Tomatenconsommé | Tomato Consommé

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Das Rezept ist schon auf diversen Abendessen mit Freunden angekommen. Es ist sehr einfach zuzubereiten, aber es dauert echt lange. Nehmt euch also Zeit zur Vorbereitung. Der Vorteil: Ihr müsst nicht daneben stehen und aufpassen :)

Easy: Rice Salad | Einfach: Reissalat

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Ich brauchte noch schnell eine Beilage für meine gefüllten Zucchini, da hab ich mich in der Küche umgesehen und noch ein paar Sachen zusammen gesucht. Ehrlich gesagt kommen so viele meiner Rezepte zu Stande: Was ist noch da und was muss noch weg und was kann ich damit denn so machen?

Pasta Salad with a Mango Tomato Sauce

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By popular demand: Another one of my "what did I find in my fridge" recipes! :)

Smoked Tomato Paprika Sauce

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Many thanks to Mr. Squirrel at Camslinger.de for the photo 

I started out making a sauce out of things that had to go for whatever reason: Veggies on the verge of looking less Next Veggie Top Model, open packs of pureed tomatoes from yesterday's pizza... that sort of thing. I ended up with the best sauce ever! It will go well with our Tomato Lentil Bites (filled with Cashew Feta) at my work Christmas party tonight!

Summer Food: Roasted Eggplant and Zucchini with Fresh Tomatoes, and Tomato Sauce

On some days it's just too hot to eat something that is above body temperature. Today is one of these days.
So I decided to go with tons of veggies that could in the end be eaten hot or cold.

Tomato Quinoa

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Quick and simple way to make incredibly tasty quinoa! Tastes great hot or cold.

Ingredients:

• 170g of quinoa
• 500ml of puréed tomatoes
• pinch of salt
• pinch of sugar
• vegetables of your choice (I used one kohlrabi and 2 medium carrots)

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)

Super Easy Lentil Salad!

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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)

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

The simple things in life: Pasta Bolognese

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