tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9467393510206217332024-02-07T04:07:15.400-08:00Vegan In The SticksMy husband and I are vegan in a small, decidedly non-vegan community. We are often asked "So what do you eat?" in a horrified "How-can-you-survive-without-meat-what's-left?" kind of way. It's difficult to answer when folks imagine we live off of rabbit food. It's not THAT we eat fruits and veggies and grains...it's what we DO with them. Maybe this will help explain!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13454197500308473403noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946739351020621733.post-85902560553639943822012-11-29T19:31:00.004-08:002012-11-29T19:35:43.452-08:00Vegan Brie en Croute<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="userContent">It haven't been blogging this month, though I have been eating plenty! I've been a little obsessed lately with cheese. Handmade, aged, small batch, decadent, cheese. It all started with the <i>VegNews </i>and the September - October Cheese issue. Aged Chevre with Herbes de Provence, Fresh Buffalo Mozzarella, Fromage de Brie, Deli-Style Swiss, Sharp Cheddar, even Cream Cheese! These truly awe inspiring cashew-based recipes are the creation of Miyoko Schinner, author of <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Artisan-Vegan-Cheese-Miyoko-Schinner/dp/1570672830" target="_blank">Artisan Vegan Cheese</a>.</b> They take some patience to prepare, but the results are well worth it.</span><br />
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<span class="userContent">Well, it just so happened that I had a wheel of Miyoko's Brie aging on my kitchen table when I learned (entirely by chance) about the Artisan Vegan Cheese contest to promote her new book. There were only a few hours left to enter and I immediately thought of Baked Brie, but the only recipe I knew involved puff pastry and apricot marmalade. I had neither. </span><br />
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<span class="userContent">But I did have one apple and pecans and handfulls of brown sugar and cinnamon. I popped over to my Pinterest board and grabbed <a href="http://www.holycowvegan.net/2009/12/crescent-rolls.html" target="_blank">this vegan crescent roll recipe</a> and whipped up a batch. </span><br />
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<span class="userContent">I rolled out a little less than half of the dough to cover my brie, topping it first with half of the apple sliced, as much brown sugar as I could balance precariously on top, a heavy sprinkle of cinnamon and a couple of handfuls of chopped pecans. Scientific right? </span><br />
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<span class="userContent"> I then wrapped the corners over each other and mushed them all together and baked at 425 for fifteen to twenty minutes (just until golden!). Doesn't look like much on the outside...</span><br />
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<span class="userContent"><a href="http://www.veganmainstream.com/and-the-winners-are-vegan-artisan-cheese" target="_blank">I got third place in the contest!</a> I won a fifteen minute Q & A to pick Miyoko's brain about cheese or vegan cooking in general - how exciting! What should I ask?!</span><br />
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<span class="userContent">Now for the reason I have not been blogging lately.... I renewed my commitment to losing weight, so I have been busy calculating the nutritional info for all of my recipes. So from now on I'll be adding that to blog posts. Disclaimer: I am human and don't do this stuff for a living, so don't expect 100% accuracy. What I can tell you is that a serving size of this, at 1/8 of a wheel, is almost 600 calories! So I had to give a good deal of it away. </span><br />
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<li class="row1">Calories <span class="num1">583.7</span></li>
<li class="row1">Total Fat <span class="num1">38.5 g</span></li>
<li class="row2">Saturated Fat <span class="num1">20.6 g</span></li>
<li class="row2">Polyunsaturated Fat <span class="num1">4.0 g</span></li>
<li class="row2">Monounsaturated Fat <span class="num1">11.3 g</span></li>
<li class="row1">Cholesterol <span class="num1">0.0 mg</span></li>
<li class="row1">Sodium <span class="num1">44.7 mg</span></li>
<li class="row1">Potassium <span class="num1">445.8 mg</span></li>
<li class="row1">Total Carbohydrate <span class="num1">56.9 g</span></li>
<li class="row2">Dietary Fiber <span class="num1">5.2 g</span></li>
<li class="row2">Sugars <span class="num1">9.9 g</span></li>
<li class="row1">Protein <span class="num1">9.5 g</span></li>
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Our route home from Mom's takes us through Asheville, NC. We usually make a point to have dinner at <a href="http://plantisfood.com/" target="_blank">Plant </a>when we are in the area, but today we were short on time, so decided to give <a href="http://vegheadsasheville.com/" target="_blank">VegHeads Drive-Thru </a>a try. Yes, you heard that right - a vegetarian <i>drive-thru!</i><br />
