March 16, 2008everyone loves a fat sausagearen't sundays the best? they've always been pretty great, but ever since sweet pea started offering an all-you-can-eat vegan brunch on sundays, they're even better. if you live in portland, i strongly recommend stopping by. i have been doing my daily eats again, if getting a glimpse into the food habits of a stranger rocks your boat. i'm going to try and do it for four months this time instead of just one month. but i know why you're really here. you want to know if i attempted beer brats again. i did, and this time, it was a stunning success! here are my ingredients, but you should head over to julie's site for directions. (better yet, watch the episode.) dry mix: 2 1/4 cups vital wheat gluten 1/2 cup nutritional yeast flakes 1/4 cup chickpea flour 2 tablespoons onion powder 1 tablespoon Spike (or your favorite salt-free seasoning) 2 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon sage 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard 1/4 teaspoon white pepper 1/4 teaspoon savory 1/4 teaspoon rosemary 1/4 teaspoon dill 1/4 teaspoon allspice 1/4 teaspoon thyme 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg wet mix: 12 oz stale beer 1 cup vegetable broth 2 tbsp canola oil you're going to want to make the brats a little "fatter" than you would the other sausages; i ended up with ten of them. here's the dry mix in a bowl:  so beautiful, right? and here is a brat, sliced up with some mustards for dipping:  hooray! these will definitely be a staple in our house from now on. thanks so much to julie for coming up with a quick way to make veggie sausages. don't you think she should write a sausage book? in other food nerd news, i finally got around to organizing my spices this week:  prior to this, i had a horrible combination of those magnetic spice containers that were popular for about a year and then completely disappeared and bags (some of which weren't labeled) in my drawer. it made it tricky to find what i was looking for when i was cooking, and since i hardly ever do a full prep before i start in on a recipe, i was frequently in my kitchen frantically throwing bags around because i knew i had cumin seeds somewhere, dammit! now i can open my spice drawer with zenlike calm. what a relief. testing has begun for the second yellow rose book and it's going really well so far. like any creative project, i can already feel this morphing a little from what i had originally expected and planned for it to be, but it's growing in a good direction, i think! of course, this is still happening all in my mind. if everything that was going on in my mind were actually occurring in real time, i'd be twice as busy as i already am.
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