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    Challenge: Name 3 Little Things

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    Posted · Edited by Carole Grogloth Hawaii (log)

    Aloha,

    Great question and good ideas.  Here are my three:

    1.  grind dried mushrooms in blender to make a powder.  Store in a jar and add it to sauces, soups and stir fries.  Lasts a long time on the shelf. 

    2.  grind dried Ancho chilies in a blender and use to make great chili.  Lasts a long time, too.

    3.  when I have organic lemons and use the juice but don't need the zest at that time, I grate the zest and freeze it in a small container for later.  I do the same for grapefruit and oranges.

    Carole Grogloth, Molokai, Hawaii

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    Your Daily Sweets: What are you making and baking? (2012–2014)

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    Another birthday making my own cake :).  

    Chocolate chiffon with pecan cinnamon dacquoise, caramel butter cream and chocolate ganache.  

    I covered it with chocolate fondant and the lace is made with Sugar Dress.  It gave me an opportunity to try out the Sugar Dress.  I haven't had anything to use it on yet.

    The peony is made from gum paste, and dusted with several shades of orange petal dust and edged with super gold luster dust.

    RWood,

    The cake is gorgeous with the chocolate fondant, the Sugar Dress lace is very elegant, but the peony is out of this world.  Nice work.

    Carole Grogloth, Hawaii

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    Dried Chickpeas / Garbanzo Beans Questions

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    Shel,

    I buy my organic chickpeas pre-packaged from Arrowhead Mills. The following site discusses chickpea varieties: http://humus101.com/EN/2008/04/22/hummus-in-perspective-chickpea-varieties/. The Arrowhead Mills chickpeas I have look closest to the Middle-Eastern chickpeas in this site's picture, although Arrowhead Mills doesn't say so on it's package. The blogger calls these chickpeas small, and best to use for hummus. I hope this helps.

    Carole Grogloth, Molokai, Hawaii

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    Ideas for a vegetarian feast

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    I would just suggest trying to focus less on being super weird and extreme, and more on just making good food. Having food that tastes good is the best "wow" factor to convert skeptics, IMHO.

    If you haven't already read it, you might have a look of Great Chefs Cook Vegan.

    Will,

    thanks for the book title recommendation. I've just ordered it.

    Carole Grogloth, Hawaii

    No Fat Vegan Cooking

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    Jayne,

    Thanks for the link to fatfree.com. I briefly looked it over and was struck by the volume of information there. I was also struck by how much our tastes change over time, and not just vegan tastes, but our culture in general. Just look at an old edition of Fanny Farmer or Joy of Cooking. Most of the recipes I looked at on the fatfree.com site were from 1993. In 20 years vegan cooking has made a remarkable journey.

    I've performed a lot of internet searches for fat free vegan cooking sites, but never came up with this one, maybe because it is archived. So thanks for the tip, I may never have found it on my own.

    Aloha,

    Carole Grogloth Hawaii

    No Fat Vegan Cooking

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    Aloha Plantes Vertes,

    Thanks for all your suggestions. Your tool suggestions will add a lot of fun to my cooking.

    I'd like to thank everyone who took the time to reply. eGullet is turning out to be a helpful, fun, educational source for me.

    Mahalo

    Carole Grogloth, Hawaii

    Some special equipment can be fun for this type of cooking too; a spiraliser, dehydrator, turning strip slicer and sprouter (you can make sprouts with a sieve or jar; the special item is for convenience), as well as the more common blender/food processor, microplane, spice and nut grinder, steamer, pressure cooker, mandoline and so on. It is also interesting to know that microwave steaming is the cooking method by which the maximum of nutrients are preserved - better even than traditional steaming.

    No Fat Vegan Cooking

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    Aloha Baselerd,

    Thank you for your interesting recipe. I have all the ingredients, except I had to look up what bonito flakes are: "flakes of dried, smoked bonito fish". I'll have to look for it at the store.

    Carole Grogloth, Hawaii

    No Fat Vegan Cooking

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    Plante Vertes,

    What a wonderful list of suggestions. I really appreciate the ideas and it will take me a while to try them. They sound really good, i never thought of using orange juice as a flavoring.

    Carole Grogloth, Hawaii

    No Fat Vegan Cooking

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    Hi LindaK,

    You are so right, steamed vegetables with some salt and spices are delicious.

    Carole Grogloth, Hawaii

    I steam a lot of vegetables and then finish them with a sprinkle of salt, maybe some lemon juice or aleppo pepper flakes. No oil required.

