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ok. this is inspired by anthony's post... but this is a recipe i stole from the real foods daily cookbook and it has revolutionized my gravy.

ingredients:

1/2 cup of nutritional yeast
1/2 cup of whole wheat flour
1/2 cup of canola oil
1/2 cup of chopped onion
2 teaspoons of minced garlic
2 teaspoons of thyme
2 teaspoons of sage
4 cups of water
1/4 cup of tamari/soy (very important)
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1/2 teaspoon of black pepper


put all the nutritional yeast & flour on a pan with no oil, and cook over medium heat for about 5 minutes.(this gives the gravy a smoky flavor)

in another pan, heal the olive oil over high heat.... add onion and saute for 10 minutes. add garlic, thyme, sage and saute for 30 seconds... then whisk in the yeast and flour... mix thouroughly, then add water tamari salt and pepper....


trust me, this is so good. i usually add mushrooms with the onions, but thats just me. try it with some potatos and seitan.

i ususlly dont like the vegan concoctions my mountain friends make
but that sounds like it might taste pretty good.

what do say all the ingredients cost all together?

This makes me want to eat Roast Parsnips and shit.

uh... the most important ingredients are nutritional yeast and flour... nutritional yeast is super cheap... and every kitchen in the world should have thyme & sage... so its quite cost effective, you get enough gravy to last a while or feed a small village(10 people or so)

Sounds good. I'll try it.

My girl makes something similar using vegetable broth...and, um, other things.

She's sleeping but I will ask her sometime.

On a side note:

Have you (tim) considered a vegan recipes board on your forum? It might be cool to see how people are making shit--

side note #2:

anyone know how to make decent seitan dishes? I have never tried but I love seitan dishes at vegan restaurants (like the grasshopper in boston) and want to try making some.

wow. i am inspiring posts now. haha.



i second the first side note. even though i have tried several times in thread form to start a vegan/veg recipe and restaurant "database". a forum may attract more people to do it. we could give it a try.

tobias, on the second side note, if you check my "what has evryone been eating" thread i have one recipe in there. it really depends on how you like it. i find that baking it is the best for my tastes. tell me how you like it prepared...

my absolute favorite seitain dish is quite simple.
take a can of coconut milk, mix in some garlic, soy and coriander.
add seitain and let marinate for 1-24 hours(the longer it marinates the better). then bake or preferabley barbecue, its mouth watering. we serve it with satay sauce or harissa sauce(harissa is red chili, coriander, garlic, cilantro, salt, & oil blended).

another one is:
i take a bowl, marinate seitain with garlic, white pepper, soy and squeeze a lemon in there, then fry it. i usually keep squeezing lemon in. i love the way seitan absorbs the flavor of lemon(or orange or pineapple).

or you can bake it with curry flavoring which is always ok.

basically you can cook seitain with whatever flavoring people use for meat... cajun flavoring.... chili mix with cumin... whatever....


oh also, anytime you mix white wine, mushrooms, capers and seitan you'll end up very happy(with or without capers.

all these aforementioned recipes assume you'll be sauteeing/frying... although putting em in the oven and baking em you can never go wrong either...

another time tested trick, is teriyaki sauce + white pepper, put on skewers and baked/barbecued... tastes great with a satay sauce.


recently we got a bag of shake and bake, and applied that to some seitan and it was awesome. we made em like that, and then made a vegan ranch recipe... i believe the vegan ranch recipe was; blended celery seed, miso, silken tofu, maybe pepper, who cares, im sure its on vegeweb.com


i like the idea of putting up a vegan recipe database.

there is this company called Roads Ends Organics, and they make a really good vegan gravy, just add water takes like five minutes, but i hear ya making stuff from scratch is fun.

"it has revolutionized my gravy." lol

i never even imagined trying a vegan gravy, gravy being animal fat and spices basically. What would you use the gravy for? Im not a big tofu person though i like the more "proteiny" kind (neither kind probably good with gravy) and ive never even tasted prepared seitan. I could imagine a gravy would be pretty good with prepared wheat gluten, ill def try one of your recipes one day i feel like cooking.

this is also very weird that this is what happens when i wake up, after getting a glass of water i start reading soleone and i end up talking and reading about wheat gluten. I JUST(20 mins ago) had a dream about my friend who was allergic to wheat gluten and cant digest it. i see synchronities constantly (alot lately) and this is the first topic i read about on soleone after thinking about my dreams...


also can someone please give me a link to anthony's thread, or jsut tell me wat page its on.

Man, where the hell are you buying your nutritional yeast from?? I have been looking for that stuff for a while now since you talk about it a lot and I finally found some at Whole Foods. The cheapest stuff I could find was $10 for a 12oz can. When you said super cheap I was thinking like $3-$5 a pound or something. But anyways, I opened it up and tried a little bit and I think it's pretty tasty, should be able to come up with some good stuff with it.

i get nutritional yeast for 6$ a pound at a place by my house.

vegan mac n cheese is what i make with nutriotional yeast.

some unflavored soymilk
some earth balance
nutritional yeast
white pepper
garlic powder
onion powder
little salt

cook and stir until smooth and add noodles. mmmmmmm

also nutritional yeast sprinkled on popcorn.

look in bulk food section for it, thats where i get mine.

the real foods daily cookbook is so awesome! everything i make out of it is soooo yummy. i scored it last year at the anarchist bookfair for $3! i host a weekly vegan dinner at my house, and last week i made the caesar salad with blackened tempe. so delish.


i like to put miso in my gravy. a couple weeks ago i served it with lentil loaf and roasted garlic mashed potatoes.


if you only have whole foods as an option... you might want to try buying nutritional yeast online. there are a bunch of resources that offer it for way cheaper. oh yeah, nutritional yeast on popcorn is a must.

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secret to cheap nutty yeast go to bulk section fill bag with nutritional yeast and write the product code of cornmeal or something cheap that looks mariginally like it.yay nutritional yeast for less then a dollar a pound
(of coarse this works with many other of the expensive things some people on this board may or may not eat)