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Garbonzilli

Posted on March 11, 2016February 5, 2024 by jeffreylatty

Yet another last minute spontaneous (soup/chili) season ending decision.

I made baked Garbanzo beans for a Minestrone recipe and had leftover beans. Utilizing leftovers and minimizing waste in a kitchen depicts how pro you are.

Congratulations to Peyton Manning on a great career. I feel his delay on retiring helped Denver’s QB remaining issues.

On a better note, I finally have wheels on my Trek Darth Vader that’ll last forever.

Garbonzilli ingredients:

Oil, very little
Garlic, freshly minced
Onion, diced
Celery, diced
Carrot, sliced
Peppers (yellow, green, red), diced
Garbanzo Beans, baked
Broth, veggie
ChipotleP/BrownSugar/SeaSalt/Pepper/Paprika
Tomatoes, freshly deseeded and chopped
Tomato Juice from Tomato guts

Sauté Veggies and add Broth, Beans, Tomatoes and Seasonings and simmer for a couple of hours.

HAPPY FRIDAY!

LBⓋ16 Ⓥinestrone Soupé

Posted on March 10, 2016March 11, 2016 by jeffreylatty

Here in Northern Central Illinois, spring is just about contemplating and flinching when the teacher called Spring’s name. In Illinois, the climate changes every day. And occasionally you witness all four seasons in one day, especially between the true seasons. Furthermore an awesome excuse to go crazy with soup and chili. Going out with a bang is always up my sleeve. That bike up top is strange, yet intrigued my because of broken spoke issues. No spokes there.

There is a band Clutch. I first heard Clutch in my teenage years. The song that I remember most from the beginning of my Clutch experience is Spacegrass, recorded 1995 and probably heard by me in 2000 ish.

Spacegrass

I tried various beers from Short’s Brewery way out west in Bellaire. The Fresh Prince doesn’t even know about this as this Bellaire is in Michigan. This beer, Space Rock, automatically made me think of this song and an exact correlation took place (in space).

They were all very drinkable. I’m not gonna pretend that I can depict every note of every beer. I know good beer from bad beer and everyone who I pretend reads my flog-blogs should know that while knowing I don’t measure my ingredients.

Low Balance Veganism 16:

Oil-free, basically fat-free and totally flavorful

Ⓥinestrone ingredients:

Broth, Veggie (4) @ $1.98 = $0.50 per serving
Zucchini Squash, quarterly sliced (8) @ $1.75 = $0.22 per serving
Onion, chopped (4) @ $0.80 = $0.20 per serving
Celery, chopped (5) @ $1.25 = $0.25 per serving
Carrots, diced (12) @ $1.25 = $0.10 per serving
Green Beans, chopped (6) @ $1.49 = $0.25 per serving
Basil, freshly chopped (4.5) @ $2.98 = $0.66 per serving
Parsley, freshly chopped (15) @ $1.00 = $0.07 per serving
Tomatoes, freshly seeded and gutted (12) @ $3.98 = $0.33 per serving
Tomato Sauce (2.5) @ $0.49 = $0.20 per serving
Garlic, freshly minced (3) @ $0.35 = $0.12 per serving
Tofu, extra firm yet crumbled (6) @ $2.98 = $0.50 per serving
Brown Rice, cooked (13) @ $1.33 = $0.11 per serving
Black Rice, cooked (8) @ $5.98 = $0.75 per serving
Seasonings(SeaSalt/Pepper/BrownSugar/BalsamicVinegar /OnionP/GarlicP/CrushedRedPeppers/Cayenne) = $0.10 per serving
Baked Garbanzo Beans (13) @ $1.49 = $0.12 per serving
Bay Leaves, later removed = $0.10 per serving

Being oil-free I oven-roasted my core veggies and then added all to stew in harmony together.

Making completely from scratch (except for store-bought broth) makes a big impact in the quality of soup. And at $4.58 per serving for the quality and vast servings that can be produced, this is cheaply great soup to motivate springs arrival.

The Soft Parade

Short’s Brewing Company beers tried:

Space Rock – Pale Ale (3.75 Untappd bottle caps)
Huma Lupa Licious – IPA (3.5 Untappd bottle caps)
ControversiALE – IPA (3.75 Untappd bottle caps)
Soft Parade – Fruit Beer (4.25 Untappd bottle caps)
Bellaire Brown – Brown Ale (3.25 Untappd bottle caps)

The highest rated Short’s Brewing beer was the Soft Parade. A very decent beers from a good brewery in my book. I cannot wait to try more.

