Treats.

cappuccino

oven baked food

vegan candybars named after good tv shows

not as pretty as here, but it was pretty yummy though

Twinings. I'm addicted.

Spaghetti Squash!

Another recipe in the "looks bland - tastes terrific"-category. And it's pumpkin and sqash season. And oh, I love the word squash. Sounds (and looks) more like a noise than a vegetable. Squash! Squashsquash!

This.....is a spaghetti squash:

I halfed my spaghetti squash and cooked it for 30 minutes unpeeled in very salty water with bay leaves. 

 After cooking it looks like this:

 

Now you can scrap out with a scoop the squash seed first and then the good part - the "spaghettis". The taste of this squash is quite neutral so you can use any hearty sauce you would use for pasta. I made it this time with a great creamy coconut-sauce with eggplants and sweetheart cabbage.

While the squash (!) is still cooking, cut eggplant into cubes, mince the garlic and fry both in 1 teaspoon oil, then add a little water, just to cover the eggplant.

Cook eggplant for about 5-10 minutes until almost all the water has gone. Cut the sweetheart cabbage into small pieces and add with another little water to the eggplants. Cook for 2 minutes, then add either coconut cream (liquid) oder a bit more water and the creamed coconut I used. It's a firm block as you can see in the pictures above, I used 100g and it melts in the hot water. I spiced this with vegetable broth, salt, pepper, a hint of curry. Cook all things together for another 5 minutes, then add fresh cilantro leaves. Serve with the hot squash spaghettis. (My squash was good for about 4-5 big portions altogether). Squash!

Delicious pan-fried Tofu with hokkaido squash.

- 1/2 hokkaido squash
- 1 big navet
- 175 g smoked tofu
- one handful small rice-shaped pasta (any kind of pasta will work, this one just looks cute)
- salt, pepper, garlic
- coriander
- olive oil
- 1 lemon

Cut sqash into pieces and fry in olive oil, then add tofu and garlic. When the tofu is golden add
navet, salt and pepper and stir it from time to time. Add a handful of small pasta and fill up with one glass of water. The small pasta will be done very quickly and soak up all the water.
If it's all done sprinkle with lots of coriander/cilantro and add juice of one lemon.