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Vegan Mofo Has Arrived

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October 1st begins Vegan Mofo, the vegan food blogging event of the year. This fantastic awareness raising event was started by the Post Punk Kitchen as an homage to NaNoWriMo. PPK was created by Isa Chandra Moskowitz, in 2005, and quickly escalated into a place where vegans could write and talk about vegan cuisine in a safe and happy place. Isa has also written several awesome cookbooks. You should check them out.

What Vegan Food of the Month does is bring vegan cuisine into focus, not just in the food blogging world, but in the blogging world itself.

Here’s what is involved. For thirty days, vegan food bloggers write about food related topics. Whether it is the dish of the day, or your favorite restaurant, or favorite tools, the point is to write. Just like NaNoWriMo, where a person writes a novel in thirty days, we bloggers write about food and food things.

Sure, I’m panicked a little. I wasn’t a dedicated writer last month, and I have a crazy work schedule. But I’m serious about helping other people explore options in dining besides the meat and potatoes they think they need.

So raise a glass to the month of October, and here’s to good writing on Vegan Mofo!

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King Quinoa Cooking Class Recipes: Sauteed Garlicky Spinach

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Sauteed Garlicky Spinach

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes

Yield: 4 servings

Serving Size: 8 oz

Sauteed Garlicky Spinach

Ingredients

  • 4 cups Spinach
  • 2 tbsp Sunflower oil
  • 1 tsp chopped garlic

Process

Heat up a skillet and add the sunflower oil. When the oil is hot, throw in the spinach. You may have to add the spinach a little at time if your pan isn’t big enough. Don’t worry the spinach will cook down making room for more. Toss in the garlic, and mix. Keep stirring so you don’t burn the spinach. Remove from heat once all the spinach is cooked. Add a little salt and pepper.

Serve with your favorite entrée.

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King Quinoa Cooking Class Recipes: Seasoned Quinoa Cakes

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Seasoned Quinoa Cakes

Prep Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour

Total Time: 2 hours, 30 minutes

Yield: 15 cakes

Serving Size: 2 oz

Seasoned Quinoa Cakes

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Quinoa Seed, soaked
  • 1/4 cup Quinoa Flour
  • 1 red bell pepper, diced
  • 1 green bell pepper, diced
  • ¼ red onion, diced
  • ½ carrot, diced
  • 3-4 Garlic cloves, chopped
  • 1 tsp Coriander
  • ½ tsp Cayenne Pepper
  • Juice of 1/2 lime
  • 1 tsp salt
  • Sunflower oil for cooking

Process

Drain the quinoa and cook in 2 cups of boiling water until soft. Cool.

Sautee the veggies until they soften. Cool the veggies down. Add the veggies, spices, and quinoa flour to the quinoa seed and mix thoroughly.

To make the cakes: Using the palms of your hands, shape 1 inch (2 oz) balls of the quinoa mix, and set on a sheet tray. Stick in the freezer for 15-20 minutes.

Heat up a sautee pan with sunflower oil. Drop the cakes into the pan. Let them “sear” (get brown) on one side. Using a spatula, carefully turn the cakes over, and let them cook on the other side. Remove from heat, and drain on paper towels.

You can serve these as Entrées, as a snack, or with salads.

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King Quinoa Cooking Class Recipes: Quinoa Breakfast Cereal

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Quinoa Breakfast Cereal

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: PT1 1/2 M

Yield: 4 servings

Serving Size: 1 cup

Quinoa Breakfast Cereal

Ingredients

Process

Add the Quinoa flakes to water and stir. Cook on low for 90 seconds. Let sit for a minute or two. Add your favorite in-season fruits, and sweetener. Add almond or rice milk. Enjoy.

Quinoa does have a strong, earthy flavor, and the Quinoa flakes really bring out that flavor.

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King Quinoa Cooking Class Recipes: Roasted Rosemary Potatoes

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Rosemary Roasted Red Potatoes

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: PT30-40M

Total Time: 1 hour

Yield: 4 servings

Serving Size: 6 oz

Rosemary Roasted Red Potatoes

Ingredients

  • 6-8 red potatoes
  • Fresh Rosemary
  • Sunflower Oil
  • Salt & Pepper

Process

Cut the potatoes into wedges and season with rosemary, olive oil, and salt and pepper. Lay the potatoes out on a sheet pan sprayed with pan coating, and cook in a 400 degree oven for 15-17 minutes, or until the potatoes are crunchy on the outside and soft in the middle.

