Thursday, September 16, 2010

Cooking: Glopinapot Version 1.0 (Vegetarian)

Glopinapot Version 1.0 (Vegetarian)

I have a tendency to simply dump a bunch of whatever I have on hand into a pot and hope for the best- aka glop in a pot.  Sometimes the results are a little scary and a little inedible, but then sometimes the results are just awesome.  This concoction falls into that latter category.

Ingredients:  Olive oil, onion, minced garlic, green pepper, summer squash, zucchini, eggplant, rehydrated TVP, and either a combo of drained salt-free petite diced tomatoes and salt-free tomato sauce or simply use salt-free crushed tomatoes.  Seasonings:  thyme, basil, rosemary, finely crushed black pepper.

I'll include the amounts I used in parens.

Start by rehydrating the TVP (1/2 cup dry) - you don't have to get technical with TVP if you've never used it before.  I use 1 part TVP to 1 part boiling water in a small covered