Kale-Coconut-Stew

- potatoes
- root parsley
- root celery
- 1-2 carrots
- small can coconut milk
- small can chickpeas
- onion, garlic, ginger
- few leaves kale (curly kale)
- oil
- tofu, cut in stripes and fried in oil with some added soy sauce


This was a stew made out of a lot of different things which had to be used and this fresh green kale. As I made this a few weeks ago I'm not quite sure if I remember everything correctly, but it's a stew. You can't go wrong.

Cut onions, smash garlic, grate ginger and dice both the root parsley and the root celery. Oh and the carrots, too. I think I had one small carrot.
Fry in a teaspoon of oil, until onions get translucent.

Then add one litre water and salt, pepper, veggie broth,  a dash of paprika.

Let cook for 5-8 minutes and then add the potatoes and the kale.

Cook for another 8-10 minutes, then add the drained chickpeas and some coconut milk. I did use probably 3/4 of a small can. But these are just details and you can adjust this to your taste.
Let cook for a few minutes more until the potatoes are done or even a little longer, then taste if you need more salt and pepper. Serve hot with tofu stripes on top.

I love to make a big pot of soup or stew and have lots of leftovers the next day. Then I usually take some for work. You know, these stews taste better the next day anyway and so it's the perfect lunch at work.

Pasta with red cabbage and orange.

- 250g tagliatelle
- 250ml soy cream
- 1 large red onion
- red cabbage
- 1 orange
- garlic
- oil (olive oil, for example. Pumpkin seed oil works here very good, too)
- salt, pepper

Cook pasta according to instructions. Meanwhile finely dice the onion and smash the garlic (I used two cloves). Fry in 1 teaspoon oil and add 100ml water. Shred the cabbage and add to the onion/garlic mixture.
Bring to the boil and cook for about 3-4 minutes, then turn off the heat. Add salt, pepper and soy cream.  The cabbage is supposed to be just slightly cooked. Not raw anymore, but not completely soft and done.
I had the half of small cabbage head.

Peel and slice the orange.
Mix the tagliatelle with the cabbage-cream sauce on a plate and add some slices of orange. 
I love orange and salt by the way. Just try one piece on its own with a little salt sprinkled on it.

Fuzzy negatives.

These pictures are from November 2013 and were taken with the Yashica T4. Cross developed expired Kodak Elite Chrome. 


Some of them are the analogue part of walking around in Berlin at the Spree and Plänterwald.

Halloween on my favourite balcony in Berlin.

So many wrong things in this picture.

Heiterkeit. And a very nice dog.

Heiterkeit and Frohsinn. And crows. Spot the crows.

Plänterwald. Spooky ferris wheel.

Top of youth.

This is Nürnberg, not LA.

Taken out of my car while I was waiting at a traffic light.

Sceptic Kptn. Fuchs

Happy Kptn. Fuchs

I don't speak the language.

This year is totally weird so far. As there is more and more nonsense around me I just wanted to join in and so you get a weird package of things. Most of these things are actually totally last year. 



For christmas I received an adorable package from Hannah with luxurious marshmallows, tea and other pretty things. It's all about the pretty things and thoughts.
Thank you so much again, my dear. The coasters are not only good for good tea but also for long drinks, by the way. Drink your drinks with style.

These pretty things are my favourite christmas cookies since I can remember.
It's a rich chocolate dough with rum, a thin layer of orange jam (apricot is good as well), covered with chocolate and sugar sprinkles. Deliciousness. Did I ever posted the recipe for these? I don't know. Maybe I will catch up with it some day, if you want to.

 
Nearly every two weeks I have a new favourite meal. The last two weeks it was this soup and I made it three times: mango-hokkaido-soup. Basically: fry finely cut onions and garlic in a little oil, add hokkaido, fry for a few minutes. Add water, sea salt, pepper, fenugreek and cook til the hokkaido is tender. Add fresh or frozen mango, puree. Serve with some pumpkin seed oil. The pictures below are from new year's eve potluck. I had the rest of the soup in the morning at 6. Hmmmm!

Sunshine. A lot of dust.

This was my hair colour a few days ago for a few days only. Could you please stop asking me, if I dyed my hair again? The answer is and always be "yes" and you're all clever enough.

And if I happen to bleach my hair and let it blond, you don't have to worry, that I never will have any bright colours again. Just wait a few weeks. I'd appreciate it.

This picture is from today so: welcome 2014! Please, don't be so confusing. I want this to be a good year. 

Today's twilight. I definitely need more light, uh! More light and less weirdness, okay? Thanks.