this blog is a gift to my friend. we both like cooking and celebrating eating cause eating alone is no fun, right? we both hate all those posh kitchens, expensive tools, luxury ingredients and fancy, clean nails afterwards. our cooking should be then about fun and friendship, trashy collectives, dumbsterdived goodies and dirty, crusty outfit. oh, and veganism of course;-)



poniedziałek, 12 marca 2012

lviv manual for begginers

In order to have hot water I have to light a very specific diy installation and pray I'm not going to blow the whole apartment up. I managed to fall in love with few on new tastes (later, later my dear) and make the first dinner in a tiny kitchen, placed in the corridor and equipped with a bath tub. Yes;-) But what makes food tasty is not the luxury surrounding but my beloved friends!

I won't call this dish "falafels". My companions called them "cookies".

Ingrediens:
1. "cookies"
-2 glasses of chickpeas
-water
-anonymous Lebanese spices (if you ask google, it will propably suggest you to use kumin, parsley and coriander)

Leave chickpeas for night in the bowl full of water and then blend them without boiling. Add at least one glass of flour (best would be either soya or chickpeas), spices and chopped parsley leaves). You need a really good blender but you help your own old pal with some water and oil.
Fry little balls in deep oil!











2.rise with dried spinach
We found it in the kitchen and decided to use it! First we poured boiling water on dried spinach leaves. Then added to fried onion and garlic and stir everything on an old school Ukrainian pan without a hand;-)



It went well with rise, firstly fried on oil and then slowly boiled in a very flat pot.

3. tomatoes, cubrica and cucumber salat.
Well the only thing worth mentioning is this lovely spice you can find somewhere around the Mediterranean see;-)

Right now I am trying to find my place around few streets I remember from summer. So there's our small room I am trying to free from piles of goods. Then there's a cafe where my friends works and does a perfect latte with a heart on top. Then we have an ultimate varenyky (dumplings) venue. My office in the Art of Palace next to it and small rehearsal space marks the end of my world. In between I bump here and there trying to taste different beers and speak proper Ukrainian. Well, that's a challenge;-)