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First we pulled up to the order board and were actually greeted! Remember this lovely customer service tradition of days gone by? With drive-thru etiquette these days ranging from "Help you?" to "What?, it was refreshing to hear "Welcome to VegHeads; Can I take your order please?" or something equally courteous and professional.<br />
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The hubby ordered the<i><span class="menu-item"> </span></i><span class="menu-item">P</span><span class="menu-item">hilly Cheese Seitan Wrap</span> sans cheese which prompted the insightful question, "Would you like that made vegan?" Why yes, yes we would! I ordered the <span class="menu-item">Korean BBQ Tempeh Wrap </span><span class="menu-item">and a vegan cupcake because, well, I never pass up vegan baked goods.</span><br />
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I unrolled my wrap to get a look at the beautiful Thai cabbage slaw, but
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had my fondest wish, it would have been a tad warmer, but after three or four bites, my mouth was too full to complain.<br />
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I didn't dare unroll the hubby's Seitan Wrap because you just don't mess with a man's sandwich! But I did beg a bite and wow, just wow! It was warm and savory and gooey and who needs cheese anyway? Seriously they could probably make some extra $$ by offering vegan cheese as an option, but we didn't miss it one little bit. <br />
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The only thing that did not wow me was the icing on the cupcake. The cake was wonderful, but I thought the icing texture was a bit like a half melted candy bar, but the hubby loved it (and he hates chocolate, so this is saying something!) The fact that the icing was more crunchy than creamy does lend it the advantage of portability that other cupcakes lack. Still, I probably would not order this again because there are a number of sides I would probably prefer - the Israeli Cous Cous sounds divine!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13454197500308473403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946739351020621733.post-51374275821250056232012-10-21T15:27:00.002-07:002012-10-21T15:27:33.247-07:00Chili con Cashews and "Crazy Vegans"Meetup.com is a wonderful thing. The hubby and I attended our first vegan meetup event, a Harvest Dinner Potluck, yesterday. Almost two dozen "crazy vegans" brought quiche, Italian meatballs, raw pesto and zucchini pasta, potatoes prepared with onions, molasses and paprika (OMG!), sweet potato casserole, and a couple of salads of course. Soooo much food and the best part...I could eat every single dish. These were an eclectic group of folks, artistic types and business types and hippie types and fitness types and charitable types. We even had a professional clown trained by Ringling Brothers who treated us to some impromptu fire breathing/twirling/flinging. The worst part....I did not get ANY pictures of this veggie laden feast. Classic amateur blogger mistake I know. So I will hopefully placate my two followers (I know who you are!) with a recipe and a little video clip of our fire breathing show (you will hear yours truly call out the blog title)! <br />
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1 1/2 cups raw unsalted cashews<br />
3 T. fresh lemon juice<br />
1/4 cup water<br />
1/2 cup salsa + 2 T<br />
1/4 cup nutritional yeast<br />
1/2 t chili powder<br />
1 clove garlic minced<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13454197500308473403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946739351020621733.post-34810520756979136072012-10-19T17:06:00.002-07:002012-10-19T17:07:23.924-07:00Chinese Take Out (Of My Kitchen)My husband and I have become jaded - too many episodes of Restaurant Impossible and Kitchen Nightmares. We find ourselves wondering what goes on behind the swinging doors of every place we used to dine (except for <a href="http://plantisfood.com/">Plant</a>, the awesome-est vegan restaurant around, which does not hide their kitchen behind doors at all.) Given our new found reticence to eat out, I have been on a mission to recreate some of our favorite restaurant meals.<br />
