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Food

A page where I keep my favorite recipes, and more broadly thoughts about food.

Recipes

Oat Milk

  • 1 cup oats
  • 4 cups water
  • 1/4 tsp guar gum
  • 1/4 tsp Calcium Carbonate (should be around 1250mg Calcium, 500 mg for dietary purposes)
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1/4 tsp salt

Soak 1 cup oats in disposable water for 15 minutes. Drain out disposable water. Add in 4 cups of water. Blend for 30 seconds. Filter out oats with nut milk bag / cheesecloth. Add salt, guar gum, sugar and calcium carbonate. Blend again.

General Tso's Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP)

  • 1/2 cup TVP
  • 2 2/3 Tbsp sugar
  • 1 1/3 Tbsp General Tso's seasoning packet or 1 tsp garlic powder + 1 tsp ginger + 1/2 tsp red pepper
  • 2 tsp methylcellulose HV
  • 1 tsp transglutaminase (possibly overkill- 1/4 tsp might be more accurate, but I had no scale to measure; should be 1/2 tsp according to the conversion here)
  • 2 Tbsp soy sauce (or perhaps worcestershire sauce)
  • 1/2 cup boiling water

Beverages

Tea

I'm a big fan of the following kinds of tea:

Tea-like

  • Yerba Mate
  • Cassina / Yaupon Holly
  • Roasted Chicory / pero

Sodas

  • Moxie
  • Pacific (alcohol-free Pastis)
  • Basically anything that tastes vaguely medicinal

Alcohol/Spirits

Good

  • Riesling White Wine
  • McKenzie Whiskey
  • Laphroaig Whiskey
  • Pretty much anything from my home region or the Finger Lakes. I have no palate so I just choose based off geography and it generally works out well.
  • Pastis

Shitty

Ingredients