Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Frankfurter Recipe: The Seattle Dog


So for the next stop on our Frankiocity tour, we look right in our own back yard. The Seattle Dog. Something newer on the map, but oh so indulgent. We made ours with vegan cream cheese and Nacho sliced Jalapenos, with freshly grilled sweet onions made by our very own FR chef Stephen Holtz. You can find this style of dog at many of the carts in Seattle...sans vegan cream cheese. Just don't ask Steve to eat one, he isn't interested. Oh well as we said before, you can't please everyone.

On another note...We have been busy as dogs at Field Roast...and frankly, we seem to have made some progress with placements of the new Frankfurter! Funny enough Florida and Colorado are in the lead in regards to number of stores. Shout out to Fort Collins for the business! Thanks!

There are still a couple months before summer is over (didn't it just start?) and Labor Day is the hopeful weekend that the grills everywhere will be sizzling with Field Roast Franks. We know that many of you have gotten to try them, and the response has been awesome! We thank everyone who has taken the time to send a note via email or Facebook, and ask that you keep it coming!

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Field Roast Korean BBQ Tacos



Servings: 6, Yield: 12 tacos

This is a vegan version of popular Korean Tacos from the Kogi BBQ food carts in the LA area. It's very fast to make, and delicous! Bryanna Clark Grogan, our guest chef, has included a recipe for a Quick Turnip Pickle, but you can use vegan kimchi instead, or use both. (Check the kimchi container for seafood products.)

Ingredients:
3 pkgs (5.5 oz. each) julienned Field Roast Wild Mushroom Deli Slices, or Quarter Loaf
12 / 7" Corn Tortillas

  • To make the taco filling, heat a large nonstick pan with a little oil in it. When hot, add the julienned deli slices and toss them around in the hot oil until slightly browned. Pour in the BBQ sauce and distribute around in the pan until everything is coated and hot. Set aside with a cover on it.

Kogi-Style BBQ Sauce:
2 tablespoons Korean fermented hot pepper paste (gochujang)
3 tablespoons organic unbleached granulated sugar, or 2 tablespoons agave nectar
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 teaspoons Asian (roasted) sesame oil
1 teaspoon rice wine vinegar (or a little more to taste)
1/2-1 teaspoon liquid smoke

  • For the BBQ Sauce, whisk all of the ingredients together until sugar has dissolved. You can make this ahead of time and store it in a covered jar the refrigerator, if you like.
Quick Turnip Pickle:
1 medium purple and white turnip, peeled and shredded or grated
1/2 a medium red bell pepper, seeded cut into short slivers
1/2 a medium green bell pepper, seeded cut into short slivers
4 green onions, chopped
2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar or lime juice
1/2 teaspoon organic unbleached granulated sugar or agave nectar
1/2 teaspoon dried red chili pepper flakes
salt to taste

  • To make the Quick Turnip Pickle, mix together all of the ingredients. Taste for salt. Spoon the mixture into a serving bowl, cover and refrigerate as you make the tacos.

To serve: Heat the tortillas in a steamer, or warm them in a covered casserole, wrapped in the microwave for a minute or two. Quickly distribute the filling evenly between all of the tortillas and serve with the Quick Turnip Pickle on the side (and some vegan kimchi alongside it, if you wish) for diners to add to their tacos. Don't forget the napkins!

Nutrition Facts

Serving size: 2 tacos 351.4 calories; 19% calories from fat; 7.8g total fat; 0.0mg cholesterol; 1034.9mg sodium; 238.1mg potassium; 49.3g carbohydrates; 8.8g fiber; 12.0g sugar; 40.5g net carbs; 22.7g protein; 6.9 points.

Author: Bryanna Clark Grogan

Chef Bryanna Clark Grogan is a Field Roast friend and ally, visit her website and website for more creative vegan recipes!

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Friday, April 16, 2010

Field Roast Classic Meatloaf Tacos


This is the recipe for Meatloaf taco meat that Chef Melissa made for VegFest. She scaled down the volume so you can make it at home!

Field Roast Meatloaf Tacos

Ingredients
1 Field Roast Meatloaf (break up with your hands into crumbles)
2 teaspoons cumin
2 teaspoons corriander
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon oregano
salt to taste
6 taco shells
1/4 head of lettuce (shredded)
1 tomato (diced)

In a saute pan on medium high heat brown crumbled Field Roast meatloaf. Add seasonings adjusting to taste. Put in taco shell and garnish with lettuce and tomato.

Now that the Classic Meatloaf is all we are thinking about lately, we've been making it into all sorts of incarnations. If you have something to share, we announced a Classic Meatloaf Recipe Contest at VegFest too. We are still working on the official webpage though, so if you are interested, just hang tight for a week or so.

