Fantastic Mango Dip.

There was a half mango left in my fridge and I it had to be a dip. So I made the best mango dip today, using three ingredients:

- half a very ripe mango
- few leaves fresh mint
- 1 tsp soy sauce 

Puree everything together, et voilá: creamy, fruity, fresh, luscious, colourful, fancy but ridiculous simple and quick. It's perfect for a lot of hearty, spicy dishes and fried stuff.

I ate it to fried tofu slices together with mashed potatoes (sprinkled with coconut bacon) and salad.

Mashed potatoes are one of the best things and I truly don't understand how it's possible that there are people who don't recognize the importance of mashed potatoes. To vary my mashed potatoes I cooked them today together with a kohlrabi. I had a purple one! They're very pretty (but look the same like the pale green ones, once you've peeled them).

- potatoes
- kohlrabi
- vegan butter
- salt
- rosemary
- soy or rice milk

Dice potatoes and kohlrabi (kohlrabi dices should be smaller than your potato dices) and cook in slightly salted water until very tender and almost overdone. Drain the water and mash with vegan butter, salt, rosemary and a splash of soy or rice milk until fluffy and creamy.

Fried tofu slices are also simple as hell: cut tofu into thin slices, marinate in soy sauce for a few minutes and then fry the slices in (olive) oil until the edges get golden brown and crispy. Some garlic is highly recommended.

There are lots of coconut recipes out there, I used this as an idea but I skipped the liquid smoke and used shoyu instead of tamari. AND: I made it in a pan, this version is a bit quicker. Just use a very slightly oiled pan on medium heat and stir very often.

We're still crazy when we're sane.

On Saturday Kptn Fuchs called by and we had some delicious things besides a very nice evening, hanging out in the kitchen and chatting all the time.






Tofu, fried with ground hazelnuts. Mashed potatoes (with an apple), gravy and arugula salad. The whole topic was autumn/wintertime, I guess.

Arugula salad with miso-tahin dressing and vegan cheese cats.

get yourself a cat shaped cookie cutter and your favourite kind of vegan cheese slices

Vodka with pear juice fits also into this autumn theme, doesn't it?

For dessert we had wintertime cupcakes. Made the vanilla cupcake from Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World but used half a cup soy milk and half a cup apple-cinnamon tea (instead one whole cup soy milk) and added a few chocolate chips. The topping is soy cream with ground hazelnuts, vanilla and cinnamon.

sceptic cat is sceptic

Mashed potatoes with avocado and fried oyster mushrooms in cream sacue.

Does it sound good? It was.

I love to add veggies to my mashed potatoes to have some yummy mash up. This time I used half an avocado and mashed it together with well-cooked potatoes, salt and a little soymilk. 

Fry oystermushrooms in olive oil with salt and pepper. Add 100ml soy cream when almost done, sprinkle some herbes de provence (herbes de provence without lavender aren't herbes de provence, get it).

Let cook on little heat for another 5 minutes, then serve with the potato-avocado mash up.

Mustard-dill zucchini and oyster mushrooms with mashed potatoes and beet roots

I really love the dill and mustard combination in a cream sauce. And I love the magenta mashed potatoes!

Breaded soy steaks w/ mashed potatoes and mushroom gravy

Breaded in flour - soya milk - breadcrumbs (with salt and a little paprika). I added a few dried cranberries and a hint of cumin to the mashed potatoes.