LBⓋ 15 Salad Sliders

Posted on March 6, 2016 by jeffreylatty

Salad finger food is here because I’m too lazy to use a knife unless I’m on a plant killing massacre rampage. I mow my lawn with a steak knife. Nothing gives me more pleasure than plant genocide. Kill ’em all!

I’ve mentioned before (blogged in your eye) that spontaneous thinking is my lifeline and it helps my luck with cooking or in this case, cutting and arranging.

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Nutshell

Salad Slider ingredients:

Tomato, vine ripe and sliced halfly (4.5) @ $3.98 = $0.88 per serving
Spinach, baby and sliced (12) @ $2.99 = $0.25 per serving
Avocado, sliced (3) @ $0.49 = $0.16 per serving
Cucumber, sliced (7) @ $0.99 = $0.14 per serving
Onion, sliced (10) @ $1.99 = $0.20 per serving
Balsamic Vinegar (32) @ $2.97 = $0.10 per serving
Sea Salt (357) @ $1.99 = $0.01 per serving

Slice and arrange. At $2.73 per serving, this is worth it and fun to pop salads.

Pairs well with clean hands and an IPA.

LBⓋ 14 Broccoli ‘Cheese’ Rice

Posted on March 5, 2016March 5, 2016 by jeffreylatty

I have fell in love with Black Rice. It not only is unique, it is extra nutritious and it is damn tasty. According to Wikipedia,

“The bran hull (outermost layer) of black rice contains one of the highest levels of anthocyanin antioxidants found in food.”

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‘Cheese’ Sauce ingredients:

Daiya, block ‘cheddar’ – chopped (7) @ $5.98 = $0.85 per serving
Sriracha (96) @ $2.97 = $0.04 per serving
Seasonings (GarlicP/OnionP/BrownSugar/LiquidSmoke/SeaSalt/ Pepper/CornStarch) @ $0.07 per serving
Broth, Veggie (4) @ $1.99 = $0.25 per serving

Ready….GO:

Heat VeggieBroth/Seasonings/Daiya/Sriracha and simmer.
Control consistency with CornStarch/Broth. Stir often.

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Broccoli ‘Cheese’ Rice ingredients:

Broccoli, frozen florets – steamed (5) @ $1.49 = $0.30 per serving
Black Rice, cooked (9) @ $5.98 = $0.66 per serving
Basmati Rice, cooked (16) @ $3.19 = $0.20 per serving
Seasonings(SeaSalt/Pepper/OnionP/GarlicP) = $0.05 per serving
‘Cheese’ Sauce, heated = $1.21 per serving

Cook and season Rice. Steam Broccoli. And smother the life out of those florets with hot ‘Cheesy’ greatness. The health benefits compared to cost is amazing. And the mixture of cheapness, flavor and healthiness is unsoberly staggering. Per serving, the cost of this LBV is $2.42. It leaves more expenses for good beer, healthier food and better bicycles!

A Warm Place

#Prost

LBⓋ 13/10 Lentili ‘Cheese’ Fries

Posted on March 4, 2016 by jeffreylatty

Last year, I wanted to share 10 LBⓋ ideas. Low Budget Vegan is more fun to me than probably helpful to anyone else. As I do not have anyone ever reading these, it is a better way of organizing ideas and hopefully one day I’ll influence someone to go Vegetarian, Vegan or just to cook for themselves.

I bought new wheels for my (bicycle) Trek Darth Vader, hence low budget Veganism. Don’t get me started with these wheels. They have already been returned for a wheelset that’ll work for me better. Anyways….

LBⓋ 13/10 Lentili ‘Cheese’ Fries ingredients:

Daiya, block ‘cheddar’ – chopped (7) @ $5.98 = $0.85 per serving
Fries, frozen & roasted (9) @ $2.98 = $0.33 per serving
Lentil, canned soup – simmered (2) @ $1.50 = $0.75 per serving
Sriracha (96) @ $2.97 = $0.04 per serving
Seasonings (GarlicP/OnionP/BrownSugar/LiquidSmoke/SeaSalt/ Pepper/CornStarch) @ $0.07 per serving
Broth, Veggie (4) @ $1.99 = $0.25 per serving

Ready….GO:

Heat Lentil Soup/Veggie Broth and simmer. Heat VeggieBroth/Seasonings/Daiya/Sriracha and simmer.
Control consistency with CornStarch/Broth.
Oven-Roast fries and construct.

This would’ve been made cheaper and better from-scratch, unfortunately time was not on my side and this dude was hungry. And at $2.29 per serving this cheaply and timely produces 3-5 hearty servings and is a healthier comfort food. To be remastered….

