-4 ripe red peppers
-3/4 c. TVP
-1 can diced tomatoes (i got "italian seasoning" flavor)
-1 small onion, finely minced
-5-6 cloves garlic
-1 c. cooked rice
-1/2 chopped spinach (frozen type)
-1/2 c. cheddar daiya (or any cheese alternative), optional
-1 T. oil
-1-2 T. vegan worcestershire sauce to taste (annie's or wizard's are vegan)
-1 veggie boullion cube
-1/2 c. water
-oregano, salt, pepper, chili powder, basil to taste
-breadcrumbs as topping (optional)
Reconstitute the TVP with the can of tomatoes and about 1/2 c. hot water. Dissolve the boullion cube in the water before mixing it in. While that is reconstituting, sautee the onion in the oil over medium heat, adding the garlic once the onions are translucent and reduce heat to low. Simmer for about 5 more minutes. Mix onions and garlic in with TVP, add chopped spinach, cheese, rice, worcestershire, and seasonings. Add more water as necessary. Season liberally as TVP and rice are both quite bland.
Cut the tops off 4 red peppers, remove the guts. Spoon the mixture into the peppers and cook for 55-65 minutes at 350. Sprinkle breadcrumbs over the top for the last 5 minutes of cooking.
I served mine with a side of steamed kale.
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Monday, April 11, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Onion/Spinach Pakoras
Sam's sister got him this "Indian Street Food" book that is very, very tasty and most recipes can be veganized without too much trouble. The book is by a photographer, and I didn't read enough of it to see where she got the recipes. The pictures are great as well as the recipe.
We adapted the pakora recipe as follows:
-bag of frozen spinach, thawed
-onion large onion, coarsely chopped
-1.5 c. chick pea flour
-1/2 tsp baking powder
-2 t. chili powder (to taste)
-1 t. salt
-1 t. curry powder
-dash of cayenne to taste
-water
-vegetable oil for frying
mix the flour, seasonings, baking powder together. Add water until it is the consistency of cake batter (runny). Preheat the frying oil in a small pot over low-medium heat (depending on your stove... ours seems to be directly connected to the earth's core so we have to set it very very low since magma is very hot). Test the oil by dipping an onion in the batter and then holding it in the oil. It should sizzle around the edges immediately. Take some spinach and onion, about a pingpong ball size, and coat it in the batter. Drop it in the oil and fry for 3-4 minutes until golden brown.
The biggest challenges were getting the dough on the inside to cook thoroughly. if yours are raw in the middle, try 3 things: 1) reducing the heat on the oil, 2) making your pakoras a bit smaller, 3) watering down your batter a bit.
We dipped our in Sri Rocha with some curry powder and garlic salt mixed in.
We adapted the pakora recipe as follows:
-bag of frozen spinach, thawed
-onion large onion, coarsely chopped
-1.5 c. chick pea flour
-1/2 tsp baking powder
-2 t. chili powder (to taste)
-1 t. salt
-1 t. curry powder
-dash of cayenne to taste
-water
-vegetable oil for frying
mix the flour, seasonings, baking powder together. Add water until it is the consistency of cake batter (runny). Preheat the frying oil in a small pot over low-medium heat (depending on your stove... ours seems to be directly connected to the earth's core so we have to set it very very low since magma is very hot). Test the oil by dipping an onion in the batter and then holding it in the oil. It should sizzle around the edges immediately. Take some spinach and onion, about a pingpong ball size, and coat it in the batter. Drop it in the oil and fry for 3-4 minutes until golden brown.
The biggest challenges were getting the dough on the inside to cook thoroughly. if yours are raw in the middle, try 3 things: 1) reducing the heat on the oil, 2) making your pakoras a bit smaller, 3) watering down your batter a bit.
We dipped our in Sri Rocha with some curry powder and garlic salt mixed in.
Friday, November 26, 2010
Thanksgiving 2010
Tempeh and Wild Mushroom Fricassee
This is from an article the New York Times ran this year, but I'm having trouble finding the exact link. This is pretty much the recipe. It's super easy and so delicious and healthy and something like 320 calories in a whole cup sized serving. Not that anyone I know cares about that.
