Dessert / Thermomix / vegan / vegetarian

Almondy vegan panna cotta with red berry sauce/Mandelige, vegane Panna Cotta mit einer Sauce aus roten Beeren

Happy New Year! Frohes neues Jahr! Here is a great recipe adapted from “Veganes fürs Fest” by Heike Kügler-Anger  that satisfies dairy cravings for panna cotta and is ideal if you want to make something special for vegan guests. It has a delicate scent of almond from Amaretto and bitter almond essence. Of course, you … Continue reading

bread / Herbs / Prepare ahead / Tomato / vegetarian

VEGAN CHALLENGE DAY 10: No brainer focaccia with tomatoes

This recipe is from http://www.chefkoch.de and it’s easy to memorize. What’s brilliant about this recipe is that you just mix up the following ingredients: 450g white flour 450g lukewarm water 2 packets of dried yeast 2 tsp salt 1 pinch of sugar Leave this very wet mixture to stand for about 5 hours at room … Continue reading

bread / vegetarian

Cheat’s sourdough starter

The day before yesterday I started my first sourdough starter and since it hasn’t mutated yet into a green, furry monster and smells rather good, here’s the recipe from the back of the packet of sourdough starter that I bought: 150g store-bought liquid sourdour (I used this: http://www.schoenenberger.com/47/0/64/39/172/produktdetail.html) 300g quite coarsely ground rye grain 250ml water … Continue reading

bread / spelt / vegetarian

Apple bread with lebkuchen spices from the Römertopf

After my successful bread and roll making sessions two weeks ago, I started researching on how to make my bread even better. Last year I tried the no-knead bread developed by Jim Lahey which you’ll find here: (http://www.sullivanstreetbakery.com/recipes). This was delicious but I want to use less white flour in my kitchen. What makes Jim’s … Continue reading

Prepare ahead / vegetarian

Melvin’s rhubarb mango jam (Thermomix)

Well, it’s rhubarb time again here.  Since my step-son loves anything rhubarb, I’d thought I’d brighten up the breakfast table with some rhubarb jam. Since he also loves mango, this recipe was double delicious. The  recipe is from the German Thermomix recipe forum http://www.rezeptwelt.de. Use your google translator if you don’t speak German to flick … Continue reading

Garlic / Herbs / ovo-lacto vegetarian / pasta / Thermomix / vegan / vegetarian

Lazy teacher’s mushroom sauce for pasta (vegan/Thermomix)

Another recipe from the German Thermomix recipe site. It’s nothing spectacular, just something you can get on the table quickly during the week. I veganised the recipe by using olive oil (but on hindsight I prefer butter) and soya cream. Oh, and I added a LOT more pepper to my plate and used more than … Continue reading