Buffalo Seitan Pizza on Flickr.
PIZZA
Vegan Thai Dinner by myveggiekitchen on Flickr.
Seitan chop suey feat rice.
for my gf <3
In the front, homemade seitan sausage on top of homemade whole wheat “buttermilk” biscuits, avocado and wild mushroom/macadamia gravy. To the left are organic handcut sweet potato fries with cayenne, onion and garlic powders and in the back is sprouted baked tofu with olive oil, nutritional yeast, black salt, turmeric, onion and garlic powder on top of vegan bacon (lightlife) and sliced tomatoes with a hollandaise sauce made from vegenaise, oil, mustard, apple cider vinegar and garlic. To the back right is Baker (the cat)!
oh good lord
Dinner
Leftover Teriyaki Seitan Hot Wings Sandwich on Red Onion Focaccia Bread with Spinach and Mustard
Peas of Mind Veggie Weggie cauliflower fries
Strawberries
Raw Creamy Corn Chowder Soup from the Forks Over Knives Cookbook
Denver Veg Reviews: Watercourse Foods
I recently moved to Denver, Colorado. Since I’m new to the area, I thought it’d be fun to review the vegetarian/vegan restaurants I visit. Today, my boyfriend and I went to Watercourse Foods.
Watercourse Foods is a cute hipster/vegetarian/vegan/gluten free option restaurant adorned with paintings of water buffalo, deer, and other woodland creatures. The setting is very relaxed, with green/blue/yellow lanterns throughout the dining area. The servers were very friendly and the service was quick and prompt. Their menu includes breakfast until 5PM, sandwiches/wraps, salads, soups, pub style foods, veg comfort foods, baked goods, and an impressive drink selection.
Crisp seitan tossed teriyaki sauces. Served with ranch and celery sticks.
Rating: 4/5
The only ever place I’ve had Seitan Wings before was at City O’ City, which is owned by the same people who own Watercourse Foods, so I was expecting the same kind of wings. The ones at City O’ City are deep fried, crunchy on the outside, and airy on the inside. The wings at Watercourse were really just strips of Seitan tossed in teriyaki sauce. They weren’t very evenly coated, the wings at the top didn’t have much sauce and the ones at the bottom were soaking in them. That said, I really liked them after I stopped expecting them to be the same kind of crispy wings at City O’ City.
Smoky portobello mushrooms topped with homemade sauerkraut, a special sauce and swiss cheese on grilled rye bread. Choice of two sides.
Sides: French Fries and Broccoli
Rating: 2/5
This Reuben was a real let down. When I think of a Reuben, I think of a sandwich with a thick layer of sauerkraut, and this sandwich barely had any. It was also incredibly greasy and overall pretty unsatisfying. The rye bread was really good, I just wish it wasn’t so oily. The french fries were too salty, greasy, and soggy.
Shaved seitan, swiss “cheese”, mushrooms, onions, and peppers stuffed into a baguette with avacado and served with au jus. Choice of two sides.
Sides: Onion Rings and Steamed Greens
Rating: 4/5
The onion rings were fried in similar tasting batter to what you’d expect from fried fish, which kind of turned me off. The sandwich included two sides, but you pay $1 more for onion rings. It was a little ridiculous that I paid a dollar more and only received three onion rings. The steamed greens were good, and a much needed balance to offset the other two much more greasy parts of the meal.
Our Overall Rating: 3/5, will try again
Yelp.com Rating: 4/5
Urbanspoon Rating: 87%
our thanksgiving spread has worked out pretty well this year!
we made this seitan roast, mashed potatoes, and smashed acorn squash. (again, sorry for the bad lighting, we’re doing this in our hotel room.)
make brussels sprouts that don’t suck!
- place them in a pan, and fill the pan 1/2 full with vegetable broth.
- drizzle olive oil over the tops and sprinkle on sea salt.
