About tempeh, gluten and a little OT stuff / was i am new - questionnaire :)

[Guest guest]

Hello again Jo ;=)

 

About tempeh - you ask:

 

>do you pronounce it

> " temp-ah " or just like it looks with an actual " eh " sound?

 

Well, the way I have learned to pronounce it is: TEHM-pay <shrug> I believe

that's correct - but if not it shouldn't pose a problem for your grocer anyway

;=)

 

> one more question: last night it was my hubbie's b-day and we ordered from

>a vegetarian chinese takeway place (the tofu in spicy peanut sauce rocks

> there!) but noticed they have something called " gluten balls " in different

> kinds of sauces. have you ever tried those and what are they like?

 

I assume it is a form of seitan - made from wheat flour. Perhaps chopped up

and flavoured to resemble me*tballs? Should be great - certainly worth trying.

The texture of seitan is different from tofu or tempeh but of course like both

it

takes on the flavour of the marinade or cooking sauce. Is that what you

wanted to know?

 

And now the OT stuff which I'll keep v. brief (or we'll have to go off list):

 

Re my going to school in Winnipeg, you ask 'university or younger?' Ohhh

much much younger - all that came later ;=) My family was only in wpg 6 years

and moved from there when I was 14. And that was, hmmmmm, half a century

ago . . . (And before you ask, it was St Mary's Academy.)

 

>parlez-vous francais?. . .

 

My French is abysmal, I'm afraid, although I can read it fairly well and make

myself understood in a pinch LOL So many years outside Canada kinda

ruined me. Fortunately, the citizens of Montreal are a patient lot and also, for

the most part, speak excellent English ;=)

 

Best,

 

Pat ;=)

[Guest guest]

greenfury2004 wrote...

>>Well, the way I have learned to pronounce it is: TEHM-pay <shrug> I

believe

>that's correct - but if not it shouldn't pose a problem for your grocer

anyway ;=)

 

thanks, i will try it out! i plan on going later this week.

 

Jo