Category: Gourmet Atlas

The vegan tea party

Staged for your children!

A small vegan tea party needs a lot of doll crockery, which can be found at
En Soie
or
Ikea
(
imitation glass
& real
ceramic
). Lots of soft toys are also a must at a vegan tea party: Exactly this peaceful
piggy mommy
with her
three baby pigs
or rabbits like the one on the far left in the picture can be found
here
and here. Incidentally, we found the two wooden chairs on the street here in Zurich. The small round table is from a second-hand store. By the way, cake is a must with tea, or would you prefer a muffin? You can find several types of cake in the fabric version
here
. A delicious zucchini muffin recipe with lemon curd from our Kathryn from New York is attached below (just click on the recipe to enlarge the text).

If you live in Zurich or the surrounding area and can’t find the time to bake our fantastic zucchini muffins, then simply order the mini cupcakes from Michellés Cupcakes here.

And finally: Confetti and garlands you can easily make them yourselfSnowflakes garland instructions can be found here. More inspiration for a vegan kids’ tea party for a birthday can be found you.

The vegan kitchen wishes you a happy vegan tea party!

Without the yellow of the egg?

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A selection of vegan alternatives to eggs.

Replacing egg as a binding agent (especially in baking) often seems impossible. You should therefore first make a distinction: Is it about the egg and its special taste in itself, i.e. dishes such as scrambled eggs, fried eggs or boiled eggs, or rather about the properties that the addition of egg gives to the food? In the second case, it is important to differentiate between the “pictorial quality” of the egg yolk and the “airiness” of the egg white:

When it comes to specialties where eggs play the central role and are the main source of flavor, things get tight: a soft-boiled egg is just a soft-boiled egg and, like a fried egg, can hardly be imitated. There is one exception: the vegan version of scrambled eggs (“scrambled tofu”) is very easy to make: with normal, firm and smoked tofu as a base and the right seasoning (kala namak, a sulphurous seasoning salt from India, and turmeric for a yellowish color), the original can be imitated deceptively realistically and should convince even some lovers of the animal version.

Where eggs are used for the right consistency or as a binding agent, especially in sweet or savory baked goods, they can almost always be replaced by vegan alternatives. There are now even special egg replacement powders (egg replacers) that can be used instead of eggs according to instructions and are also very suitable for breading, for example. Unfortunately, these egg substitute powders are usually not available in organic quality and therefore contain many chemical additives. You can therefore also use very simple ingredients that at first glance have nothing in common with eggs. Here are a few impulses, quantity always for 1 egg per replacement:

Egg yolk:

2.5 tbsp linseed with 3 tbsp water Particularly suitable for chocolatey and nutty recipes. Gives a slightly nutty taste and a high degree of firmness or bite.

1/2 ripe banana Particularly suitable for pancakes, muffins or cookies. The banana gives food sweetness and leaves a slight taste of its own (especially if it is very ripe), this should be taken into account.

2 tbsp water, 1 tbsp oil, 2 tsp baking powder For gluten-free baking. It works very well in baked goods, even without the addition of baking powder, but you cannot increase the quantity indefinitely and should ideally only replace one or two eggs with it.

1 level tablespoon of soy flour, sweet lupin flour or chickpea flour Very good for batter. It is best to use “full fat”. Chickpea flour has a slight taste of its own and is better suited to savory dishes.

1x egg white:

1/4 cup applesauce For cakes, muffins, cupcakes and much more. Do not substitute more than four eggs, otherwise the dish will have a stronger taste of its own. Best combined with liquid ingredients.

1/4 cup silken tofu Very good for creams or heavy and soft baked goods such as brownies, but also cheesecakes and quiches turn out very well with it. Best combined with liquid ingredients.

1/4 cup vegan yogurt Similar to silken tofu, not quite as heavy. Best combined with liquid ingredients. You can add a little sparkling water to make the dough fluffy.

If you want to learn more about vegan baking,
here is the link to the next “easy vegan baking” workshop
on April 12, 2016 with Lauren Wildbolz

Why don’t Vegnaer eat eggs?

