Savory Pancakes

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When I was a kid, my Mom did most of the (excellent) cooking. However, pancakes were my Dad's territory. He would make the pancake batter and would make pancake after pancake until everyone had their lunch. Pancake days were awesome! Fortunately, Mr. Squirrel figured out a recipe that will recreate my childhood experience every now and then - minus the eggs, but with the vegan cheese.

Super simple: Avocado and mushroom sandwich

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This is again one of those recipes where I almost feel bad about posting it... because it's so simple. But it is also so good ... and someone on facebook asked me to post the details.

Antipasti I: Marinated Veggies

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We had an Italian themed dinner party last week and made a nice little plate of antipasti as appetizers. It's June, so we wanted to stick to as many cold dishes as possible. Antipasti proved to be easily prepared in advance and a great way to start out the dinner. There are three main components to the dish on the picture above: (1) Marinated veggies, (2) baked bellpeppers with shaved almonds, and (3) the tomato that's filled with pesto cream cheese. I'll explain how they were made in the following blog posts.

So here is how you can make the marinated veggies:

For this starter plate for six people (each person got their own ;) No sharing necessary), I used the following:

Ingredients:

• 1 medium eggplant
• 2 small zucchinis
• 250g of meadow mushrooms 
• 3 cloves of garlic
• 150ml olive oil (plus some for frying)
• 1½ tablespoons of balsamic vinegar
• some fresh basil, thyme, and rosemary
• 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)

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

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