12 oz (1.5 packages) of tempeh
2 c. button mushrooms, chopped
2 c. crimini mushrooms, chopped
2 c. shitake mushrooms, chopped
2 portobella caps, degilled and chopped
2 large leeks, chopped finely
20 cloves of garlic, minced (seriously 20)
2 T. soy sauce
1 T. flour
1/4 c. white wine
12 oz (1 can) veg broth
salt, pepper, thyme, and parsley to taste
2 T. oil
It helps if you chop up all the veggies first, because things get moving pretty fast once you start cooking stuff, and it helps to have everything ready to add all at once. Chop the tempeh into small cubes and cook in the oil in a dutch oven until browned evenly. Medium-high heat is desirable. Once the tempeh is browned, pour in the white wine and the soy sauce and stir it up with the tempeh til everything boils off. Remove tempeh from pan and set aside. Put the sliced leeks, all the mushrooms, and the garlic in the dutch oven and simmer for a little, stirring frequently. Stir in the flour, then the seasonings, and finally the veg broth. Cover and let everything simmer in there for a little while, when it's nearly done, add back in the tempeh and simmer for about 5 minutes uncovered until some of the liquid evaporates/thickens. Make it the night before and reheat it about 20 minutes before it's time to eat.
Family Recipe Vegan Stuffing
1/2 a log of the "gimme lean" fake sausage, cooked and chopped up small
1/2 a loaf of stale white store brand bread, ripped into pieces
1/2 c. celery, sliced very thin
2 small yellow onions, sliced thin
2-3 T. earth balance stick
1 c. veg broth
salt, pepper, thyme, and parsley to taste
Sautee the onion in the butter on medium heat until translucent. Add in the celery and sautee for 5 more minutes. Add in the fake sausage, the bread and the seasonings. Slowly stir in the veg broth, using more or less based on the staleness of the bread. This is best as a "drier" stuffing. Reduce heat to low, so nothing burns to the bottoms and cook for about 10 minutes stirring frequently/constantly.
Creamed Spinach
1/2 a package of frozen chopped spinach
1/3 a tub of tofutti better than creame cheese
1 T. earth balance
1-2 T. plain unflavored almond milk
salt, pepper, garlic powder, and cayenne pepper to taste
Thaw the spinach in a skillet with the earth balance over low-medium heat. Use a plate to cover the skillet so it defrosts more quickly. Add the cream cheese and the seasonings. Slowly add the milk until the desired consistency is reached. I love the kick the cayenne gives it.
I also made my "usual" roasted garlic mashed potatoes and mushroom gravy, both can be found in the way beginning of this blog with the tvp meatloaf. I also made a pecan pie which turned out really soupy and not that good, so I'm not posting it here. But thanksgiving was awesome this year.
This is from an article the New York Times ran this year, but I'm having trouble finding the exact link. This is pretty much the recipe. It's super easy and so delicious and healthy and something like 320 calories in a whole cup sized serving. Not that anyone I know cares about that.
12 oz (1.5 packages) of tempeh
2 c. button mushrooms, chopped
2 c. crimini mushrooms, chopped
2 c. shitake mushrooms, chopped
2 portobella caps, degilled and chopped
2 large leeks, chopped finely
20 cloves of garlic, minced (seriously 20)
2 T. soy sauce
1 T. flour
1/4 c. white wine
12 oz (1 can) veg broth
salt, pepper, thyme, and parsley to taste
2 T. oil
It helps if you chop up all the veggies first, because things get moving pretty fast once you start cooking stuff, and it helps to have everything ready to add all at once. Chop the tempeh into small cubes and cook in the oil in a dutch oven until browned evenly. Medium-high heat is desirable. Once the tempeh is browned, pour in the white wine and the soy sauce and stir it up with the tempeh til everything boils off. Remove tempeh from pan and set aside. Put the sliced leeks, all the mushrooms, and the garlic in the dutch oven and simmer for a little, stirring frequently. Stir in the flour, then the seasonings, and finally the veg broth. Cover and let everything simmer in there for a little while, when it's nearly done, add back in the tempeh and simmer for about 5 minutes uncovered until some of the liquid evaporates/thickens. Make it the night before and reheat it about 20 minutes before it's time to eat.
