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Badger's seitan recipe of pure deliciousness

Boy has got it going on!   His cooking never ceases to amaze me.  I'm a lucky lady, that's for sure. 

Tonight he was craving chicken.  I'm not opposed to him cooking chicken at all.  But he claims to not like making 2 different meals in a night.  Whatevs, I say.  But it always works out in my favor because now he is in the kitchen whipping us up some chicken-style seitan.  SCORE!

Here is the recipe.  It's the kind of recipe that you can change things to adjust the flavor of the seitan, pending on how you want to cook it.  This always yields about 3 meals for the 2 of us, or works perfectly for a dinner party.  Please, invite me over if you plan on making this!  All in all it takes about an hour and a half to prepare, unless of course, you get distracted by racing your friends in New York at Mario Kart....

Serves 7 - 8 people
1 3/4 cups Vital Wheat Gluten Flour
1/4 cup Nutritional Yeast Flakes
1 cup vegetable stock
2 tsp. sea salt
1/2 tsp. ground black pepper - or, to taste
1 tsp. rice vinegar
1/2 tsp. ground coriander
1/2 tsp. ground rosemary
1 tbsp. chopped cilantro
2 tbsp. olive oil
1/4 cayenne pepper (you can add more, some like it hot!)

Whisk all of the dry ingredients together.  In a separate bowl, mix the cilantro with the wet ingredients.  Combine into one.  Stir until it forms a paste and sticks together like dough.  Knead 20 times, I kid you not, he says it's one kneady seitan!  Let rest for 15 minutes.  Meanwhile, bring a "big pot of water" and 1 cup of dry vermouth (you can substitute with other things, he sometimes uses triple sec) and 1 tbsp. table salt to a boil.  Cut the seitan roll in half, form each half into a hockey puck shape.  Boil for 45 minutes.  If it looks like brains a-boilin', then you're on the right track!
Usually he adds soy sauce, tomato paste, etc. as he usually follows this seitan recipe o greatness.  But he wasn't digging that tonight.  No siree. We ended up having it breaded and fried like scallopini.  He created some type of orange sauce that we drizzled over it, which was chalk full of white wine!  It was delicious.

Since I didn't have the patience to take a picture, this will have to do!


It looked nothing like that but I couldn't resist this picture!  Via Goop.

Scrumdidillyumptious

Last night, my super amazing and talented husband-to-be cooked up the most amazing vegetarian comfort food for myself, Inna and Alex.  Oh my goodness gracious was it good.  As a strict vegetarian of 5 1/2 years, I don't really miss meat but I miss having dishes with meat-like texture.  So one of my favorite things to eat as a veggie is Seitan.  I can't get enough of it.  I love wheat gluten!  I do!  Since it's not exactly convenient to drive several miles to Whole Foods to shell out $3.50 for a tiny block of Seitan whenever I crave it, David Badger decided to take matters into his own hands.  The man went and taught himself how to freaking make Seitan!  For me!!!!  My GOD do I love him.  And I'm reaping the benefits until the day I die.  I'm so lucky! Anyway, on to last night...

Having left work early, he decided to go home and whip up a batch for our dinner and a movie night w/friends.  I came home, browsed around online and managed to find the best idea ever for what to make of the Seitan.  Chicken Fried Steak with white gravy!  I haven't had a meal like that in years and years.  We were both so excited about it.  I mean really, really excited.  And it was SO DELICIOUS - I can't even begin to describe it in a way that truly pays homage to its perfection. It looked a little something like this...


But with mashed sweet potatoes instead of brocolli.  Badger - your cooking skills are phenomenal.  I will never take them for granted! 

We also watched District 9.  Have you seen it?  What a weird but pretty good movie.  I really had no idea what to expect going into it, only knowing that all of the close male friends I have were way into it. 



It really was a good movie aside from the gore!  But I liked the aliens and the plot and the effects and all.  You should see it.


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