Spicy Vegan Pepperoni Seitan

April 28, 2009

I take only 1% of the credit for this, the remaining howevermany percent going to Radioisotope at Sparkpeople, Joanna Vaught, and Julie Hasson (y’all can fight over proportional credit). By mashing together Radioisotope’s fantastic pepperoni spice recipe (she uses tofu) with the steamed seitan sausage numminess of Joanna and Julie (and a little wingin’ it on […]

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Convenient, Easy, Probably Unhealthy Tofu Toaster Scramble(r) Ripoffs

April 4, 2009

This one’s a no-brainer. A very tasty no-brainer. Go to your friendly Asian grocery Go to the tofu section Find the packages of “Age Tofu” (formally “Agedashi tofu,” sometimes written “Agé,” pronounced — without irony — like “ah, gay tofu”).  You’ll see little puffs of fried tofu about the size and shape of playing cards […]

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Lazy Dave’s $5-bread-machine Turkey-flavored Seitan

March 15, 2009

Bread machine seitan. As in “dump all this stuff into the thing; press button; go away.” Yeah. Life is good. I’ve been baking seitan loaves since the revered Seitan o’ Greatness grabbed the Net by the tubes a couple years ago. I wasn’t a fan of that loaf’s flavor, but I knew Sarah Kramer’s must-have […]

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Southwestern Stew

March 12, 2009

When my afternoon plans this past Sunday were canceled I decided to make up a big pot of stew. Even though Christie was out of town, I knew this would be a great lunch when she arrived home on Monday and we’d have some great leftovers for the week. I wanted to try a little […]

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Really simple, really good, really veggie garbanzo-centric utility soup/stew

March 12, 2009

This is a fast-assemble soup that is awesome with sourdough baguette/bread. I grilled some tempeh to toss on top as well… Ingredients: 3tbsp oliv oil 1 large onion (sweet/white) diced or chopped 1 large bag mixed frozen veg (peas/carrot/corn, etc) 2 16oz cans garbanzo beans 2 24oz cans diced tomatoes 12-16 cups veggie broth 2 […]

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Green Chile Stew

March 8, 2009

Some friends were bragging about real New Mexican green chile stew a while back, and I’ve been looking for a way to make it vegan and brag-worthy. Starting with every damned chile stew recipe on the Net (like this one), I replaced a few ingredients for reasons of availability, on-handedness, and/or laziness, and came up […]

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Ma’s (Un-)Chicken & Dumplings

March 5, 2009

Ingredients: 1 bag (or 12oz) of mock chicken of choice 1/2 white onion 3 tbsp minced garlic 1.5 cups frozen veg (peas, carots, etc) 1 cup sliced crimini mushrooms 1 cup chopped celery 3 cups Imagine Potato Leek soup Salt & Pepper to taste 3 cups Bisquick** baking mix approx 1 cup water or rice […]

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Garbanzo Stew Redux Me, Baby

March 1, 2009

Yes, there is a recurring theme to my Sundays, especially in the chilly, wet months. Stews, soups and thick warming dishes. The mix of garbanzos, tomatoes, and squash is so popular that I tend to just do some variations on a those three ingredients. Today’s stew is the best to date. Christie said to me […]

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Garbanzo Stew

February 16, 2009

Last Sunday, February 9th, the dinner request was, “Some kind of tomato-y garbanzo stew…” Here are the delicious results! 2 cups cooked garbanzos (yes, canned is fine, just drain & rinse first) 3 cups diced winter squash (like butternut) 2 cloves garlic, minced 3 “cloves” of shallot, chopped small 1 15oz can diced tomatoes 1/4 […]

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Tartar / Big Boy sauce…

February 10, 2009

Tammy, this one’s particularly for you… I’ve been missing Marc’s / Bob’s Big Boy lately ( 😐 ?! ) (as well as George Webb’s, but that’s exclusively a Wisconsin thing). I especially miss the classic messy as hell Big Boy burger itself, and the BBB sauce on it, which was a dill pickle relish based […]

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