- bake at 350F for 30-40 minutes or until you can stick a fork through one.
one of my favorites - this warm barley salad.
- bring 1 cup unhulled barley and 3 cups water to a boil, then simmer for 45 minutes.
- as soon as the barley is chewy and ready, stir in 1 cup dried cranberries, 2 cups shredded fresh spinach, and 2 tbsp non-dairy butter (earth balance). serve hot!
check out more of our favorite holiday foods if you’re still stumped as to what you’ll make for thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. good luck!
SO EXCITED FOR SEITAN ROAST
Vegan calzone-
Homemade seitan, tofu based ricotta cheese, daiya, tomato, onion, and my homemade pizza dough
IS THIS LOVE THAT I’M FEELING
Chomp is Denver’s coolest public dinner party
A mountain-west dispatch
If you ever are planning a trip to Denver, make sure you’re here on the first Wednesday of the month because that’s Chomp day, otherwise known as the tasty vegan hipster gathering that helps me not miss CA so much (though nothing will diminish the pain of losing Berkeley Bowl).
Chomp is a themed public dinner party, where some talented and shockingly unselfish vegans cook up enormous batches of THE BEST food ever and you donate some money and then you eat it. This month the theme was French, so the yums included cream puffs and basil pastry shells and seitan bourguignon from Julia Child herself (OH SNAP, I just had the best idea, what if someone does the whole Julie & Julia thing but vegan? Get it on, guys).The event usually goes down at Green Spaces, a warehousey-chic co-working space. 120 people showed up to chow down this month and as usual the cooks ran out of food (this is the only bad part of Chomp: You can’t gorge yourself like I do at any normal meal).
Bonus awesomeness this month:
The Speakeasy, which is a “donation-based” snobby cocktail bar, run by the uber-sexy Randa in her bartender dress, with her amazing cocktail menu for super cheap.
I had a thing with strawberry and basil and lemon and lime and fancy gin and it was SO GOOD will you marry me Randa?
I think that smile means yes?Denver Seitan Company, our new local seitan-makers, had samples of their DELISH logs. They’re gonna start a seitan CSA thing, I can’t wait!
Live music! By a sweet little acoustic duo called Poet’s Row.
It’s clearly the cool place to be on first Wednesdays, so I just wanted to make sure you weren’t out of the loop. If you ever come to town let me know and we can sit together, it’ll be great! I won’t steal your dessert, I swear! (I’m lying).
BETH, FELICIA, LET’S GO
Chicken Fried Seitan with White Gravy and Mac’nCheeze on Flickr.
Yep!
sandwich time!
last night’s dinner: homemade seitan hot wings on a toasted sourdough kaiser roll with spinach, avocado on the side (sry for the shitty lighting)
tonight’s dinner: spinach, fried egg, and peanut butter on a toasted sourdough kaiser roll, gochujjang (korean red pepper paste) sauce for dipping, raddish kimchi on the side.
best accompanied with a few episodes of breaking bad.
mushroom, onion, and celery couscous cooked in leftover seitan broth, steamed kale tossed in sesame oil, seitan sausage.
vegan bratwurst
if you could only smell that shit
we went off of this recipe, and it was good but just not what we had wanted. i think next time we’re going to go pure seitan and skip the tofu. we’re gonna try this one next time.
have you ever put a bunch of onions and garlic in a food processor and then put your nose in it? heaven.
the mixture!
in the steamer. queue us anxiously waiting for forty minutes.
in the meantime, we made the best broccoli of your life. i know i make/post this all the time, but it’s seriously so delicious.
it wouldn’t be a complete post if i didn’t have a picture of max taking a picture of something
the glorious unveiling!
we eats! we seared them in a pan with some onions with the peanut oil that was made from toasting the peanuts for the broccoli, and then simmered them in some beer.
topped with onions, sauerkraut and chinese mustard. served in a steak roll. accompanied by leftover beer.
NOM.
FOOD COMA.
