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Tempeh Bacon or Facon

pookito — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:30:16 +0000

I have read so much about Facon or Tempeh Bacon. So I found a recipe that I could do Here. So I decided to give it a try. If you go to the link, you are going to noticed the recipe will be the same as the one I am writing below. Why? you may ask. Just incase I delete the book mark from my computer. I want to keep this recipe with me.

Later on I will post a picture of the BLT.

Tempeh Bacon, Vegan Facon

makes about 1/2 cup

*a nice stack for 1-2 sandwiches

5 ounces tempeh (2/3 a standard 8 ounce pack)

1-2 Tbsp maple or agave syrup

1 Tbsp olive oil

1/2 tsp cumin

a dash of cayenne

1 tsp liquid smoke (opt’l)

1 tsp soy sauce

1/2 tsp thick black pepper

for pan: 2 tsp olive oil

*if you don’t have liquid smoke use these BBQ spice combos:

(garlic, pepper, paprika and onion)

To make:

1. Very thinly slice the tempeh.

2. As thin as you can slice it without it falling apart.

3. Combine all ingredients in a shallow dish.

4. Soak tempeh in marinade for 1-2 minutes.

5. Turn saute pan on high, add 1-2 tsp olive oil. Lay the tempeh flat on skillet. One layer only. Drizzle a bit of excess marinade onto skillet-it should be sizzling a lot now.

6. Allow to cook for 1 minute, then flip. Allow to cook for another minute on other side-or until both sides are crisp and browned.

7. Lay cooked tempeh on parchment paper to cool. Sprinkle with black pepper and thick sea salt to taste.

8. For a crisper tempeh bacon, do not pour excess marinade in skillet, and allow all liquid to steam off of pan while cooking.

Let me know if you make it before I do.

Ttyl.

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Sabbath’s lunch

pookito — Mon, 30 May 2011 17:01:11 +0000

So, I keep making my post about what I am eating lately as a vegan. And for lunch I decided to eat something kind of light. If I can call it that.

I remembered that I made some Rosmery bread and I had not eating it. So I thouht about why not eat BBQ Tofu that I made earlier with the Rosmery bread?

So, I quickly took a couple of slices and add some Veganise, or what ever the name is for the grape seed mayonnaise. I also cut a couple of tomatoes’ slices to go with the bread and added the BBQ Tofu in between the slices. The sandwich was so good, I am still tasting it a day later.

I also added some chips to go with it, as you can see in the picture. Overall, I tgink it was a good fast food for lunch.

Supper for tonight?

pookito — Sat, 28 May 2011 20:34:38 +0000

I was thinking about what am I going to eat for supper tonight. So, thinking about it, I said to myself, why not vegetable Chinese noodles? I mean it is a good dish as any, and it would give a nice break to rice. Nothing wrong with eating rice, but I thought it would be awesome to duplicate the Chinese egg noodle dish with spaghettis, probably whole wheat and eat them with green onions and vegetables like carrots among other veggies.

What inspired me to come to this conclusion? A video that I was watching on Youtube. You can find it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br-sIMrQ_LA&NR=1. So, since it seems easy to duplicate, why not cooking some. I will probably eat it with the Barbecue (BBQ or Bar B Q) Tofu that I made yesterday. So, that does not sound that bad. That is what I will be eating tonight.

See you then.

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Supper

pookito — Thu, 26 May 2011 17:05:03 +0000

Well, yesterday for dinner I decided to eat some white rice. I usually eat brown rice, but then again for some reason I felt like just eating white rice.

I went to the local market called: Market Basket; and never went to the veggie meat seccion. Then, I realized that there were plenty of veggie meat I have never seen before. Now, I know that those veggie meats are not 100% vegan, but then again, I am not too strict when it comes to eating like that.

So, what did I have for supper last night? White rice some olive oil, Some sparagus with cooked carrots. And some veggie sausages from Boca brand. Boy, they were delicious. it was not bad at all. After all, it was not bad at all.

