Super Easy Lentil Salad!

Die DEUTSCHE ÜBERSETZUNG findet ihr unter dem englischen Rezept!

I'm currently staying in Berlin with friends while I'm doing some research for work in the basement of a library (oh yeah, microfilms!)... Fortunately, I get to use my friends' kitchen! I worked in an archive (in a small town in Eastern Germany) for a week last year and not having a kitchen drove me crazy... I was "only" a vegetarian back then, so getting food wasn't quite as hard yet. Now that I'm in Berlin, vegan food is really easy to come by, but I just love to cook, so was I am more than grateful that I can use my friends' kitchen.

Today, I made a "leftovers and stuff that needed to go" dish. This lentil salad was part of it:

Ingredients:

• 100g of red lentils
• 200ml of veggie stock
• 1 tomato
• half a green bell pepper
• half a yellow bell pepper (leftovers from yesterday's soup!)
• 1 onion
• some salt (optional! Depends on how salty your veggie stock is!)
• some pepper
• 1/2 tablespoon of powdered curry
• 1 1/2 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar (or really any other yummy vinegar)

Red Lentil Veggie Soup

Die DEUTSCHE ÜBERSETZUNG findet ihr unter dem englischen Rezept!

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

Red Lentil Frikadellen Filled With Feta

Die DEUTSCHE ÜBERSETZUNG findet ihr unter dem englischen Rezept!

Now that's a vegan title, isn't it? (Red Lentil) frikadellen filled with feta. But that's ok. It's just a combination of two previous recipes of mine! The Mediterranean Red Lentil Tomato Frikadellen and the Cashew Feta!

The outside is crispy, the inside is creamy! <3

It's really easy to make once you got the feta. I mostly did them because I wanted to see what I could do with the feta. I had made a batch two days ago and had frozen blocks of it. Remembering meat frikadellen filled with sheep's milk feat, I figured this might be a nice combination!

Mediterranean Red Lentil Tomato Frikadellen

English version below!

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

Lentil Balls/Frikadellen

I do like my soy-based frikadellen, but these are grand, too! Soy-free lentil-based frikadellen, high in protein, and super yummy! They can also be made gluten-free.

Ingredients:

• 150g lentils (I used Spanish pardina)
• 400ml water
• salt
• 60g gluten (you can replace this with corn starch if you wish to make this gluten-free!)
• 1 tablespoon paprika
• 1 tablespoon marjoram
• 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1 teaspoon pimento
• 3 tablespoons of tomato paste
• 2 tablespoons mustard
• 1 onion

Party Food! A quick overview - Recipes are being updated!

Hello there, party people! 

One thing I like about getting older is that the food you get at parties gets better. No more store-bought potato salad with more store-bought... stuff. I am trying to do my part to keep up the tradition of not serving store bought stuff, but rather sticking to my family tradition of making stuff myself. 

The boyfriend and I both had our birthdays in December and like to celebrate our birthdays together - one party is less of a mess than two and since our food always takes time and money to prepare, it's just easier for us to throw one party. 

Here's what we served to our friends last night:

Before and after!