Pesto Pasta Salat | Pesto Pasta Salad

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Normalerweise mache ich auf Feiern gerne meinen mediterranen Nudelsalat (mit einem "Honig"-Senf-Balsamico-Dressing), aber ich wollte mal was anderes machen. Und da ich Pesto liebe, habe ich gedacht, dass es mal an der Zeit wird einen Pestopastasalat zu machen.

Party Resteessen als Lunchbox - mit Pulled Jackfruit

Easy: Basil Pesto

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Trying to find a vegan pesto can be quite the challenge because most pestos are made with grana padano or parmesan. Although I know of one (good, yet slightly pricy) brand, I wanted to make some myself. Another reason for this was our latest dinner party at which I try to make as much from scratch as possible. (I used the pesto to make pesto cream cheese to fill a tomato. YUM!)

All you need for this basil pesto are a small number of ingredients and a blender: a regular one or an immersion blender should work.

Ingredients:

• 2 pots of fresh basil (cf. picture)
• 50g of cashews
• 4 tablespoons of yeast flakes
• 3 cloves of garlic
• 150ml olive oil (try to go for a good quality)
• 1 tablespoon of sea salt

Cannelloni filled with Spinach in Tomato Sauce

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It's fairly difficult to get a nice looking picture of cooked cannelloni. They always tend to look like a big pile of stuff drowing in tomato sauce. I hope this picture is still as appetizing as the food was when we had it for lunch today!

Unless you prepare the tomato sauce in advance, this is a rather time consuming meal. Just a heads up.

Ingredients:

• 200g fresh spinach
• 3 onions
• 5 cloves of garlic
• a handfull of fresh basil
• 200ml veggie stock
• 200ml plant milk
• ca. 250g of vegan cheese
• salt
• 250g of cannelloni pasta
• 1 tablespoon of sugar
• a handfull of dried shiitake mushrooms
• 1000ml of pureed tomatoes
• 3 table spoons of corn starch
• 4 table spoons of yeast flakes
• a bit of oil for frying
• 4 tablespoons of oil the the roux (Yes, I'll explain,what a roux is)

Mediterranean Red Lentil Tomato Frikadellen

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Ich habe ja eine gewisse Vorliebe für Linsen entwickelt. Wir haben im Moment drei verschiedene Sorten zu hause und ich mache verschiedene Gerichte damit! Ich habe zum Beispiel letztens eine Sorte mit Berglinsen gemacht. Geschmacklich geht des in die gleiche Richtung wie konventionelle Fleischgerichte. Aber die Frikos heute mache ich für eine Freundin die Fleisch noch nie mochte, darum versuche ich keine Geschmäcker oder Gewürze zu verwenden, die man traditionell mit Fleisch assoziiert.

Zutaten:

für 15-18 Minifrikadellen

• 200g rote Linsen
• 50g Paniermehl
• 4 EL Cashew Parmesan  (Supereinfaches Rezept hier)
• 5 getrocknete Tomaten
• 2 Zwiebeln
• eine Hand voll frischer Basilikum
• 100g Tomatenmark
• etwas Olivenöl zum braten
• 3-4 Zehen Knoblauch (optional)
• Salz

Mediterranean Pasta Salad

This pasta salad is a family favorite. I would usually use arugula instead of the basil, but it's not in season right now, so it's super expensive. The fresh, organic basil was a special offer today! Hooray!

Ingredients: 

• 2 large zucchinis
• 300g of Hello Kitty pasta (the salad gets exponentionally better with Hello Kitty pasta, but regular pasta works, too)
• one glass of dried tomatoes (225g drain weight)
• 5 fresh tomatoes
• lots of fresh basil (I used as much as you can see on the picture - the whole thing!)
• 3 tablespoons vegan honey (agave sirup works, too)
• 60g (7-8 tablespoons) olive oil
• some extra olive oil for frying
• 60g (7-8 tablespoons) balsamic vinegar
• 3 tablespoons mustard
• salt
• pepper

Pizza

English version below

Ich liebe Pizza. So isset.
Hier seht ihr mein Gründe dafür:

Was braucht man um in den Genuss selbstgemachter Pizza zu kommen?

1. Pizzasauce
2. Pizzateig
3. Pizza

Die Rezepte für alle drei Sachen findet ihr hier.

Fried Polenta

I originally got the recipe for fried polenta from my friend Sarah (who is currently doing a crowd funding campaign to open a vegan café in Duisburg, Germany. Check out the campaign website!) - and  hers are still far superior to mine. At least visually. But I'm working on the presentation aspect!

 

Ingredients:

• 800ml of veggie stock (check the polenta packaging in case the suggested amount of liquid differs from this)
• 200g of polenta
• 6 small onions
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 150g dried tomatoes 
• lots of fresh basil
• salt, black pepper, paprika, cayenne pepper