What to do with all the saved food? Using normal cook books is not a big help when you see yourself confronted with 3 crates of carrots and 4 crates of avocados. Normally there are huge amounts of the same kinds of foods instead of a nicely sorted variety. On this page we'd like to share the solutions we already developed!
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When there's too much bread the obvious solution for Germans are Knödel!
Here's a suggestion on how to prepare vegan Knödel:
Having experienced that bread is the product we almost always happen to have too much of, we got pretty creative with our Knödel approach. Here are some variants:
Also called garlic soup, as it mainly consists of garlic, old bread and water. In the more original recipes meat broth and some additional jamón serrano is used, as well as eggs, which are boiled in the soup, but the super basic vegan version is as follows:
Dumster-dived a lot of fruit that will soon go bad? No problem at all as soon as you have a blender!
This recipe may sound a bit decadent, but we actually had loads of saved chia seeds, cocoabutter and chufli, so we needed to come up with things like the following:
Some things need to be cooked before they are ready to be consumed. In some plants there are natural insecticides that will protect the plant from being eaten. most of those substances can be neutralized by heating the food. There are several ways of doing this. I (fr4nk 0nf1r3) prefer steaming and boiling with water. Why? You can keep the temperature from getting too high. temperatures from over 130 degrees will cause fatty acids in the food transform into trans-fatty acids.
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These trans-fatty acids can cause problems in your cardiovascular system. Water cannot reach temperatures over 100 degrees at normal airpressure and will change its aggregate condition instead. Besides that I try to heat things as little and as short as possible. nutriens such as vitamins will be destroyed too if you cook things too long and too hot.
When preparing a stew you should also take into considerration that ingredients need different amounts of time to be ready. So most of the times it makes sense to start the pot with the things that will take the longest and add the rest in an order so that everything is ready simultaneously. You can alway add fats like vegetable oils after cooking to make things more tasty and rich in energy. I like to put oils on the table so people can also adjust this own their own.
There is this culture of frying - but nature made oils/fats for storing energy right? Overheating/destroying it would mean wasting it. |