As some of you may know, I've been finishing up a master's degree this spring, which has left me with very little time for bento-ing. Homelife has been REALLY busy/strange as well, which all combines for no blog postings.
The end, however, is in sight! I'm posting the meager samples for April.
A bento featuring my famous BBQ fake chikin-wing-a-ling pizza:
Contents of bento: pizza pieces, baran, strawberries, mixed salad. (The little jar has salad dressing in it).Unfortunately, I think this one would have been better refrigerated. The strawberries and salad were a little worse for the wear by lunchtime. I also should have used the lift-out trays; the pizza was a little damp from the strawberries. OH WELL, it's still delicious.
Here is my recipe for the pizza:
Make pizza dough (or buy preprepared--I won't look)
Flatten on pan
Top with BBQ sauce
Cheddar cheese
Chopped onions
Fake chikin-wing-a-lings *see note
Bake until awesome and done at 400°F. Allow to cool before you eat or you will burn off all the skin on the roof of your mouth...like I do every time.
*Ok, so I have LOVED the Morningstar Farms BBQ chikin wing-a-ling buffalo wing things for many years, but I recently learned that most low-fat soy products are processed using HEXANE which is a terrible thing. You're ok with organic soy, or with Quorn products (which are mycoprotein, not soy). Boo-Hiss!
In the next couple of weeks, I will be experimenting with other, non-neurotoxin-containing fake chikin products to see if I can come up with a tenable solution for what to use for the "fake chikin" part of BBQ fake chikin wing-a-ling pizza.
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Oh nos! I had no idea that morningstar (of all product lines! damn you seitan/satan!) would have hexane... that is no good. I think they should just keep some of the fat in... I wonder what would happen. It is probably a lot more complicated a process - i.e. i figure just taking one step out, result terrrrrible product! Anyway, good luck finding new products.
ReplyDeleteYeah...it's just so LAME. Note the part of the article where they say how ALL soy-based infant formula is processed with hexane. Ugh. :( But at least I like Quorn....delicious mycoprotein....too bad Quorn is so expensive.
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