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tastes like chicken…i think

Posted in general, tagged on March 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I realized the other day that I don’t really remember what chicken tastes or even smells like. Sometimes I’ll be eating a chick-alike and be blown away by how like chicken it tastes. Or using chick-alike bullion in broth, I’ll think it smells like chicken. Then I walk down the hall in my apartment building [...]

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quick fix: “chicken” pasta

Posted in quick fix, recipes, tagged , on January 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »

…and she comes out of hiding. After having two weeks off work, the return just about killed me. I had to do my best to manipulate time itself to somehow make up for having been off two weeks. I felt like I was on Count Rugen’s life-sucking machine in The Pit of Despair and that a-hole [...]

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american cookin’

Posted in general, tagged , , , on July 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »

So there’s no red, white, and blue jello mold. No hot dogs on the grill or potato salad. But after cooking today, I did look at it and think, “That’s so American…sort of.” Dinner doesn’t get much more square than this. That is clearly a meat, starch, and a veg. The meat is my first [...]

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call the green police

Posted in general, tagged on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I did it. I bought these fakey chicken nuggets on a whim, not even caring they were made in Taiwan. I was so caught up in the excitement of the Asian grocery wonderland that is Fubonn that I bought some things I maybe didn’t need to. These Vegefarm “chicken” nuggets are nothing special. They’re fine, [...]

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quick fix: tacos

Posted in quick fix, tagged , , on April 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »

It’s a quick one if you’ve got a buddy to help you rinse, chop, and cook. Using a fakey meat here, Litelife Chick’n Style Strips, but cheaper yet equally easy is reconstituted TVP (texturized vegetable protein). Both TVP and Morningstar Farms Meal Starters, however, make a squishier “meat.” This cooks up just like the ground beef taco [...]

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