A big staple of thin pancakes, next to them cut up strawberries, quark, lemon curd, bananas and other things in bowls, glasses, and other containers.

We had friends over yesterday (remember the grand piano to be turned into a shelf? The work is progressing...), so I made one of the most comfort meals possible: pancakes! The East-European unleavened version (blini).

One of my favourite toppings is quark […]

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Plate with bagel chips topped with creamy cheese, plate with cut up mango and a mug with black tea.

Favorite weekend breakfast: Homemade bagel chips (the bagels are saved via "too good to go", frozen and turned into bagels chips one by one) with smelly cheese (this time it's Saint-Félicien), mango, black tea.

#ViciCooks #breakfast #frühstück #food #kochen

A pretty bowl with green creamy soup and a slice of brown bread next to it.

I attended a training in The Hague last week & the guy who runs the location provided a lovely Dutch lunch - freshly made soup, warm bread, cheeses + spreads.

I loved the courgette/zucchini, mint & chili soup (chili & the mint play so well off each other!) […]

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A green bowl with the dish described in the post.

Another "it's not really a recipe, but something that I make often". Originally a tortilla filling recipe that went through too many transformation and got veganised.

Vegetarian mince, black beans and corn with fresh peppers, tomatoes and avocado. The […]

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Plate with cheese spätzle topped with fried onions and a salad on the side.

Friends came over yesterday and we used the chance to do Kässpätzle (cheese spätzle) from scratch. Super easy - need to remember to make (and freeze) spätzle more often!

#ViciCooks #cooking #kochen #spätzle

Dish with rice noodles but mainly with vegetable (sugar snaps, carrots, bean sprouts, scallions) and tempeh, topped with some peanuts and a quarter of a lime.

Today's dinner is not quiet vegetarian (can be easily turned into by using vegetarian oyster and fush sauce substitutes) not really pad Thai.

Not a complicated recipe but one that requires quiet a bit of chopping. And also one that developed really far off […]

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A plate with a lot of fluffy pancakes.

Three fluffy pancakes on a plate, with maple syrup over them.

I usually prefer Eastern-European style thin unleavened blinis, but somehow I felt like US-styke banana #pancakes for days. And since it's Saturday and I had some very sad bananas in my fridge ...

Voila! They are melt-in-your-mouth perfect.

I followed this […]

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A plate with pan fried oyster myshrooms and next to it, partially visible a big bowl with salad (different salad leaves, onions, tomatoes, red long peppers).

Sometimes it's back to the basics - pan fried oyster mushrooms (mushrooms, olive oil, salt, pepper, a few drops of lemon juice and a tiny bit of garlic) with a side salad.

We had the mushrooms +salad for a first time in a restaurant back in (high) school […]

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A white bowl with the above salad; the roasted vegetables are cut in small pieces.

Baked cauliflower, parsnips,l & carrots with quinoa & orange in a tahin-lemon-dressing. Topped with parsley (& in theory pumpkin seeds but I forgot them yesterday...).

Another veggie-laden recipe post-Spain. It roughly follows the link, but instead if using […]

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Dark green plate with yellowish cremay soup topped with carrot and kohlrabi strips and some parsley.

Kohlrabi & carrot #soup with cream cheese. Super easy new to me recipe, mainly made because past me had some leftover cream cheese she had frozen and now-me had to find some use for it while also trying to eat as many vegetables as possible after two weeks in […]

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A plate with beans and halloumi and a bowl with tomato salad with onions and basil.

Green baked beans (made by partner a while ago, frozen in individual portions), pan-fried halloumi & simple tomato salad.

Yum! And while the beans are quiet a bit of work, you can make a ton at once and heating them uo is super easy.

#ViciCooks #vegetarian #food #lunch #beans

Three bakes aubergine halves topped with bulgur with lota of herbs, yoghurt and almond slices.

Yotam Ottolenghi's chermoula aubergine with bulgar and yoghurt recipe

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jun/12...

I love this recipe, but the number of aubergines need to be tripled (we made six for four […]

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Mussels in an orange bowl with onions and white sauce on too.

Saturday dinner - mussels in a roquefort sauce.

We tried some when on vacantion in Northern France last year and partner, who is usually not even a mussel fan, fell in love with this particular sauce enough to learn to cook mussels himself (I'm the sous chef […]

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Cheesecake in an oven dish, brown on top.

Messy cheesecake (it's falling apart since it's pretty much just yge filling) on a small plate.

Super easy cheesecakeb 500g quark, two eggs, some sugar (1-2 teaspoons; does not have to be a lot if final result eaten with honey), some flour (~ two heaped tablespoons). Mix directly in the oven dish (high one preferred, it will become very fluffy). In the […]

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A red earthware bowl with noodles with a sesame sauce and peanuts on top on one side and a lot of round cucumber slices on the other side.

A friend came over yesterday which I used as a reason to make the glorious takeout-style sesame noodles with cucumber from Smitten Kitchen:

▶️ smittenkitchen.com/2015/08/takeout-style-se...

