what the hell _does_ a vegan eat anyway?
This looks sooooo good. I will be trying it very soon.
Wow, those seitan ribs look incredibly tasty. They look a lot like "real" ribs. Visually, they might even fool an omni 
I will definitely try this recipe. Thanks for posting it.
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You are the masters of seitan! Love it!
Those look sooooo yummmy!
Found the recipe: http://www.epicurious.com/recipe...od/views/
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thanks Erica! odd that it would not be on the Gourmet site, yet back on Epicurious...
The sauce sounds amazing! How necessary is the deep frying of the seitan though? I've never tried it but I imagine that seitan wouldn't really benefit from deep frying the same way meat would and if I can skip some deep frying, that's generally a good thing.
@anon -- in this case it's necessary -- the cornstarch and deep-frying make the seitan firm enough to withstand the long braise without disintegrating, and the cornstarch helps thicken the sauce in addition to giving the seitan a unique mouthfeel that can be best described as "fatty" which in the case is a good thing 
Hey Tofu,
This looks like my kind of recipe. Would Veganomicon seitan work for this? I'm more into using vital wheat gluten.
sure, v'con seitan will work -- it's just a question of portioning for size...
Wow ... they look fantastic!!! Er ... but what's that about "We don't like ersatz food"
yep, between the mini-burgers and the "ribs" we've been breaking that rule pretty hard these days.
Part of the reason is we've been developing menus for the catering gigs.
It helps if the non-vegan folks see a familiar form when being introduced to unfamiliar foods (like seitan or tofu)...
But that doesn't mean we'll be eating the turkey-shaped loaf for Thanksgiving anytime soon
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