YES! Seitan Dogs!! As promised, I have created the home made veggie dog that trumps extruded paste dogs from your grocer's freezer. I made a double batch of seitan this time, half of which went to one big log for sandwich slice purposes, and the rest I rolled into mini logs for dog purposes. The seitan dough was much harder to shape than I thought. You can kind of get it into an ellipse, but the rest happens when it gets rolled into the foils.
Dan had a bag of sweet whole wheat dog buns from WW, so I toasted up a dog right out of the oven for added crispiness, along with the bun. I was set to put all kinds of fussy toppings on there, but he said hot dogs should only be topped with mustard and ketchup, which was a good point. I still couldn't completely help myself, and served it in an origami-ed wax paper carriage.
Addendum: I was really proud of this photo. I shot it on a white countertop, lit by the stove light at a very fast film speed and shallow depth of field. It only required a little color correction.
am i a bad food-itarian for having NO idea what seitan is? my guess is some sort of ... tofu or something. is it tasty? i'm guessing it is!
ReplyDeleteah, i should have explained. it's seasoned wheat gluten that can be made into wannabe meat items. i'll add on a wikipedia link.
ReplyDeleteps: notice that "food" is in parentheses in the wpedia def
ReplyDeleteCould you share the recipe? I'd love to try this.
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