Forums: January 2010 Kickstart Forum Archive: Anyone else miss gravy?
Created on: 01/07/10 11:01 PM Views: 2167 Replies: 11
VeganRecipeGuy Joined: 01/03/10 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 131	Anyone else miss gravy? Posted Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 11:01 PM I grew up on gravy. Gravy on biscuits, gravy on toast, gravy on potatoes, gravy on rice....but I hadn't had any good gravy in years. That changed tonight.It started after a conversation about the southern cooking I grew up on, and I was talking about cornmeal gravy. The question came up, "Can you make that vegan?" Well after I had a good long laugh, I thought..."maybe..." I haven't posted this on my site yet, so it is an exclusive just for kickstarters right now. Old Fashioned Cornmeal Gravy Vegan and Fat Free 1/3 Cup Cornmeal 2 Cups non-fat soy milk 2 Tablespoons soy sauce 1/4 Cup Nutritional Yeast Flakes Brown the cornmeal in a dry skillet over a low to medium heat. No oil needed. Keep an eye on it, however, as scorching it means you need to start over. You want to stir it until you get a golden brown. Slowly add a quarter cup of the soy milk at a time, whisking it in. As your gravy thickens, add more milk. Continue this process until the gravy is at the consistency you want. Add your soy sauce (I used tamari) and yeast flakes. Allow to sit for a few minutes before you use it. I served this over sweet-potato oven-fries and veggie loaf tonight and it was the BOMB. Traditionally this is made with lard. The soy and yeast step in and really pick up the slack on this tasty vegan version. Cornmeal gravy goes great on anything that needs gravy. It has the unique flavor of roasted corn sweetness that I grew to love as a child. Enjoy. www
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serenevannoy Joined: 12/28/09 Location: Oakland, CA Posts: 294	RE: Anyone else miss gravy? Posted Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 11:07 PM Cool; thanks! My favorite gravy is my defatted (and slightly simplified) version of Punk Rock Chickpea Gravy. My version is here: http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=732016 Serene Vannoy, Oakland, CA -- My daily Kickstart blog: http://serenecooking.livejournal.com/tag/kickstart
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klmchan Joined: 12/29/09 Posts: 24	RE: Anyone else miss gravy? Posted Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 11:14 PM Thank you for the recipes. I plan to try them both.
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VeganRecipeGuy Joined: 01/03/10 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 131	RE: Anyone else miss gravy? Posted Friday, January 8, 2010 at 12:08 AM Serene thanks for the testimonial. I have never made a chickpea gravy, but I have seen some recipes of others. I may try it now that you recommend it. What do you use it on? Mashed potatoes? www
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serenevannoy Joined: 12/28/09 Location: Oakland, CA Posts: 294	RE: Anyone else miss gravy? Posted Friday, January 8, 2010 at 12:19 AM Yes, I usually just serve it on mashed potatoes. My ex-wife, who eats with us frequently, says she could be a vegetarian if she could always have seitan and chickpea gravy to eat. And this gravy is so good and so healthy that if you wanted to drink the stuff, you could! I also make a farmer's pie (like shepherd's pie without the animals) by mixing veggies and gravy (and sometimes TVP or seitan or tofu) and covering with a mashed-potato crust. (When I was paying less attention to fat, I would also do a similar thing and have pot pie with pie crust on top.) This gravy really is amazing, and I can't wait to try the cornmeal thing. To me, gravy and mayo were the things that were making veganism hard. Now that I have found a good gravy and some mayo workarounds, it's smooth sailing. Serene Vannoy, Oakland, CA -- My daily Kickstart blog: http://serenecooking.livejournal.com/tag/kickstart
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shanna Joined: 12/30/09 Posts: 287	RE: Anyone else miss gravy? Posted Friday, January 8, 2010 at 12:27 AM I also grew up in the south. I love vegan gravy. You can make the classic "cream gravy" vegan with unsweetened soymilk, Earth Balance and white flour...but I don't recommend doing that often. I have served this to family though, and they can't tell the difference. Probably because I put so much black pepper in it masks any soymilk taste. I make a brown mushroom gravy from one of Robin Robertson's recipes (Vegan Planet), and have made both her (1000 Vegan Recipes) and Isa Moskowitz's chickpea gravies (Veganomicon). They are both delicious. The chickpeas provide the protein to give it body, but you really have to blend it smooth. I used to make a mushroom stoganoff sauce that's basically the mushroom sauce with soy yogurt or soft tofu added, but I haven't done that in a while. This is all "company food."
