... and a Red One

Lately I seem to be drawn towards thematic lunches, especially those involving colours. Today I had a lot of red things - my lunch were spaghetti with a vegetarian Bolognese sauce and a cherry yoghurt. For second breakfast I brought little vegetable patties with pumpkin, carrots and red cabbage plus a little ketchup for dipping.

Bulgur Patties and Marzipan Snacks

I had some leftover bulgur from my Curried Aubergie lunch the other day and found a recipe on the internet for bulgur patties. This one used an egg as a binder, next time I'll see if I can substitute it with soy flour.
As a side dish I improvised a mediterranean vegetable mixture à la ratatouille.
My second breakfast were puff paste sticks with marzipan filling.
When I moved to Spain from Germany, I suddenly found that I could not easily buy many ingredients that I had considered quite basic, for example marzipan paste. So now I make my own, you just mix icing sugar with almond flour and add a tiny bit of liquid - water, rose water or bitter almond oil, or a mixture of them. Easy peasy!

Sweet pepper and corn stew

For this lunch I made three different recipes that were new to me - maybe not the best idea, but it turned out quite okay.
I wasn't keen on the wintery salad with sauerkraut and beetroot, but I loved the sweet pepper and corn stew from the book A vegan taste of East Africa. Okay, the original is probably not served with pasta, but for me the combination was perfect.
I also loved my dessert, a crunchy chocolate snack based on krispbread.
For my midmorning break I had little carrot-pumpkin-patties.
Apart from the milkchocolate dessert, today everything was vegan.