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

Kitchen Basics: Hazelnut Milk

My favorite non-dairy milk is a specific brand of oat milk (Kölln Smelk in case any one is interested). It's more expensive than the average soy milk, but I like it because it tastes great, and the ingredients are not shipped across the world, as the oat is grown (and then also processed) in Germany. I'm absolutely willing to pay that price (usually €1.79 to €2.19 for a liter), but when I saw Jérôme Eckmeier make hazelnut milk, I knew I had to try this myself. It's really easy, too! And cheaper. And tasty!

Ingredients:

• 1l of water
• 2 table spoons of sunflower oil
• 100g of hazelnuts (soaked in cold water over night)
• 1 table spoon of unrefined cane sugar
• a pinch of salt

Delicious, Creamy, Caramel/Nougat Chocolates

One of my favorite chocolates are called Toffifee. They are made of a caramel cup filled with a whole hazelnut and nougat and are topped with a bit of dark chocolate. The best. But they are full of milk products such as skim milk powder, concentrated butter, whey, lactose... Having found a recipe on another blog, I decided to accept the challenge of making my own. Based on the outcome of my own experiment, I made some changes to the recipe.

I am fairly happy with the results - the taste is definitely spot on! But I wish the caramel had gotten a little harder. This is the main reason I am making adjustments to the recipe.

I ended up with ca. 85 chocolates!

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