QOTW: What are your quick meal ideas?

September 28, 2008

In a message dated 9/28/2008 2:44:42 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,

OOWONBS writes:

My pal in Wa just goes out and grazes on the

dandylions and weeds I'll never see nor remember.

She makes some sort of high protein meatless

thing, by developing the glutton somehow.

BillSF9c

Um, Bill, that is gluten, and I use a readily available product from Bob's

Red Mills called Vital Gluten Flour to make my meatless " meat " . Some of the

few weeds I eat are dandelions, cleavers, stinging nettles, chickweed. I

harvest dandelion seeds and plant in several shallow dishes in the house in

winter so I can harvest the baby plants when they are about a big around as a

silver dollar. Greens are wonderful stirfried or added to soups. Cleavers are

different -- they feel like a super micro velcro on your tongue but taste

fresh and green and they are a bit juicy too. Nettles can be used for cooked

greens, or tea -- the leftover tea can be used as a nice hair rinse too. The

seeds of these can be harvested for scattering in places they like to grow.

Chickweed is great for a tea or salad addition but mostly I just nibble,

nibble, nibble.

I grew up learning how to make gluten from whole wheat flour but now I

'cheat' buy the flour that I add broth to in order to make the gluten and use

the

same or sometimes a different broth to simmer the gluten in. Lately I have

been using my large oval slow cooker to simmer the gluten over night since I

am making a large 'roast' size instead of smaller 'cutlets' from it. The

roast can be sliced for sandwiches if desired or it can be lightly browned in a

skillet with your preferred fat and eaten like a steak. Simple, easy and way

cheaper than meat for certain.

Once I was asked why I eat vegetarian -- simple for me -- I don't like the

way meat smells or tastes. Sorry folks, not a political reason and not an

'ethical' or 'moral' reason. I just don't like meat. I think it is a poor

substitute for real food.

Summer

aka Lisa

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