Three Important Things.

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food, opinion, recipes, USA, vegan, vegetarian, video, videos

1. I made my first cooking video yesterday. So so so excited to present it to you soon!
2. I joined instagram as nade in the kitchen and would fancy having some of my blog readers as followers. Follow me!
3. and the most imporant point: I need people who are willing to try out my lentil burger recipe (with the video I shot yesterday) and tell me what I can improve and what you would change (without doing the whole thing again, of course :))

If you are interested, you can send me a message on facebook or via mail. I’m looking forward to numerous messages in my inbox! :) Here’s a picture of the burger, in case you are still hesitating…

Enjoy soon.

Almonds, Tomatoes, Mint and Capers = Delicious Pesto

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cooking, food, health, italy, photography, recipes, tomato, vegan, vegetarian

I don’t know why people always think that pesto is only possible with cheese. This is a myth. Of course, the “original” pesto is made out of pine nuts, pecorino, basil, garlic, salt and olive oil. And nothing else. Next time you are in the supermarket and have a little more time, go and check what there really is in all of these pseudo pestos. Sunflower oil,   preservatives, acidity regulators, potato flakes, cashews, parsley. What a pesto.

Lately I’m quite hooked on pesto. I don’t know what happened. I have these phases where I only crave one thing. Since some weeks, I’m in my pesto phase. But not normal pesto. Almonds, tomatoes, garlic, and mint make this pesto special. Ok, let’s call this pseudo pesto, too, cause it isn’t really pesto. It’s just pure delight.

The good thing is that it’s so quick and easy and you could also use it for bruschetta or to top on your soup. It’s an all-rounder and quicker than a simple “pasta al sugo”.

Redesign The Market

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austria, food, health, life, photography

Good news: I had my last written exam today! I can’t believe it! On saturday, before going to school (on saturday!!) to study maths with some friends, I went to one of the bigger farmer’s markets in Graz – “Kaiser Josef Platz” – for an “event”.

Redesign The Market was the name of this event which I saw promoted on the in internet. Designers and farmer would be put together and the designers would help the farmers to redesign either their stand or their products. What expected was far more promising and thrilling than what I eventually found when I got there – rain and the market as it usually is. After looking a second look at some of the stands I found that some stands were indeed redesigned – and it looked good! Just wanted to share some pictures with you :)

Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes with a Hint of Coffee

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baking, eating, food, photography, raspberries, recipes, sweet, vegan

I really was not sure whether to post this recipe or not. Firstly, it’s not mine, and secondly, it never happened that I posted two recipes on one day. But as exceptions are the rule, I decided that I cannot make extremely awesome and simply amazing cupcakes without letting you know about the recipe. As you see, I stole it from Chef Chloe.

Now not that you think that I have nothing else to do. I am actually quite busy with my finals and the only thing that would be right to do this very moment is to study maths. But of course, I’m standing in the kitchen and now sitting in front of my laptop and typing this recipe. How about I just don’t write a novel about this but simply post the recipe?

Chocolate. Banana. Ice. Cream.

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eating, food, health, homemade, ice cream, photography, recipes, sugar free, vegan, vegetarian

I always stood under the impression that ice cream is some tiring, complicated thing for people who have too much time. Wrong. I thought you’d need to first buy an ice cream maker. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Ice cream is one of the easiest things to do. I know, I always say that. And I’m not exaggerating.

Lemon Olive Oil – A Beautiful and Simple Giveaway

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cooking, eating, food, health, homemade, italy, photography, recipes

This is the second recipe from the project Ein Kochbuch auf Reisen. A simple lemon oil that is a perfect giveaway in my opinion. Pretty, delicious and easy to prepare. And this smell of the lemon, oh oh oh.

In case you haven’t yet seen this survey, go and answer the question. It will take you about 2 minutes. Thanks to everyone who has already given his opinion on the blog, you are really a big help!

Brevity is the soul of wit.

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cooking, eating, food, improvement, photography, poll, statistics, survey, vegan

Please take two minutes to help me improving this blog. Just klick on the picture below. And be honest. And if you can, don’t skip the last two answers. And… ok, enough. Thanks.

Caponata Siciliana and a travelling cookbook

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aubergines, cooking, eating, food, health, italy, photography, recipes, vegan, vegetarian

I’m always impressed by what modern technology enables us to do. Like, really impressed. I know you never think about such stuff, because it has become so normal that we don’t even consider wasting a thought about it – but who would have imagined 100 years ago that you can keep in touch with people all around the world, look at pictures they make, get to know how often they are bored and where they travel to, who they are in a relationship with and what they just cooked? Nobody. This is amazing when you think about it. We live in a century where distances don’t matter anymore. With all the things happening on the internet, you can almost beam yourself to any place you want. You can find out so much about other people’s lives and interests and you can get to know new people through the internet. You can join groups about any interest man can have – be it sports, fashion or – tadaaa – cooking.

Now this group called “Austrian Food Blogger” has a member that started a project. “Ein Kochbuch auf Reisen” – A cookbook travels around is what La Gusterina started and has gained a lot of fans with. The project basically consists of a vegan cookbook travelling from blogger to blogger – everyone is supposed to cook two recipes of the book and publish them on their blog – one with ingredients and instructions and one with only the ingredients. Bernadette (verkocht) was the person having the book before me and Nadja (Winterspross kocht) will be next.

Now here is the first recipe I tried from the book: Caponata Siciliana (Sizilianisches Auberginen Gemüse). Puhh, that’s some good stuff.

Chickpea Tomato Curry

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chickpeas, cooking, curry, eating, food, health, recipes, tomato, vegan, vegetarian

I don’t know about where you live, but here in Austria I’m not really sure if winter is about to leave or just arrived. Freezing temperatures and snow. In april. Ciao.

This is why unlike any other people in normal countries who have sunshine at the beginning of april I am sitting at home, feeling like it is december and drinking hot chocolate and making chickpea curry.

Serves 2

• 2 garlic cloves
• 2 onions
• 1 piece of fresh ginger
• olive oil
• 1 tbsp ground cumin
• 1 tbsp hot curry powder
• 1 chili, if you like it hot
• 1 tsp fenugreek
• 1 tsp red curry paste
• 400 g fresh tomatoes (200 g pureed, 200 g cut in pieces)
• 200 g canned chopped tomatoes
• 1 handful frozen spinach
• 200 g canned chickpeas

Cube the garlic and onions. Slice the ginger piece (and remember how many slices you have if you want to take them out afterwards). In a pan, heat some olive oil and fry they cumin, curry powder, fenugreek, chili and curry paste for 2 minutes. Add garlic, onions and ginger and fry for about 5 minutes on medium-high heat.

Add the tomatoes and let simmer for 20 minutes on medium-low heat. Add spinach and chickpeas and let simmer for another 20 or thirty minutes, until it has the consistency you like. Season with salt and pepper and serve with naan bread, couscous or rice.

Enjoy.