Food Only a Vegetarian would eat...........
Posted by Tweety on May 20, 2008 · Member since Jan 2003 · 3135 posts
So I was having lunch with a meat-eating coworker, and brought out my "snobby joe" sandwich. It's in Veganomicon but basically is a sloppy joe made out of lentils. I loved it, she said "what the heck is that....".......and I proceeded to explain, and she didn't warm up to the idea at all, and then I said "chalk this up to one of those things only a vegetarian would eat". ;D
Sometimes there are foods I think that only I can eat, and I shouldn't share with others. My kale-brussel sprout-seitan dish over quinoa is one of those two.
What's things do you eat, that you'd only share with a fellow vegan?
Anything involving nutritional yeast.
Hmm..last weekend I had a weird craving for au gratin potatoes, so I made an NY sauce with flour, water, and a little soymilk to make it creamy. I sliced some potatoes in the processor and sauteed some onions. I mixed it all together and baked it for a little while. It was really good and if I'm feeling gluttonous someday, I will buy some tofutti sour cream to add to it.
Anyway. I was telling a co-worker about it and I could tell she just couldn't get the concept of NY sauce. She didn't even have to say it.
edit: Gnarls posted while I was typing.
Hmm..last weekend I had a weird craving for au gratin potatoes, so I made an NY sauce with flour, water, and a little soymilk to make it creamy. I sliced some potatoes in the processor and sauteed some onions. I mixed it all together and baked it for a little while. It was really good and if I'm feeling gluttonous someday, I will buy some tofutti sour cream to add to it.
Anyway. I was telling a co-worker about it and I could tell she just couldn't get the concept of NY sauce. She didn't even have to say it.
edit: Gnarls posted while I was typing.
i made this for thanksgiving one year, and it actually didnt turn out too well, but everyone ate it. i kept asking my grandparents if they like it, they kept saying it was just fine, after a while my grandfather said 'you know kelsi, i'm on the seefood diet. i see food, i eat food, and i'm eating this.' haha. hes the best!
i guess it depends on how picky the eater is.... most people aren't like my grandfather though. he'll eat anything.
i love the black bean burgers from Veganomicon. I crave them but i'm too lazy to make them. plus they make the house smell a little. but yum!
Dean ate them the first time i made them, but prefers real burgers. and my parents wouldn't go anywhere near them.
I asked my husband this question and said..."ahhh, that shit you made the other night that tasted like soap!" That would be the awesome black bean burger recipe from this site. Apparently he does not like cilantro! I suppose they wouldn't look all that appetizing to an omni.
Tofu. Enough said.
Any of my couscous concoctions...or mashed potato concoctions, possibly. Actually, I think soy milk is a more acquired taste than tofu--they also can't have my awesome hot chocolate.
Veggie dogs. I went to a BBQ last weekend at a friend's house. Even the vegetarians didn't eat it. Not a good brand I suppose.
Anything involving nutritional yeast.
Anything involving nutritional yeast.
This, and TVP
Yeah, while I think that most people could get to liking vegetarian food if they ate it regularly, it's really hard when you're just like "Here, try this, it's good, trust me!" and their taste buds are all primed with cheese and dairy and processed junk. It's like going to take a drink of whole milk and then finding out it's skim, for lack of a better metaphor (sorry). Not necessarily bad, but not what you're used to.
I second anything with nooch. Partly because it tastes unlike anything else, and if you say it's cheesy, the person will inevitably be disappointed. And partly because it sounds like such a health freak hippie food.
Nut roast, aka nut loaf. In the UK it is the trad "veg*n Christmas dinner" (with veggie gravy, notcherly) and omni people enjoy raising their eyebrows at it and going "Okaaaaay...." But the recipe for Yummy Nut Roast in the Winter Holidays section of VW is so. darn. good!
I second anything with tofu. Until the omni actually tastes it!! THEN the light clicks on, esp. when they realise that meat is upwards of 4 Euros a pound here, for the cheapest nastiest cuts, and clean, non-GMO tofu is only like 1 Euro a pound. And no waste, if you don't count the box it comes in.
Beans. I don't know why but most omnis have an aversion to beans in general. I don't get it. Beans and legumes are the best!
Maybe they just don't like the thought of making them into something else, like a pattie or loaf. But honestly, I could just eat plain old kidney beans out of a can....
Beans. I don't know why but most omnis have an aversion to beans in general. I don't get it. Beans and legumes are the best!
Maybe they just don't like the thought of making them into something else, like a pattie or loaf. But honestly, I could just eat plain old kidney beans out of a can....
I used to have an aversion to beans, but it's just because I grew up with the idea that beans was served with lard and maple syrup or molasse. People just have to know how much you can diversify the beans.
What's things do you eat, that you'd only share with a fellow vegan?
faux shrimp
Beans. I don't know why but most omnis have an aversion to beans in general. I don't get it. Beans and legumes are the best!
Maybe they just don't like the thought of making them into something else, like a pattie or loaf. But honestly, I could just eat plain old kidney beans out of a can....
I used to have an aversion to beans, but it's just because I grew up with the idea that beans was served with lard and maple syrup or molasse. People just have to know how much you can diversify the beans.
Hear! Hear! They just don't know how to make them. Growing up in Iowa, any vegetable came to the table boiled (or warmed out of a can), as is, with maybe some butter and lemon juice. No wonder we didn't like them! Chickpeas? Are you KIDDING? We only ever saw beans in chilli, or in tomatoe or BBQ sauce, usually still slightly hard.
Even when my mother went crazy for Chinese food, she was unable to make the leap from following the recipes religiously, to applying the techniques to what was available. So we only ever had stirfries that were heavy on pork steak cut into strips, with celery or cabbage--because that's what the book said. Or chicken breast with almonds or mushrooms. Never a glorious veggie stirfry!
What's things do you eat, that you'd only share with a fellow vegan?
faux shrimp
There is such a thing? :search:
What's things do you eat, that you'd only share with a fellow vegan?
faux shrimp
There is such a thing? :search:
There is such a thing. I get them at the Asian Market. They even have little pink stripes on them.
http://www.vegecyber.com/cgi-bin/vege_item.cgi?detail=10416
That is the coolest thing! I wonder if they have them anywhere near me. Even way back when I wasn't veg*n I developed an allergy to shellfish so I couldn't eat shrimp. Now I want faux shrimp and won ton soup!
What's things do you eat, that you'd only share with a fellow vegan?
faux shrimp
Good one. My mom and I went to a vegan restaurant not too long ago and she saw the guy next to us with shrimp on his plate. She couldn't believe how real it looked but I advised her that she shouldn't try it because she wasn't used to fake meat and fish and that wasn't a good place to start. I was afraid she would be turned off fake meat entirely.
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