Vegan Sauerkraut Split Pea Soup and Vegan Hummus Sausage

I thought sauerkraut and split pea soup sounded great. I made it. Apparently, other people do too. Mine had split peas, sauerkraut, carrots, potatoes and tomatoes. I also made some seitan sausages that I made with hummus and some other stuff. I used the cooking method suggested by Vegan Dad. I have a poor quality pic. But this soup was and sausage was really tasty. I also made some rosemary wheat/rye bread.

Holiday Seitan Roast with Homemade Stuffing

I made a seitan roast with homemade cranberry, bread, pecan and apple stuffing. I steamed and baked the seitan adapted from a method by Vegan Dad. It turned out quite well, but I need to work on getting the stuffing centered.

Salt Risen Bread: Failure

I stumbled upon a recipe for Salt Risen Bread. When I read that smelled like cheese, how could I resist. A bread that is risen by a bacteria, Clostridium perfringens, which is a ubiquitous bacteria that can cause food poisoning. However, I found an academic article that its not going to sick-ify anyone.

1. Starter
2. Sponge
3. Bread

Supposedly, the starter is hardest to get going. It worked for me. I put the starter and and jar of boiling water in a cooler and let is set overnight. Then I made the Sponge which also was working. I got bubbles, clear liquid and a pungent odor. But then after the smell and stick, the bread did not rise and I was sad and have not tried again yet.


I got ideas from these two sites: 1 and 2.

I used a cornmeal & rye flour starter, but ran out of AP flour for the bread and used whole wheat, so maybe this was the problem.

Pumpkin Two Ways

Using mostly produce from the CSA I made two pumpkin dishes.
1.) Pumpkin Saag
2.) Pumpkin, Carrot, Sweet Potato, Peanut "sauce"/stew

The pumpkins:







For the "sauce" which was originally going to be a soup but then got to thick, I used: Carrots, Onions, Garlic, Ginger, Sweet Potatoes, Peanut Butter, and a little Coconut.






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For the pumpkin saag again: Carrots, Onions, Garlic, Ginger, Sweet Potatoes and additionally spices, tomatoes, tomato sauce, tofu and finely chopped greens from the CSA.

Quick pasta

I made some whole grain pasta and then made a quick sauce. The sauce was:

- diced tomatoes
- 1/2 onion
- garlic
- a few jalapeños
- basil

I sauteed those up and then pureed them. I then added some cream and some Parmesan. I added this to some scapes and green beans from the csa.

Pan-Asian Cuisine!!!

This time I made a soup using kohlrabi, peas, green beans, garlic scapes and cauliflower. The base was sesame oil, ginger, garlic, veg. broth, nutritional yeast, Thai sweet chili sauce.



Shot with the longer cooking vegetables and broth.



Other veggies that were added after removed from flame.

I then fried up some pot stickers and added them.

More food: Saag Panner - July 6th

So this is old news. and I am not sure what the produce delivered was. my goal to document it all has failed.


heat milk



acidulate milk (I usually use just vinegar, but this time I used vinegar, lime juice and yogurt. Why? Because I can.)



curds and whey



after straining, cheese pile



pressing the cheese



I made raita, by adding seeded, skin cucumbers and chopped tomatoes to some yogurt with spices.



scallions that got put into saag



Here I put together spices, garlic, ginger oil and greens from the CSA (collards, swiss chard, cabbage, rapini?) and some spinach.



the cheese (paneer) cubed.



I then pureed the greens and added some yogurt, cilantro and tomatoes.



all together.