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shanna Joined: 12/30/09 Posts: 287	RE: Anyone else miss gravy? Posted Friday, January 8, 2010 at 12:28 AM And I'm gonna try your recipe VeganRecipeGuy. I've never made one with cornmeal.
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serenevannoy Joined: 12/28/09 Location: Oakland, CA Posts: 294	RE: Anyone else miss gravy? Posted Friday, January 8, 2010 at 12:38 AM I don't blend the chickpea gravy smooth. We like it as written (Isa's recipe), with most of the chickpeas mashed, but some left whole. Serene Vannoy, Oakland, CA -- My daily Kickstart blog: http://serenecooking.livejournal.com/tag/kickstart
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mommyof2nc Joined: 12/31/09 Location: North Carolina Posts: 172	RE: Anyone else miss gravy? Posted Friday, January 8, 2010 at 6:50 AM A friend of mine gave me this recipe for Vegan Turkey Gravy. Not sure if it's good because I haven't tried it yet but she makes it for her son, who has a ton of food allergies and can't eat regular turkey gravy and he likes it (he's 6, so hopefully that means it's a good recipe :lol. Here it is: 1/2 cup vegetable oil 5 cloves garlic, minced 1/3 cup chopped onion 5 Tablespoons flour 4 Tablespoons soy sauce 2 cups vegetable broth 1/2 teaspoon sage 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper 1/2 teaspoon salt In a saucepan over medium-low heat, combine the oil, garlic and onion; cook until onion is translucent. Stir in the flour and soy sauce to make a paste. Gradually whisk in the broth. Over medium heat, bring the gravy to a boil. Season with the sage, pepper and salt. If too thin, whisk in some flour; if too thick whisk in some water.
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smday Joined: 12/31/09 Location: Kansas City Posts: 52	RE: Anyone else miss gravy? Posted Friday, January 8, 2010 at 8:18 AM Just so we don't have any disasters, did you use nutritional yeast flakes?
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VeganRecipeGuy Joined: 01/03/10 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 131	RE: Anyone else miss gravy? Posted Friday, January 8, 2010 at 8:27 AM YES NUTRITIONAL YEAST FLAKES! Good catch, smday! I just edited the recipe. Shells made me get up early this morning and make more gravy to put on the leftovers she is taking for her lunch. LOL Shanna most people haven't had cornmeal gravy. I grew up on the stuff. I think it must be a Melungeon recipe, because when I googled it yesterday very few hits came up and out of those hits, it was different sites with the same exact recipe, so it must have made it to the web once, then been copied. Well now there is a vegan version on the internet. Melungeons are a tri-racial isolate from Appalachia. A lot of their recipes are based on corn, beans and garden vegetables. I think I may start converting all of my childhood favorites. Up next, tomato gravy, and strawberry dumplings... www
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Ninav Joined: 12/29/09 Posts: 14	RE: Anyone else miss gravy? Posted Friday, January 8, 2010 at 10:02 AM This is a spin off of the compassionate cooks golden mushroom gravy... 1 10oz pkg baby bella (crimini) mushrooms sliced 1 med. onion diced 2 cups of veg broth ( I like better then boullion no chicken) 3 TB of cornstarch salt and pepper to taste cooking spray saute the onion in a non-stick pan w/cooking spray. Add 1.5 cups of the broth and the mushrooms. Cook covered for about 10 minutes until mushrooms are done. Add the cornstarch to the remainin 1/2 cup of broth and add to pot stirring to mix thoroughly. Let it thicken. With a hand blender blend to the consistency you like. I like to leave a few mushrooms whole. Or you can throw it in a blender and blend until smooth, or you can not blend it at all. Experiment with your favorite spices!
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