Serve with your favorite entrée.

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King Quinoa Cooking Class Recipes: Quinoa Muffins with Bananas and Peaches

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Quinoa Muffins with Bananas and Peaches

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 25 minutes

Total Time: 45 minutes

Yield: 6 muffins

Quinoa Muffins with Bananas and Peaches

Ingredients

  • ½ cup Quinoa Flakes
  • ½ cup Quinoa Flour
  • 2 tbsp Agave Syrup, honey, or maple syrup
  • 2 very ripe bananas
  • 1 peach, diced
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 2 “eggs” Egg Replacer- (1 ½ tsp egg replacer mixed with 2 tbsp warm water equals 1 egg)

Process

Mix the dry and wet ingredients separately. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix thoroughly. Spray a muffin tin with cooking spray, and fill with muffin mixture.

Bake in a 375 degree oven for 23-25 minutes. Serve warm with buttery spread.

Remember to make enough. These will be gone before they are cool.

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King Quinoa Cooking Class Recipes

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Cooking QuinoaHere are the recipes I developed for the King Quinoa Cooking Class. I hope you try them out. They were tasty, especially the muffins. Quinoa Flour is a little pricey, but you don’t use that much in the muffin recipe, so you can make lots of muffins with one bag.

I hope you enjoy these recipes as much as the Class did. I had great fun cooking, and they had fun watching, helping, and eating.

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King Quinoa Cooking Class is a Success!

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King Quinoa Class in Action

I had the greatest time with this class. There were five attendees, four in a birthday party, and a fellow who wants to learn how to cook. Everyone was in a good mood, and were surprised that they were going to get to eat. They thought they had come just to watch. The food was a success based on the attendee’s immediate reactions. And I was able to pass on some invaluable knowledge and skills.

Of course I always scare the class attendees with the fire and heat, and here’s why, that’s where the skill comes in.

Sautee Flip

The Pro in Action

The menu for the class was simple, but tasty:

  • Quinoa Flake Cereal with in season fruits and berries
  • Seasoned Quinoa Cakes
  • Sauteed Garlicky Spinach
  • Roasted Rosemary Red Potatoes
  • Quinoa Muffins

The food was 100% Gluten free. Not really intentional, but that’s what happens when one cooks with quinoa.

I encouraged attendees to help shape the quinoa cakes. They kept comparing the cakes they made with their friends, “Yours is better than mine.” And of course, I went around and showed each of them how to shape the quinoa into the little delicious cakes that you then fry in oil to get crispy.

Shaping Quinoa Cakes with Class

The Class is helping.

The biggest hit of the night were the Quinoa Muffins.

These little gems are made with quinoa flour, quinoa flakes, bananas, and a little bit of agave syrup. The personal touch I added to the recipe were the fresh, ripe peaches. Stupendous.

Quinoa Muffins with Bananas and Peaches

These were all the rage

Next month I’m teaching all about chilis, including sauces and salsas. I hope that class is just as fun.

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Coming up on Kitchen Shaman

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I’ve taken a little hiatus from writing. Yes, recipes have been posted, but the food knowledge and history and the perspective columns have been suffering. I promise to get back to writing in both these areas later in September.

Recently, I’ve been working on re-developing the website, and that involves taking lots and lots of photographs. Once the photographs are taken they then have to be cataloged with keywords and other such technical fun stuff, and uploaded to the server so that i can eventually share them with you, the reader. It is a phenomenal task, and one that is hard to concentrate on while working a full time job, a part-time job, and writing for this blog.

I don’t mean to sound like a whiner, but when we are done re-designing this site, it will be worth the wait. Some of the photographs I’ve taken are true “money” shots. Others are good, and will appear on this blog throughout the next year. I might submit one or two to FoodGawker, we’ll see. In the meantime, enjoy a little of the fruits of my labors.

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