    No Fat Vegan Cooking

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    Hi HungryC,

    Thanks for taking the time to write.

    Best Wishes,

    Carole Grogloth Hawaii

    I was just going to chime in the same thing: what's wrong with olive oil? The Mediterranean diet seems to be getting (yet another) round of positive publicity from the health press based on (yet another) study demonstrating its health benefits.

    And if you're seriously vegan, then my fat free veg cooking tips won't help you, as they often involve meat/poultry stocks/broths or reductions.

    No Fat Vegan Cooking

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    Hi CacaoFlower,

    I've been happy with the response to my posting. There are lots of interesting and controversial studies on fat in the diet, and yes, the Mediteranian diet has gotten good press. Thanks for the link, i read it. For myself, I throw my lot with Esselstyne, Campbell, McDougall, Ornish, and Furhman. They have extremely good credentials and I’m convinced. Here is one of many YouTube links you may want to watch.

    Carole Grogloth, Hawaii

    Good unrefined fats in moderation are good for you. They have been in our diets as long humans have lived on our earth. Heck, babies need saturated fats that are present in their mother's milk to develop their body and brain properly.

    Here is an great article by a doctor (Dr. Cate Shanahan) that practiced and observed the healthy population in Hawaii and wrote a book from her experience (DeepNutrition).

    Why good fats are good for you

    "Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day" Zoe Francois (2010–)

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    Posted · Edited by Carole Grogloth Hawaii (log)

    Jeff and Zoe have a newer (2009) book out using whole wheat flour: Healthy bread in five minutes a day : 100 new recipes featuring whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and gluten-free ingredients / Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë François ; photography by Mark Luinenburg. Same easy technique but geared more toward whole grains. Carole Grogloth, Hawaii

    No Fat Vegan Cooking

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    Aloha eGullet Members,

    Can anyone share some recipes or techniques for cooking tasty vegetables without oil?

    I am following Caldwell Esselstyn's diet for good health (Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease). He is part of a growing team of doctors who want to do more than fix up sick people, but want to prevent illness from starting. And they have compelling science that shows diet is the answer. Other doctors include: T. Colin Campbell, China Study; Dean Ornish, Eat More Weigh Less; John McDougall, The McDougall Plan; and Joel Fuhrman, Eat to Live. These are all very convincing books, if you are interested in good food and good health. However, this movement can use some help from knowledgeable culinary artists, which is why I joined this forum.

    The Low Fat Vegan Chef, Veronica, has some great instructions with pictures on how to fry onions without oil. I never thought this could be done, but they are delicious.

    http://lowfatveganchef.com/how-to-cook-without-oil-or-how-to-cook-fat-free/

    I'm looking forward to trying some new cooking ideas.

    Carole Grogloth Hawaii

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    Vegan Jackfruit Tacos

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    I have a jackfruit tree in my yard and get about one fruit a year, not as many as the picture in the Seabird link. The ripe fruit tastes similar to pineapple, banana, and apple combined. The last fruit I picked was over 20 pounds and I ended up freezing some which tasted good when defrosted. The big fruit contains multiple large seeds, almost the size of a date, and each seed is surrounded by the edible fruit. I’ve been told the seeds are also edible but I never tried eating them since I think they need to be dried or roasted but I don’t have enough information to try it yet. You have to pick the fruit at the exact moment it is ripe, when it has a fragrant scent. If you pick it too late it has a very unpleasant smell and you don’t want to eat it. I have never heard of eating it green. The “pulled pork” sandwich looks delicious; I’ll have to try it next year. Carole Grogloth Hawaii

    Vegetarian cookbooks

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    I am a Madison fan, so thanks for the heads up. I hadn't heard about Vegetable Literacy but the description on Amazon is interesting. It "reveals the surprising relationships between vegetables, edible flowers, and herbs within the same botanical families." Carole Grogloth, Hawaii

    Have the Deborah Madison fans checked out the previews of her about to be released new book Vegetable Literacy?

    Vegetarian cookbooks

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    Posted · Edited by Carole Grogloth Hawaii (log)

    Deborah Madison's Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone is my everyday go-to vegetarian cookbook. It won the James Beard Foundation Award for Excellence and the Julia Child's book of the year award. It has many gems of recipes as well as basic information on vegetarian foods. It was published in 1997 and remains a great book on vegetarian cooking.

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