Also I cooked tonight.

[in_the_blue]

Chopped up a sweet onion and sauteed it a little with a ton of garlic (yes, this is my measurement) in oil and red wine along with parsley, oregano, nutmeg, salt, pepper, smoked paprika, and a little thyme. Also chopped: carrots, celery, yukon gold potatoes, shiitake mushrooms, some leftover pasta (and baby bok choy), put them in with cream of tomato soup base and a little bit of veggie stock. Let it cook for a half hour, then added soy chicken and let it simmer until we felt like eating.

It was tasty. If you try it, let me know.

Comments

[kit-the-brave.livejournal.com]

That sounds really good! What kind of soy chicken do you like? I can only get the Morningstar breaded kind here, and I *do* cook with it, but the breading dissolves, of course.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Morningstar also makes an unbreaded chik patty; I can find that one sometimes. Also, the Quorn Naked Chik'n Cutlets are pretty good, the mycoprotein has a little bit of a different texture. I've used both of those but I like to use these guys (http://www.lightlife.com/product_detail.jsp?p=smartstripschickn) in my cooking. They're not as salty as the Morningstar ones, so if I'm going to re-cook I prefer them. That said, I really like the Morningstar breaded chik patties chopped up in salads and sometimes I'll add them as an afterthought to soups. Most of the flavor is in the breading and they know it.

[kit-the-brave.livejournal.com]

Oh, man! They have that brand in my grocery store (I have the bacon in my fridge right now) but I've never seen it in "chicken" flavor before. I'll have to ask the manager if they can order it.

The local sandwich place uses the Morningstar patties to make vegetarian chicken parmaesan (how do you spell that? every way I try, the spell check says is wrong) sandwiches - yummo!

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

Parmesan (you're welcome).

If they can get one Lightlife product, I'm sure they can get the others too! Good luck.