MASTERING THE MOCK CHICKEN LIVER APPETIZER

VEGANS, PAY ATTENTION!

You haven't lived until you've read the short stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer and gone to a milk deli in lower Manhattan where this amazing artist hung out til he was nearly l00. No meat product will be served. Tasting their delicious 'chicken liver pate' will make you wonder why the rest of us still pull toxic organs out of dead chickens. You can have the same rich flavor of the real animal derived product spread on your homemade crackers at way less cost, and way less toxicity to the body with walnut-lentil butter mixtures.

You will even have the minerals and vitamins contributed by other vegetarian ingredients that you couldn’t get with a recipe using a toxic organ pulled out of an already deficient, stressed, caged chicken! Try some of these wonderful recipes at your next gathering. Puck Puck my poulet will thank you.

The 'Oi Veh That's good!' VEGETARIAN CHOPPED LIVER

INGRED: 1 cup dried lentils, soaked overnight until plump. Two onions, chopped, 1/4 cup good olive, sesame oil1/2 cup walnuts, 1/3 cup mushrooms, a few tbsps of butter. VEGIES TO STEAM: carrots, stringbeans, peas, stalk celery, half green pepper, piece of cabbage. SEASONINGS: salt, pepper, garlic.

GARNISH - Two hard boiled eggs, tomato and minced onion, cilantro and lettuce leaves, for a pretty service.

METHOD- Soak lentils overnight. Soak walnuts for a few hours. water. Drain and Toss water from lentils and walnuts. Simmer the plumped up lentils in fresh water, until tender. 25 min. Drain in colander or strainer.

Steam all the vegies, together. Carrots require most time so start them first. Sautee onion in oil, SAUTEE add mushrooms, saute. Add garlic. Season. Add lentils, walnuts, steamed vegies, tossing until coated w. oil. Season. Mash well or grind in food processor.

Serve an ICE CREAM scoop on a lettuce leaf, garnish with cilantro sprigs, hard boiled eggs, tomato. Minced onion. Serve individually or make one big loaf or bundt shape and put on the buffet table. With huge plate of sesame crackers.

HOME MADE BON MARCHE CRACKERS- Get a bowl full of whole grain flour. Add a bag of sesame seeds, salt, stir in some good sesame or olive oil or melted butter. Mix, Add a small amt of liquid (vegie broth, potato broth, milk, water) keeping it very dry like pie crust. Fridge in freezer for an hour so water soaks in. ROLL OUT THIN. Spread wi. More sesame seeds, Bake on baking sheet in oven at 325 until crisp, golden.

ALICE and RUTH LIVER

4 med onions, sauteed,

4 hard cooked eggs peeled

1 l7 oz can of peas, drained

1/2 cup chopped walnuts.

Few tbspoons butter

salt/pepper to taste.

Blend in food processor, serve on lettuce leaves w. Sliced tomatoes, sprgs of cilnatro

RUTH'S VERSION

3 lg onions, chopped, two tbsps butter, or 2 tbsp veg oil, not canola, 2 cups green beans, cooked, 1 2/4 cups green peas, cooked and drained 3 hard cooked eggs, peeled, salt/freshly ground pepper, garlic powder.

Saute onions, combine them with other ingred. Pile on salad, garnish wi tomatoes.

DELORES Mock Chicken Liver

1/2 cup lentils.1/2 cup chopped walnuts Pick thru lentils for stones. Boil lentils 20-30 in, until tender, drain. Saute 2 cups chopped onions in oil, add to lentils, add walnuts,

Cool slightly put in food processor, add salt/pepper to taste and 3 hard cooked, shelled eggs. Triterate. Pack in oiled bundt pan, Refrig sev hours. Garnish with grated cooked egg yolk and parsley

Dairy Liver from Bnai Amoona Sisterhood St louis. MO.

1 1/2 cup fresh mushrooms, sliced 1/2 cup diced onions, 3 tbspns butter or 3 tbsp oil. l hard cooked egg, peeled, salt pepper

Saute shrooms, onions, Grind egg in, Chill.

ROZ' MOCK CHOPPED LIVER

2 onion, diced, 1/4 head cabbage , 2 carrots, scraped 1 stalk celery trimmed, 1 sml green pepper seeded 3 tbsp butter 1/4 tsp salt / some fresh ground pepper

Saute onions, grind the vegies fine in food processor, add the sauteed onions with processssor running, stir in peanut butter, salt, pepper.

SHLOSBERG's MOCK LIVER

2 lg onions, chopped, 3 tbspns butter or corn or olive oil, 1 can peas, drained, 1 cup chopped walnuts, 2 hard cooked eggs, peeled, chopped salt, pepper, garlic powder Saute onions, run pea,s onions, walnuts, eggs thru food processor, season. Chill well. Serve mounded on lettuce with sliced tomatoes.

ROSE FRANCIS LENTIL LIVER

1/2-cup lentils l lg onion, 3 tb oil, or 3tbspons butter; 1/2 ground walnuts, l hard cooked egg. salt/pepper, Soak lentils overnight, cook in fresh water. Brown onioni n oil, chop lentils, onions, walnuts and egg in food processor. Soak lentils overnight, drain. Cook in l cup fresh water. Drain. Brown onion, chop lentils, onions, walnuts, egg in food processor. Season, chill, serve with cilantro or parsley sprigs.