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Friday is Chinese Take Out night, so tonight I whipped up some Sesame Tufu adapted from Nummy Kitchen's recipe which you can peruse <a href="http://nummykitchen.blogspot.com/2011/11/chinese-restaurant-style-sesame-tofu.html">here</a>. The recipe calls for deep frying the tofu, but since that is a sure fire way to send the hubby's gall bladder into attack mode, I lightly panned fried mine instead in about 2T sesame oil and added some roasted broccoli. Add in some steamed jasmine rice and we officially feel "chinese-buffet-stuffed." I need a nap...<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13454197500308473403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946739351020621733.post-62519021732020068732012-10-17T16:18:00.002-07:002012-10-17T16:18:50.522-07:00Chik'n and DumplingsI had been eying IsaChandra's <span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.theppk.com/2011/11/dilly-stew-with-rosemary-dumplings/">Dilly Stew With Rosemary Dumplings</a> for months, but then it had been summer - a typical southern hot and sticky season of misery - and much too hot for stew. Besides the recipe looked intimidating. I'm not sure why...because it has two parts, because it makes soup look <i>pretty. </i>For whatever reason, I left it collecting dust on my culinary inspiration board too long. </span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Then two weeks ago, I felt the first nip in the air, making me crave mulled wine and one bowl dinners. I filled my <a href="http://pinterest.com/harmonyred/vegan-dish/">Pinterest idea board</a> with vegan soups galore, but, always, the dilly stew called to me. So I finally sucked it up and made a pot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">What in the heck took me so long!?! </span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">This recipe takes under an hour to prepare start to finish with plenty leftover for lunch the next day. And it was a hit with the hubby who asked for (and helped me prepare) it again today. Not nearly so pretty as Isa's, but just as tasty! I was out of rosemary, so used the leftover oil from the rosemary popcorn I made for <a href="http://veganinthesticks.blogspot.com/2012/10/scotch-eggs-and-scones.html">Scotch Eggs and Scones</a> and left out the beans in favor of <a href="http://www.morningstarfarms.com/morningstar-farms-meal-starters-chikn-strips.html">MorningStar Farms Chik'n Strips</a>. Incidentally I find these way too spongy to use in fajitas or Chinese food, but they seem made for this dish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">I ate too much!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13454197500308473403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946739351020621733.post-67141576923089466292012-10-16T14:41:00.001-07:002012-10-16T14:45:05.321-07:00Runner Up!I am so stinking excited to learn that my Scotch Eggs and Scones recipe was a runner up in the <a href="http://www.veganmofo.com/and-the-choppedvegan-champion-is/" target="_blank">Vegan/Chopped</a> competition (receiving the “oh-no-she-didn’t” award). <br />
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I wish I had taken a picture now of the destruction that was our kitchen during the making of this dish. Does anyone else have the problem of dirtying dang near every measuring cup, spoon, mixing bowl and cutting board they own for one meal?<br />
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Anyway, vegan validation feels so good. As my husband is fond of saying, when he met me, I could burn water. (Seriously it was the pan that burned...the water just evaporated). I never learned to cook growing up, because my mother issued an ultimatum to my father when I was nine years old after which the only thing she EVER made for dinner was reservations. It went something like this "If you come home one more time and tell me you aren't hungry because you grabbed a Big Mac after work, that is the last time I am going to waste my time cooking for you." Perhaps that was my father's plan all along, as he grabbed a burger on the way home the very next day and that was that. (Yeah, before you ask, they are totally divorced now.)<br />
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For the first nine years of my marriage, the kitchen was my husband's domain. Lets just say he did not marry me for my domestic skills. But when we decided to go vegan a year ago (after a slow transition to a whole food diet that had nonetheless consisted of meat and cheese to that point), neither of us knew what we were doing, and, in an effort to ensure that inconvenience was no excuse to abandon the cause, I told him I would take care of the cooking.<br />
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Turns out I couldn't cook vegan either. It is a tragedy when a dish goes straight from the stove top to the trash.<br />
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Then enter <a href="http://www.theppk.com/" target="_blank">PPK</a>.<br />
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A year later, I have arrived! (Hey, I live in the sticks...trust me, this is arrived!)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13454197500308473403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-946739351020621733.post-58340766016946705302012-10-14T21:27:00.003-07:002012-10-15T15:05:59.087-07:00Scotch Eggs and Scones<h2>
My. First. Original. Recipe. Ever! (And it was a doozy.)</h2>
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Rosemary Popcorn Breaded Scotch Eggs with Butternut Squash Yolk and Hot Buttered Popcorn Scones with a Sweet Apricot Glaze.<br />
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It all started when I discovered Post Punk Kitchen on Facebook. The PPK and its creator,<br />
