Delicious Vegan Dinner Pic! Baked Eggplant Recipe!

Eggplant baked in fat free onion gravy, beans and rice and green salad with chopped tomato and white mushroom.











The baked eggplant was really easy to make.

Peel and slice 1 or 2 eggplants.
Place the eggplant slices between two towels and cover with a weighted tray to drain the eggplant. Many people salt the eggplant slices when they do this but I tried it once without the salt and it worked just as good.

Drain the eggplant for about 4 hours and then make a big pot of gravy. Layer slices and gravy in a lidded baking pan then bake at 350F for 1 hour. Remove lid and bake one more hour. Let cool for about a half hour and serve.

I said easy, not quick!

Groovy Gravy! It's Not Just Brown and Water :: Seitan Sausage GRAVY :: Vegan Gravy Recipe :: Quick Easy Vegan White Sauce Recipe :: Hail Seitan!

Gravy! Yay for gravy! It goes great on everything, including mashed potatoes.














It's also great to pour in a baking dish full of chopped veges and then bake it until it's a casserole.
Talk about easy.

I make it with olive oil so there is NO cholesterol, no trans-fat, nothing yucky like that, just delicious, flavorful flavor.

Basic white gravy is easy to make. Oil heated in an iron skillet, sprinkle white flour over it, stir it in until you have a thick paste and add liquid, stirring constantly and adding more or less liquid for desired consistency. For liquid I use water or vege broth.

If you want brown gravy, brown your flour by putting it in a skillet with medium heat until it is dark enough for your brown gravy, then make gravy like you normally would, using the browned flour.

Once you get it to the consistency you like, add your seasonings to taste. I like salt, pepper, garlic and cumin in my basic gravy.

To make vegan sausage gravy that people will want to drink from the pan, cut up Seitan Sausage, plenty of it, you want a really sausage-y gravy. Use less salt in your basic gravy because the sausage is salty, too.
Put the sausage in a skillet with a little oil and brown them up. Add the seitan to the basic gravy at the very last minute before serving so the sausage doesn't absorb the liquid and become soggy.

A visit from a Friend ::AND:: VEGAN Seitan Wellington :: Vegan Recipe

Art came and went. It was a nice visit. Quiet and uneventful. He's a great houseguest and welcome to curl up on my rug anytime!

Dinners were had.

The first night I made a Seitan Wellington that came out pretty good

I didn't have a recipe but I just made a half loaf of bread and a half seitan sausage. I used pureed tomato and garlic powder in the bread and pureed tomato and juicing pulp in the sausage.
I rolled out the dough and rolled up the raw sausage lump inside.















I was going to bake it in a loaf pan but then I thought, no it will rise too much not be sausage-y in the middle. So I wrapped up in foil, just like you would a regular sausage without bread around it














and baked the whole thing at
350F for about an hour and 15 minutes.

Giant Vegan Corn Dog...















I let it cool completely on the counter and then chilled it until dinner time. About half an hour before dinner, I sliced it into cutlets and warmed them in the oven.















I then served them.














Green salad with red lettuce, collard greens, bell pepper, daikon radish, sauerkraut and a carrot pickle* on the side. Garlic Mashed Potatoes and Seitan Wellington with Seitan Sausage Gravy.


Footnotes:
* Carrot pickle recipe is coming soon. Cuz it's all about the condiments, baby.