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Bed your Sweet Potato!

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Simple truth – sweet potato is a very, very delicious food! And, it is so easily tranformed into a delicious meal – the perfect ingredient for a lazy cook! For example – assuming you want dinner ready in 20 minutes (portions for three people) – take 300g of sweet potato (around 2) and 300g of cèpe (a French name for a very special boletus – yellow boletus). Also you need 3 shallots and as much fresh parsley as you want. First peel and cut the sweet potato into thin pieces – around 0.5 to 1cm thin. Put the peeled and cut potato into boiling water and leave it for 3 minutes. Afterwards discard the water and keep the potatoes at the site. Clean the cèpe and cut it. Peel the shallots and cut them as well. In a pan first heat olive oil to maximum until it starts frizzling. Then add the shallots. Reduce the heat to medium and fry the shallots untill they become glazzed. Heat them a little bit more until they start …

Smokey stuffed bell pepper – a cheap, quick and delightful recipe with nutritional yeast for lazy chefs

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I love stuffed bell pepper – they are a simple meal and taste gloriously. Usually, I use beef for stuffing bell peppers, and untill today, I never knew any recipe that matched the taste of bell pepper stuffed with beef. Well, there is an alternative. Today, I was forced to find it out cause I had no beef at home: use nutritional yeast… The recipe is quite simple. You need: 3-4 bell peppers (whichever colour you prefer) 5 onions 4 garliccoves nutritional yeast (mind that different brands really vary in taste; identify your favourite flavors before preparing this recipe) 5 medium-sized tomatoes 100g rice salt rapeseed oil for frying Cut the onion and cut the garlic. Heat up a pan and start frying the cut onion and garlic in rapeseed oil together withh 3 soup spoons of yeast and one table spoon of salt. Fry the onions at mediun heat for about 8 minutes untill they are white and about to show brown spots. In the meantime cut the tomatoes into squares. Open the bell …

On the spotlight: Windowfarm

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Have you watched their TED-talk from 2 years ago? Well by now Windowfarm advanced even further. The idea is simple: Why go out and by food (especially when it is cold outside), if you can grow it yourself in your apartment? After all growing plants at home is also an awesome decoration solution… Windowfarms gives you the solution. Nowadays, there are so advanced that you can chose between products ranging from, for example, “whole body mix” (very nutritious) to “color palette mix” (really a good decoration option). Besides looking good, it is of course always also a good trigger to focus on home-cooking a bit more.

3 sauces that fit to any fish

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There are tons of fishes in the sea. They do not only belong to a diverse range of different species, but on top of it they are all individuals. Every fish had an individual faith in his or her life before it got caught and ended up on your plate. And, you can taste this; no two fish will taste the same. Good cooks know how to deal with this variety. When you prepare fish, you need to take your time doing it. You need to observe how the textures and colour change during the cooking or frying process, and how the flavors blossom. Fish is best prepared with time and care. So what to prepare as side dishes? There are more answers to this question than cooks in this world. Fish dishes can be very elaborate and absolutely delicious. But, of course, one can also keep it simple. Just prepare the fish and one side dish (for example potato or spinach) and one sauce. Since I recently came back from Hamburg (where the image …