author/chef/vegan genius Isa Chandra Moskowitz, have made it possible to convert to a vegan lifestyle. I have never made a single recipe of hers that wasn't amazing.<br />
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Considering my first vegan cooking attempt one year ago was met with this passionate criticism from the hubby, "I can't eat this crap for the rest of my life," I needed all the help I could get.<br />
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So when she announced the Chopped/Vegan Challenge on the Facebook page last week, I felt compelled to enter, to show off the mad culinary skills I have developed since discovering The PPK, and, dare I imagine, to possibly <i>impress</i> my unknowing mentor?<br />
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The Ingredients: Butternut squash, popcorn, fresh rosemary, and apricot preserves.<br />
The Challenge: Brunch<i> </i><br />
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The first thought that came to mind to make good use of the popcorn was "Cookies!" But seriously who eats cookies before lunch? Ahem...anyway. But a scone? Now a scone is a perfectly respectable brunch goody!<br />
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Then I thought "What goes with Scones?" So I started researching. I learned scones are British and that traditional British scones have more in common with biscuits than the hard, crumbly<i> </i>pastries sold in US coffee shops. Interesting. But more importantly, I discovered a popular British picnic food called a Scotch Egg, which generally speaking consists of a hard boiled egg, wrapped in sausage, breaded and deep fried.<br />
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Hmmm. What an interesting vegan challenge! Of course, I had to conquer it.<br />
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First, I popped my popcorn (one cup of kernels) in canola oil infused with fresh rosemary. Fancy!<br />
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Then I prepared my squash with apricot preserves, brandy, Earth Balance, and salt.<br />
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Meanwhile I suckered the hubby into chopping some dried apricots and the rest of the rosemary for me (since it is generally a bad idea for me to get quite so enthusiastic with large knives.)<br />
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The most tedious part of the whole process was carving square blocks of tofu into somewhat convincing egg shapes. It mostly involved cutting all the edges off over and over again in smaller slices.<br />
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I blended the left over tofu with the apricot preserve/squash mixture until achieving a nice yolk color and texture, then added about 1/2 teaspoon of black salt to give it that eggy taste (without completely losing the apricot and squash flavors.) I also gave my tofu eggs a thorough washing in black and white salt, dried them off and re-dusted them with the black salt. They smelled so much like eggs, it was almost disturbing! <br />
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Now for the fun part. I cored my tofu eggs, then stuffed them full of as much yolk paste as they would hold without splitting, then re-inserted about half of the core I had removed to seal them up again. In case you can't guess, this was an <i>extremely</i> tedious process.<br />
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That's about when things went horribly wrong. I put together a beautiful seitan sausage mix with lentils, dried apricots and a marvelous blend of spices. So pretty!<br />
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Did I mention this was also my first attempt making seitan sausage from scratch? I had so much vital wheat gluten in the mix, it would not stretch around the eggs. In fact, it wouldn't stretch at all! I came <i>so</i> close to throwing in the towel then. I felt such defeat. The kitchen was thrashed. I now had eight tofu eggs I had no desire to eat and about ten cups of popcorn which go stale long before we finished it off. But there was no saving it. I said to hell with it and steamed my sausage into links - which turned out perfectly, but did my eggs no good. Or did it?<br />
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Call it epiphany or sheer desperation, I threw three of those bad boys in the food processor along with about two cups of lentils, two cups of chickpeas, and another marvelous blend of seasonings, then added another cup of vital wheat gluten (1/4 cup at a time so as not to get myself into another sticky situation.) Now I had something to work with!<br />
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After the eggs were wrapped, I wrapped them up in foil, and steamed for about 45 minutes. After steaming, I unwrapped and let them cool, then dredged in (almond!) milk and flax seed and breaded them in a "flour" of crushed popcorn, fresh rosemary, salt and pepper.<br />
