MoFo19 BBQ Seitan Sandwich and Baby Seitan

It's cult Sunday here on Veganville. Every Sunday during  MoFo we worship Seitan. Today you are in for a special treat. Mommy Seitan, yes my Mommy Dearest, just located some ancient texts, something commonly called childhood pictures in your world. 

Before we get to our Hearts on Fire BBQ tonight take a gander, at this child. Can you guess who it is? That's right Bahahaha. 

Apparently, even then I had no shame, a virtue I bring to my job as adult Seitan.

Hearts on Fire Seitan BBQ Sandwich and BBQ Beans

By the way, the sauce really isn't that hot at all, really, I mean if you compare it to where I live most of the time.

The Sauce

1 15 oz. can tomato sauce (unsweetened)
1 6 oz. can tomato paste
1 T liquid smoke
1 T low sodium soy sauce
2 tsp cumin
1 tsp paprika
3 tsp 21 Salute
4 T unsulfered molasses
3 T agave
3 T apple cider vinegar
several dashes Tabasco

Pour all ingredients into a large mixing bowl and whisk.

For the BBQ Beans

1 15 oz can of cannelini beans (drained and rinsed)
1 15 oz can of kidney beans  (drained and rinsed)
about 1/2 to 1 C of the BBQ Sauce

Empty ingredients into saucepan and heat.

Hearts on Fire BBQ Sandwich

1 box of cubed Seitan
4 vine ripened tomatoes roughly chopped
about 1 C and 1/2 C sauce. More or less depending on taste
micro sprouts
2 hoagie rolls or 1 large hoagie roll cut in half

In separate bowl marinate seitan cube with BBQ sauce.
Spray saute pan with canola oil, add tomatoes and cook for about 4 minutes. Add marinated seitan cubes. Heat until cooked through.

Slice hoagie rolls. Spoon seitan mixture on to one side of roll. Top with sprouts. Devour, and use lots of napkins to wipe off your messy chin and your devilish grin.

PS The Blogger highlighter is possessed, hence the different recipe backgrounds. Please accept our utmost apologies.

Recipes for MoFo 8 Gesundheit Blog

Here are the recipes as promised from yesterday's Gesundheit post.
Thank you all for your well wishes. I am feeling so much better today. Your good thoughts helped.

Warm German Fest Potato Salad

2 pounds potatoes (I mixed Red with Yukon)
5 slices maple flavored tempeh
1 small onion diced
2 Bubbie's pickles diced
2 celery stalks diced
1/2 C veggie broth
1/2 packet of Stevia
1 T  mustard
2 tsp paprika
1/4 C apple cider vinegar
sea salt
 a few sprigs of parsley chopped

Place potatoes in a big pot and cover with cold water. Salt and cover with a lid and bring to a boil. Uncover and reduce heat to a simmer until potatoes are tender. About 20-25 minutes. You can check their tenderness by poking them with a fork.
Drain and set aside until you can handle the heat. You can do it! Cut into bite size pieces.
Cook tempeh in sprayed fry pan for about 4 minutes each side, remove. Spray pan again and add diced onion. Cook for about 8 minutes. Add broth, vinegar, Stevia, mustard, sea salt. Bring to a boil.
Place bite size potatoes in bowl add cooked tempeh, celery, and pickle, then toss with dressing.

Sprinkle with parsley.

 

Apple and Horseradish Creme (based on recipe from Joy Of Cooking)

 

1/4 C grated horseradish

1/3 C diced pippin apple

juice of 1 lemon

1/2 packet Stevia

1/2 tsp sea salt

1/4 C plain vegan yogurt

 

 

Stir first 5 ingredients together in bowl. Add yogurt stir. This was the perfect accompaniment to our tofurky sausages.

 

 

Wishing you all good health :)

 

See you later today with a "Training Tuesday" post. 

Breakfast at the Mansion

I am a voracious reader. Yep. I read everything from cookbooks to gluten free cereal boxes. I imagine most bloggers read a lot. Still, I tend to mix up Gothic romance plots. I mean there are fires, and servants, madness and alcoholism in almost every book from Bronte through
Du Maurier. I get mixed up with whose portrait or person is in the attic and who kicked the bucket. My birthday is in a few days. I hope somebody puts a portrait of me in their attic. I need to slow down the ravages of time. Vegan moisturizer isn't that great.
My smarty pants friend, Marcia made me reread Rebecca, because I still confuse
Mrs. De Winters with Jane Eyre. Now I am less befuddled, but really, Mrs. De Winters is kind of a moron. I mean I don't care how naive or how new she is to Manderley, who in their right mind would allow this creepy donkey face Danvers create their menu for them. Let's switch up the heroines  for a moment, shall we?

GiGi De Winters: Yes, I would very much like to see the menu for the mansion, Mrs. D.
Mrs. Danvers: You can trust me, to make fantastic meals for you and Mr. De Winters.
GiGi De Winters: Um, yeah...I don't think so, Mrs. Dee. Last time you used a lot of butter and eggs, when I specifically ordered tofu scrambles for Maxim and me. I refuse to starve in this mansion.

GiGi De Winters and Mrs. Danvers argue about eggs.
Too bad Gothic novels don't have photoshop.

Mrs. Danvers: I didn't know what a Vagun was.
GiGi De Winters: Oh stop. It's pronounced vee-gun even in English Gothic romances. That's it! You are forbidden to watch "Paula's Home Cooking" anymore.
Mrs. Danvers: (Mrs. Danvers screams) but... but Madame, Rebecca always watched Paula Deen with me.
GiGi De Winters: Oh Rebecca this, Rebecca that. They'll be no Paula Deen at Manderley.
Mrs. Danvers: As you wish. (Mrs. Danvers exits)
GiGi De Winters: (calls after Mrs. Danvers) Oh BTW tomorrow I'll make my own breakfast!!! I have to fit into that shmata for the fancy dress ball.

Does this hat match? Eh, Doesn't matter Mr. De Winter is half blind. Wait, never mind, that's Jane Eyre's hubby who's blind.

GiGi De Winter's Manderley Breakfast (will feed two gluten free Gothic characters)

1 pouch of TJ's frozen brown rice or 2 C cooked brown rice

8 oz of coconut milk

1 rice cake (broken up)

1/4 C dried apricots (chopped)

1/4 C dried dates (chopped)

1/4 C dried cherries (chopped)

1/2 C pecans (chopped)

1/4-1/2 C agave or brown sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp nutmeg or allspice

Open the pouch of TJ's, (luckily there is a TJ's right around the corner from the mansion), frozen brown rice and dump it into the sauce pan. Heat for about a minute over medium heat. Stir. (You can do this with your cooked rice too). Add the coconut milk, and sweetener. Stir. Heat for about 5 minutes. Stir in chopped fruits and nuts. Add broken up rice cake and spices. Cook 'til hot. Add more coconut milk and sweeten as needed.

GiGi De Winters: (yells from breakfast table) You better not be watching Paula Deen, Mrs. Danvers!
Mrs. Danvers: Bahahahaha.
GiGi De Winters: Oh crap I smell smoke. 



Disclaimer
For those who have read this prior to my guest post over at Veganosaurus, Rebecca's ghost published this before I was able to get this to Susmitha. I will let you know when it airs over there. There will be an introduction that won't be included here. And if you don't already know my buddy, Susmithy, please visit her kick ass blog.

Thanks for having me Susmithey. Sorry gotta run.