Family Recipe Vegan Stuffing
1/2 a log of the "gimme lean" fake sausage, cooked and chopped up small
1/2 a loaf of stale white store brand bread, ripped into pieces
1/2 c. celery, sliced very thin
2 small yellow onions, sliced thin
2-3 T. earth balance stick
1 c. veg broth
salt, pepper, thyme, and parsley to taste
Sautee the onion in the butter on medium heat until translucent. Add in the celery and sautee for 5 more minutes. Add in the fake sausage, the bread and the seasonings. Slowly stir in the veg broth, using more or less based on the staleness of the bread. This is best as a "drier" stuffing. Reduce heat to low, so nothing burns to the bottoms and cook for about 10 minutes stirring frequently/constantly.
Creamed Spinach
1/2 a package of frozen chopped spinach
1/3 a tub of tofutti better than creame cheese
1 T. earth balance
1-2 T. plain unflavored almond milk
salt, pepper, garlic powder, and cayenne pepper to taste
Thaw the spinach in a skillet with the earth balance over low-medium heat. Use a plate to cover the skillet so it defrosts more quickly. Add the cream cheese and the seasonings. Slowly add the milk until the desired consistency is reached. I love the kick the cayenne gives it.
I also made my "usual" roasted garlic mashed potatoes and mushroom gravy, both can be found in the way beginning of this blog with the tvp meatloaf. I also made a pecan pie which turned out really soupy and not that good, so I'm not posting it here. But thanksgiving was awesome this year.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Roasted Red Pepper and Asparagus Pasta Salad
I start my new job tomorrow, so I am making food to bring to eat all week. And it's spring. So I'm making pasta salad. I posted a pasta salad/bbq vegetables recipe awhile ago, and this is similar to that, but with less ingredients, and faster.
First, roast some red peppers.
This was initially intimidating to me and I was all like "omg, how do you do this, it must be so hard. i must google this and read 20 different websites to make sure i'm doing it right". you actually just put peppers under the broiler til the skins are black. It's about as difficult as making toast (if you are a toasterless hobo such as myself). So yea. First, do that to one pepper. After you broil them, put them in a freezer bag til they cool (the bag lets the flavors ruminate) for like 20 minutes.
The skins should peel off easily at this point. If they don't, whatever, skins are full of fiber and good for your bowel movements.
Here are the ingredients:
-bunch of asparagus, the skinnier the better
-half a sweet onion, sliced
-pasta
-1 roasted red pepper
-4 oz (1/2 a package) of tempeh
-olive oil
-salt
-pepper
-garlic or garlic powder
-crush red pepper (optional)
-the juice of a lime
-balsamic vinegar
-dried or fresh basil to taste
Sautee the onion in olive oil until translucent. Dump it into a bowl. Add some more oil, and sautee the asparagus until tender, with salt and pepper, dump into the bowl. Cut up the tempeh, add some more oil, crushed red pepper (optional) and some salt, sautee the tempeh until browned (i like all the burned crap that is on the pan at this point to give the tempeh a little extra flavor, but if that grosses you out, wash it off in between). Dump that in the bowl too. While you are doing this, you should've been boiling some pasta. I don't know how much because I like my vegetable to pasta ratio to be mostly vegetables, while some prefer mostly pasta. Once the pasta is done, drain it well and let it cool. mix everything together, add balsamic vinegar, a splash of oil, probably some more salt. Fresh basil is really good (home depot has the plants for like $1.99 and my mom has been out of town for 2 weeks and i managed not to murder her plant, so they are easy to take care of). Refrigerate until cool, taste it once more before you serve it and add more oil/vineger/salt/whatever before serving. I find the tempeh really sucks up a lot of moisture.
First, roast some red peppers.
This was initially intimidating to me and I was all like "omg, how do you do this, it must be so hard. i must google this and read 20 different websites to make sure i'm doing it right". you actually just put peppers under the broiler til the skins are black. It's about as difficult as making toast (if you are a toasterless hobo such as myself). So yea. First, do that to one pepper. After you broil them, put them in a freezer bag til they cool (the bag lets the flavors ruminate) for like 20 minutes.
The skins should peel off easily at this point. If they don't, whatever, skins are full of fiber and good for your bowel movements.
