FOOD MOOD

The faerie gathering here in Berlin will begin relatively soon. At Wansee.
I am Kitchen-mom (as it's the best and most effective way for me to give since i cant contribute financially)
there has been strong rumblings from Ben about wanting meat meat meat and organic/bio everything. How nice, and impossible.
So I think I will try to make a variety of Seitan based dishes to facilitate the desire for "meat".
Today I looked more closely at SeitanisMyMotor which has some inspirational images (from Hans Wurst restaurant).

This past weekend I bumped in to Steven (part of a German/Ami couple I thought were 'hot' back when we had the Berlin Faerie Cabaret at BarbieDeinhof). We ended up chatting about food at a mutual faerie's BDay party at Claudiastrasse.
I sent him my successful basic recipe this morning:

I get my "Gluten Mehl/ Gluten Flour" at Mehlstuebchen, Leberstr.28 at 3,20Euros per Kilo (though it has the gluten removed it is not called or labled Glutenlos-I guess not to confuse it with all the products that are made for gluten intolerant people).

My basic recipe (which is a rift from a Seitan cornbeef recipe )

Dry

1cp glutenmehl

3tbsp Nut.yeast

(optional) OnionPowder

+ground cloves, ground carroway, pepper

Wet (*room temp)

1/2'cup" broth

1/4cup soysauce or maggisosse

tbsp Olive oil *i put a tad of sesamöl too

2 garlic cloves

Stir dry together
then mix wet INTO dry
knead and cut (or pull apart) into 4-6 pieces or what ever size you want them in.
put in a simmering broth (1hour!) of your choice (not boiling- to avoid "rubber" seitan) ie;4cps broth,4 cps water 1/2cp soy sauce
if you think you'll want a asian flavor you might use ginger -or- oregano/time etc for more western

For the fish taste.

I avoided cloves, carroway etc.
Lightened the use of soysauce by diluting the full quantity.
I used sunflower oil rather than olive.
I chopped up a sushiBlat and added a tiny tiny tiny drop amount of liquidsmoke and similar amount of sesame oil with the sunflower. 

I am not convinced at what "shape" the seitan should be- but it was not unsightly as I had assumed.

 The use of the dried shrimp powder was good but too pungent for that light fish taste.

Part of this concern is about frugality/saving or using only the small money I have to eat and live.
But part of the motivation is also to reject the dictates of social must-haves ie with clothes restaurants homes etc.
For example here are some recipes and 40 ways to use Baking Soda that are DIY and outside of the world of brands/marks royalties and so on. And homemade beauty products like facial muds from oatmeal. Or Homemade toothpaste:

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon sea salt, finely ground

1 drop peppermint, spearmint, sweet orange, clove, or cinnamon bark essential oil

A few drops tap water

Combine ingredients in a small bowl and mix them thoroughly with a toothbrush, your finger, or a small spoon until a smooth, thick paste forms. The paste shouldn’t be too runny; it has to stay on your toothbrush.

Dip your toothbrush into the paste and use as you would regular commercial toothpaste.

And here are 50 more DIY beauty product ideas and recipes