recipe (from Veganomicon too) and also substituted Brown Rice Syrup with sugar beet molasses (I don't really know what it's called in English)...
doesn't look so good, but tastes very good!

potatoes, tofu and vegetables

Voilà! That's what I had for lunch today: Mashed Potatoes, with "Tofu Bratecken" from "Tukan Tofu" and vegetables (carrots, peas, green beans and cauliflower) with béchamel sauce.


"Tofu Bratecken"

fried potatoes...

Today I had fried potatoes with breaded zucchini... I guess the picture says everything ;-)

I'm back

Just a quick post about soup. The "roasted tomato soup" from "vegan lunch box" is so yummie. I really recommend this book, I've tried several recipes and they were very good. It has only one disadvantage: the time how long it takes to prepare a recipe isn't written down, as a busy person I really need that.
Ok, so here's a bad picture...

sorry

I won't post for a while, maybe a month or so. Because a) I'm going to Belgium for about 3 weeks and b) I don't know why, but I'm so uncreative lately and c) my camera is away again (I'm wondering if it has legs...)

ice cream

what do you need if it's hot outside? right - ice cream! I've tested chocolate and raspberry from swedish glace. the only brand available here in the middle of nowhere 20 km away in the supermarket which has everything a vegan heart desires. pictured only the chocolate ice cream, but both are divine!

Baked potatoes with cashew cucumber dip

So easy and quick, if you prepare the dip the night before so you just have to put the potatoes in the oven and can relax (or learn latin vocabularies :-/ ). I love Veganomicon!

always the same...

... yes I wanted to post and guess what? the usb cable for my camera was away again :-/
but now my newest post: chocolate hazelnut biscotti adapted from veganomicon and glutenfree, which I baked today. I won't post the recipe, because it still has to be improved (unless someone wants to help me)...
so here is the photo:

One post after another

I really hope that this will not be the last time that one post comes after another and I will post more often. At the moment I have so many ideas and I'm dreaming of publishing a cake book in German (maybe it works - we'll see, if I have enough time and ideas). So here is my cake: Portuguese cinnamon cake! It's so delicious with just the right amount of cinnamon and your kitchen will smell like it's Christmas time.

I promised a recipe

so here's the recipe to the previous post:

wheat free sesame apricot cookies:

1 3/4 cups oat flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2/3 cups granulated sugar + 1/2 tablespoon molasses
1/4 cup oil
1 tablespoon ground flaxseeds
1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons soymilk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup sesame seeds
1/4 cup tahini
1/2 cup dried apricots cut into small cubes

Preheat the oven to 375 °F
Sift together the oat flour, baking soda and salt. In another mixing bowl withk together the flaxseeds and soymilk. Stir together the sugar and molasses, add the oil, vanilla and tahini, whisk until everything is emulsified.
Mix the wet ingredients into the dry, fold in the sesame seeds and dried apricot cubes.
Drop the batter by the tablespoon onto an baking sheet with parchment paper, leaving about 1 1/2 inches of space between the cookies and bake for 10 to 12 minutes.
Remove from the oven and let cool for 5 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack to cool the rest of the way.

cookies

I totally forgot to post these. They're wheatfree sesame apricot cookies with a lemon icing and some dried and cut into small cubes apricots on some cookies. It's adapted from veganomicon's wheat free chocolate chip cookies. If I have time I'll post it. Maybe this weekend or so, because I don't have school on thursday and friday. Of course I have other stuff to post, too, but I'm very busy at the moment (writing class tests, playing soccer matches, learning for driving school and so on).

I wanted to post...

...but I hadn't got time and the usb cable for my camera was away. And it was my birthday but I hadn't got the time to celebrate or to bake a cake (only for my classmates). There's also no photo of the cake for my classmates, because they ate it so quickly :-D. Ok enough, here the photos:

remember this post? no? anyway here is the new and improved plow made with mushrooms, carrots, herbs, bell pepper and TVP. So good!

Ugly soup, made with broccoli, potatoes, quinoa and herbs. Really ugly, but delicious.

my birthday present from my brother and sisters... so many vegan sweets, I couldn't decide which one I have to eat first.

simple and quick, that's what I wanted after a busy day. So I came up with this italian spiced tomato bulgur and beans (I know, it doesn't really match together).

I had some leftover cooked buckwheat, so I made a salad. Don't know what I threw into it.

And last but not least, the lemony roasted potatoes from veganomicon. I ate them with cauliflower, because I was lazy.

cookies and "fast" food

When I was young... haha most of you would say I'm still young... I couldn't eat fast food. I was one of those kids who went to McDonalds only one time in the year and the only thing I could eat there were the french fries and eventually the chicken mc nuggets. I just didn't like much the food there and so I don't miss the fast food. But today I wanted a burger, I don't know why but I just had to eat a burger. So I made a burger to my taste with homemade burgers (from a package haha ;-) ), tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce and lots of mustard and ketchup... so good. The best "burger" I've ever had.

And of course I made cookies. My choice were the Wheat Free Chocolate Chip Cookies from Veganomicon and Happy Cookies from this French blog.
Wheat Free Chocolate Chip Cookies:

Happy Cookies:

cupcakes and pasta

Yesterday I baked a lot, I made the lime/lemon scones again. Everybody likes them, my mother told me to double the recipe when I make it next time, because they're so good.
Then I gave the jelly donut cupcakes from veganomicon a try. But they were rather jelly-stuffed cupcakes, because the home-made jam I used was way too thick and sank to the bottom, as you can see in the picture.
And last but not least I tried the lower fat banana bread (no picture sorry) from veganomicon, too.

I also did a bit of cooking, though I could bake all day long. I made the Spicy Lemon Pasta with Broccoli from veganyumyum.com and I have to admit that this is now one of my favourite pasta recipes. I almost followed the recipe, the only change I made was that I added 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano and 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme at the end.

Pizzarolls, Dip, Scones, Gratin

Tomorrow starts my last week of school, which means no class tests until the holidays are over, but unfortunately that doesn't mean that I'm not busy.
Anyway, here are the things I ate lately :-) :
Pizzarolls dipped in Curried Carrot Dip from Veganomicon:

And here my first attempt to bake scones. I made the lemon/lime scones from but dit they EAT it? Though I overcooked the glaze so it was rather candy it tasted very good
And last but not least I tried the gratin dauphinois posted in the forum on peta.de again with a different kind of potato and it worked out fine, if someone wants the recipe, leave me a comment and I'll type it up here.

A birthday cake for my little sister

Today was my sister's birthday and I used this occasion to satisfy a) my baking addiction ;-D and b) the urge to make fotos xD
The results:

Korvapuustit and pelmeni

Korvapuustit are Finnish cinnamon rolls, I found the recipe in the Internet and veganized it. Really yummy. If someone wants the recipe leave a comment, when I have time I'll type it up (I have two class tests this week, Latin and maths :-/ so there's a lot of work).

the little Russian girl in me required pelmeni... the other parts of me wanted peas and a cheese-y sauce. So I made both. The pelmeni were stuffed with potatoes, carrots and spinach a strange, but delicious combination.

and here's what helped me by making the pelmeni (I don't know how to call it in English):