Käse-Lauch-Suppe | Cheesy Leek Soup

English version below

Käse-Lauch-Suppe mit Hack hab ich ja früher schon immer gerne gegessen. Schon blöd, wenn so viel davon nicht vegan ist... Aber ich glaube, meine Version ist ganz gut geworden. :)

Lecker Suppe mit Zwiebelbrot

Herbst-Quiche | Fall Quiche

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Ich habe ja schon ein Quiche-Rezept, aber das ist mit Seidentofu... und das hier nicht :) Wenn man das Räuchertofu durch was anderes leckeres ersetzt (zum Beispiel Kichererbsen oder angebratene Pilze), kann man es auch sojafrei machen!

Cremige Kartoffelsuppe | Creamy Potato Soup

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Letzte Woche bin ich nach der Arbeit nach hause gekommen und wurde direkt von tollem Geruch aus der Küche empfangen. Mr. Squirrel hat Kartoffelsuppe gemacht! Das Rezept werde ich euch natürlich nicht vorenthalten!

Unexpected combinations: Beets + Orange + Chili + Hokkaido Squash

Today is one of those days where I started cooking with a vague idea in mind and it turned out great! I may even have discovered my new favorite salad!

These are the heroes of our dish: Hokkaido squash, oranges, beets!

And this is what our finished dish looks like: Ovenbaked hokkaido squash with a beets and orange salad with a sweet chili dressing.

Ingredients: 

• 1 Hokkaido squash
• 3 oranges
• beets (I had one big one, but just try to match the volume of the oranges)
• a bit of fresh ginger
• two garlic cloves of garlic
• some olive oil
• agave sirup
• sriracha (or sambal oelek or any other chili sauce)
• salt
• pepper

optional: a few pomegranate seeds for decoration

a bit of soy sauce

Carrot Ginger Soup

When life gives you carrot, ... make carrot soup.

Preferably yummy soup that doesn't look like baby food. Fresh ginger, coconut milk and a bit of good vinegar should be on the list.

Since the local organic veggie box from my last blog came with a lot of carrots and I still had about 700g left in the fridge, I decided not to give them any chance to spoil and made a big pot of soup. And please notice the incredibly awesome R2D2 soy sauce dispenser the boyfriend got me for our 9-year anniversary. That man knows how to please the ladies! <3

Carrot Ginger Soup

Ingredients:

• 1kg of carrots
• 3 onions
• 2-2.5l of veggie stock
• 3-4 medium sized potatoes
• 1 leek (how do you call pieces of leek? The German word would be "Stange" which would literally translate to "stick" oder "bar") 
• 500ml coconut milk
• 100g tomato paste
• a big chunk of fresh ginger
• more ginger
• some olive oil
• salt
• agave sirup
• 5 table spoons of white wine vinegar

Spicy Hokkaido Squash Soup

It's soup season again! Finally!

We were fortunate enough to have the boyfriend's mother grow some fine examples of hokkaido squash for us and I could not wait to turn it into soup. Can you go wrong with hokkaido squash soup with orange juice, ginger, and sambal oelek? Yeah, I didn't think so. 

Where's the difference between a squash and a pumpkin? I'm not a native speaker of English, so I'm always excited to learn new things. My mothertongue German only has one word ["Kürbis"] for both types of vegetable, so I never saw a reason to distinguish between the two different vegetables.

So this was lunch for the boyfriend and me and also served as a nice present for my parents when we came to visit them.

The good thing is that soups like these do not rely on exact measures and diligently counted drops of ... something. Here's the rough draft of what I used and how I made it:

Spicy Hokkaido Squash Soup 

Ingredients: 

• 1 hokkaido squash 
• 500ml of veggie stock (we make tons of it and then freeze it)
• 500ml of pureed tomatoes 
• 300ml of orange juice
• 200ml of white wine (optional)
• 3 onions
• 2 cloves of garlic
• some oil of your choice 
• a varying amount of sambal oelek, depending on your preferred level of heat)
• 1 can of coconut milk (I think I used around 400ml)
• a chunk of fresh ginger
• salt
• some pumpkin seeds