This is a recipe from The Vegan Slow Cooker. Slow cookers are a marvelous thing, aren’t they? This dish was very easy to prepare. Cube a loaf of stale bread, cut up some pears, add spices and milk, and cook for an hour and a half.
This dish was ok…maybe a 2.5 or 3 out of 5 rating at best. Baby J loved it, probably because it was mushy and sweet from the pears. The rest of us ate it, but I’m not rushing to make it again anytime soon.
Oh, how I love the ease of using a glorious slow cooker to prepare dinner! Throw everything into a pot, forget about it, and after a few hours dinner is ready. This is a recipe from Home-Cooked Vegan Comfort Foods and you get to make your own, wait for it, seitan! No, not the devil! Seitan, you know, wheat meat. I bet you’re drooling now.
First, I gathered all of my ingredients for the broth of this dish. Mix it up.
Pour the broth into the slow cooker.
Next, gather your ingredients for the home-made seitan.
Mix together the dry ingredients.
Then mix together the wet ingredients and add those to the dry. Mix together and knead it a few times. It should be kind of firm and elastic in consistency.
Let the seitan rest for about 20 minutes so the gluten can develop. Then, divide into six equal pieces and try to flatten them out as much as possible. Place the pieces into the slow cooker in a single layer and allow to fester, I mean, cook for about three hours.
I served this recipe with rice and steamed broccoli, just like the cookbook recommend.
I’m very devastated to report that this dish was such an epic fail. The flavor from the broth was weird and strangely artificial, I’m guessing from the vegan mayo. The seitan itself had a doughy consistency and didn’t remind me at all of chicken. I have eaten seitan that has made me joyful and proud to be a vegan. This seitan, was nothing like that. My husband, bless him, tried it but did not want another bite. My daughter,A, licked it and wouldn’t eat it. I ate it because by God someone was going to and Baby J loved it. I’m shocked too. He ate all the little pieces I have him and asked for more. He is so my son, my little vegan baby.
Anyway, I will never make this meal again. It was absolutely horrible….I’m even considering ripping out this page in the book so I won’t be tempted to recreate this dish ever again.
Good morning to me! This is,yet another, recipe from The Vegan Slow Cooker. I love the thought of chocolate for breakfast. When I was growing up, I always had some kind of chocolate cereal for breakfast, Count Chocoula was my favorite. But, now that I’m an adult, I feel as though I should be a role model and prepare healthy meals so my kids learn healthy habits to last them a lifetime. What? Oatmeal is totally healthy!
This recipe is really easy to throw together. Mix everything together and and cook on low for 6-8 hours.
In the morning, you get to wake up to oatmeal, glorious chocolate oatmeal. You will need to add sugar to this recipe. When I asked B if it needed sugar, his reply was, “Yes, all of it.” A tablespoon was the perfect amount for me. I loved this oatmeal so much! It was warm and calming and reminded me of chocolate pudding. The rest of the family was not too crazy about this dish, but I really enjoyed it and I plan to make it again. Even if it is just for myself.
This is a recipe from The Vegan Slow Cooker. Banana bread in a slow cooker? Heck yes! This sounded super easy and fast….so I thought.
It started out easy enough, grab all your ingredients.
Then mix your ingredients together.
Pour the batter into a greased loaf pan and put it in the slow cooker.
Place a wooden spoon in place to allow heat to escape and not allow condensation to form on the lid.
This was supposed to only take a few hours, but after four hours, the bread still wasn’t cooked all the way through. It was also a complete mess!
I made this bread in a loaf pan instead of the slow cooker because I wanted to keep my slow cooker clean, but the batter overflowed the loaf pan and made a big mess of both the loaf pan and the slow cooker.
The flavor of this banana bread was ok, but the texture was way off. It was everything that a non-vegan would expect vegan food to be like. It was gummy and kind of gross to eat. I was really disappointed with this recipe. I really wanted a bread that I could throw in the slow cooker and would come out delicious and perfect. However, I guess I will just have to continue that vegan quest because this was not the bread I was looking for.
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