Lemon Rosemary Cakes

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Lemon and rosemary just go together. So they have to be joined in cake. Or tiny cakes. 

Pumpkin Cheese Cake with a Dark Chocolate Cardamom Ganache

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I have been told that "Pumpkin spice anything tastes like bilge water," and that "pumpkin pie is only good from the moment Thanksgiving dinner ends until the moment just after you have taken your first bite of it," and I accepted the challenge. I can't quite agree. At least not after I had a slice of this  Pumpkin Cheese Cake with a Dark Chocolate Cardamom Ganache. ^^ It's creamy and pumpkin-y and good!

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.

My childhood favorite veganized: Kässpätzle

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For my our 10-year anniversary, the boyfriend and I had been looking for a nicer restaurant that would get us good vegan food. Our favorite Thai place was great last year, but since we had just been there a few weeks ago, we decided to just cook at home. Kässpätzle (elsewhere described as the mother of mac and cheese with caramelized onions) with our favorite brand of mock duck, and red cabbage. Too good! 

Filled curry bell peppers with quinoa

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I had a request for a "not boring" recipe of filled bell peppers on my facebook page a while ago... and here is my take on "not boring filled bell peppers." :)

I was making up the recipe as I cooked, so these ingredients are all in the dish,
but, for example, not the whole cauliflower. 

It's Fall! We need Apple Sauce!

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Apple sauce is great, especially when apples are in season, and you can make tons of nice goodies with it. For example apple pie. Or Himmel un Ääd, a traditional dish from the German Rhine land, which combines mashed potatoes and apple sauce with caramelized onions and veggie sausages.

Or eat it just plain like that.

Comfort Food: Mac'n'Cheese

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I grew up with Kässpätzle as my favorite food. Basically, that's homemade (at least where I grew up) egg-based Swabian noodles baked with lots of cheese and caramelized onions. Now, I have not managed to make anything that is quite as good as what my Mom used to make, however, the following recipe is great and super tasty. 

Oh and I recently got a really cool recipe (at a vegan dinner party that was thrown for me in Philadelphia!) for egg-less spätzle that tasted incredibly great! So I may come up with a Kässpätzle recipe some time in the future. 

New York Food Adventures Pt. II: Restaurant Edition!

Well, hello. I am glad I have a kitchen at my disposal so I won't have to afford eating out all the time. However, I managed to get to three different places in New York... and visited each one twice. Because they were too good! All three places were all vegan (with the exception of some beverage options at one) and served fake meats. I'm just mentioning this up front, because I know not everyone is into this. Anyone interested in my statement on fake meats? It's right here in my "Chick'n Wings" recipe.

Nun, hallo. Ich bin ja froh hier eine Küche zu haben, damit ich es mir nicht zu oft leisten muss auswärts zu essen. Nichtsdestotrotz habe ich es geschafft mir drei verschiedene Läden in New York anzugucken un dzu testen. Und ich bin in jedem zwei mal gewesen, weil sie so gut waren! Alle drei Läden waren komplett vegan (bis auf ein oder zwei Ausnahmen bei der Getränkewahl in einem Laden) und haben auch fake meat verkauft. Ich sage das nur vorneweg, weil ich weiß, dass das nicht jeder so drauf steht. Falls wen interessiert, wie ich zu fake meat stehe? Kann man in meinem "Chick'n Wings" Rezept nachlesen (bisher nur auf Englisch, aber die Übersetzung kommt noch).

New York Food Adventures Pt. I (Supermarket and Groceries)

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Although I cherish my hometown in the Ruhr, I am finding New York quite appealing, too. I love travelling in general, and going to the supermarket in a foreign country is definitely a highlight for me. ^^ All of these exciting new things! (And sometimes the shock of how expensive some stuff is.) So this blog post is about my food and supermarket adventures. (Restaurant adventures to be in a seperate post.)

Ich liebe ja meine Heimatstadt im Ruhrpott, aber ich mag New York bisher auch ganz gerne. Ich liebe es ja generell zu reisen und in einem fremden Land in einen Supermarkt zu gehen ist für mich immer ein Highlight. ^^ All diese neuen aufregenden Dinge! (Und manchmal der Schock wie teuer einige Sachen sind.) Dieser Blog ist also über meine Essens- und Supermarktabenteuer. (Restaurantabenteuer gibt's in einem separaten Post.)

Easy: Creamy Spinach with Chickpeas and Peanuts

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So, I am not in my usual kitchen environment. Instead of enjoying the beautiful Ruhrgebiet, I am in New York City! Only temporarily, though. I am still settling in and finding my way around, particularly in the supermarkets, but I am glad to have access to a kitchen in the apartment in which I'm subletting a room. I had originally intended to make something along the lines of my world famous (ok, it's not... yet!) Sesame Spinach, but since I couldn't find any sesame seeds, I had to come up with something else. And I like what happened as I threw together my very, very limited selection of food items. Getting set up in a kitchen without having anything in the pantry or fridge whatsoever is quite the challenge. But it worked! :D