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On a glass table, a blue-rimmed plate, with a pair of chopsticks laid to the left. On the plate, a mound of fluffy white rice, half-covered with wrinkled green beans and slices of dark brown pan-crisped seitan, all dressed lightly in a brown sauce and flecked with black, beige, and red-brown bits of seasoning.

Green beans and seitan in black bean sauce

September 16, 2016by Mike Bierschenk Leave a comment

Salty, spicy green beans, just a little oily. Pan-fried seitan soaking up the sauce. A bed of rice, and a plateful of heaven.

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Chinese omelet over rice

Chinese omelet over rice

November 16, 2014by Mike Bierschenk Leave a comment

During my senior year of college, there was a term when I had two classes in the same building, 45 minutes apart, right at midday. It wasn’t quite enough time […]

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Stuff on Rice, Veg*n or veg*n-possible

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