Re3: Thanksgiving 2005 now crockpots

[Guest guest]

>I've got Robin Robertson's crockpot book, and it's FAB. The lasagna recipe

>is just to die for! I don't have the book with me right now (more's the

>pity); it's in storage in Florida, but it has lots of really tasty recipes.

>I highly recommend buying the book. I got mine at Amazon for, I think, 15

>bucks? thereabouts, anyway. As well as main dishes, there are recipes for

>drinks and desserts.

 

Yup.... nice piece of work... she covered all the bases.

 

>

>There was a recipe in there that at the time, as I was a brand new

>vegetarian, sounded really strange, but which now I'm anxious to try: a

>Seitan Roast. Supposed to taste " just like " a *real* roast, cooked with

>carrots, taters and onions.

 

 

There's many ways to do this. One way is to cook the seitan first using a

crockpot, and later cooking that with veggies. She's using ol' Ron

Pickarski's " quick seitan mix " which will work, although I prefer using

more source ingredients. Not knocking Ron's mix, though. I've found all

Robins recipes from several of her books quite reliable and on target.

 

I spent a couple of years finally getting some seitan recipes (from gluten

flour) down. Still haven't mastered the crockpot cooking of the original

seitan from flour in a crockpot reliably without having to mother it all,

but certainly making a stew with existing seitan and veggies is pretty

straightforward.

 

In any case, I can speak highly of Robertson's " Vegan Planet " recipe

collection (400?).... managed to get the Calzone recipe into " No More

Bull. " There's some really really good work in Vegan Planet and I can

certainly recommend it from personal use.

 

A google search on " seitan and crockpot " might yield some interesting

results, btw.

 

Best, Mark

 

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