MUSHROOMS – ANIMAL-FREE SOUS-CHEF™

Boiled Mushrooms Plus Green Olive Topper

Boiled Mushrooms Plus Green Olive Topper Top your favorite pasta and red sauce dish with these succulent animal-free morsels textured by nature to satisfy one’s appetite with plants and fungi – the perfect chew. From an evolution stance, to keep one from eating the young of unprotected species. To facilitate the thriving part of living. DesignedContinue reading “Boiled Mushrooms Plus Green Olive Topper”

JUICY CHEW RICE

How does a juicy chew sound? I didn’t know until I ad-libbed this rice one morning wanting something other than plain for a change of pace. Was I ever surprised. RICE? JUICY ON THE CHEW? You betcha’ and loving it all the way till gone!! Rice? Why make rice like everybody else? Don’t you thinkContinue reading “JUICY CHEW RICE”

Sauerkraut Skillet Dish

SAUERKRAUT SKILLET DISH Pan-fried mushrooms, shredded vacuum packed tofu and canned yams mixed with squeezed sauerkraut. Added herbs and spice make everything nice! Especially the chew! This is a dry dish; if you want it wetter, then squeeze the sauerkraut less, okay? Serves 6

AFC Fresh Mushroom Saute Topper

FRESH MUSHROOM SAUTE TOPPER Fresh mushroom, green pepper and sweet onion sauteed in extra virgin olive oil. Seasoned with garlic and smoked paprika! Simple yet delicious! Makes enough for 8-12 toppers or serves 4 – 6 as a side dish 2 T. extra virgin olive oil 1 c. diced sweet onion, 3/8 inch squares 1Continue reading “AFC Fresh Mushroom Saute Topper”

AFC EARTH BURGER

AFC EARTH BURGER The everything burger! Grains: barley and rolled oats. Veggies: mushrooms and carrots. Beans: dark red kidney beans and blackeye peas! Contains no fat, no soy, no animal products, no protein isolates! The carrots give it an earthy taste! Makes 8 cups burger dough

Old-Style Spaghetti Sauce

OLD-STYLE SPAGHETTI SAUCE Marinate the broth overnight. Pan-smoke your spices the next day. Blend a bunch of parsley with orange and carrot juices. Add the tomato paste and mushrooms and that’s about it. It’s easier than the directions make it sound. And it tastes about as old-style as I’ve created yet. This is beforeContinue reading “Old-Style Spaghetti Sauce”

Creamy-Style Frozen Veggie Soup

CREAM-STYLE FROZEN VEGGIE SOUP The frozen veggies of the day are broccoli, cauliflower and carrot. Add water, flavor concentrates – in this case mushroom base and poblano pepper concentrate – plus a few seasonings, diced celery and you have a creamy rich soup once blended. We add the celery after the soup is blended forContinue reading “Creamy-Style Frozen Veggie Soup”

Pre-cooking Your Mushrooms

1 lb. fresh white button mushrooms, washed well, then quartered like a cross 5 oz. fresh Shitake mushrooms, washed well, stems removed from the caps with a knife and discarded 1 jumbo fresh Portobello mushroom cap, washed well, stem removed and discarded, sliced into 3/8 inch wide steaks, then crosswise into 3/4 inch wide segments 4Continue reading “Pre-cooking Your Mushrooms”

MINOR’S MUSHROOM BASE

I buy Minor’s Mushroom Base at Gordon’s Food Store. It can also be purchased online at amazon.com and elsewhere. It’s a great product that enhances the mushroom flavor of whatever dish you use it in. It’s salty, because it’s highly concentrated, so you don’t need much. It’s also gluten-free.

STEVE’S DERBY STEW

STEVE’S DERBY STEW Mushroom, black bean and tomato stew with fresh garlic, white wine and cilantro. Makes 18 cups

PRE-SLICED MUSHROOMS

PRE-SLICED MUSHROOMS. It’s always best to buy whole mushrooms and to slice your own. It’s not difficult, nor does it take much time. This way you control the thickness, and if you want to cube or quarter them, you have that option. More often than not, groceries slice them too thin, then keep them tooContinue reading “PRE-SLICED MUSHROOMS”