Vegan Breakfast

pookito — Wed, 18 May 2011 18:14:09 +0000

So, I have been sick. I mean really sick and I have not been able to do anything outside of the house for the last 2 weeks. I do not know what I had, I just know that for the last two weeks I had a strong cough my chest was congested had soar through and for the last week I could not get out of bed. :’-(

So, since today I feel better I decided to get out of bed and workout at the Gym. When I came back I decided to make Breakfast or Brunch. I steamed some Carrots and Asparagus. While they were steaming, I decided to cook some Tempeh with nutritional Yeast flakes, Soy sauce, some oil and a little water. I pass them through water and saute the Tempeh. I do not know how many of you know about Yuca aka Cassava. That is a root which is known to have plenty of fiber. so I made some mashed Yucca and ate them with a small salad with little nuts in them with olive oil. I added the steamed veggies and it was awesome.

So I thought about putting some images for you to see.

I thought that some of you might like to see this.

Enjoy,

Pookito

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Onion Cheese Vegan Bread

pookito — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:34:44 +0000

I was making some bread and posted a comment on statusnet identi.ca. I was told that I should list the ingredient. So here it is. A while back I bought a Zojirushi bread machine. I have been making breads like crazy. I came a cross to a "Onion Cheese" bread, that tasted heavenly. It was wonderful, but there was a problem. I decided to become a vegan and I could no longer eat the cheese bread.

So, one day I was experimenting. I was baking some Rosemary bread and decided to change a little the recipe. I thought why not use granulated onions instead of Rosemary. So I did that. Then I remember there was a little bit of Nutritional Yeast Flakes, that I have had for a while. It was old and I was thinking about throwing that away. For some reason I decided to dump the Nutritional Yeast Flakes on the mixing bowl.

The miracle happened. It was the same tasted as the Onion and Cheese bread that I ate before minus the all the fat of the original recipe. So Here are the ingredients and a picture of the last bread that I made.

1-1/3 Cups of Water

4-1/4 Cups of Bread Flour

4 TBS of Sugar

2 tsp of Salt

3 TBS of Olive oil (or just regular cooking oil)

3 tsp of Rapid Rise Yeast

1 TBS of granulated Onions

1/4 Cup of Nutritional Yeast Flakes

Let me know what you think.

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Google is Cracking down on android “fragmentation”

pookito — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 21:23:42 +0000

So, I was reading a blog. The link is here. Now, the title says it all. I think it is a good idea to stop the fragmentation that android has in the cell market. I think that is wonderful and there is nothing wrong with that idea. But there is something that I am missing. As far as I know, the Android OS for cell phones is released under the BSD license. I don’t now if that has change lately. But I remember reading that it BSD.

As far as I know the BSD license allows the open source code to be used by another company and what ever is build on top of or derived from that code does not have to be return to the company, like the GPL 3 license says.

My question is: why is Google now forcing companies not to make the changes that they want if in reality the software is has the BSD license?

I don’t know a lot about this subject, I just want to know why this is happening.

ttyl.

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Modern proverb

pookito — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:11:37 +0000

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Bangarang Music Player

pookito — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:55:44 +0000

So, I was thinking about the fact that I need to give a try to a new music player. I usually use Amarok for my music needs, and I love it. but I thought that maybe, there might be something else. Then all of the sudden, I came a cross a tweet on my statusnet micro-blogging about a new project called Bangarang.I got to tell you. It is not bad at all. It is light weight, and easy to use. Although, I need to say it takes some time to get use to the control. Not because it is bad, but because it is a new learning experience. Here is a couple of pics of it:

It can also play movies, but for that, you will need to download to see it.

TTYL.

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WordPress and Theora video and Vorbis audio Free Software formats

pookito — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:43:01 +0000

Well, there is a good news for those who are Free and Open Source Lovers. WordPress has finally implemented the Free formats for audio and video. That means that it can play Theora and Vorbis files. What I like the most is that the Administrator can choose just to play the Free video and audio formats. It is located on the user’s dashboard under settings media. There is an option just to choose that.

I do not know when was the time that this was implemented. But now it is set by default.

Thanks WordPress.