creative cooking

So for today's creative adventure we (me and my girlfriend) made vegan hot dogs from scratch. The recipe was found at Here and it was a lot of fun. Finding all the spices was interesting but a quick trip to our local bulk food store and we were off to the races.

Unfortunately I didnt decide to start taking pictures until after I had mixed most of the ingredients together but not much was lots, just putting a bunch of things into a food processor and pressing the on button. The fun part started with mixing the blended mix (tofu and spices mostly) with some flour. I decided to use whole wheat flour cause im told that its better for you.

My gf loves to make dough and stuff with her hands so she gladly helped me mix this part :) and since her hands were already wrist deep in dough she kept on helping form the hotdogs

As you can see we made 8 hotdogs. each hot dog is wrapped in parchment paper first and then in aluminum foil before being steamed.

 So after steaming out cigar shaped hot dogs they come out looking like this

So far they look really good. but of course it all depends on the taste...

 Not bad. Couple points:
1) we ate them when they were still warm so they were actually a little wet and mushy. not badly, but enough so that you would notice that it isnt real meat.
2) whole wheat, while better for you adds a little more wheat flavour that I had wanted. Next time I will try with regular white flour.