Intro and favorite sausage in the whole world.

While searching the internet to see if there were any more vegans out there who were both Christians and conservatives I was surprise that there were not any real representations. This surprised me because sense when can you “Google” something and not pull up tons of stuff? So with that said, here I am blogging about it.
Surely there will be tons of stuff to talk about in this area. The loss of our food supply, politics and personal rights, cultural attitudes, related theology, local support for those who choose the “slow food” path, medical freedoms, and I am sure many more topics that will come up. Why do we care about what we eat and our health? What makes it hard and what makes it easy? How do you handle the tricky social situations that you find yourself in? I am sure I don’t have all the right answers but it will be useful and fun to meet people and talk about the issues that we face every day. I hope you join me for the journey and find just a little camaraderie in this treacherous world in which we live.
I am going to start this blog with an imbedded video showing the making of Seitan Sausage. I don’t use the exact recipe she uses as I have changed it some to cut down on the oil and it has also been doubled because this stuff freezes so well. I don’t like to spend every day cooking up something like this so doubling the recipe just makes it more doable for me. I like things pretty spicy so you may need to lower the pepper flakes a tad, depending on the brand you use. As far as the garbanzo flour goes, any bean flour would work well. Ask at your local health food store. I make my own with my Blendtec blender by just running raw beans in it till flour is formed. Very cheap and handy and, bean flours are wonderful for making cream soups and all kinds of goodies. I should add that I follow a modified Eat To Live Program (Dr. Fuhrman) that emphasizes no added fat and grains are limited. I do say modified because I do probably usually eat more than a cup of grains each day but I try to keep it to a low roar. Also he emphasizes lots and lots of fresh veggies and fruits, both raw and cooked. I am very happy and blessed to say that I am an ex-diabetic because of how I have learned to eat. Once you get away from the processed junk, oil, dairy, and meat most people really don’t fight food cravings. I know I don’t crave food anymore. I love and appreciate the foods that I eat and now would not have it any other way.
Enough of the chatter, here is the recipe.

Spicy Sausage
Mix all these dry ingredients together well:
4 ½ cup vital wheat gluten (make sure it is vital)
1 cup nutritional yeast
½ cup garbanzo flour
¼ cup chicknish seasoning (I just use more nutritional yeast if I am out)
2 T powdered onion
2 t garlic powder
2 T fennel seed (crush with fingers as you add)
1 T +1t black pepper
2T + 2t paprika
1 ½ t chili flakes
1 t thyme
2 t sage
1 t oregano
2 t salt
¼ t allspice
WET Ingredients
4 ½ cups water
¼ cup olive oil
¼ cup soy sauce
2 t liquid smoke seasoning
Mix up all the dry ing and mixing well. Mix up the wet ing in separate bowl and mix into the dry ing as carefully and lightly as possible just until all wet. Shape as in video and steam for 30 min.
These freeze very well and are excellent on veggie no cheese pizza or used in many dishes. YUMMMM, let me know what you think.