Vegan food

[kay]

Tofu isn't that processed, much than less than lots of meat products and other foods commonly eaten (biscuits, chocolates, etc etc). You can make it yourself very easily with only 2 ingredients: soy milk & lemon juice. It's high in protein, low in fat, and really very tasty once you know how to cook with it properly (on its own it is very bland but it absorbs flavours well in cooking)

How easy is it to make? Is it effectively like making cottage cheese or is it more difficult?

 

[thehungrytroglobite]

How easy is it to make? Is it effectively like making cottage cheese or is it more difficult?

I've not made cottage cheese before so couldn't say. It's pretty simple though, there are lots of recipes online

 

[kay]

I've not made cottage cheese before so couldn't say. It's pretty simple though, there are lots of recipes online

Silly me asking a vegan about cottage cheese! Of course you haven't. It's exactly like cottage cheese - use lemon juice to separate the milk, extract the curds.

Except the recipe I was looking add suggested that you should make your own soy milk which makes it a whole lot more tedious.

 

[thehungrytroglobite]

Silly me asking a vegan about cottage cheese! Of course you haven't. It's exactly like cottage cheese - use lemon juice to separate the milk, extract the curds.

Except the recipe I was looking add suggested that you should make your own soy milk which makes it a whole lot more tedious.

Ah I see! So in that sense, tofu is no more processed than cheese XD

 

[me]

a lot of dark chocolate is vegan

Silly me forgot to buy it at the big shop & when I went to the local shop to get some there wasn't any 😔

 

[kay]

Ah I see! So in that sense, tofu is no more processed than cheese XD

True! Son was showing me a big tub of some yeasty thing that can be used instead of cheese in cooking. I suspect it's probably more accurate to say "unfamiliar compared with any food I'm used to eating" (and I'm not a big meat eater and was vegetarian for about 10 years, so it's not just that it doesn't look like pie and chips). Aqua faba I find it difficult to get along with too.

 

[thehungrytroglobite]

yeasty

Ah, nutritional yeast, known colloquially as 'nooch'! I love it! Packed full of b vitamins too

 

[Tim Pickering]

Ah, nutritional yeast, known colloquially as 'nooch'! I love it! Packed full of b vitamins too

Nutritional yeast, aka 'hippy flakes'. Try sprinkling a hot-'buttered' crumpet with them and popping it back under the grill for a minute or two.

Also, love how my my heart-felt plea for a decent vegan fry-up in Ingleton has branched into its own topic.

 

[Tim Pickering]

Oh, dream breakfast:
sausage, facon, scrambled tofu, black pudding (yup, Bury Pudding Co. do a vegan black pudding which is amazing), mushrooms, tomatoes, baked beans, hash browns, and fried bread. Breakfast of champions. I can feel my arteries constricting at the very thought of it. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a puddle of drool to mop up.

 

[Sid]

a Butcombe beer flavoured crisp is now avail

Butcombe now has its own beer-flavoured crisps - Beer Today

Butcombe Brewing Co has launched its own flavour of crisps, available in its managed pubs across the UK, created with The British Snack Company

beertoday.co.uk

 

[Rachel]

For the gluten free people on this thread, the Station Inn at Ribblehead has a nice gf beer on tap (1865).

 

[Maj]

Cheddar Ales brews are both gluten free and vegan.

 

[Minion]

a Butcombe beer flavoured crisp is now avail

Butcombe now has its own beer-flavoured crisps - Beer Today

Butcombe Brewing Co has launched its own flavour of crisps, available in its managed pubs across the UK, created with The British Snack Company

beertoday.co.uk

The article doesn’t specify whether the crisps will be Vg or no, but on the whole - Buttcombe beers aren’t vegan.

As Maj mentioned, Cheddar Ales are - plus all of the Wookey Ales are

 

[mikem]

Their "exceptional Gold ale [used in the crisps], punchy Stateside Session IPA and Ashton Press cider are all gluten-free and vegan-friendly".

 

[cavemanmike]

Guinness is vegan 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

 

[Fjell]

Guinness is vegan 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

Sooner or later vegans are going to have to face up to the fact that yeast has feelings and just wants to be loved. Like a puppy, but smaller. It was recently found they contain midichlorians, which has left the matter in no doubt.

 

[Fjell]

While we are on the subject it has always fascinated me that most veggies I know eat dairy or eggs. Which literally makes them an omnivore. Is it thus accepted that veggies are a subgroup of omnivores? Just more averse to a steak au poivre than other omnivores?

Presumably only fruitarians are herbivores. Are vegans funghivores?

 

[RobinGriffiths]

Makes you think. Fungi with their networks of hyphae and chemical messaging do have some affinities with animal nervous systems.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878614621000246

I suppose if you stick to the fruiting bodies and single cell yeasts, you are ok though.

 

[AR]

Dragging the tone of the discussion down again, I'm reminded of this Tom Paxton song...

 

[Speleofish]

Hard to avoid fungi, whatever you eat. However, they don't belong to either animal or plant kingdoms. Does that mean we need to anticipate a new category of fungivore who eats neither plant nor animal?

Realistically, this may describe the standard survivor in a post-utopian world....