General tips

Buy Local Food : Cultivate an awareness of how far your food travels. When Rich Pirog, Food Systems Program Leader for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, tracked the miles traveled for 16 types of produce, he found that locally sourced fruits and vegetables such as apples, lettuce and tomatoes traveled an average of 56 miles, compared to 1,494 miles — nearly 27 times farther — for the same fruits and vegetables delivered through conventional retail channels. Things get stickier with combination foods, strawberry yogurt for example. Pirog came up with 2,216 miles by adding up the distance traveled for the yogurt’s milk, sugar and strawberries. That figure could be slashed by 90 percent if you buy plain yogurt and stir in some locally grown honey and fruit.


Oven Tips : Switch your oven off a few minutes before your food is ready - it will stay hot enough to finish cooking the food.


Try Eating Raw Food : Your body needs time to adjust and clean itself. Start including more fresh fruit, green salad, and green juice in your meals. Cut back on meat, dairy products, and cooked starchy foods. Try eating all raw one day per week, then two days. Or eat only two cooked foods per meal, then only one. You'll feel the difference.












The Great Gluten Turkey, Part Two Recipe

The Great Gluten Turkey, Part Two Category Vegetarian Recipes 
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continued from part one Place the "turkey" in a preheated 350 degree oven and bake for 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours, basting every 15 minutes with the wine-margarine mixture and the

juces in the pan. If it brown too much, cover loosly with aluminum foil. Carv as you would with a regular roast and accompany with stuffing. LIGHT YEAST FLAVORING POWDER: Pulverize all ingredients in a blender until powdered. Store in a jar in a cool place. GREAT GLUTEN DRESSING: Melt the margarine. Saute the onion, celery, and mushrooms. Combine with the remaining ingredients, moistening with stock as necessary. GRAVET FOR MOCK TURKEY: Melt the margarine in aq saucepan. Add the flour and cook for two minutes. Add the reserved gluten stock, white wine and soy sauce. Cook, stirring constantly until thick. For more flavor, an additional tablespoon of light yeast flavoring may be added. HOMEMADE GLUTTEN: when you wash the starch and bran away from high-gluten, whole-wheat flour, you end up with just the wheat protien, or gluten. It's a strechy substance with a particularly meaty texture when baked, boiled, stewed and fried, and is the main component of the Great Gluten Turkey. This recipe uses 3 puonds of flour. Note that the "turkey" recipe uses 10 pounds of flour. The recipe ingredients can be increased and you can follow the same method outlined here. NOTE: If you wish to avoid the work of making homemade gluten, there is also instant gluten flour (vital wheat gluten), which only needs to be mixed with water. 3 pounds or more high-gluten whole-wheat flour 3 cups or more water The important point here is to use a high-gluten whole-wheat flour. Whole-wheat pastry flour will not give you the same results. If you're in in doubt, ask for the best flour for breadbaking, it has the highest gluten content. Place the flour in a large bowl and add the water while stirring constantly. Add enough water to make a very firm dough, it should be much firmer than bread dough. Allow this to sit for at least one hour. No kneading or setting overnight is necessary. Place the bowl containing the dough in the sink. Fill it with tap water and begint to massage the dough. The water will grow very white and milky ar first, as the starch rinses out. This liquid can be saved and used in place of arrowroot or cornstarch to thicken sauces and such. It will keep for about two weeks in the refrigerator. If you don't save it, discard the water as it gets cloudy and fill the bowl with fresh water. Keep filling the bowl with fresh water, massaging the dough and discarding the water for about 10 ~ 15 minutes until the water grows gradually clear. During this process as the starch and bran gets washed away, the dough will shrink in size and at one point may appear to be falling apart completely. In the end it will all congeal into one strechy mass. When it looks like you have a giant wad of well chewed bubble gum, you have transformed flour into raw gluten. It is now ready for use in the Great Gluten Turkey Recipe.

 
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