yum yum the food thread

jane_e · 29-09-11 15:59:11

blissed wrote:

Be nice if we could produce and eat animal protein from single cell life with no brain and no feelings of fear or pain. Then we'd get vitamin B12 and all the good fatty acids in the kindest possible way.

Science is already all over this. In vitro meat is already is real thing.

Also, I'm beginning to rethink this vegan idea. I am going to miss my yogurt in the morning and I just learned how to make ricotta cheese -- and if you sub lemon for the vinegar it's sooo good. It looks so fancy but is so easy to make. It goes really well with fresh salsa and pita chips. I highly recommend taking it to your next party and pretending like fresh ricotta and salsa was all your idea...

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viva · 30-09-11 01:29:20

Hey Blissed, never fear, Japan's got you covered too. Poop Steak?

Don't fret Jane, it's a vegan challenge not a lifestyle renouncement! Also it's not for another whole month, and I'll be there for you! We can forum it up and learn amazing new recipes we'd never have learned before. Like how to get really good at making tofu amazing. I couldn't live forever without homemade ricotta cheese either. Or poached eggs. Or real butter. Or dulce de leche. Or wine, fer chrissake - most of that's not vegan as far as I can tell.

But my new food obsession IS (potentially) vegan!! I've been making rice - sometimes I fry it up with ginger, sometimes not - and roasting brussels sprouts. Then the details change, but it's usually some combination of:
thin omelette made with sweet soy sauce
crushed up sesame roasted seaweed (the korean kind)
toasted nuts of some sort (pine, almond, whatevs)
crispy tofu (the crispier the better!)
and sometimes i throw in avocado, and/or currents, and/or (here's where it gets unvegan) danish feta or grated fresh parmesan.

Then season with apple cider vinegar, olive oil, lemon, salt, sesame seeds etc.
WHEW!

But the basic idea is rice, roasted brussel sprouts, and toasted seaweed. obsessed.

Breakfast is pretty much over, too much effort. Either kitty gets fed or I do, and priority goes to the one who meows louder.

Protip: Marscapone, heavy cream, a bit of vanilla and some sugar - whip it all up into the best frosting EVER.

viva · 30-09-11 02:13:26

HAHA. I just realised I included omelette in the vegan part of the directions.. oh dear. this will be a hard month won't it.

blissed · 30-09-11 22:44:30

I thought you meant this http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2007/09/ve … r-one.html

Poop steak sounds cool. Though you have to tell people at a dinner party after they've eaten it that their meal was made from the finest excrement.
You could buy an exploder and make your own at home It's much nicer if your guests know they're eating your own home made genuine vegan poop steak

Jane I've been thinking of selling my house and buying a hamburger but only if I can get the price down to $360,000 they have to include mayo and salad. Going in vitro would be nice when the process is refined and cheaper. You could culture all kinds of whole nutrient foods.

I just thought, picking up and eating abandoned chicken eggs, is vegan because it doesn't involve animal cruelty, it's just their by product of menstruation. If I swallow sperm, that's vegan as well. (we have a whole thread devoted to that somewhere Be nice to have a word that means cruelty free rather than a strict definition where you say well if you eat rescued chicken eggs and swallow sperm your not really a vegan. You are. I'm pesco vegetarian because I eat fish so praps we need sub groupings of vegan as well.

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viva · 03-10-11 00:43:42

Oh dear. I spent my weekend hanging out at a farm where they rescue factory farmed animals, it was amazing and the animals were thriving. Many were not pretty - missing eyes, legs, etc. Guerilla groups here in Melbourne jump fences in the middle of the night and go check on animals at factory farms - if any are sick or maimed, they simply take them to this farm for rehabilitation. The commercial ethics of this practice are not sound but factory farming is so morally corrupt that the ends justify the means for me here.

I also do not think that it's wrong to eat the eggs my dad's chooks drop at home - even though there's a male rooster around (one of the girls turned into a boy) - I don't believe that an egg is a chick, even if it has the potential to be one. So some become breakfast and some become chicks. This seems natural to me - if not, some would rot, and some would become chicks.

Unfortunately, my dad's chooks are far away and even though I buy free-range, it turns out that there's no agreed upon standards here for what that means. Depending on the brand, you could be enjoying eggs from chickens that run around happy, or from chickens that mill around a barn, with a tiny fenced in "outdoor" area, the size of 4 chickens, to go outside in.