Happy Friday! I recommend enjoying a great beer, having some excellent plant-based food and watching PlantPure Nation on Netflix. Of course, after going for a FatBike ride in the snow as I did last night. If possible.

PlantPure Nation Trailer

Snow Ride

Simple Man

Vegan Egg Review

Posted on March 4, 2016 by jeffreylatty

I was immensely excited to try Vegan Egg by Follow Your Heart. I tried a few different things and all were extremely edible. Let’s get one thing super straight, it is amazing to have plant-based as carnivorous-style food. They did an eerily great job at making these Vegan Eggs look and smell like animal eggs. In all honesty, they made me gassy and not-so-friendly-gassy. The egg-smell coming out in gas form is somehow enhanced and extra ‘eggy’.

As far as the cooking goes, I lost patience trying to make an omelet. Scrambled eggs never turned out the way that I wanted. Ultimately, Vegan Eggs are a bit too much of a process for me to prepare more than just a few times. It seems like you have to be precise about the steps. And I am not good at following rules. I never will be. I might be a badass. I might just be extremely lazy. I love the concept and hope people try them and conclude how they’d like.

It’s nice to have comfort food options, but it takes me back to a long lasting opinion of “do we have to pretend to eat animals?”. Sometimes, I eat too much ‘cheese’, ‘burgers’ or seitan…. Seriously most of those plant-based animal-like products are better than the animal products and the benefits are overwhelming. I’m truly just rambling, but nothing beats a sandwich of just veggies and a little mustard. Follow Your Heart Vegenaise is one of the greatest condiments ever, though.

Keep up the good work, Follow Your Heart!

Leonardo Meatlessburger

Posted on February 29, 2016March 1, 2016 by jeffreylatty

I do not intend to be extremely repetitive, but I love sandwiches. And finding fun ways to include sandwiches into my (Ⓥegan) lifestyle, is one of my keys to happiness.

Dude’s gotta eat…

And while any dude (or lady) has to eat, they might as well eat happily. While eating happily, they (you) might as well be healthily happily eating. And if you can healthily happily eat, you might as well step it up a notch or two and eat Vegetarian or Vegan to ultimately do an enormous part in saving the planet.

Fight Climate Change

Even scientists say, “eat less meat” when asked how to better the planet.

I am not one to follow much of what takes place in the movie industry these days, but it’s impossible nowadays to ignore it. When news involves Leonardo DiCaprio, I’ll listen as Leo and I go way back to when I saw Titanic in theater at age 12, I believe. Since then, he’s truly been a favorite actor of mine. Being a true environmental activist is greater than (>) his amazing acting career and is how people with power/fame should go above themselves to try and make a true difference.

12 Celebrities

I’m gonna have to share links to my favorite Leo movies. I have to.

The Basketball Diaries

The Beach

Catch Me If You Can

The Departed

I made a good amount of (ben) Meatlessburger happiness. (The QB for the Pittsburgh Steelers is Ben Roethlisberger:). A brewery that I’ve come across with a few different beers is Half Acre out of Chicago, IL. I did not visit the Brewery (yet), just picked up a few 4-packs. I enjoyed their Pale Ale, their IPA and their Black/Dark Ale. They were all in 16 oz. cans with great decorative properties and the stuff inside is good, as well.

As far as the Meatlessburger goes, I made a gyro-style sandwich, a USA-style sandwich and an experimental chinese-style bunless Meatlessburger. And a LBⓋ (Low Budget Vegan) side… 🙂

Ⓥzatziki Sauce ingredients:

Non-dairy yogurt, plain
Lemon, freshly juiced
Cucumber, deseeded and diced
Cumin powder
Garlic, freshly minced
SeaSalt/Pepper/BrownSugar
Sriracha
Onion, diced

Mix. And Enjoy.

Meatlessburger ingredients:

Tofu, extra firmly crumbled (?:)
Lightlife ‘sausage’ and ‘beef’, crumbled
Daiya Cheddar, block diced cubes
Garlic, freshly minced
SeaSalt/Pepper/BrownSugar/GarlicP/OnionP
Liquid Smoke
Parsley, freshly chopped
Soy Sauce

Prep. Mix. And enjoy. Add Corn Starch if needed.

