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Home made dough with ground walnuts. Tomato-garlic sauce, topped with buffalo mozzarella, cherry tomatoes basil and olive oil.

To be honest upfront, I totally stole that recipe from smitten kitchen, but ended up not getting half of the ingredients. So I started improvising a bit.

Here is my ingredient list:

• one small red cabbage
• one small white cabbage
• 2 medium red onions
• salt
• some fresh arugula
• 2 small limes or one regular lemon
• some mustard
• some black pepper
• poppy or peanut oil (olive oil also works in emergency cases)
• ground cumin
• some sugar
• balsamic vinegar

Cut both cabbages in half, and slice it up in strips. Salt it a bit, or a bit more. Depending on how salty you like your food. Mix it up good and put it in a colander and give it five minutes to get to know the salt a little better. Taste it to see if it is too salty. Either add some salt or wash it very short to reduce the salt. If the salt level is right, find something to do for the next two hours because there will some real love go on between the salt and the cabbage for the cabbage to get soft.

While the cabbage is doing its stuff, peel the onions and slice them so you have rings (or half rings). Sautee them a bit in vegetable oil to they get soft. Then pour a little bit balsamic vinegar over it and add a little sugar. Wait for the vinegar to cook in then take it off the stove to let it cool down.

After 1-2 hours taste the cabbage. If it is good enough, wash the arugula and cut it into smaller pieces. Toss it together with the cabbage and the sauteed onions.

Squeeze the limes or the lemon (whatever you prefer), add about a tablespoon of mustard, a bit of cumin (you can't leave out the cumin, it is probably the most important piece). Add black ground pepper and about 50-75 ml of poppy, peanut or olive oil (if you  don't know what "ml" is: it is the unit that makes sense opposed to cups, etc). Stir it up quite heavily so the mustard blends with the juice and the oil. If you have one of those tiny cappuccino milk creamers, use that (it should be called vinaigrette makers instead). Taste it. If it is way to sour and lemonish, add a bit of sugar. But don't let the lemon taste go away completely, it blends in perfectly with the salted cabbage. Pour it over and mix it up. It will just look stunning and taste even better.

This recipe serves about 4 people.

What you need:

• a few potatoes (6-8 larger ones)
• a few carrots (about 3)
• a big onion
• garlic
• 2 cans of chopped tomatoes
• one bell pepper
• a can of kidney beans
• a little bit rice
• red wine
• sugar
• parsley
• cinammon
• smoked chipotle peppers
• nutmeg
• caraway
• vegetable stock

At first chop the onions into medium sized pieces, do the same with the carrots. Chop the garlic in smaller pieces take one or two cloves depending on how much garlic you like. Chop as much chipotles as you think are good. I’d recommend two. Now heat up some olive oil and fry the chopped vegetables a little bit. Now add as much red wine to cover it all and add some sugar, caraway, salt and black pepper. Now let it boil until the red wine is almost gone.

Meanwhile cut the potatoes into medium sized cubes (dont remove the skin!) and add them as soon as the red wine is gone, now add as much vegetable stock until the potatoes are not completely covered. Add the cans of chopped tomatoes to cover the potatoes. Now cook that for about 30 minutes and stir from time to time to keep the chili from scorching.

Now cut the bell pepper into short slices and put it aside. Wash the kidney beans and get a cup of rice.

After 30 mins check if the potatoes are soft enough to eat them (the still have to be somewhat firm).

If the potatoes are good, add the rice, the pepper, the beans, a little bit of parsley, some nutmeg and a little bit of cinnamon (seriously!) and cook it on low heat for another 30 minutes.

Afterwards check if something is missing and add spices if needed.

Now wait for the chili to cool down. Ideally you should leave it for a night and then re-heat it the next day (add some water if neccessary).

If you want that extra ground meat feeling, get a veggie burger pattie and chop it into small pieces. Then fry it with some red pepper powder and add it.

That’s it, enjoy your meal!