Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Kicking the Crap Out


Okay so i'm jumping on the Vrapple bandwagon. I don't remember where i read about this vegan scrapple first, but it's been all over the vegan/vegetarian and Philadelphia-region blogs recently. I wouldn't have tried it if not for Omar's neverending love for scrapple. He's the only person i know who eats it regularly. From wikipedia, scrapple is:
... a savory mush of pork scraps and trimmings combined with cornmeal and flour, often buckwheat flour. The mush is formed into a loaf, and slices of the scrapple are then fried before serving. Scraps of meat left over from butchering, too small to be used or sold elsewhere, were made into scrapple to avoid waste. Scrapple is best known as a regional food of Delaware, South Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.

Vrapple is a vegan version of scrapple made from seitan, cornmeal, buckwheat and spices. It fries up very nicely in a cast iron skillet, with a nice crunchy outside and soft meat-like inside. It's quite peppery and has a sweet mapley taste which i didn't expect. I'm not sure i like it, but i like knowing there's a meat-free version if i ever want it. For breakfast faux meats, my favorite is still the non-organic* Breakfast Links from Boca, of course fried up in a skillet until nice and browned. FYI i bought my small block of vrapple at Essene in Queen Village.

*I've tried the organic Boca Breakfast Links a few times from different stores and every single box has been mushy and weird. The non-organic Boca Breakfast Links, however, are so tasty and much firmer. Scary.

posted by beXn @ 2:25 PM

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