Vegetarian Jerk Cheese steak

So this past week I experimented with making my own seitan. For those of you who don't know, seitan is made with wheat gluten. Its a meat substitute and is high in protein. I have had prepackaged seitan and I have had it at vegetarian restaurants but an ex-coworker of mine told me one time that its nothing like making your own. I had put it off for a minute but finally I decided it was time to make it happen. The process of making it is pretty easy. Its almost in a way like making drop biscuits, instead of dropping your seitan on a baking dish you are dropping them in a simmering pot of stock.

Yesterday I made chicken strips out of it and today I made vegetarian jerk cheese steak. (I really wanted to make the vegetarian cheese steak mine own, so I added the jerk seasoning.) The texture of the meat was very much like that of rib-eye steak or flank steak. I am really looking forward to other dishes I can use and create with homemade seitan and because you start off with a dry mix you have almost total control of the taste of the "meat." I am including some pics for you guys to see what the finished seitan looks like and the other pics are pics of my cheese steak filling. Enjoy. I know I did...

PS...blogger twisted up my image order and I was too lazy to switch it back, so don't judge me LOL!!! You get the gist of whats going on.


-Namaste

Art and Life...

Are the roads less traveled safe
Roads that are less traveled are often-
Tough to take.

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Hello Faithful few, I know I said I might surprise you guys with some poetry this week but...I GOTS NOTHING! I do...I Do....I DO HAVE SOME ART THIS WEEK THOUGH!!!

I know you can hardly contain yourself. Its OK. I was pretty excited myself when I finished it. Its the piece I was working on for the 6X6X2011 @ Rochester Contemporary Art Center I call it "The Rhinacorn" Until next week.




-Namaste

The Week that was...

Hello faithful few! Another week has come and gone, can you believe it? I have been still working on my 6X6 piece and I have had a few more pieces blowing in the wind. I worked on the Goddess painting I started a couple of months ago. I started adding more elements to it. I added a pic for you guys to see my update:) I hope to have it finished in a couple of weeks and as always I will keep you posted. I know this is a short post this week but I'll make it up to guys. I promise. Plus since its National Poetry Month this month I might surprise you guys with a little poetry in my next post.


-Namaste

Progression...

Hey I just thought I would show you guys an image of what I am working on for the
6X6X2011 @ Rochester Contemporary Art Center in a couple of months. There will be more images forth coming as I work on it more. I totally spaced on the MAP Auction event. It was yesterday and the day that I had to have my work hung was last tuesday. I hadnt even started on anything for it;) I don't know why I thought I had more time. I thought it was later this month. Oh well there is always next year :D


-Namaste