There are only a few things I can improvise with when it comes to cooking. No matter how fluid I can be in other parts of my life, I find comfort in the security of a recipe. Eventually, I’ll understand how it works, and I can get a little bit more confident in taking departures.

Tonight’s stir fry was entirely improvised. I knew I had some seitan to use, and I pulled out what was left in the fridge veggie-wise, chopped it up and then figured out what to use for the sauce. The end result was remarkably good considering I was cooking on the seat of my pants. Sometimes you get lucky!

I’m still a n00b when it comes to cooking with seitan, but this came out very well. I simmered it in water, and then briefly sauteed it in sauce before adding it in with the veggies.