{"id":2645,"date":"2011-02-24T22:01:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T03:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2011-02-24T22:01:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T03:01:21","slug":"fake-chicken-and-dumplings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2645","title":{"rendered":"Fake chicken and dumplings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/fake-chicken-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/fake-chicken-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"fake-chicken-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2646\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a while, I&#8217;ve wanted to experiment with imitation chicken and dumplings. Today was the perfect day &#8212; cold and rainy with a high of 44F.<\/p>\n<p>I made fake chicken with seasoned wheat gluten, cut into strips. It was far from perfect, but I think it proved the concept. Wheat gluten alone is just a bit too chewy. About 10 to 20 percent ground nuts or soybeans would give a better texture. It&#8217;s also difficult to get enough flavor into the fake chicken. I used garlic powder and Vegit seasoning. Next time I&#8217;m at Whole Foods I&#8217;ll look for other seasonings that might help.<\/p>\n<p>The dumplings were very good, though. I made them from unbleached King Arthur flour, an egg, and enough water to make a dough. The stock was made from onion, celery, and carrot saut\u00e9ed in butter, thickened with a bit of flour.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d give today&#8217;s dish a B minus, but I think I can improve it next time I make it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/fake-chicken-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/fake-chicken-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"fake-chicken-2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2647\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The fake chicken &#8212; made from wheat gluten and seasonings. This is the gluten dough before it was cooked.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while, I&#8217;ve wanted to experiment with imitation chicken and dumplings. Today was the perfect day &#8212; cold and rainy with a high of 44F. I made fake chicken with seasoned wheat gluten, cut into strips. It was far from perfect, but I think it proved the concept. Wheat gluten alone is just a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2645\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fake chicken and dumplings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}