Hanging out with pretty serious vegans during this trip, I felt that they were not militant so much, or strict about definitions, but honestly sad and aghast at the idea of animals suffering. While I did go home and eat a bunch of raspberries with sour cream and brown sugar, I am seriously considering, if not going vegan, then sourcing my eggs and dairy a whole lot more intensely than before. I just don't want creatures feeling fear so I can have feta cheese in my salad.

blissed · 03-10-11 02:02:41

Yeah barn eggs are called Happy eggs on the boxes in the supermarket I shop at. If that's not telling you it's dodgy........
I buy organic free range with the soil association stamp that requires wellfare standards, might be similar in Australia. http://www.soilassociation.org/Farmersg … fault.aspx

When I was in Aus it seemed impossible to get organic food outside the groovy suburbs and victoria market. But that's amazing work rescuing factory farm animals. I love those developing country villages where chickens free range all over the roads and the whole village. When you see chickens in the road you know your out of the rat race. I love seeing sheep free ranging all over the place in parts of wales too. Sometimes they look like they're waiting at bus stops for a bus.

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jane_e · 03-10-11 13:36:52

blissed wrote:

I love seeing sheep free ranging all over the place in parts of wales too. Sometimes they look like they're waiting at bus stops for a bus.

How can you be certain that they aren't?

Viva wrote:

HAHA. I just realised I included omelette in the vegan part of the directions.. oh dear. this will be a hard month won't it.

I actually laughed out loud when I read this. Not "lol'ed" but truly laughed out loud. Eggs are vegan riiiiiigt? I like Blissed philosophy on this one. If only I was tripping over abandoned eggs on my way to work in the morning...

In other news, I am really excited to make this homemade version of LARA bars. The store bought ones are sooo good, but it seems crazy to pay $2 CDN A BAR to have someone in California (or wherever) blend dates and nuts for me.

blissed · 03-10-11 21:19:43

A sheep has never been observed getting on a bus. So tomorrow I'm gonna build a small green hut to sit in behind the bus stop, and if I see a sheep get on the bus I will too, and folow it to see where it goes and why, because I can't see any possible reason why a sheep would wanna catch a bus to anywhere.

Lara bars look nice. We can't get them here so I'd have to make them.

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blissed · 09-10-11 22:28:39

I've just discovered roasted Marcona Almonds, they're fabulous!! Thos isn't a cooking tip though they never last long enoiugh to get into a recipe

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jane_e · 10-10-11 18:07:10

blissed wrote:

I've just discovered roasted Marcona Almonds, they're fabulous!! Thos isn't a cooking tip though they never last long enough to get into a recipe

Humm, I wonder if we can get those here. It appears that they are imported from Spain. Maybe when sheep get on buses...

I got into coco dusted almonds for a while. In a nice jar they make a snazzy hostess gift. (Don't worry I didn't used to bring hostess gifts either. Read a Smitten Kitchen article or two -- that women never goes anywhere without one.) The trouble with coco dusting your almonds is that they disappear waaaay to fast.

In other news, I got my welcome-to-the-month-of-no-meat-cheese-and-eggs newsletter and I think it will be OK. If anyone is thinking of making vegan date bars, they are delicious. But there is a very good chance you will break your food processor and end up chopping 2 lb of dates by hand and hoping that you bought the food processor during a time in your life where warranties got filed under "w" (for warranty).

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blissed · 10-10-11 18:51:48

I think you can get Marcona Almonds in all of north America. Can't see why they have to import them from spain though they should be able to grow in California, mexico and all the Southern US states. Cocao almands sound nice.

I've been pigging on blackberries today and while picking them I had a profound thought I wandered a liitle too far from my bicycle and had to just go back and see if it ws still there, and of course it was, it's a country lane. But all this stuff about prehistory tribes where men went hunting and the women picked berries is a bit inacurate I think. The remote risk of getting your bike stolen on a country lane ln England in 2011 is very different from a forrest full of bears, mountain lions and wild bore and god knows what else, in exactly the same place in 10011 BC. Foraging and hunting would be the same activity. In Aus we had to deal with being killed by the fruit eating Cassowary. That's a feild of fruit your not gonna get to eat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA58sS3x2Oo

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blissed · 13-10-11 23:58:48

I have to mention the cream cheese blush I bought yesterday. It tasted amazing and I think they use magic to make the food that good because I can never really make it that good at home,

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viva · 14-10-11 00:11:50

Vegan cream cheese that's yummy? Waahh!

blissed · 14-10-11 00:38:14

By the taste of it I think they made the same mistake you did with the
vegan omelette or they are using magic

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hyperballad · 14-10-11 06:53:36

Viva, watch out for egg brands that also have eggs over in the 'cage' section. Freerange is all well and good, but I'm not buying from a far that has cage chickens AND free range, it's still supporting the same company.