A Green Smoothie a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

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But what are these green smoothies?

Green Smoothies were created in 1994 by
Victora Boutenko
and have enjoyed increasing popularity ever since. This is understandable, because with green smoothies we have finally found a way to consume the wonderful chlorophyll* in a delicious and digestible way.

Health and well-being are noticeably improved and men/women are given a surprising amount of energy. This is due to the many vitamins and minerals and, above all, the “living” ingredients that make up your green smoothie.

At a time when more and more convenience products are being consumed and there is less and less time available to prepare balanced and fresh food, it is absolutely essential to eat living power foods without having to radically change your usual diet. Prepare one liter a day and enjoy a glass of green smoothie between meals. This deacidifies, purifies and permanently regulates the body’s pH value and helps you to achieve your desired weight.

* Chlorophyll (from ancient Greek χλωρός chlōrós “light green, fresh” and φύλλον phýllon “leaf”) or leaf green refers to a class of natural pigments produced by organisms that photosynthesize. Plants in particular get their green color from chlorophyll molecules. Plants, algae and cyanobacteria have different types of chlorophyll, photosynthesizing bacteria have different types of bacteriochlorophyll. (Source: Wikipedia)

Recommendations for preparing green smoothies

Recommendation 1

Leafy greens, fruit and seeds belong in the smoothie, but not starchy vegetables, tubers and sugar. These make up a third component in the smoothie and would make the smoothie easier to digest over a longer period of time.

process, which would start a fermentation process of the fruits in the stomach (fruits and leafy greens are easily digestible, starchy foods have a longer digestion time).

Recommendation 2

Leafy greens are not only found in salads, but also in carrot, radish, collrabi, fennel, chewing stalk, chard, etc. However, most chlorophyll, essential amino acids, vitamins, trace elements, proteins, minerals and antioxidants are found outside in nature: wild herbs, medicinal herbs and garden herbs are the kings and queens of the green smoothie.

Recommendation 3

Drink the smoothie as a snack or as a meal replacement (make yourself a smoothie muesli) and your digestion will no longer cause you any problems. You can eat other foods approx. 3 hours before or 2 hours after the green smoothie. A green smoothie is also an excellent breakfast substitute. Drunk on an empty stomach, the Green Smoothie provides your body with many vital nutrients and supplies it with enough water to start the day with sufficient energy.

Recommendation 4

Don’t use 15 different ingredients in green smoothies.

This not only confuses the taste buds, but can also confuse your stomach.

As a recommendation, you can use 4-6 ingredients, e.g. Bananas, apple, lemons, cucumber, spinach and water.

The classic par excellence! This makes it easier for the body to absorb the nutrients and for your palate to identify the individual flavors and highlights.

Get started right away?

The next green smoothie course will take place on January 28, 28.1.16 at 18:30 in the Kochevents Studio with Lauren Wildbolz at Waffenplatzstrasse 11 in 8002 Zurich.

There are still a few places available: we accept direct registrations by e-mail to info@vegankitchen.ch.

Book tip:
GREEN FOR LIFE By Viktoria Boutenko
the
vegan kitchen& friends
cookbook and a practical guide to wild herbs.

Last minute Christmas gift ideas

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Christmas everywhere.

And presents! As a civilization-tested, urban Westerner, it’s good manners to find all this actually quite terrifying. Dictatorship of commerce, commerce madness instead of charity, ect.

With our vegan last-minute gift ideas, we definitely confess: we love gifts and giving each other presents!

Unfortunately, many people have lost the art of good gift-giving due to a sense of duty and Christmas stress. However, we have a few good last-minute ideas for you so that it doesn’t degenerate into a loveless Christmas consumer terror: Our gift-giving philosophy has three main aspects: Give something sustainable, give something non-violent (
ahimsa
), and best of all, give the gift of life by not eating meat at Christmas.

First Christmas gift idea

Give away an
animal sponsorship
from one of the sanctuaries* here in Switzerland. At the Tierlignadenhof in Kaisten, for example, you can sponsor deer, oxen, foxes, dogs and donkeys to support these animals all year round.

