So what does vegan food look like?
Roughly like this. Split peas pressure-cooked with diced potato and herbs/spices. Boiled quinoa mixed in. High-protein fare, roughly the colour of your grandma's outdated avocado green kitchen appliances. Easily digestible, and portable. Reheating is unnecessary; tastes about the same.
posted by Marcian @ 12:58 PM
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The taste?
Admittedly, it's no New York Steak, but when you shift to veganism, you tase proteins more than you would if you were eating meat. So, to me, this tastes like meat. I add salt, pepper, thyme, sage, basil, celery salt, onion, garlic and cilantro all in the pressure cooker.
Adding quinoa makes it a complete protein, and you can just taste the amino acids. Quinoa is amazingly gentle on the digestive system. I challenge ANYONE to try to get heartburn or indigestion with this superfood. It just doesn't happen. You get that contented feeling, but not sleepy. I just love it.
I am quite glad I went back and read your October 4th (2006) post on why you are a vegan. ;-)
I have encountered some Chrsitian vegans who honestly thought that God not only designed us to vegetarian, but further, that eating anything that wasn't a plant was morally reprehensible and therefore condmened by God. Such as these often had the most interesting interpretations of 1 Timothy 4:1-5.
Needless to say, when I first saw this post I thought to myself: here we go!
I had already written half a reply explaining (as politely and unoffensively as possible) my thoughts on just how compatible a "morally superior" veganism is with Christianity - and was in the middle of writing something like, "while certain medical conditions lend themselves to veganism (as a matter of treatment), most people... " and in the middle of that thought I realized that you probably explain your veganism somewhere on your blog - why not just go and check before calling in the calvary?
Anyway - I am glad I did before I opened my big mouth! I mention now only to demonstrate how foolish I can be.
"...quinoa..."
Didn't I see that being harvested by Mike Rowe in caves during an episode of "Dirty Jobs"? :-D
With my raging gastritis, your description makes it something I'm going to have to try. Thanks for the tip...
Daniel, your comment made me laugh quite hard. I'm not so much a "pure vegan" that scorns meat to never take the occasional bite. However, certain meat products are so strong to me I wonder how I ever suffered to eat entire mouthfuls of it.
And it is tempting to become prideful when eating with friends. I order food more explicitly than others, with a strictness to avoid anything animal-related. I could take a lesson on that about sin, I suppose, and not touching it with a ten-foot pole...
Thanks for being curious enough to search the archives.
Mr. Bobo,
My suggestion comes with a 100% money-back guarantee.
I'll bet that would taste even better made into thin patties and deep fried until crisp.
signed,
Digging-My-Grave-With-My-Teeth
I am thrilled my friend Daniel came over here, oh and Garry too, I guess, well, if I have to, okay, I like Garry too (sigh)...
Good for you, I need to read that other post, too, although I am more subtle than Daniel in my superiority complex...
;-)
JD - I am not practiced enough to be subtle. Give me time, give me time ;-)
he he he...hijacking the comment thread with our hijinx...of course, it never bothers me how I get to ten comments...
You know yesterday I talked about broccoli in my comment thread, and now this, not a good sign at all...
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