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Thursday 2 October 2008

Vegan MoFo - Mock-a-doodle-stew

Lame title. I'm sorry.

Today I had PMT - the angry kind and work sucked so I was fighting the urge to put on Rage Against the Machine and sing FUCK YOU I WON'T DO AS YOU TELL ME! at the top of my voice. I went with plan B instead - chick flick and comfort food. Plus angry PMT has turned to lameass teary PMT - I cried twice while watching the Sex & the City Movie!

I love a good stew and when I saw the Barefoot Contessa's show yesterday I knew I totally had to steal her idea! (This recipe.)



Ingredients (approximates as I didn't measure anything):
2 tbsp olive oil
1 medium onion
3 tbsp margarine
3 tbsp flour
2 cups ish stock (I used the faux chicken stock I cooked the seitan in)
1 clove of garlic
1 cup of chicken seitan (I made my own and more on that at some point during Vegan MoFo!)
small handful finely chopped parsley (about a tbsp)
leaves from 2 sprigs of time
1/2 cup peas (actually it was prob nearer to a cup - my hand slipped!)
2 carrots

Method:

Peel & chop the carrots and cook them in boiling water for 10 minutes.

Saute the onion in the olive oil for 5 minutes, then add the margarine and turn heat down low. In a separate pan, gently warm (don't boil) the stock. Once margarine is melted, add the flour and stir well, cook out flour taste for a minute or so. Slowly add the stock, bit by bit until you have a lovely thick smooth sauce.

Add the garlic and thyme, stir and cook for a minute or so then add the seitan, veggies and herbs, stir well, turn down low and cook with a lid on for 5-10 minutes. Serve with sprinkle of fresh parsley, dumplings and mashed potato! YUM.

I baked the dumplings / biscuits and just put then on the stew for the last 5 minutes. But I made a booboo! I just used the recipe on the side of the Atora packet but I use plain flour instead of self-raising and forgot to add baking powder. DOH. So they were more like hockey pucks than fluffy dumplings but hey, it's been that kind of day.

Cooking to: the Sex and the City Movie!

11 comments:

  1. Perfect comfort food! That looks so good!

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  2. mmmmm total comfort food. yum!

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  3. Comfort meal 101! Awesome, my kind of meal.

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  4. Your Mock-a-doodle-stew looks delicious and very comforting!

    Hope you're feeling better! :)

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  5. haha cute name! it looks absolutely creamy and delicious :D *hello, biscuits!!* haha

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  6. Lame = comedy gold for me.

    That meal though is pure comfort food. I'd love to be eating that on a blizzardy, cold day.

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  7. ha! i totally understand as i was in the same state last week and watched 2 episodes in a row of sex in the city and cried. why is that? oh well. your stew looks amazing and so comforting. perfect!

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  8. That looks so good. I had comfort food last night too. Now I'm hungry for what you made. I love the name you gave it!

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  9. sweet shit that looks glorious, Sal! and yeah, i cried a bunch during the Sex in the City movie, too! it's cool! :)

    mock-a-doodle = a rad name! yay!

    i can't get over how awesome the stew looks! mmmmmmmmmm!

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