Hi, I've started learning Bujinkan (the ancient art of ninjitsu) and the friend who inspired me to doing so is into the spiritual way of life having been in an Indian Ashram temple, denying most vices ie. also vegetarian. So when we invite him for dinner, the dinner comprises of various sidedishes. So I get to experiment with stuff that is "exotic" to danish cooking (although I guess it is quite common in the US).
Tomato-mozarella-salad ---------------------- Slice some sun-matured deep red tomatoes. Place them in a serving dish and grind some quality salt over them. Chop a red onion finely and sprinkle over the tomatoes. Slice (buffalo) mozarella cheese and place over the tomatoes. Pick apart some fresh basil leaves and sprinkle over the salad. Sprinkle with some pine kernels (roasted if you'd like). Squirt your best olive oil over it and squeeze an organic lemon, perhaps some modena balsamic vinegar. Decorate with good olives.
Bulgur with sun dried veggies -----------------------------
Rinse the bulgur, boil 10-15 minutes in salted water (1.5 to twice the volume of water). Open a jar of mixed sundried veggies in oin and rinse (it is probably not oilve oil in there). Mix with the bulgur. Add a squirt of good olive oil.
Bulgur with olive paste -----------------------
redneck coq au vini made this off the cuff at a friends house recently and they were blown away. keep in mind they were going to bake the thighs...
You can probably get olive paste (crushed black olives) at an italian gourmet store. Prepare the bulgur as above and mix with olive paste.
Chick peas with pepper fruit and corn --------------------------------------
Soak chick peas over night. Change the water. Boil 30? minutes until tender (not mushy) and remove water. Before completely done, slice and stir-fry yellow, red, green peppers. Squeeze an organic lemon into the peas, add some good olive oil, and mix with peppers and corn. Perhaps also some green peas.
Lentils with Lime -----------------
Like the chick peas prepare so they are tender, not mushy. If they are green they might need to soak some hours. The red ones do not (boil only 10-15 minutes). Squeeze some lime juice into them and some good olive oil.
