Kale Recipe (served with beans and rice)

From taco:birthdaycake

ingredients:

a bunch of kale
lemon juice
white wine vinegar
olive oil
garlic
onion
salt & pepper

prep:

put a pot of water on the stove. salt it & boil.
while waiting for the water to boil, chop garlic & onion.
thoroughly wash kale, one leaf at a time, then pat dry. pile the kale on top of each other like sheets of paper & fold in half. finely slice kale a la shredded cabbage.
heat oil, and start sauteeing the garlic & onion over medium heat until the onions are clear.
toss the kale in the boiling water for, like, one minute. just until it's super bright green.
strain kale, and toss into the frying pan. add a splash of lemon juice & a splash of vinegar and cook for maybe one or two minutes, until the kale is coated in the tasty goodness of the other ingredients. add salt & pepper to taste.

best served as a side dish with beans and rice. sweet plantains also preferred.

BBQ Seitan, Red Beans & Rice, Cornbread

Here's a good one from the other night. Yeah, yeah - it's gluten. I know.

BBQ SEITAN, RED BEANS & RICE, CORNBREAD

1 pkg of seitan

BBQ sauce (I really like Jack Daniel's Hickory Brown Sugar)

red beans

rice

cornbread

garlic cloves (# to taste)

Mix cornbread and bake. I used "Jiffy" for the cornbread. If anyone has a better version - awesome. While I did use 1 egg for the cornbread I used almond "milk".

Roast garlic in a pan or in the oven until soft.

I don't feel the need to explain how to cook the beans and rice but I like adding southwest-type seasoning (cumin, crushed coriander seeds, cilantro). Add some garlic when finished.

Slice the seitan and brown it in a pan with olive oil. Add BBQ sauce after seitan is brown, simmer.

Serve together. Enjoy.

New Blog - About Food

Hello All, new to the Interwebs (with your help and your friends' help and beyond!) a blog that shares recipes and more about Vegetarian Cooking - the healthy, green alternative to Meatatarianism!

Post a recipe you've recently tried or info/directions to a good veggie/vegan restaurant...whatever...go crazy with it.

I'll post some successful recipes soon. Just let me know if you would like to be added to the list of authors - ie - post to the blog.

Maybe we can get that Michael Pollan dude to publish some stuff? Whatever. He's a nerd.

Hmmm. I need a catch phrase. Like.

"Keep f@cking that chicken" - no - no. Too Jon Stewart.

"Mmmm TOFU." - no - no - too soft.

Anyway, ideas/comments appreciated.

Peace.
Adam