This year, there is no summer where I live. There have been some warm and friendly days but now the weather has been rainy, stormy, cold and dark. That’s why my pictures look so pale. There’s absolutely no light spot in our flat! Usually I eat a lot of salads and fruits at this time of the year. This year I haven’t had many salads and instead have been using my stove and my oven pretty much. For example to fry some eggplants and peppers and mix them with gnocchi:
Or to make different kinds of patties and Italian beans. The patties are Aloo Chana Chat (from the book World Vegetarian Classics by Celia Brooks Brown) and Lentil Carrot Veggie Burgers from here (original recipe by the Compassionate Cooks Cookbook). I made the Aloo Chana Chat patties for the second time and they have become one of my favourite staples. I make a whole bunch and freeze them and they can be prepared and thrown on the grill as well. The beans are Sally Veganini’s Italian Beans. Sally I know, this might be a weird combination, but I liked it very much.
And here’s my first own homemade sushi. I didn’t know it was that easy to prepare! I cheated and used a regular starchy short grain rice instead of real sushi rice. Next time I will go for the real stuff. I think the best part of eating sushi is wasabi. I like this special kind of hotness, which only lasts for some seconds.