{"id":355,"date":"2008-09-16T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=355"},"modified":"2008-09-16T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T15:45:00","slug":"veggie-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"Veggie Meat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/2857270454\/in\/set-72157605135851684\/\" target=_blank title=\"click to enlarge in new window\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3128\/2857270454_a9b47d1e30.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=Indent><a href=\"http:\/\/havecakewilltravel.com\/2008\/09\/12\/fauxsage-a-gogo\/\" target=_blank>Have Cake Will Travel<\/a> has led us into the land of temptation.  Yes, we&#8217;re back into making gluten &#8230; but this time we&#8217;re not doing it <a href=\"http:\/\/wishiwerebaking.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/seitan-or-gluten-other-wheat-meat.html\" target=_blank>the hard way<\/a>, and we haven&#8217;t even gotten around to posting about the sort-of-hard way.  No, this time, we&#8217;re doing it the insanely easy way<del>, and eating the whole darned thing in a single evening<\/del>!<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>OK, you didn&#8217;t just hear that.  No.  Not at all.  Of <i>course<\/i> we were good enough to space out our gluten consumption over a few days, and a few meals.  Umm.  OK, no, we weren&#8217;t.  This went down our gullets all in the same night, sadly (but only &#8220;sadly&#8221; because we wish that we had <b>more!<\/b>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/2856451417\/in\/set-72157605135851684\/\" target=_blank title=\"click to enlarge in new window\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3020\/2856451417_ac33065cf2.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=Indent>This is the very basic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postpunkkitchen.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?id=15959&#038;p=1\" target= _blank>&#8220;seitan &#8216;o greatness&#8221;<\/a> recipe to which we were pointed by <a href=\"http:\/\/havecakewilltravel.com\/2007\/05\/09\/laurel-hardy-seitan-ogreatness\/\" target= _blank>Have Cake, Will Travel<\/a> back in the day.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1.5 cups vital wheat gluten<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 cup nutritional yeast<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp salt<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp paprika<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 tsp cinnamon<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 tsp cumin<\/li>\n<li>1-2 tsp pepper <\/li>\n<li>1\/4 tsp cayenne pepper <\/li>\n<li>1\/8 tsp allspice<\/li>\n<li>2 tsp garlic powder<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 cups water<\/li>\n<li>4 tbsp tomato paste<\/li>\n<li>1 tbsp tamari <\/li>\n<li>2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil<\/li>\n<li>2 tbsp vegetarian Worcestershire sauce<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=Indent>We didn&#8217;t do much else but follow directions, but we were so wildly successful that it won&#8217;t be long before we thoroughly subvert it to our own fiendish uses. (chilies flakes, anyone?) Please note I said we didn&#8217;t do &#8220;much else.&#8221; We did add great heaps of sage and diced apples and garlic (next time we&#8217;ll ease up on the garlic or add it in powder) to imitate St. Helena&#8217;s Gillwoods Caf\u00e9 chicken apple sausages &#8212; which, granted, we haven&#8217;t tasted, but it always sounded good. Next time we may use mushrooms&#8230; sweet potatoes&#8230; chives&#8230; The possibilities are endless.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent> Despite the pretty presentation (just for you out there in blogland), we gnawed on this for like 15 minutes before it ever hit the plates.  It was terribly tempting, and &#8230; after the first bite, it was basically the end, for this dish.  We don&#8217;t know how it is that <a href=\"http:\/\/havecakewilltravel.com\/2008\/09\/12\/fauxsage-a-gogo\/\" target=_blank>Have Cake Will Travel<\/a> ever leaves the house except to buy gluten powder, this stuff is so good!<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>DO follow the links to the recipe, and DO try out your creative muscles on this stuff!<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>Sorry for the short post &#8212; after snorting up peppers (not my eyes, my nose, of all things) my endless sniffles have morphed into some kind of evil sinus infection. Anyway, I have to stop blogging &#8230; and order more gluten powder.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/80x15.png\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>This work is licensed under a<br \/>\n<a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have Cake Will Travel has led us into the land of temptation. Yes, we&#8217;re back into making gluten &#8230; but this time we&#8217;re not doing it the hard way, and we haven&#8217;t even gotten around to posting about the sort-of-hard way. 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