An animal sponsorship at Tierlignadenhof starts at CHF 30 per month for a cat, for example, and goes up to CHF 60 per month. for larger animals that need more food and recover expensive vet bills. Many sweet and lovely animals are longing for a godmother and/or godfather. As a sponsor, you will receive mail from your protégé twice a year. The great thing is that the sponsored child can be visited at any time. A nice trip to the farm in Kaisten included! Animal sponsorships can be made by e-mail to info@tierlignadenhof.ch or by telephone: 062 874 24 70 just before Christmas.

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Or an
animal sponsorship
at the “Lebenshof” at Güetlistrasse 45 in Hinteregg and give it as a gift? At Hofnarr, you can sponsor goats, pigs, horses, ducks and many more animals and give them to your loved ones for Christmas.

The jester himself: “Some people call what we do a ‘farm of mercy’. We don’t just do this out of sentimentality. No, we NARREN are convinced that animals are part of our moral sphere. It is not just membership of a species that makes a being worthy of protection, but also its capacity for feeling and suffering. ” With this in mind, the vegan kitchen warmly recommends visiting this great farm, or calling them today ( 043 558 25 41) or emailing zukunft@hof-narr.ch and becoming a sponsor!

http://www.hof-narr.ch/warum-tiere/

Second (fashion) Christmas gift idea

The trip to Sihlcity to the Sanikai pop-up store would certainly be worthwhile for a nice fashion gift: A Sanikai Blooming Bay College Denim Jacket (available in women’s sizes S to L // men’s sizes S to XL) is, in addition to an animal sponsorship, our vegan kitchen dream Christmas present!

Incidentally, these jackets were sewn in Switzerland, are made from 100% cotton denim (leftover fabric from a Swiss producer), as well as the inner fabric, 100% organic cotton from Turkey, environmentally friendly digital print, vegan finish!

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With the help of this voucher you can save CHF 25 until tomorrow evening (23.12.2016) and shop in the largest vegan online store in Switzerland
V-Angle
find a fashionable Christmas present for your loved ones? By the way, Swiss Post is still delivering until Thursday morning!

You can find everything here: V ANGLE the vegan Onlineshop

Third and final Christmas gift ideas

Why not give away a tried and tested gift voucher again? But not just any one, but one to feast on!

A voucher for a vegan brunch with Sandra from Vlowers in GZ Wipkingen, redeemable all year round on Sundays, Njam, Njam.

And this is how it works, just send an email to: info@vlowers.ch

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Or how about a tried-and-tested voucher for a little beauty feeling and feel-good factor?

Then give Pretty an Pure a call (+41 43 535 94 07), send an e-mail or drop by in person(right in the center of Zurich) and ask for a voucher for make-up styling, pedicures, manicures, facials, home-made products and much more!

Pretty and Pure

*Wikipediaexplanation of the term Gnadenhof: A Gnadenhof sometimes also referred to as a life farm or animal shelter, is a facility where pets, wild animals or farm animals are cared for by humans for an indefinite period of time. In contrast to an animal shelter, a sanctuary does not pass on animals it has taken in, but sees itself as a permanent sanctuary. Sanctuaries do not serve any commercial purpose. Their self-image is based on animal protection or animal rights positions. The first cases of facilities in which animals were cared for until the end of their lives are known from the beginning of the 20th century. The writer and small farmer Christian Wagner gave all the animals on his farm a reprieve and bought additional animals to save them from being slaughtered.

New cooking courses for 2016!

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The future of NUTRITION

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Panel discussion Wednesday, Nov. 18 2015 over lunch @ Hiltl

Meat consumption is increasing worldwide, while at the same time the area of untouched rainforest is decreasing, partly because it is being used intensively for the cultivation of soy for animal feed and as grazing land. Equally alarming is the state of the increasingly overfished oceans and the living conditions of the animals that serve us as food. What alternatives are available? Will we soon be eating artificial, less, no or different (animal) meat?