Not that one needs a reason to make […]

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Mixed salad with cubes of halloumi cheese in a green earthenware bowl.

Salad with pan-fried halloumi cheese.

It's somewhat too cold for salads, but I can never say no when the salad mix with raw beetroot is on offer. Yum! If you only know beetroot in cooked, you really need to try the raw version in salads. Needs to be sliced […]

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Bowl with red lentil soup with onions, carrots, tomatoes and leeks.

Red lentils & vegetable soup following a recipe I got (more than a decade ago!) from @advi 💚

Tastes best with a piece of nice dark bread (a visitor brought us some real one from Germany) with butter. Yum!

Also great on the next days and super freezeable […]

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Bowl full of melten chocolate and hand scraping chocolate mess from baking paper.

Chocolate covered praline moulds.

Praline-making: the resuts, process.

Only bits of it, since mostly my hands were too chocolate covered to make photos 😂

#ViciCooks #cooking #food #chocolate #praline #truffle

White pralines with gold shimmer.

Sesame covered truffles.

Heart shapes and half-round pralines.

All the pralines and truffles together on boards - it's a lot of chocolates and it's only half of what we made.

Praline-making: the resuts, part 2

#ViciCooks #cooking #food #chocolate #praline #truffle

Longisj geometric chocolates with gold sprinkles.

Square pralines with geometric pattern and gold powder.

White pralines with sprakly pink swirls.

Heart shaped pralines with gold sprinkles or purple swatches.

Praline-making: the resuts, part 1

(with many thanks to my amazing friend, a hobby chocolatier who knows how to make this and to her partner - winks - who has to deal with the mess we left in the kitchen after 8 hours of work!)

#ViciCooks #cooking #food #chocolate #praline #truffle

A small bowl with cooked down fruit turned into a chunky compote (apples and nectarines).

Have fruit or berries left over that are about to turn bad? Cut them & freeze them (just pack them into a freezer bag or box & don't worry).

At a later point, get them out of the freezer, add them to a pot, heat & cook on low flame until turned into a lovely […]

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Sliced roasted parsnips on a plate next to a dip made of Philadelphia cream cheese and sesame seeds.

Roasted parsnips with Philadelphia sesame dip. Given how rainy and dark it is today (and how _much_ work was), I really needed something simple and yummy from the oven to warm myself and the downstairs in the house up.

I could it some version of oven veggies […]

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Square bowl with above described salad.

It's getting too cold for summer #breakfast, but here it is one last time: thinly sliced celery sticks, apple, walnuts, a but if sour cream and balsamico bianco.

Kinda inspired by a waldorf salad, but very much not trying to be one. Not a big fan of celery […]

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Cross-cut figs filled with goat cheese abd baked in a baking tray. The figs open like four-petal tulips, revealing the innee flesh and the melted goat cheese.

As long as it's fresh #fig season, there will be figs with goat cheese, honey & thyme.

#ViciCooks #food #cooking

A plate with a lentil dish with roasted butternur slices and roasted red onions with lots of herbs and gorgonzola cheese on top.

Today's dinner was inspired by mastodon / fediverse: while I had this #Ottolenghi recipe bookmarked for a while, it was a post by @LifeTimeCooking https://mastodon.au/@LifeTimeCooking/115119852838139658 that inspired me to make it.

Not sure this one will be […]

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Big Japanese brown bowl with white creamy soup with bits of leeks and potato and salmom plus lots of dill.

It's not the perfect cold remedy, aka chicken soup, but still a good one for when sick - the recipe calls it "Swedish summer #soup" although it's a random German recipe, so who knows whether this is actually made this way in Sweden.

It's leeks, potatoes […]

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A wide dark turquoise bowl with buckwheat porridge topped with cinnamon.

#Buckwheat #porridge.

Because we all need comfort #food while sick - and because my grocery order will only arrive today si I don't have other breakfast in the house.

For semolina porridge, I like adding fruit, but for buckwheat, it's just cinnamon - the […]

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Green figs, cuts cross-wise and stuffed with goat cheese.

Today's happiness: collecting fresh figs, all sticky-fingered, from friends' garden. Add goat cheese, honey, thyme (from the same garden) and off into the oven with them!

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A bowl with small cut salad made ouf of cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, red onion, mint and sumak.

~ Mediterranean cucumber & tomato #salad ~

I loooove a simple but delicious salad!

Cucumbers (they do not have to come from your mother-in-law's garden, though mine did!), tomatoes and a red onion, all in small cubes. Add olive oil, mint chiffonade (fancy […]

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Five dumplings on a plate, one of them is cut up revealing a juice plum inside.

Zwetschgenknödel / blue plum dumplings

Essential summer food - super easy to make (assuming you live in a place that has some version of quark), these make a great "dessert for dinner" kind of meal.

I have enough of the dough in the fridge for tomorrow […]

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