Last week, I decided I wanted to research a use for seitan – essentially wheat gluten, i.e. flour with the starch washed out of it – that is so tasty, it could compete with the meat, poultry, and fish dishes on Top Chef. My inspiration was episode 1 of Top Chef Las Vegas when Jen, [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Seitan Piccata
Posted in Ingredients, Recipes, tagged seitan, vegetarian, vegetarian meals on September 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Food News, September 4, 2009: Top Chef, Wolfgang Puck, Organic Food
Posted in Baltimore, Food News, tagged organic food nutrition, top chef, wolfgang puck on September 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This week’s Food News is a grouping of odds-and-ends randomness, most of it taken from blogs: Top Chef news (I know, I’m always posting about Top Chef, but I just love the show), a day in the life of Wolfgang Puck, and insight into the question, Do organics equal better nutrition?: Hung Huynh, Clam Chowder: Hung Huynh is [...]
Homemade Seitan
Posted in Ingredients, tagged seitan, top chef las vegas, vegetarian meals on September 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the first episode of Top Chef Las Vegas, contestant Jen cooked a seitan dish. I was so excited to see someone competing with seitan, putting it up against expensive cuts of meat and fish. But the dish got her sent home. The judges said that they didn’t object to her cooking seitan; they just [...]
Canning Tomatoes
Posted in Ingredients, tagged canning, tomatoes on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have a theme going on this week – preserving summer vegetables. I didn’t realize that I would be freezing kale this past weekend, but I planned to can tomatoes well in advance. I wanted to redeem myself for my mistakes of last year, when I also had a plan to can tomatoes, albeit a [...]
