A part of my diary, written by Mateja (Slovenia)

                                                                                                                                                       Jarenina, 1.11.2020
 
My daily life and feelings mixed with the bitterness of Corona impact...
(a part of my diary)
                                    
So here we go again, autumn is here and as it was predicted, with more indoor activities there came more corona cases. What does it mean for me, less freedom?
So the situation in Slovenia is not as strict as it was in spring, they divided our country in seven regions and we are not allowed to mix between, of course there are several exemptions but us volunteers don't fit in them.
So for me it is quite hard, I'm from Slovenia and most of my social life is based in two regions. First one is the region Central Slovenia, where I was based  in Ljubljana with my boyfriend for almost 4 years and the second one is Savinjska, where I grew up. I have my family there and friends.
And I'm stuck in Jarenina...
Like it or not I think it will be like  this till the end of our Organic warriors project this year. And if I survived the spring quarantine I will have to survive this one. In spring the thing that kept me going was my wish to collect as much as possible herbs, so I was exploring nature and managed to collect quite a nice collection of teas that we enjoy now in the cold days and we use them also as medicine when we get sick.
But as autumn came and all the herbs are slowly dying I started cooking in my free time. It reminds me of my mother's place, where it always smells like a five stars restaurant, it reminds me about me and Žiga and our cute little apartment in Ljubljana, where we cooked on rainy days fancy recipes and enjoyed the food. It reminds me about my friends, with whom I enjoyed life and food always with a big spoon and I can not forget my sister with whom shopping for food is more fun than anything in the world.
 
So this weekend I spent almost 3 hours on Saturday in the kitchen, having fun with myself and I prepared a wonderful vegan autumn meal.
I made a carrot-ginger-orange soup, autumn wanna be black beans falafel with sweet potato-aubergine and fennel + naan bread + tahini sauce + chopped vegetables and the best baked apples with a sweet vanilla-cinnamon-tofu filling.
 
I wanted to put the recipes here, but i can not. Because I have no idea about the quantities, because my cooking is never about following recipes. It is more about the feeling and the smell but i ' m happy to share the recipe for the naan flatbreads, that i took from the internet : www.okusno.je
 
 
 
Naan
(I MADE IT VEGAN, YOU CAN USE NON VEGAN DIARY PRODUCTS)
 
Ingredients:
 
200 g white wheat flour
1 small spoon of sugar
1 small spoon of yeast
1/4  small spoon of salt
1/2  small spoon of baking powder
1 spoon of oil
1 spoon of warm water
2 spoons of coconut yogurt/yogurt
2 spoons of oat milk/milk
 
How to make it:
 
1.       Mix dry yeast, warm water and sugar and let it rest for five min somewhere warm.
2.     Put in a large mixing bowl flour, baking powder and salt and mix all together well. Then add all the wet ingredients. Knead good all together for 5 min, this step is very important.
3.     Leave to rest for one hour or even more, the volume should increase 2 times. Then divide it in 4 or 6 pieces and make it flat. It should not be thicker then
      1-2 cm. And heat the oven to 140 degrees.
4.     Put the Naans on the baking pen (use baking paper or oil so the Naans will not stick to the pan). And bake them for 15 min, so they become slightly brown on top.
5.     Serve them warm, they are the best like that.
6.     <3
 
 
ENJOY/DOBER TEK