There's definitely no chicken in here. I remember my grandmother's delicious golden broth with homemade egg noodles and parsley very fondly. I also remember that when I was done eating it, leftover in the bottom of my bowl would be pieces of chicken. I'm not saying I never liked meat, I guess I just really didn't like it that much. (I also remember loving Thanksgiving dinner at my grandma's house, and putting turkey on my plate just because everyone called it "Turkey day", and then leaving it on my plate when I was finished with everything else. Turkey was always my least favorite thing about Thanksgiving.)
I had a craving for it yesterday. She usually made it with home made egg noodles - spaetzle. (Sometimes she would buy frozen egg noodles and we'd all be slightly disappointed but not say anything.)
I was making a bunch of other things while I was doing this, so it kind of got away from me. But it's delicious, and this is what I did.
cook one tiny onion and one lg shallot in a bit of olive oil until they're beginning to be translucent.
add about 10 baby carrots. cook for another minute or two. add a hefty teaspoon of garlic salt (I'm almost out of garlic) and stir for a minute. then,
add 4 c vegetable broth (I had some from Costco that was heavy on the carrot, which was good for this recipe) slowly to deglaze pan at first. Bring to boil.
Add some herbs - a bit of tarragon and sage, and a hefty handful fresh parsley. Add lots of pepper.
Add about 3/4 c diced seitan (i made homemade seitan last week, otherwise I would've used something else. I kind of like it, though.)
Cook for awhile why you
Mix 1/2 c whole wheat flour with 1 egg. Add water/milk if needed or more flour to create a very sticky dough. Force dough through a grater using the largest holes you can find to create spaetzle (about a 1/2 inch at a time, atmost), drop in boiling soup. The noodles will probably stick to the underside of the grater - use a knife to cut them free. Cook until noodles are done (float to top.)
Adjust for seasonings, add water if necessary throughout process (as in, if you have let it boil down too much and ran out of liquid!)
I was afraid my spaetzle was all going to stick together because I did it so precariously, and there are some noodles that are rather large and a couple stuck together, but it turned out alright. As in, delicious.
1/5/12
chocolate-raspberry hand-pies
i haven't made this yet, but i bought frozen raspberries today and if i wasn't so sick, and ready for bed (at almost 6:30.... hmmmm) i would make it today.
my sister bought be "vegan pie in the sky" for christmas, which features a raspberry pie with balsamic vinegar, crust recipes with cocoa powder, and many recipes for individual hand pies. but i want all three - chocolate-crusted hand pie with that balsamic-hinted raspberry filling.
the handpies in "vegan pie" are square, but i'm making round ones. maybe i should use the regular dough instead of puffy pie dough, but hell, i'm changing the dough recipe all around anyway so who the fuck cares.
so this is how i'm going to do it:
filling:
1 bag (2.5 cups) frozen raspberries
1.5 T cornstarch
1 T balsamic vinegar
1/3 c shugar
shake of salt
mix, crumbling together, then RETURN TO FREEZER.
handpie dough (i thought it would be too much dough but then i realized i want to make them in a muffin tin instead of round which might take more dough.):
1.5 c flour (probably combo buckwheat/multi-grain? i'll let you know)
.5 c black cocoa powder (because I have it)
3 T sugar
1/2 t salt
1/2 t baking powder
1/2 c butter
1/2 c sour cream
1/4 c soymilk
add more flour if necessary.
roll out choco dough. use a largish bowl to cut out pieces and fit each into pie tin. roll out dough and cut out circles that will cover the dough (maybe with a fun star cut out in the middle to go on top?)
make sure your oven is preheated to 350 before proceeding.
then take out frozen pie filling, mash, and fill the pies quickly, cover and seal, and bake.
yum.
i'm excited for tomorrow/whenever i stop feeling like shit.
my sister bought be "vegan pie in the sky" for christmas, which features a raspberry pie with balsamic vinegar, crust recipes with cocoa powder, and many recipes for individual hand pies. but i want all three - chocolate-crusted hand pie with that balsamic-hinted raspberry filling.
the handpies in "vegan pie" are square, but i'm making round ones. maybe i should use the regular dough instead of puffy pie dough, but hell, i'm changing the dough recipe all around anyway so who the fuck cares.
so this is how i'm going to do it:
filling:
1 bag (2.5 cups) frozen raspberries
1.5 T cornstarch
1 T balsamic vinegar
1/3 c shugar
shake of salt
mix, crumbling together, then RETURN TO FREEZER.
handpie dough (i thought it would be too much dough but then i realized i want to make them in a muffin tin instead of round which might take more dough.):
1.5 c flour (probably combo buckwheat/multi-grain? i'll let you know)
.5 c black cocoa powder (because I have it)
3 T sugar
1/2 t salt
1/2 t baking powder
1/2 c butter
1/2 c sour cream
1/4 c soymilk
add more flour if necessary.
roll out choco dough. use a largish bowl to cut out pieces and fit each into pie tin. roll out dough and cut out circles that will cover the dough (maybe with a fun star cut out in the middle to go on top?)
make sure your oven is preheated to 350 before proceeding.
then take out frozen pie filling, mash, and fill the pies quickly, cover and seal, and bake.
yum.
i'm excited for tomorrow/whenever i stop feeling like shit.
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