Within/Without

Was Amazing!!!!!! Peace People! Let me tell you was has me, my taste-buds, and my God all geeked this morning... Sausage seitan!!!!!! Yesterday was an epic cooking day for me. I have collected all the groceries I needed for this week's cooking. And at the end of this coming week, there is a rally. and y'all know I like to make a "Big Mama" meal for Rally Sunday. I bought a lot of gluten at the co-op and had some extra. I thought, "Why not?" Here are the delectable little boogers, the corresponding recipe and the site. That's them after they came out of the water bath. This is them open. INGREDIENTS - 1/2 cup pinto beans, rinsed and drained - 1 cup cold vegetable broth - 1 tablespoon olive oil - 2 tablespoons soy sauce - 2 cloves garlic, grated (with a microplane, or very finely minced) - 1 1/4 cups vital wheat gluten - 1/4 cup nutritional yeast - 1 1/2 teaspoons fennel seed, crushed - 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes - 1 teaspoon sweet paprika - 1 teaspoon d...

Peace y'all. I never post any food pics. let's see how that goes.... You have to click on the image to see it correctly. This is my "Beef" seitan. There is no beef in it and it qualifies as vegan. It is NOT gluten free. It is highly gluteny. The largest ingredient is vital wheat gluten. You can use this the same way you do a roast beef. Actually I have made chicken seitan and seitan sausage. The God loves it dressed up like pepper steak. So much in fact, I have to make this every week. I am kind of tired of it, but that just drives me to new ways to use this. INGREDIENTS: * 1.5 c. vital wheat gluten * 1/4 c. nutritional yeast * 1 . salt * 2 t. paprika * 1/4 t. cinnamon * 1/4 t. cumin * 1-2 t. pepper * 1/8 t. cayenne pepper * 1/8 t. allspice (I skipped this) * 3/4 c. cold water * 4 T. tomato paste * 1 T. ketchup * 2 T. olive oil (I used canola because I was out of olive oil) * 2 T. vegetarian Worcestershire sauce ...

Peace Fam, I'm better. I am never sick sick for long. And If I do get long term, then it will require a hospital stay for me to get better. I probably ate something that didn't agree with me... like a HUGE hunk of German Chocolate cake. I recuperated all day yesterday. Which allowed me to think and build with the God.... I kinda want to go vegan. I can live without milk, cheese not so much and the taste of butter is divine. I know there are substitutes out there for these products, but I don't want to substiute with something that heavily reminds me of the thing I'm kicking to the curb. I don't want to use margarine in place of butter. I don't want soy milk in place of milk. And I don't want rice cheese in place of cheese. I want to be done with everything and thatis it. All of the replacements are HIGHLY processed making them dangerous in their own right. A poitn the God brought up was if we were to become vegan, and our bodies accepted it, we would be limi...

Peace I'm sick y'all. I don't know what going on. My stomach is sour, I have a headache (which I only get when my cycle is due), I'm nauseous and I have sincere heartburn. I look like warmed over death too. I'm not surprised I normally get sick this time of year. As healthy as I try to be, I get a sickness annually. This is not menstrual either. Aunt Flo ain't due for at nearly 2 weeks. Unfortunately, the God is not the best cook. I'm going to have to handle this on my own. He will feed himself though. Good. First things first.... I got some orange juice with some green powder. An influx of iron can't hurt along with some vitamin C. Secondly, Some faux chicken soup with LOTS of onions and garlic. Its a creamy broth based soup with sage, thyme and nutritional yeast. It really tastes like chicken. Add olive oil for savoriness and some egg noodles. Normally I like matzo ball soup from Manishevitz, but....... Anyway. This will work. Though I'm not tomor...

Peace Family. This woman came into the office today. She was a previous patient looking to make an appointment. Okay. That's cool. The last time she was in the office, say around 2 years ago, she was on some weird spirituality thing. I'm not judging. Alls I'm saying is, it didn't seem balanced. She was speaking on a lot of different topics that I have intimate knowledge of... The occult, Yoruban beliefs, Kemetic beliefs, Ayurveda, yoga and she had the nerve to sprinkle a little 5% on it too. 2 years ago she was surprised that I was as well versed as I was. I even pointed her to some independent sources where she could learn without the influence of her paid spiritual adviser. Clearly she did not take me up on the offer. Well today she was on the raw band wagon. Now y'all know, I know raw. I noticed that she was drinking a prepared green smoothie. I say prepared because she didn't prepare it. She bought it. She was nibbling on a raw bar that was also store bought...

Peace Family, Last month, I'd say nearly 6 weeks ago, I went to the farmer's market and purchased some produce. The reason I went to the farmer's market is because assumed that the food was of higher quality than grocery store food. That was a false assumption. I have noticed that when you shop for food at different places you get different qualities of food. One of my concerns is with genetically modified foods or GMO's. This food is not required to be labeled as a GMO. So you never know if your eating it or not. Since this food is designed to last longer than other produce in the store and resist pests in the field, I assume GMO's will food will have an inordinately shelf life. So I will occasionally get food and leave it on the counter to see how long it will last. I try to use a control group with garden food; but I can't always obtain garden controls. The interesting thing is, food will last a crazy amount of time from places like Wal-Mart, Kroger or the su...

Peace Folks! I was reading a blog by a 'fellow' sewist. I use the parenthases because her work is more proficient, prolific and higher quality than mine. She was saying that size doesn't matter to her because she makes all her own clothes. This comment got me thinking. I make most of my own clothes; so for me, as well, size isn't an issue. I am always going to have what I want to wear. I am healthy, meaning I have no diagnosed conditions that require treatment of any sort. I eat well. I excercise. There is nothing wrong with me. So why do I feel like there is always something that I need to be doing to better myself? Am I trying to be other than my ownself? What is my ownself? A 40 year old woman. I look in the mirror and I am satisfied with what I see. I'm not really sure where that satisfaction comes from. Am I pleased with how I look? Or have I just accepted how I look. Some would ask, What's the difference? And a big part of me is in that number. But other ...