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Tuesday, February 09, 2010

A Week of Making Field Roast - Day 3



Hello! Jennifer here, I work in the office at Field Roast. Our Smoked Apple Sage Sausages are our most popular retail product. Perhaps it is the sweet and savory goodness that sizzles right out of them when you put them in hashes for the morning. Or when they are sliced and crumbled into rice dishes, pastas and stews. I really prefer the Mexican Chipotle, which is spicy enough to satisfy my cravings for food that heats you up from the inside. I love it in tacos and and jambalaya.
Our mixing, cooking and packaging processes are as simple as the ingredients of our meats. The above picture is of our sausage linker. It helps us measure the weight and length of our grain meats by allotting specific amounts of into our nettings and casings.

Next you see the Mexican Chipotle Sausages (or MC as we say here) being clipped and cut into groups of four for our retail sausages that are sold nationwide!

In an earlier post, David eluded to our sophistcated labeling process, and we do this all by hand. Our labels and packaging are a reflection of the simple tenets of good cooking that we base all of our recipes on. I like that when I started working here almost 4 years ago, there were about 9 people working for Field Roast. Now...there are about 32. Meanwhile, our sausage linkers and dough mixers are not given more jobs to do, though they are asked to do them more often..the bottom line is despite our growth it's people, not machines who are most involved in making Field Roast. I like that.

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Thursday, January 08, 2009

Community Meal: Field Roast Shepherd's Pie

Yesterday was our monthly community meal at Field Roast. Usually David cooks the meal, we set a large table and enjoy some time together. Afterwords we have our monthly safety and production meeting.

This month's meal was Shepherds Pie with collard greens on the side. David started by massaging the Classic Meatloaf into crumbles, and mentioned also that he used our Porcini Gravy mix to give it some sauciness.

Today we welcomed two new faces to the office! Cindi, who comes to us via a farm in eastern Washington (among other places) and Korie from Australia. After the busy holiday season it is great to have more hands for the work that keeps coming. (Thanks so much for buying our food! That way we can keep making it!)

Now this may be a bit of a downer, since most of you won't be able to find either of these fabulous Field Roast products near you. There are some exceptions...like the Midwesterners who can find our Meatloaf at the Whole Foods deli counter, or those in LA that can do the same.


Richard setting the table in our Community Room

We love our meatloaf! Made really simply with carrots, celery, onions, a hint of tomato paste, organic palm oil (what's meatloaf without the fat) and our ubitiquitous grain meat.

These photos were taken by our newest FRoaster Korie, who joins us to work with production and quality assurance.
David and Korie in the Kitchen (which is also our Community Room)

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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Grain Meat Evolution!

There is an interesting article in the latest issue of VegNews Magazine called 'Faux Meat Revolution'. As many of you know by now, Field Roast does not use the term 'faux meat' to describe itself [which is why we were probably not mentioned in the article!;)] however a lot of people like to describe what we make as "fake meat", or "meat analogues" or "not-sausage". We know a lot of other brands, such as those described in the article, do like to label themselves that way, but we challenge that idea, and in a sense, create our own little revolution.

The article has quotes from vegans for and against "faux" meat. We can agree with both sides of the argument. For example, Laura Bohlcke of Carrollton, TX (who is on the"faux" meat side) says:

Faux meat is a great way to introduce carnivores to the vegetarian world in a non-threatening way.


On the other side of the debate Phyllis Jo Kubey of New York, NY says:

I would much sooner see people break the habit [of] meat-substitute consumption and free themselves to enjoy the many more interesting and healthful foods available in the fruit vegetable, grain, nut, and seed families.


We agree with both of these arguments, but we want people to not have to choose between something that is "real" and something that is "fake". By not labelling ourselves fake meat, and instead calling ourselves "grain meat", we at Field Roast are trying to reclaim a word, assosciation and lifestyle. We know that the very term itself [meat] is a highly charged one, and that's why we like to use it. We like to challenge the idea that our proteins can come from an animal source. If we to label our foods "fake" bacon, turkey, beef etc. then we are really just buying into the idea that we need to consume those animals in our diets in some form or another.

The VegNews article, written by Mark Hawthorne, traces the evolution of "faux-meat" from China, however insists on calling it all "meat-substitute". While it is true that Buddhists monks, for instance, were searching for a non-animal source of protein, if we look at classic definitions of the word 'meat' then we can see it is "solid food" (Merriam-Websters dictionary). Imagine if the world added meatiness to a meal from a non-animal source. Why label it an animal when it is not? Why assume animals need to be central to every meal when they don't have to be?We were admittedly a little sad that the article did not address the fact that a choice for real or fake does not have to be made. That there are products available which are delicious and tasty and do not try and make eating animals the agenda. The holidays are coming up and we know a delicious vegan centerpiece that allows grains, nuts, vegetables, and spices to take the stage. Full of protein, a favorite of carnivores, vegetarians, flexitarians and... well... people who love good food. From the compassionate findings of buddhist monks, to European bold flavors, how about a nice GRAIN meat to feed the food revolution?

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