Ethiopian Cabbage and Quesadillas

My main dish today was the delicious Ethiopian cabbage dish that I make from time to time, the dessert was a coconut pudding with agar agar. I had some leftover quesadillas from a Mexican restaurant and added homemade ones for a bigger midmorning snack.

Mashed Potatoes and Company

Finally a bigger lunch again. I had homemade mashed potatoes and two soy sausages, accompanied by fried cherry tomatoes with a touch of garlic. Yummy! My midmorning snack was a sandwich with a sauerkraut filling (shown open) and some radishes.

Couscous and cabbage

Nothing new here. For this lunch I brought couscous with a vegetable sauce, I added some chickpeas for extra protein. My side dish was an Ethiopian cabbage-potato-mix.
As second breakfast and snack I had little turnovers with a feta-leek-filling and a banana.

Cabbage, Lentils and a Smoothie

More cabbage! I just love it. My lunch was a dish that's typical in the Western regions of Germany and is basically cabbage, potatoes, leek and carrots cooked in broth and spiced up with (in my case: veggie) sausages. It probably wins the first price for the dish with the weirdest name on earth - Schlabberkappes. Believe me, it sounds strange even for a German.
I also made Indian inspired lentil balls and brought some ketchup for dipping. My midmorning snack was a smoothie with fruits and beet.

Pasta, Lentils and a Bagel

For this lunch I brought one of my standard dishes, pasta with vegan goulash.
The side dish was something new, a Sicilian recipe for lentils with aubergine.
My midmorning snack was a bagel with coleslaw, I used this recipe for the slaw:
http://noteatingoutinny.com/2008/08/06/honey-wasabi-coleslaw/

Fried Quinoa with Kimchi and an Equally Exotic Dessert

This day I did again what you should never do and made three new recipes at a time. Don't try this at home, kids! I have to say that none of the three really convinced me, although I finished everything.
The main dish is this recipe of fried quinoa with kimchi:
http://mrandmrsvegan.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/home-cooking-kimchi-fried-quinoa/
I have to admit that I had never eaten kimchi before. I supposed I would probably like it , because I love sauerkraut so much, but it's really, really different and I still have to get used to it. The dish turned out totally okay, but I used too much sesame oil and couldn't really taste the rest of the ingredients, so that was probably not how it was supposed to be. I'll probably try this again at another point.
Then there's the dessert. This is sautauthig, the blueberry-corn-pudding of the Native Americans. This might not be a very unusual thing for you depending on where you live (Isn't the internet marvelous?), but believe me, for a German living in Spain it doesn't get much more exotic. It's not even very usual to find blueberries in the store, so when I spotted these, I just had to try something new. The dessert was nice, but, well, unusual.
And finally there are some stuffed mini-bell-peppers as a snack. I loved the idea of these, but will try another stuffing next time.

Ethiopian

I love to eat at Ethiopian restaurants, so I want to try some typical vegetarian recipes at home. This was my first take:

I made injera bread, a dish of fried cabbage with potatoes and carrots, and a salad. The injera did not turn out tasty at all (I'll have to go on experimenting) and I was not keen on the salad either, but the vegetable dish was totally delicious.
I had been making this late in the evening and had not any ideas or strength left to make something for second breakfast, so in the morning I just grabbed some pieces of krispbread and brought along a bit of margarine and a piece of camembert cheese.

A very German lunch

Now, this is a very typical German lunch - potato dumplings with gravy and red cabbage. I have to admit that the dumplings and sauce were convenience products, but I made the cabbage side myself.
I also brought vegetable skewers with fried bread as a snack.
Reality check: To get everything inside the containers, I had to shorten the skewers and cut the potato dumplings in pieces. Here is how the big container looked just before I shut the lid: