To make a great sataras...

To make a great sataras, add a spoon of Vegeta, Yugoslavian dried vegetables, and a spoon of fresh ajvar (a cream of roasted aubergines and peppers with chilli).

a bosnian recipe

Indeed I really love sataras, that is mixed vegetables, just vegetables. Moreover we use many of them for medicinal purposes: peppermint for instance and also roots, many different ones. Also parsley is used, it’s very good when dried to drink, it’s also good for the bladder. However when I am ill what makes me feel better it is just börek. We eat a lot but many different sorts, here it’s known just with cheese and meat, but we have it also with potatoes, pumpkin...

Almira-Ada Mesic, Bosnian, Gärten Rosenduft

Vegetables stew 

(sataras)

1 Kg red onions
1/2 Kg aubergines
1/2 Kg peppers
1Kg tomatoes

Cut the vegetables in little cubes.
First cook the onions in a pot with a little bit of oil.
Then put the aubergines and the peppers (roast them a little bit)
and after some minutes the tomatoes.
Add a little bit of water.
Cook for ca. 20 min then add pepper and salt.

A day cooking with giulia and Husniye Ozturk

ton steine gaerten

not just a bench

springtime

tulips

savory

preparing the ingredients

for a Gruene Bohnen Eintopf

bohnen and onions

two of us

onions and bohnen again

overview at ton steine

some parcels

Husniye Ozturk

behind the stage

giulia and Husniye Ozturk

making a video

and waiting for the lunch

it's almost ready

last frame

Gruene Bohnen Eintopf (French Been Stew):

2 red onions, 2 tomatoes,
500 gr turkish green beens (short and flat),
oil, salt.

Clean the green beens.
cut the onion and tomatoes in cubes.
In a big plate mix onions, tomatoes and beans.
Put salt.
Put the pot on the fire and add some oil , than add the vegetables.
add hot water nd cover the pot.
cook for about 20 minutes turning sometimes the stew.

1. In a skillet over medium high heat, melt butter and add rice, stirring and cooking til golden.
2. Add soup mix, then stir in water.
3. Simmer, covered, for 20 minutes or until water is absorbed and the rice is tender.
4. Add turkey and heat through.
5. Serve, if desired, with coconut, chopped peanuts, raisins or chutney.

Prinzessinnengarten

Other students and I with my family opened this place in July 2009. I wanted to become a father and have a job where I had not to work too much and could bring my kids with me. So, after living few years in Cuba, that has a very intense model of urban agricolture, I tried to do quite the same in Berlin. We cultivate all the different kind of vegetables you find in the supermarkets, but we use organic seeds to show our children how they grow and how better they are. Then we try to have a huge variety of kind for each vegetable. So we have 15 kinds of potatoes, 20 different kinds of tomatoes, 7 different kinds of carrots, 25 different kinds of ments, and some exotic things like 6 cm long beans from Africa. Some of the old women got cultural connections growing vegetables when they where young in Russia or Turkey or somewhere else. They have brought seeds or even plants with them from there, which they knew from their past, and which they wanted to have here as kind of piece of home. Many people have Turkish, Danish, French, American, English, Palestinian, Arabic, Indian, Swedish or Iraq ancestors. We have a very open system, so you do not have to become a member to partecipate.

Robert Shaw, British-German

In Germany we are not aloud to cultivate and sell herbs for medical purpose, so we do not cultivate any kind of these but we have got some things which are more for health. If you got a cough you can take a thyme tea or we have healing plants like comfrey.

Robert Shaw, English-German

Indigenuous people use some bushes for their health, but I do not know them. The same for our Chineses immigrants that have many traditional medicines using plants. However when I am sick I take fresh honey, ginger and garlic. They make me feel better.

Emma Rugg, Australian

We have rugbrød that is a very dark bread which is very healty because it is rich in whole grain and dietary fiber and contain little or no sugar, and is thus considered by many Danes as a healthy alternative to whiter types of bread. I never tried to bake it myself because it is a very long process, but my father does and it is always nice to come home and have the homemade smørrebred.

Ida Davidsen, Dane

I could find mangos in Berlin or kiwi from New Zeland, however they are not very fresh and it's not very good for the enviroment to buy foods that have been travelling half the world. So I do not like to buy them.

Emma Rugg, Australian

There is a popular Australian story that became a cartoon where a little koala - Blinky Bill - eats leaves from eucalyptus trees and these leaves have some medicinal benefits as his appendix can neutralise the toxins of the plants.

Emma Rugg, Australian

Prinzessinnengarten