I made some faux meat fajitas! for dinner today. The most important part of fajitas! is plenty of bell peppers and onion. Look at all the pretty colors!
I cooked them in my beloved cast iron wok in some olive oil until they were tender but not soft.
After transferring them back to their bowl, I cooked some fake steak and chicken strips until they were heated through, then added some fajita seasoning and a little water and cooked it down a bit. I added the peppers and onions back in and let them heat back up.
Served on a whole wheat tortilla with some pico de gallo and Tofutti sour cream, my fajitas! were awesome. Tomorrow I may make some guacamole to go along with the leftovers, because goodness knows I have enough leftovers to feed an army.
After dinner I decided to try my hand at making some homemade chocolate syrup. I adore chocolate syrup but I cannot bring myself to buy it anymore with all the high fructose corn syrup and preservatives. I searched around for a recipe but couldn’t find one that looked right, so I sort of modified a couple to get what I wanted.
I haven’t tried it on or in anything yet, but the tastes I already snuck let me know that it is oh-so-yummy.
It was really easy, actually. In case any of you out there want to try it, here’s the recipe:
- 3/4 cup cold water
- 1 1/2 cups evaporated cane juice
- 3/4 cup dutch process cocoa (gives a richer flavor than regular cocoa)
- 1/8 tsp (a pinch) kosher salt
- 1 TBS agave nectar
- 2 tsp real vanilla extract
- Mix the water and sugar together in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil.
- Whisk in the cocoa, salt and agave and boil until slightly thickened and reduced, maybe about three minutes. (I boiled a little too long, not taking into account the amount the syrup would thicken as it cooled).
- Stir in the vanilla and let cool to room temperature. Pour into a bottle and store in the refrigerator.
I made some almond milk this morning, I can’t wait to try it with this syrup!
Tags: mexican-ish, sweets
Wow! I’d never even thought about the possibility of making my own chocolate syrup!! That sounds great and pretty easy. I’ll have to try it. I’ve been meaning to buy that brand that Wild Oats carries that doesn’t have HFCS in it, but yours sounds better!
I’m glad you’re coming. Vaughan told me tonight there’s supposed to be a documentary camera crew there shooting some kind of thing community action groups. Weird. Also, I’m making hummus for the cooking demo. It’s easy and I had to think of something quick tonight. I didn’t realize we were doing a demo until like an hour ago.
Here’s Alton Brown’s recipe for chocolate syrup. I believe there is organic corn syrup that isn’t HFCS, but you could probably sub agave for it, too. http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_17909,00.html
i love to shop at http://www.wholeandnatural.com. they have all kinds of healthy and natural kosher food and snacks. the stuff is fresh and low prices.
seeya, debby
btw i used a coupon bldc08 try it
Looks like a yummy dinner! I have never tried tofuttis sour cream – how is it?
I am going to try the chocolate sauce. Yummmy!
I want to have those fajitas for dinner. But I’m such a chicken when it comes to mexican food… I think I’m afraid I might get the seasoning completely wrong.
Hey! Thanks for coming last night! And thanks sooo much for the Marmite! I made some tofu cottage cheese and spread it over the Marmite on toast this morning. It was delish! I tried it straight out of the jar last night and I really like it. Tastes like yeasty bouillion…and that’s a good thing.
I took some pics of the jar and toast but I have to tweak them at work on Photoshop…for some reason, I can’t get vertical pics to post from my home computer. Anyway, I’ll post them soon.