Gyro Meatlessburger ingredients:

Ⓥzatziki Sauce
Meatlessburger, pan-fried/cast-ironed/baked/grilled
Cucumber, slices
Tomato, slices (Bushel Boy)
Lettuce & Spinach, freshly sliced
Bun, gourmet (bigger) and grilled on inside

USA Meatlessburger ingredients:

Meatlessburger, pan-fried/cast-ironed/baked/grilled
Daiya, melted/broiled onto Meatlessburger
Lettuce
Cucumber, slices
Tomato, slices (Bushel Boy)
Onion, slices
Vegenaise, mmmmmm
Mustard
Mushrooms, sliced and sauteéd

I will go over the LBV and Chinese-style bunless Meatlessburger at a later time.

Happy Leap Year Day. Is that a thing?

Spaghetti Carbonara

Posted on February 22, 2016February 22, 2016 by jeffreylatty

Most of the time, something truly artery clogging usually murderous involving animals is excuse and motivation for my blog clogging Vegan food ideas. Meat is murder. Cheese and dairy is animal torture. I recently made Vegan Spaghetti Carbonara.

Yesterday, I enjoyed something called Jesus Toast. I rode through wet and super soft mud/gravel to get to this toast. Only to later realize this Jesus Toast was created by a SIUC Saluki alum. And this Jesus Toast is not your traditional food. Food to me, but a craft beer from Hailstorm Brewing Company out of Tinley Park, IL. The beer is a black rye IPA and very decent. The name is unique and entertaining alone. Made from a Saluki alum is a cherry on top. I also enjoyed an Alabama Hot Tub by Hailstorm.

Saturday, I rode my heart out along a multi-surfaced Gran Fondo of 100+ KMs. I set a most ascent record with my Garmin Edge 1000 with an ascent of 592 meters aka just short of 2,000 feet. It was an asskicker.

Spaghetti Carbonara ingredients:

Spaghetti, whole wheat & cooked not rinsed
Onion, diced
Garlic, freshly minced
Mushroom, sliced
‘Milk’, rice, soy or cashew non-dairy
Egg replacer
Pepper, coarse
Tempeh, grilled
Daiya
Nutritional Yeast
Parsley, freshly chopped
‘Bacon’, Seitan chopped
Bread, everything is truly optional
GarlicP/OnionP/SeaSalt/Sugar/Cayenne

Progressive Karate:

Saute Onion and Garlic. Boil and season ‘cream’.
Cook noodles, leave starch and cool.
Add egg replacer, Daiya and Mushrooms.
Cook down adding noodles. Serve.

The grilled Tempeh gives that deadly animal flesh look that so many love. To me, it’s nutritious and delicious.

There was a Spring tease this weekend in Illinois. It was wonderful and hope is evident. Lube those bike chains. Mentally prepare for Spring cleaning. Baseball is in the air and soon here grilled veggies will be the aroma in your neighborhood.

Save animals, kill plants.

My Sunday Funday was a Sudday Mudday 🙂

Ⓥaco Salad

Posted on February 19, 2016 by jeffreylatty

I’ve blogged it before and I’ll blog it again. Improv cooking sometimes allows truly great ideas to flourish. And having fun with your food is unreal, interesting and extremely entertaining. Perhaps, not always a success, but worth it most of the time.

From time to time, I do not wanna go to the grocery store. And that alone (maybe a beer or two, also) is my spontaneous/improvisational motivation. Cook and create with what you have on hand. I have strong belief that in a prior life, I was a Mexican chef. Furthermore, I always non-subconsciously almost hoard Mexican cuisine ingredients. A past life is the only way that I can explain it.

Hopslam:)

I’ve had some good beers in the last weeks. I had enjoyed my first ever Hopslam on draft. I’ve had it in bottle before, which is great. The preservation and balance in keg is unbelievable. Hopslam is made out of Bell’s Brewing in Galesburg, MI. It is a DIPA (double india pale ale) made with honey. FIND IT. ENJOY IT.

Seitan ingredients:

Vital Wheat Gluten
Corn Meal
Rosemary/Cayenne/FennelSeed, crushed together
Tomato Sauce
Veggie Broth
Turmeric/Thyme/SeaSalt/Pepper/GarlicP/OnionP
Bay Leaves/Celery/Peppercorn/Fennel/Rosemary, for baking
Vegan ‘Cheese’ cloth

Domino Effect:

Mix wet ingredients together and dry ingredients separately before mixing together.
Form into a loaf and put into wet ‘cheese’ cloth.
Put Seitan loaf into Lasagna pan and put Herbs/Veggies with Broth filling halfway.
Bake for two hours, flipping loaf in between.
Remove from cloth immediately and put in foil or use.
I broiled slightly after out of ‘cheese’ cloth.