Disclaimer: I'm not a seiten person and the two times I've tried to make "homemade" well, it went very badly. I opted to buy Tidal Wave's Seiten at the grocery store instead. I'm not sure if it was my pot, the seiten or the fact that I was using whole wheat pastry flour instead of all purpose (I don't keep that in the house - ever), but the seiten came out a nasty, smelly, burnt mess. So that's where the idea for chickpeas came from. I followed the rest of the recipe exactly though (except that I sauted my shallots & garlic in broth instead of oil) and used my recipe for creamy fat free mashed potatoes. I thought this recipe, despite the cooking woes, presented beautifully and since I love anything with capers and olives - I was a happy girl. Scott, however, didn't like it but he couldn't put his finger on which ingredient it was he didn't like. Blech.I've seen the Vcon Seiten Piccata recipe on so many blogs. It sounded great, but despite the notation in the cookbook proclaiming it was easy to make, I knew it would be too labor intensive for a weeknight meal. I emailed a bunch of fellow foodies looking for a review and no one had made it. Still, I thought I'd give it a whirl... I just had to wait for the weekend.Disclaimer: I'm not a seiten person and the two times I've tried to make "homemade" well, it went very badly. I opted to buy Tidal Wave's Seiten at the grocery store instead. I'm not sure if it was my pot, the seiten or the fact that I was using whole wheat pastry flour instead of all purpose (I don't keep that in the house - ever), but the seiten came out a nasty, smelly, burnt mess. So that's where the idea for chickpeas came from. I followed the rest of the recipe exactly though (except that I sauted my shallots & garlic in broth instead of oil) and used my recipe for creamy fat free mashed potatoes. I thought this recipe, despite the cooking woes, presented beautifully and since I love anything with capers and olives - I was a happy girl. Scott, however, didn't like it but he couldn't put his finger on which ingredient it was he didn't like. Blech.
Disclaimer: I'm not a seiten person and the two times I've tried to make "homemade" well, it went very badly. I opted to buy Tidal Wave's Seiten at the grocery store instead. I'm not sure if it was my pot, the seiten or the fact that I was using whole wheat pastry flour instead of all purpose (I don't keep that in the house - ever), but the seiten came out a nasty, smelly, burnt mess. So that's where the idea for chickpeas came from. I followed the rest of the recipe exactly though (except that I sauted my shallots & garlic in broth instead of oil) and used my recipe for creamy fat free mashed potatoes. I thought this recipe, despite the cooking woes, presented beautifully and since I love anything with capers and olives - I was a happy girl. Scott, however, didn't like it but he couldn't put his finger on which ingredient it was he didn't like. Blech.
