Niccii - Asian sauces and seitan products - homemade & mail ordered :)

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Niccii,

 

Joanne Stepaniak has a recipe for vegan Worcestershire sauce, among other

sauces, in 2 of her books: Vegan Vittles and Ecological Cooking (which is

co-authored by Kathy Hecker. If you do a search for vegan sauce recipes online,

I'm

willing to bet that thousands of web sites will come up, too...

 

I'm fortunate to have two asian markets - one a HUGE supermarket, to rival

the size and selection of Wegman's (a huge supermarket with many imported and

organic foods)!!! If no Asian market is located in your area, there are some

online shops that do mail order. I'm not sure which you may want to try, but

also Morningside Farm has a lot of vegan sauces and foods. I get my nut butters

and lots of other foods from them, via UPS delivery - - -

Morningside Farm (it says " buying club " but anyone can order and you do NOT

have to join anything

http://www.morningsidefarm.com/

 

I know that " seitan " (the Japanese name for gluten meat substitute) is sold

frozen as Mi-Tan and other names, and is called " kofu " in Chinese. I didn't

scour the freezer sections of the Hong Kong Supermarket (yet but I found

ready to use wheat gluten in jars - some just in soy type sauce and others in

peanut sauce (ie: soy and whole peanuts plus seasonings). *ALSO* - I found

small

cans of " Mock Duck " , " Mock Ham " , etc. which are mostly seitan-based (the

" mock duck " and " meat for spaghetti " I bought do not contain soy protein, and

that is what I looked for)...

I got these things to put in my pantry for those days when I either run out

of vital wheat gluten (and, then, can't make homemade seitan) or if I'm low on

pantry items or can't get to the store - - - I can always steam or stir fry

some veggies with ginger and broth and sesame oil, then mix in the prepared

gluten proteins and serve over rice, noodles, or even toast

 

Yesterday, I bought (mushroom-flavored) vegetarian oyster sauce (brand is Wan

Ja Shan) and Vegetarian Hoisin (brand is Lee Kum Kee). I bought some jars of

cabbage in chili oil, to use as a condiment or in some recipes I might try.

 

Also, bought tiny sheets of bean curd skin (wanted to try a vegan (seitan)

turkey with yuba/bean curd skin from a recipe I found online:

http://www.vegsource.com/articles/bryanna_xmas.htm

 

BUT, being such a novice (*blush*), I got tiny sheets - the size of an egg

roll after wrapping....BUT, maybe I can make vegan seitan drumsticks out of

that! (LOL!?)

I re-read the recipe later (of course...lol), and found that BIG SHEETS of

yuba or bean curd skin are often found in the freezer section.....you can bet I

will bring a cooler along next time, and pay a lot of attention to the frozen

foods!

 

My son and husband got their fav snacks at the market:

sweet potato chips, seed/nut/honey bars, and " salad crackers " (large, very

crunchy and flat rice cakes that are drizzled with a very teeny amount of salt

and sugar mixture). My fav is glutinous rice cakes filled with red beans.

Tere is a bakery within the supermarket, and the market is actually within an

Asian Mall - with a cosmetics shop, a Zen music store, a point-pressure

therapist

(forgot the term, sorry

a video rental shop (I love Hong Kong movies, but it is a 30 minute drive

each way, so not that convenient for me to rent videos), and there was a book

shop, but it closed...

 

Anyone living in NJ? The Hong Kong Supermarket is in East Brunswick.

 

Love,

Cherie

 

 

> where do we all get our

> stirfry sauces from?ive found a brabnd name of vegetarian oyster

> sauce..but cant find to buy UUUGGHHH

> warm regards

> niccii-

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