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The best pancakes I’ve had- this flavor combo is the best!
In Germany they have a lemon cheesecake flavored vegan yogurt that tastes like dessert. A few days ago I made a strawberry Chung (equal parts strawberry to sugar and it dissolves into a syrup). The strawberries taste delicious so I used the strawberry syrup instead of maple and layered in some of the strawberries on top. The lemon zest helped tie everything together.

Then the just egg omelet had leeks, garlic, and chives. I used a vegan ‘pizza’ cheese for the center and I loved how well it melted.

The sausages are vegini brand, they taste great. But idk if I would get them again because the inside texture kind of mushes and isn’t super firm. But it does have great flavor! In Germany a lot of the vegan sausages have cheese fillings which I think is great because they often can be a bit dry and the cheese helps add in more moisture. It also tastes great!

I poached the asparagus in vegan butter and water then coated it in a garlic amazake cashew cream sauce and topped it with lemon zest. I saved some of the garlic sauce and mixed it in with tomato sauce for pasta to go with it. I also roasted seitan glazed in a miso sauce to go with everything.

I would absolutely get the spargle again (if it’s on sale, it can be very expensive out here). That being said, I think most vegetables poached in a butter broth and then coated in a garlic cream sauce would also taste good lol

I made two batches of seitan chicken, one with vital wheat gluten and another from washed flour so I could see the side by side comparison.
The lighter, juicer looking seitan on the right is from washed flour. The denser and darker seitan is on the left.
(In the fridge it’s the washed flour on the left, vwg on the right)

Flavor wise and texture wise I prefer washed flour. It’s so much better.
But.
The vital wheat gluten seitan took me less than half the time to make. It still tastes good, and has a decent texture.

Both of the seitans simmered on low for two hours in the same broth.
Both were flavored with vegan chicken bullion, only the vwg version was made with hummus- so it had more flavor and oil in it.
Even with the extra oil and flavoring from the hummus in the vital wheat gluten one- I still thought the washed flour seitan had a better flavor.

I thought you might appreciate the side by side because I thought my new easy seitan chicken recipe would be just as good as my washed flour seitan. But nope, while it’s still good, nothing can beat washed flour

In Berlin there’s a vegan Vietnamese restaurant that specializes in Tapas. It’s called 1990 Vegan, and has to be one of my favorite restaurants!
I love the idea of ordering a bunch of small bites to share and everything is really delicious!

This is the second time I’ve been here and there isn’t anything that I didn’t like, I really enjoyed everything I’ve tried so far.

We got breaded tofu on a stick with peanut sauce, sticky eggplant and tofu, dumplings in a mango sauce, bao bun burgers, seitan with green beans, and a small bowl of rice for everything to go together.
Last time I was there I had their kimchi (which I loved) and other varieties of dumplings.

Recipe is in the description:
https://youtube.com/shorts/yoFnsuUA0Kw?is=HBsy67pbesHtzpbV