Wild garlic, which is the best thing about living in Lower Saxony (besides being close to Hamburg). Here, it's a local seasonal delicacy. Not as ubiquitous as asparagus, but available in every grocery store.
INGREDIENTS:
1 onion (about 100 g net)
3 tablespoons of oil (30 ml)
2 bell peppers (about 250 g net)
150 g peanuts (see notes)
150 g cooked kidney beans (or canned)
1 sweet potato (about 300 g)
1.5 liters of broth (see Notes)
1 can of chopped tomatoes
250 ml oat cream
50 g wild garlic
fresh chili (optional)
PREPARATION:
Cut the onions into strips.
Dice the sweet potato.
Chop the wild garlic leaves.
Cut the onions into quarters, remove the seeds and white membranes, and slice crosswise into strips.
In a pot with a thick bottom and heated oil, add the onions. Once they turn yellow, add the peanuts and fry over low heat, stirring for about 5 minutes.
Add the bell peppers, optionally chopped chili, salt, and fry until the peppers start to soften.
Add the sweet potato and half a liter of broth and bring to a boil.
Cook for 5 minutes, then add the beans, canned tomatoes, liter of broth, and bring to a boil again until the sweet potatoes are tender.
Remove from heat, add the wild garlic, and stir.
VARIATIONS:
The idea behind this soup was wild garlic and plenty of protein. Kidney beans happen to be my favorite, so I use them quite often, but regular white beans or chickpeas would also work here.
Tomatoes provide umami, and of course, you can use fresh ones (but then you need to add them before the bell peppers, chop them, and simmer until soft). Of course, passata or concentrate can also be used.
The same goes for the cream. I happened to have Vegan Cooking Cream from EDEKA, but you can use another type or coconut milk. Or skip the cream altogether.
NOTES:
It's best if you can buy unsalted and unroasted peanuts, but if you buy salted ones, that's fine too, just remember not to salt the soup.
Of course, you can use water instead of broth in this soup, or good (if possible) ready-made broth powder. But homemade broth is better.
SERVING:
Serve it alone or with bread. A good addition may also be a spoonful of cold, salty yogurt.
Wild garlic is a native Central European plant, today protected in Poland, similarly recognized as endangered in some regions of Germany, where it is very popular and still harvested. It is also cultivated, for example, in Lower Saxony.
The name probably has its roots in the belief that a bear, upon awakening from hibernation, eats wild garlic as its first meal to regain full vigor. Similarly, Celtic warriors ate wild garlic to gain strength for battle, which was a kind of sympathetic or imitative magic. I pretend to be a bear (I eat the same as a bear) and I am as strong as a bear.
Naive primitive thinking, isn't it? How is it different from the morning routines of successful people that, according to personal development specialists, we need to copy to succeed?
For the Celts, success meant smashing many enemy skulls and surviving themselves. Druids, present-day wizards, and motivational speakers, helped the Celts in this. However, now Instagrammers and the celebrity class, presenting us with the perfect lives of contemporary heroes and gods on social media, are hot on their heels.
On Instagram, I mainly follow dietary, culinary, and subcultural accounts, so I didn't even know about the existence of the perfect Instagram couple who broke up. What they showed and what hundreds of thousands of their fans bought was a simulacrum, a marketing persona, a form without content, a hollow, stuffed life. An ideal product that is pure self-selling marketing. PURE EVIL.
But I'm not going to engage in lamentation and mourn over the corruption. Because it's nothing new. The organization of class society would not be possible without the existence of "simulacra" at its very heart, referred to by Marx as the "ideology of the ruling class, which becomes the ideology of the whole society." The aim of "ideology" is to reinforce class rule, sustain and justify the existing state of affairs. Whether through the divine status and lineage of rulers, the myth of meritocracy, or the ideologies of personal development.
Today, the Goebbels principle applies. How many propaganda messages reached us a hundred or two hundred years ago? even to someone who could read? Especially when someone closed the door behind them and went home?
Today, even when we close the door behind us entering the toilet, we have a smartphone in our hand, which is a carrier of "simulacra".
The essence of capitalism is the accumulation of profits and the constant conquest of new areas from which profits can be drawn. So even the toilet has now been conquered.
And of course, we consent to it ourselves. No one forces a smartphone into our hands, except for the prevailing ideology, also sometimes called "lifestyle".
This marriage with Instagram is a perfect illustration of such commodification. They sold, they were selling their intimate relationship. A kind of pornography, emotional pornography.
Simulacra are grabbing larger and larger areas, literally entering our beds and refrigerators and asses. But it has also been monetized in itself. We not only succumb to propaganda but also pay for it.
And you call the Celts, who believed that if they ate wild garlic before battle, they would crush skulls better, primitive, and stupid.
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