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Vegan Mexican TVP

March 20th, 2010 |

This was my first experiment with using the hRecipe microformat plugin. The plugin does not include a photo field, although the full hRecipe specification has provisions for a graphic. I failed to capture the moment last night when I made this, and this dish isn’t much of a looker anyway. The plugin seems to break the background gradient in my current theme, but I don’t care that much because this theme is getting a bit long in the tooth and I’ll replace it with a more up-to-date one some day when I have a couple of hours. (Don’t hold your breath!) The plugin did not automatically tag the ingredients, nor number the steps on my first go. I had to go back and edit the raw HTML, because I didn’t see a way to revise once you insert a recipe via the plugin. I’m guessing there is a way to make it do that in the first place and I should have RTFM. Oh well, I’m a very early adopter of the plugin, and it’s certainly better than nothing! Let’s see how the search engines like it.

Recipe: Vegan Mexican TVP

Ingredients

- 1.5 C TVP 1/2 C fresh cilantro chopped fine
- 2 tomatoes, diced
- 1 onion, chopped medium fine
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1/2 avocado
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 6 C water
- juice of one lime

Instructions

1. Salt the water and bring to the boil.
2. Meanwhile sautee the onions in the oil until carmelized.
3. When water boils, add the TVP and cook until it softens and quits swelling up.
4. Drain well.
5. Add the other ingredients.
6. May be served cold.

Diet (other): Reduced fat

My rating: 2 stars: ★★☆☆☆

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Posted in Recipes |

Tags: avocado, cilantro, cold, garlic, Lent, Mexican, onion, soy, textured vegetable protein, TVP, vegan |

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Delicious combo vegetable salad

August 8th, 2009 |

Author: colleen dick

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Dilled Veggie Salad

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I found this recipe in an Aussie food rag. If you don’t like grams, try about 12 cherry tomatoes and a regular family sized mess of green beans. I haven’t figured out how Aussies decide whether to use metric or English. Seems metric for weight and English for volume? Anyway this salad was a pleaser. I’d say if you spiked it up with tempeh it would be a meal on its own.