Home office lunch for lovers.

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Sometimes my husband, Nemi Wildbolz, works with me in the home office and when he does, he’s mercilessly involved in the vegan kitchen. He doesn’t get paid a wage, but if he has done the work assigned to him to my complete satisfaction, I take over the cooking. Lunch should be quick and yet it has to be fresh, wholesome and healthy. Today we had a zucchini and mushroom stir-fry with rocket and spinach salad.

Recipe for “Courgette and mushroom stir-fry with rocket and spinach salad”

Ingredients

Quiche

320g organic vegan puff pastry, rolled out, round

500g millet, cooked

2 tsp vegetable stock

1 tsp turmeric

1 zucchini

150g mushrooms Mushrooms

1/4 tsp red pepper

Salt, iodized

Salad

200g spinach

150g rocket

3 tablespoons olive oil

2 tbsp roasted sesame oil

2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar

1 tbsp mustard

1 tbsp soy sauce

2 tbsp agave syrup or 1 tbsp raw sugar

2-3 tbsp water a little red pepper

Instructions

  1. Wähe. Roll out the puff pastry with a rolling pin and shape into wafers.
    Make even holes in the dough with a fork.
    Bake the dough in the wähenform for approx. 10 min. in a preheated oven at 200°C with circulating air.
  2. Meanwhile, season the cooked millet with the vegetable stock and turmeric.
  3. Slice the zucchinis and all the mushrooms.
  4. Remove the dough from the oven and cover with the millet. Now top one half with the zucchinis and the other with the mushrooms.
  5. Season well with salt and red pepper and cook for a further 15 minutes. Bake in the oven.
  6. Salad. Wash the spinach and rocket well and drain.
  7. For the salad dressing, place all the remaining ingredients in a medium-sized bowl and mix with a whisk to form a dressing.
  8. Add the salad leaves and mix well before serving.
  9. Serve the sausage hot and add the salad.

 

Cooking courses. New at Vier Linden.

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The vegan kitchen now organizes its cooking courses at Vier Linden on Hottingerplatz in Zurich. Be both chef and guest in a cooking class led by Lauren Wildbolz. We cook in the Vier Linden catering kitchen and go upstairs to the snack café for a relaxed meal and a chat. Some things remain the same. Only organic ingredients go into the pots. We source a large proportion of our ingredients from and via Vier Linden.

Premiere with the vegan kitchen cooking course “passion”

Are you passionate about cooking and want to learn how to cook vegan dishes with that certain extra flavor? Lauren Wildbolz shows you how to expand your food repertoire with sophisticated, delicious creations. We whet your appetite for cooking with a nutritious theory section. Then we prepare a multi-course meal together. After the pleasure of cooking, we indulge in the pleasure of eating and, if you like, drink red and white wine with it.

Four lime trees. The little gourmet mile.

The Vier Linden is a Zurich institution. Vegans make a pilgrimage to the Traîteur at lunchtime, which, under the leadership of Aris Gutzmann, takes particularly good care of the taste buds. Right next door is the health food store with lots of great products and a snack café and bakery are just one door away. We can only sing the praises of philosophy. Vier Linden attaches great importance to the careful processing of their products, which they produce by hand wherever possible. Additives and preservatives are their undoing. Products from biodynamic cultivation are preferred.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for your valuable contribution.

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Our Tattoo for Charity campaign raised CHF 2000. We donated half of this amount to Hofnarr, an animal welfare farm that is committed to animal welfare in many ways. The other half goes to Refugee Aid Switzerland.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all three tattoo artists who worked for a whole day free of charge and collected the donations. More information about the three of them:

sinchiliendo.com (Friday at the Vegan Market in the EWZ)

omtattsat.tumblr.com (Saturday at the Vegan Market in the EWZ)

kimrossini.ch (Sunday at the Vegan Market in the EWZ)

 

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Christmas cookie recipe.

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Recipe “Cookie cutters”

 

Ingredients

½ Vanilla pod

1 untreated lemon (organic)

250g wholemeal spelt flour

1 tsp cream of tartar baking powder

100g sunflower oil

100g rice syrup

Flour for the work surface

3 tbsp rapeseed margarine (or one without palm fat)

1/2 tsp turmeric

1 teaspoon rice syrup (or agave syrup)

Baking paper for one tray

 

Manufacture

Slit the vanilla pod lengthwise and scrape out the seeds.

