Süßsaure Orangen-Ingwer-Sauce | Sweet and sour orange ginger sauce

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Eigentlich wollte ich ja noch nur ne süßsaure Sauce machen, aber ich hatte letztens irgendwas von einer Orangen-Ingwer-Sauce gelesen... Da musste ich das mal testen.

Teriyaki Sauce

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Mr. Squirrel hat mal wieder Teriyakisauce gemacht. Super lecker und sorgt dafür, dass man mal eben aus Gemüse und Reis (und vielleicht ein bisschen Mock Duck) was Tolles zaubern kann!

Mittagessen: Gebratene Mock Duck, Gemüse und Reis in Teriyakisauce.

Kitchen Basics: Pumpkin Pie Spice

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In order to make pumpkin pie, you need pumpkin pie spice. You can buy an expensive blend, or... just make your own blend. There is no one true way to make this, but this is how I like mine.

Red Lentil Veggie Soup

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Yet another incredibly easy dish! And super tasty, too. If you happen to not have one ingredient or the other in the house, you can always replace things. You can basically swap out any of the veggies as long as you stick to the lentils, water, and seasoning.

Ingredients for six servings:

• 150g red lentils
• 3 large carrots
• 1 leek
• 3 onions
• 3 cloves of garlic
• fresh ginger (about the size of a thumb)
• salt
• 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil, for example, sunflower seed oil.
• 50g tomato paste
• 1l of water
• a handfull of hazelnuts
• half a green bell pepper
• half a red bell pepper
• 2 table spoons of balsamic vinegar
• a handfull of fresh herbs, for example, parsley or basil

Summer Rolls with a Sweet and Sour Lime Sauce

Or with sweet and sour sauce

This would have been lunch for my colleage and me, ... if my body hadn't decided to be sick. But I didn't want to let the ingredients go to waste and made the summer rolls. These are Vietname style summer rolls, so they are not fried/deep-fried. They're low in fat and gluten-free (in case anyone suffers from celiac desease) if you substitute the beer that is used to soak the rice paper for water or gluten-free beer. 

The summer rolls are great for buffets, picnics, lunch at work, or long trips. They're also really yummy!

Fried Noodles with Tons of Veggies! (and maybe some mock duck)

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I love to cook for other people... and for myself. But I think eating ought to be a social activity. So today I made some food for the boyfriend and a friend who does not have the time to cook.
And who would say no this:

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