At the beginning I only wanted to try out one recipe. But when I saw how many and simple dishes were included, I gradually cooked my way through almost half of the cookbook. The great thing is that they give you so much freedom to swap ingredients, try out spices and use what you have left or what is in season. The pesto, for example, we made with wild garlic that we collected in the forest on a bike tour. I also gave a glass of each of the homemade spreads to my grandparents, who were very happy!

This is a very nice cookbook. I decided to recook one of the recipes and chose the pumpkin soup. I was very happy when I found an organic pumpkin at Rewe, though there were some difficulties in chopping it. However, my granddaughter helped a lot, and after the about one-hour preparation my family sat down together at the table. We were 4 people who together took part in 9 workcamps: myself in 3 (Nice France – 1956, North Carolina, USA – 1990, Cappadocia, Turkey – 1994), my daughter in 4 (Neuchatel 1988, Switzerland 1989, Mecklenburg Vorpommern 1990, Slovakia – 1991) my grandson in 2 (Hungary 2009, Tanzania 2010). It was a great feeling.

We tried the curry recipe with slight changes. We didn’t have chickpeas, so we roasted some tofu without oil instead, then added veggies and some groundnuts later on. Secret extra: orange juice. Yummmmmmm!.

First of all, I want to thank for the cook book. During the quarantine I have time to improve my cooking skills as well as to try something new. So my first attempt is porridge. This porridge is really cheap, tasty and filling. A wonderful start of the day! I like that in this book there are not only recipes, but recommendations as well, that makes it meaningful.

Today I tried the recipe: Traditional Pasta & Vegan Italian Pesto. I chose it because I had very little time to cook. It was really fast and very tasty. My roommate was also very happy about it 🙂

I am a volunteer at GAIA in Kosovo at the moment and I got inspired by your cookbook flash mob. Thank you for the nice recipes and for the initiative to spread values about buying, preparing and consuming food. I tried the recipe Austrian millet stew and carrot salad together with my family. We even managed to be four persons in a kitchen and not to end up in a big argue… What I liked the most was that most of the ingredients were simple and easy to get, especially that you made proposals for using leftovers. Since I am not able to be in Kosovo at my project at the moment it gave me a good feeling to be connected to the world of other volunteers. I will try out more and more of the meals and I am curious.

I wanted to say thank you for this very nice initiative, it brought to me some new and warm experience. I really liked the Cookbook, which gives many inspiring and useful ideas on different variations on well-known dishes and helps to remember about conscious food consumption. It was very interesting to cook Curry in vegetarian version. I liked the result very much and I think I will use this one and other recipes from this book in future.