Chili

Today I brought some homemade chili with beans, seitan, bulgur and potatoes. It was nice but turned out a tiny bit too spicy. I accompanied it by a pretzel-type roll.
I also brought my typical quinoa-salad as second breakfast. Maybe an unusual choice, but this one of the very few dishes that make me feel filled and satisfied during hours. And it's delicious, so what's not to like?

Lots of carbs

A big lunch with lots of carbs - just the way I like it! ;-)
I had spaghetti with soy sauce and fried vegetables as lunch, a sandwich with olive spread and some chocolate as second breakfast and sweet bulgur with orange slices and almond flakes as an afternoon snack.

Risotto and Vegan Omelette

For this lunch I tried two recipes from a book about Italian cuisine - risotto with peas and a vegan vegetable omelette. I wasn't keen on the omelette, I'll have to try some other versions to see if I find a vegan recipe that I like. When I wanted to photograph everything, I found that it lacked some colour, so I added a salad made of tomatoes and bell pepper.

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.

Tomato Soup and Microwave cake

I'm not super-original lately, I'm tired of trying out new recipes and often reach for my favourites.
Here we've got a Mediterranean tomato soup which I made because we had too many tomatoes and some leftover bread, which are both key ingredients for this recipe.
My dessert was a microwave cake. I tried this one for the first time because we just bought the microwave a couple of months ago. For this you mix some basic ingredients in a pot and put it in the microwave for two or three minutes. Mine has not turned out perfectly, it was a bit soft on the outside and hard on the inside, I'll see if I try this again.
My midmorning snack was delicious, though - I had toast rolls with a filling of (very finely chopped) fried pumpkin with pumpkin seeds and garlic. Yummy! I brought some radishes as well.

Easter Holidays

Hi there,
I'm taking a week off, and I'm going to restructure the blog when I come back. I'm thinking about blogging on Monday, Thursday and Friday and maybe write some bigger posts for Sundays.
See you on Easter Monday!

Arroz a la cubana

For this lunch I made a dish that's very popular here, it's called "Arroz a la cubana", which means "Cuban rice". It's basically rice with fried tomato passata (which can be bought already prepared) and a fried egg. It's not the most healthy thing in the world, but nice from time to time.
As snacks I brought some grapes and a leftover piece of chocolate-pear cake.