Here are the ingredients:
-bunch of asparagus, the skinnier the better
-half a sweet onion, sliced
-pasta
-1 roasted red pepper
-4 oz (1/2 a package) of tempeh
-olive oil
-salt
-pepper
-garlic or garlic powder
-crush red pepper (optional)
-the juice of a lime
-balsamic vinegar
-dried or fresh basil to taste
Sautee the onion in olive oil until translucent. Dump it into a bowl. Add some more oil, and sautee the asparagus until tender, with salt and pepper, dump into the bowl. Cut up the tempeh, add some more oil, crushed red pepper (optional) and some salt, sautee the tempeh until browned (i like all the burned crap that is on the pan at this point to give the tempeh a little extra flavor, but if that grosses you out, wash it off in between). Dump that in the bowl too. While you are doing this, you should've been boiling some pasta. I don't know how much because I like my vegetable to pasta ratio to be mostly vegetables, while some prefer mostly pasta. Once the pasta is done, drain it well and let it cool. mix everything together, add balsamic vinegar, a splash of oil, probably some more salt. Fresh basil is really good (home depot has the plants for like $1.99 and my mom has been out of town for 2 weeks and i managed not to murder her plant, so they are easy to take care of). Refrigerate until cool, taste it once more before you serve it and add more oil/vineger/salt/whatever before serving. I find the tempeh really sucks up a lot of moisture.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Scallion Pancakes
I made these in Indonesia, among other things, because vegan food was limited, as were the ingredients I could recognize at the grocery store. After 6 weeks I was pretty tired of Gado Gado. While I was taking a taxi to the grocery store to buy the ingredients for this, I found 1,050,000 rupiah ($110) that I got to keep because no one claimed it after I reported it to the cab company...
The recipe is from apartmenttherapy.com
Ingredients:
-white flour
-hot water
-chopped green onions
-salt
-oil
Mix flour and water in a 5:2 ratio to make a basic dough. 2.5 cups flour/1 cup water is good for about 3-4 people as an appetizer. Hot water (like close to boiling, or even boiling) will facilitate chewier pancakes. roll dough into a ball and coat in some oil. Cover with a damp towel, and allow dough to rest for about 30 minutes. Then, roll the doughball out flat and sprinkle it with green onions and salt. I haven't gotten the green onion amount down to science yet, but use an amount based on how much you like green onions.
Roll the pancake sprinkled with onions up like a snake. This way, the onions are on the inside, which makes frying them up easier/the onions don't fall out or get burned. Cut the snake into 6-8 pieces (if you used 2.5 c flour). Cut them into smaller pieces if you only have a small fry pan, larger if you have a larger one. Heat up a skillet and put some olive oil in it, and roll out the small pieces until they are about 1/3 inch thick (like pita bread thickness). Fry on both sides for about 2 minutes, until brown.
Serve with a dipping sauce. I use soy sauce with lime juice, fresh grated ginger, rice vinegar, and a bit of water just because it was what I had around, but really any "asian themed" dipping sauce would be delicious. Or, honestly, hummus (since I put that on everything).
I've relocated back home to Detroit and I'm unemployed and bored out of my mind, so I'll likely start posting more on here. Unless I get a job. If you need a women's health nurse practitioner in Detroit, call me.
I can has onion pancake...
The recipe is from apartmenttherapy.com
Ingredients:
-white flour
-hot water
-chopped green onions
-salt
-oil
Mix flour and water in a 5:2 ratio to make a basic dough. 2.5 cups flour/1 cup water is good for about 3-4 people as an appetizer. Hot water (like close to boiling, or even boiling) will facilitate chewier pancakes. roll dough into a ball and coat in some oil. Cover with a damp towel, and allow dough to rest for about 30 minutes. Then, roll the doughball out flat and sprinkle it with green onions and salt. I haven't gotten the green onion amount down to science yet, but use an amount based on how much you like green onions.
Roll the pancake sprinkled with onions up like a snake. This way, the onions are on the inside, which makes frying them up easier/the onions don't fall out or get burned. Cut the snake into 6-8 pieces (if you used 2.5 c flour). Cut them into smaller pieces if you only have a small fry pan, larger if you have a larger one. Heat up a skillet and put some olive oil in it, and roll out the small pieces until they are about 1/3 inch thick (like pita bread thickness). Fry on both sides for about 2 minutes, until brown.
Serve with a dipping sauce. I use soy sauce with lime juice, fresh grated ginger, rice vinegar, and a bit of water just because it was what I had around, but really any "asian themed" dipping sauce would be delicious. Or, honestly, hummus (since I put that on everything).
I've relocated back home to Detroit and I'm unemployed and bored out of my mind, so I'll likely start posting more on here. Unless I get a job. If you need a women's health nurse practitioner in Detroit, call me.
I can has onion pancake...
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