Discussion with

Christian Bärtsch, co-founder and member of the management board of Essento, a Swiss start-up dedicated to the potential of edible insects

Thomas Bratschi, ZHAW – Life Sciences and Facility Management Head of the Geography of Food research group, lecturer CAS in Food Responsibility

Rolf Hiltl, 4th generation owner and managing director of Hiltl AG

Moderation: Dr. Olivia Bosshart, KION

including the following questions and topics

– How can the constantly growing world population be supplied with food, especially protein?

– And with what type of protein? What does this mean for cultivation, “production”, distribution, eating habits, …

– Vegetarian cuisine is booming – is the future of nutrition becoming more vegetarian? Vegan? For which regions of the world does this apply? And is that a luxury?

– Will we eat less, no or different meat in future? Do we include insects in our diet? Or would you prefer artificial meat?

– … what questions do YOU have?

Details on procedure, place and time

Date: Wed. 18.11.2015

Venue: Hiltl Academy, Haus Hiltl,5. Floor, Sihlstrasse 24, 8001 Zurich

Podium: 12:15 to 13.15, followed by Hiltl finger food

Admission: Incl. Catering CHF 50.

Registration: until Mon. 16.11.2015. by email at anmeldung@kion.ch or at: www.kion.ch

More than just a juice store – Sasou juice bar

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Sasou is much more than a juice store…

This summer I’ve been traveling a lot outside of Zurich, so it’s been a long time since I’ve been to Sasou.

But when I was out and about in the Langstrasse quarter again, I was almost magically drawn to Tiffany in the Sasou juice bar.

I particularly like the Easy Rider juice (carrots, apples and ginger) and the vegan humus sandwich, and I don’t leave Sasou without stocking up on a few Powerballs anyway.

Tiffany now also has a vegan wrap on offer, which – as a self-confessed foodie – I naturally had to try on the spot. Very tasty!!! I simply took the humus sandwich with me to go.

Sasou’s offer:

FRESHLY PREPARED: 4 different sandwiches, 5 different salads, 6 variations of powerballs (raw dessert) and many juices/smoothies.

As winter is approaching, we serve a warming soup from Monday to Friday.

Apart from the cheese sandwich and the quinoa salad, everything is vegan.

SASOU juice bar

Neugasse 41

8005 Zurich

http://www.sasou.ch

Vegan cupcakes at the Streetfood Festival

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This time, the Street Food Festival is taking place as part of “Zürich isst” – the month of experiences around nutrition, the environment and enjoyment. Directly on the lake at Hafendamm Enge, between Seebad Enge and Quai 61.
The Street Food Festival No. 4 not only offers a selection of over 80 food stalls with delicacies from all over the world, but also makes the snack trend increasingly sustainable: instead of disposable crockery, reusable crockery is used, it is recycled and organic waste and garbage are strictly separated. This in collaboration with
Foodwaste.ch
and the Mercator Foundation Switzerland. Michelle is also represented again this time with her cupcake stand and is presenting three different vegan options:

– vegan Oreo cupcakes

– vegan peanut butter cupcakes

– vegan chai cupcakes

Your cupcakes are 100% handmade: go and try them!

There are no parking spaces on site. The best way to get there is on foot or by public transport. And it’s also best to bring a blanket for a picnic.

Michelle’s Cupcakes

Main Store

Luisenstrasse 19

CH-8005 Zurich

City Store

Talacker 34

CH-8001 Zurich

www.michellescupcakes.ch

Open from tomorrow: the new Hiltl roof terrace above PKZ Women on Bahnhofstrasse

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Zurich will have one more Hiltl restaurant from tomorrow.

The Hiltl roof terrace above the PKZ WOMEN at Bahnhofstrasse 88 in Zurich opens its roofs on September 2, 2015 – two large roof terraces with a view of Bahnhofstrasse.

You will find the popular Hiltl Buffet there. The stylishly designed roof terrace (see photo by David Biedert, www.davidbiedert.com ) invites you to eat on site and linger, but take-away is of course also possible.