Impatient

Today is exactly two weeks from the date of my acceptance letter from the Home Office. If I don't receive my citizenship ceremony invitation today, I'm supposed to call and ask them to send a second copy. Ugh! I hope it comes today!

The other day I ordered some wheat gluten powder (also known as wheat gluten, gluten powder, vital wheat gluten or just gluten!) online. I forgot that a kilogram is 2.2 pounds, and so excited was I to see that a kilo cost only £2.30, I ordered four. Wasn't I surprised yesterday when instead of a small package of four pounds of the stuff, the delivery person comes lumbering in with nearly 10 pounds of it. It is dated for September 2008. I wonder if DH and I can manage to eat that much seitan in only a year! LOL I managed to peddle one sack of it to a work colleague who likes to bake bread, then I spent a good half hour printing off seitan/wheat gluten recipes to try. I intend to make some this weekend.

Ellen's Kitchen is a good source of wheat gluten information and recipes, if you're curious. You can buy it already made in health food shops, but it's so expensive! A can of mock duck is £1.99. I could make enough mock duck to feed the Buddhist population of the eastern hemisphere with all the wheat gluten I've got now! Ha!

Don't be a gluten glutton

You've got quite a project ahead of you...  Good luck with your glutenization. 

If I haven't said so already, I really like your new blog design.  The Union Jack background is really sharp. 

Hope that letter comes today!  Darn those beaurocrats!  Let the lady celebrate her Britishness!

Take care.

Good luck

Hope you have better luck creating tastier recipes with that stuff than I've ever tried. Nothing I've ever had with wheat gluten has ever been palatable, but I've always suspected it was just a matter of who's in the kitchen.

As for the size of vegetables, you have pinpointed a problem. I've been whining about buying a new fridge ever since I started the whole foods diet. They have these new ones with double wide, humidity controlled, see-thru veggie bins right at eye level. THAT would serve my needs as a healthy chef. When we renovated our kitchen a couple of years ago, we bought everything new except the fridge because there didn't seem to be a need. NOW, there's a need. I can't even fit my swiss chard into the bin at all; in fact, it barely makes it into the fridge without tilting it up and at an angle. Feh.