Wash the lemon in hot water, dry and grate a thin layer of zest.

Thoroughly mix the flour with the baking powder, vanilla pulp and grated lemon zest.

Whisk the sunflower oil with the rice syrup in a large mixing bowl.

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Add the flour mixture and knead everything into a smooth, soft dough. Wrap the dough in cling film and leave to rest in the fridge for at least 1 hour.

Line a baking tray with baking paper and preheat the oven to around 170°C.

Roll out the dough in portions on a lightly floured work surface to a thickness of about 4 mm and cut out shapes of your choice.

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Place the margarine in a small bowl and mix well with the turmeric and rice syrup.

Place the cookie cutters on the baking tray, brush with the margarine mixture and bake on the middle shelf of the oven for about 10 minutes until golden brown. Carefully remove the baked cookies from the tray and leave to cool on a wire rack.

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Easily “veganize” traditional Weinachtsgutzli recipes.

Here are a few tips:

  • Egg yolk: 1 egg can be replaced by 2 tablespoons of ground linseed or psyllium mixed with 3 tablespoons of water. A great egg substitute powder can be made from corn starch and lupin flour, almond puree mixed with water or starch or soy flour mixed with water. Bananas can also be used for binding.
  • Protein: We recommend applesauce or freshly grated apples for the airiness of a pastry, or why not experiment with aquafaba? You can find everything about aquafaba
    here.
  • Butter: rapeseed oil or rapeseed margarine (palm oil-free).
  • Gelatine: Its simple; Agar-Agar.
  • Honey: agave syrup, maple syrup, pear syrup, apple syrup, coconut blossom sugar, dried fruit, raw cane sugar (panela/ muscovado), stevia or birch sugar.
  • Milk: coconut, oat, spelt-hazelnut, quinoa, amaranth, almond, rice or millet milk.

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Caption: Cookie cutters and children’s rolling pin from IKEA.

Tattoos for Charity @ The Vegan Market

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At the first Vegan Market in Zurich at the EWZ, I am venturing into a charity project: Tattoo for Charity is intended to support people and animals at Christmas time: Half of the profits from every tattoo engraved at The Vegan Market Zurich (2-4Dec 2016) will go to the Swiss Refugee Aid and the other half to the Lebenshof project With this charity project I want to the vegan way of life: I put humans and animals on the same level.

We are the artists here, for 3 days, one artist at a time:

sinchiliendo

For Friday from 11: 30-21h at Sinchi
tattoo@sinchiliendo.com
More information about Sinchi’s work at www.sinchiliendo.com
filipgauracandra
Filip Gauracandra is coming for Saturday
More information about Filip’s work “OM TATT SAT” on Instagram here
And his page here.
kimrossini
For Sunday 10:00-18h with Kim by email to

More information about Kim’s work at www.kimrossini.ch

Appointments until 30.11!
www.theveganmarket.ch December 2-4 at EWZ Zurich, Tramstrasse 35, 8050 Zurich

Autumn dessert. Pumpkin and persimmon crème.

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Pumpkin and persimmon cream recipe

(6-7 portions)

Ingredients

1 butternut squash

4 Vaniglia persimmons, peeled

1/2 tsp raw vanilla, dried

5-6 Medjool dates, pitted

Preparation

  1. Cut the butter pumpkin into small pieces and remove the seeds. Steam the pumpkin pieces in a steamer for 15 minutes and then rinse with cold water.
  2. Remove the skin from all the pumpkin pieces.
  3. Puree all the ingredients in a high-powered blender for 1-2 minutes.
  4. Chill in the fridge for 30 minutes and serve in a small container with dark chocolate.

More about the Vagnila persimmon: Persimmon tree

 

 

HAPPY WORLD VEGAN DAY

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Last night a friend said to me: “You can’t eat any more mushrooms either.”

“Why?” I asked.

He: “Smurfs live in there.”

Happy World Vegan Day.

Here’s to a future without annoying comments and more empathy!

Today’s event tip is our

Vegan cheese and wine tasting

At 7 p.m. at Waffenplatzstrasse 11, 8002 Zurich. All information about the event here.

A few places are still available, register spontaneously by texting 079 541 41 66.