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I suckered the hubby into deep frying them for me (three minutes each) because a pot of hot oil makes me nervous. Meanwhile, I whipped up the scone batter, adding in the rest of the brandy/preserve sauce left over from the squash and about two cups of popcorn, hand crushed.<br />
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While the scones were baking, I used the last of the apricot preserves to make the icing for the scones and the maple syrup for the scotch eggs.<br />
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The results:<br />
It was so satisfying to cut open that first Scotch egg and see those layers - yolk, white, sausage, breading - to realize that everything had ultimately turned out just as I had envisioned (vs. into the homogenous mess I feared). And yummy to boot. I've already eaten two! With that said, I am glad there was not a time limit assigned to this challenge, as I would have surely exceeded it.<br />
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On the other hand, the scones came together quickly and are out of this world - sweet, savory, buttery, apricoty, crunchy, fluffy. They defy logic and come together in about twenty minutes start to finish. I have decided these will be MY signature recipe at every holiday party this year. You. Must. Try. Them.<br />
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<b>Rosemary Popcorn:</b><br />
6 sprigs fresh rosemary<br />
1/2 cup oil<br />
1 cup kernals<br />
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Let the rosemary and oil simmer for about ten minutes, then remove rosemary sprigs before popping. Butter and salt to taste.<br />
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<b>Yolk:</b><br />
1 Butternut Squash (boiled until soft, then sauteed in salted apricot sauce)<br />
Leftover tofu from shaping 8 eggs <br />
1/4 t black salt<br />
salt to taste<br />
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Process tofu in food processor until smooth and then fold into squash mixture to desired consistency.<br />
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<b>Salted Apricot Sauce:</b><br />
1 cup apricot preserves<br />
1 T brandy (because that's all I had on hand)<br />
2 T Earth Balance<br />
Sea Salt (I twisted grinder eight times...not sure the measurement equivalent)<br />
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Simmer until all ingredients are incorporated then strain.<br />
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<b>Eggs:</b><br />
2 packaged extra firm tofu, pressed (sculpt, soak in water and salt, press again)<br />
1 1/2 T Black Salt (+ more for dusting)<br />
1/2 T Salt<br />
Water<br />
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<b>Apricot Sausage:</b><br />
1 1/2 cups lentils<br />
1 cup veggie broth<br />
1 T oil (reserved from rosemary popcorn) <br />
1 1/2 cup vital wheat gluten<br />
1 t paprika<br />
1 t marjoram<br />
1/2 t thyme<br />
1 t fennel<br />
1/2 t liquid smoke<br />
salt and pepper to taste<br />
4 T chopped dried Apricots <br />
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<b>Sausage mixture for egg wrap:</b><br />
1/2 batch prepared Apricot Sausage<br />
2 cups chickpeas<br />
2 cups lentils<br />
1 cup bread crumbs<br />
1 cup vital wheat gluten <br />
2 T thyme<br />
1 t fennel<br />
1 T paprika<br />
1/2 t cayenne<br />
2 T maple syrup<br />
2 T salted apricot sauce<br />
salt and pepper to taste<br />
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I had enough sausage mixture left for ten meatballs too! <br />
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<b>Breading:</b><br />
2 cups crushed rosemary popcorn (buttered)<br />
1 T dried rosemary<br />
salt and pepper to taste<br />
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<b>Syrup:</b><br />
2 T apricot preserves (melted)<br />
4 T maple syrup <br />
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<b>Scones:</b><br />
1/4 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk<br />
1 t apple cider vinegar<br />
1 T Flax<br />
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Set aside for a few minutes until curdled then fold in 1/2 c - 2 T non dairy yogurt<br />
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2 cups all purpose flour<br />
1/2 cup sugar<br />
1/2 t salt<br />
1/2 T baking powder<br />
1/2 t baking soda<br />
1/2 cup Earth Balance<br />
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Mix with yogurt mixture then fold in 2 cups popcorn and 2 T salted apricot sauce<br />
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Bake at 400 degrees 17 minutres<br />
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<b>Icing:</b><br />
1 T apricot preserves (melted)<br />
2 T unsweetened almond milk<br />
1 cup powdered sugar<br />
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I think that's all! If it seems like I missed a vital ingredient on this list its probably because my notebook is covered in liquid smoke. A graceful and neat chef, I am not!<br />
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