3rd Veganniversary

As a vegan, you have to be happy every day that you're alive, because, as everybody knows, it's no way possible to survive at all on a vegan diet. No proteins and such, you know. So, every year that you survive has to be celebrated! Manuel's veganniversary is in January, but we celebrated a bit later. Pictures are not too good, because he was late from the airport and we were terribly hungry ;-)

First: Tofu fish sticks (the german recipe can be found here) with a bit of salad (carrots & apple) and remoulade (vegan mayonnaise I won at the Paris Vegan Day with cucumber and herbs).

Second: Mac & Cheese with alibi green stuff (spinach). Still have sauerkraut left over!

Third: Little layer cake with vanilla pudding and blueberries. The dough I made as in this recipe, the pudding as described here, without the chocolate, but with vanilla soy milk and some extra vanilla. The blueberries I found somewhere in my freezer...

The hidden powers of sauerkraut

Mac&Cheese seems to be a very famous dish in the US. I had never made it before, but I could not resist the recipe posted by Isa Chandra Moskowitz a few days ago: Click me, I am a tasty recipe! The reason was that it contained a secret ingredient: Sauerkraut! It sounded incredibly weird, but as it came from one of the vegan chefs I would trust the most, I tried it.

Seriously, this tastes fantastic! I have no idea what the sauerkraut does exactly, and how on earth one would try to use sauerkraut to obtain a cheese taste, but it works.

The only downside is that I have a huge glass of leftover sauerkraut in the fridge now, and will be eating it for the rest of the week...