Overheard last night chez DaisyBones: *Achoo!* “Don’t sneeze in mommy’s gluten!”
To make gluten “meat” from regular whole wheat flour, you mix up dough with cold water and about 4 cups of flour. Knead it for 15 minutes-ish, maybe less. Mine was a little chewier than I’d like.
Put it in a bowl and cover with cold water. [...]
Category Archives: recipes
un-meat
March 28, 2008 – 5:47 pm
“fuck football; it’s all about teh snackage” superbowl sunday broccoli cheese poofy things
February 3, 2008 – 5:30 pm
An invention!
Ingredients:
1 head fresh broccoli
3 cups self –rising flour
1 tsp salt
1 cup milk
1 large egg
2 oz (1/2 stick butter, softened)
1 ½- 2 cups shredded cheeses (I used cheddar & Monterey jack)
Creation:
Heat oven to 400 degrees (Fahrenheit, obvy)
Steam broccoli, or prepare as indicated on package. Cool, chop to bits or process in blendy thing or choppy [...]
really yum potato soup
January 28, 2008 – 8:40 pm
My recipe book reads kind of like a journal. Or a lab report. There’ll be an original recipe then there are my notes and slashings through (and also dried, caked on splatters.) This is sometimes because I need math reminders when I half a veg recipe Bu won’t eat. Usually there are substitutions for cheaper, less exotic [...]
spicy pirate smoothie
September 27, 2007 – 6:43 pm
Into Ye Blenderrrr:
1 banana, minus two toddler bites
about 8 oz orange juice
about 4 oz apple juice
handful of icecubes
shot of spiced rum
Blend until smooth. Pour into a glass, and top the frothy goodness with cinnamon.
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Why I love Bu:
-Honey! Come down here! It’s Drink Like A Pirate Day!
-What?
-Drink Like A Pirate Day! (Giggles.)
-You made that up.
-Yup.
-OK, I’m [...]
patriotism…
July 4, 2007 – 5:21 pm
makes me uncomfortable-Like when I go to the LDS church with the grandies, or when people make gaybashing jokes in my present assuming I’m a hetero in on the joke. When people pledge allegiance to the flag it reminds me of old grainy videos of Hitler. I’m not comparing American patriotism to Naziism, necessarily… though [...]
valium in a cup
April 24, 2007 – 8:48 pm
The best hot toddy I’ve made in a long time:
2 Tension Tamer tea bags3/4 mug boiling water1 shot of your favorite spiced rum- I used Captain Morgan’s Tattooroughly a liter of honey
