In the midst of our home renovation this summer, the carpenter’s wife came by with this awesome coconut cream pie… so you know I mugged her for the recipe. (The original recipe called for the cream filling to be cooked on the stove, the traditional way — but I’ll give you instructions for doing it [...]
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Many people have never heard of seitan, one of the more versatile vegan meat substitutes. Sometimes called wheat meat or Buddha food, it is formed by taking the gluten (proteins) from milled wheat, kneading it with water, and simmering the resulting dough in broth. Oh, and it is pronounced “SAY-tan” like everyone’s favorite Biblical bad buy. Which means I get a lot of weird looks when I start saying how awesome it is.
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