Black Bean Vegetable Soup
Posted by tinako on August 27, 2009
BBQ Seitan Sandwich
Lunch today was a BBQ Seitan sandwich. I sliced the last of the Seitan, slathered it in BBQ Sauce, and baked it in the toaster oven at 350 for 10 minutes. I put it on leftover Whole Wheat Zucchini Herb Bread with more BBQ Sauce, a roasted Hatch pepper, and sliced tomato. Good!
Dinner was Black Bean Vegetable Soup. The very first thing I did was burn the beans on the quick soak (boiled off the small amount of water). It was all the black beans I had and I figured I’d see if they couldn’t be saved. I put them in a clean pot with fresh water to soak and scrubbed the burned pot. After an hour of soaking I changed the water again, added a bay leaf and boiled them an hour and a half I guess. They still smelled burned, so I dumped out that water too. I replaced it with extra water in the soup, and it turned out wonderful – you would never know I had burned it.
I feel free to take liberties with soup recipes. This time I added about 1/2 c chopped cauliflower that needed to go, and half a Hatch pepper. Also I had no fresh hot pepper so used 1/4 t red pepper flakes, and was glad I had not used more.
Garlic Herb Bread and Turnip Greens with BBQ Sauce
With this I made Garlic Herb Bread in my bread machine. If you have a bread machine, you have lots of recipes so I’m not going to bother with this one, but I did replace half the white flour with whole wheat and it came out great (still used the Basic cycle). I would put in more garlic and herbs next time, though. I also steamed some turnip greens and served them with the BBQ Sauce I made.
For dessert I made Cocoa Cake. Not to be outdone by the beans, I screwed this up by using baking powder instead of baking soda. It didn’t rise as much but was OK – you can’t go too far wrong with sugar and cocoa.