I try, whenever possible, to get out yarra valley or st andrews way to pick up eggs from the little farms there. Buying stuff off from farms you can drive into and see what's, what is a very good thing.

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viva · 20-10-11 01:01:58

Whaaa lemon curd adventure!! One of my lovely workmates brought me a giant bag of lemons from her tree and I spent about 3 and a half hours turning them into a giant batch of sweet stuff.
These jars aren't even the half of it, I tripled the recipe:

Gave some to the occupy melbourne movement, some back to my lemon benefactress, and some is camping out in the office fridge.

It came out great, based on a recipe I got from a beautiful boy in san francisco. I kept that recipe at the bottom of my inbox, never archiving it, never deleting, for years, and finally got to use it. so, here it is in all its tried-and-true glory:

Lemon curd

1.5 cup lemon juice (meyer's lemons)
1 cup unsalted butter
1/8 cup lemon zest
6 large egg yolks
4 large eggs
1.75 cup sugar

Melt butter, juice, sugar and zest. Whisk in eggs and cook over low heat for 10 minutes. Chill.

Enjoy!!

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blissed · 20-10-11 21:29:50

Looks nice!

I had 5 strawberries for breakfast, an apple and my own muesli with oats and toasted wheatflakes and sunflower seeds. I didn't nicely arange it all and take a photo but it definitely qualifies as a simply breakfast breakfast I think the key to doing these breakfasts is what you have left over from the night before.

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viva · 21-10-11 01:07:21

I had 2 squares of cheese for breakfast

blissed · 21-10-11 01:43:48

Hey I've just had a brilliant idea!! The Smitten Kitchen range of tastey microwavable ready meals and why not try our new Simply Breakfast range of 2 min breakfasts. They could just sell the blog brand names to Unilever

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WLV612 · 29-10-11 01:24:57

Hot dogs. New York style or Chicago style. Then peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, one of which I just finished. Crunchy peanut butter.
If beer is food, put me down for beer. Not much, two or three glasses is all I can drink.

jane_e · 31-10-11 18:35:50

viva wrote:

Whaaa lemon curd adventure!! One of my lovely workmates brought me a giant bag of lemons from her tree and I spent about 3 and a half hours turning them into a giant batch of sweet stuff.

Ahhhh Viva, I am so sad that lemons don't just grow on trees here. That lemon curd looks amazing. Should you feel like spending a million dollars to ship it across the Pacific Ocean (then across most of North America) I know a girl that would love you for-eva! Or I guess I can just make my own and try to be creative when it comes to labeling.

Blissed wrote:

By the taste of it I think they made the same mistake you did with the
vegan omelette or they are using magic

I love the taste of magic. It is right up there with the taste of love and caring. That sandwich looks like the between bread version of my favorite salad.

- mixed greens/spinach
- red onion
- raw matchstick sized beets
- dried cranberries
- crunchy pears
- toasted walnuts (or whatever)
- cucumber
- grated fresh carrots
- some combo of oil and vinegar
- and *vegan goats cheese

Also, it is the start of vegan challenge oh so very soon. I ate approximately 10 eggs and half a bag of chocolate chips yesterday to preemptively get the temptation out of my house.

blissed · 01-11-11 21:10:06

Looks good! I think pear and cream cheese and beetroot and nuts are definitely happening in my kitchen soon.

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viva · 02-11-11 00:20:26

Kicking off vegan challenge with a bang!

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Mushrooms and Friends, my vegan friend's signature hangover dish. It did us right after halloween craziness Monday!

After that I had some super boring fried rice and more exciting peanut butter and strawberry jam - peanut butter, yes, definitely crunchy. and I had two sushi rolls (1 avocado and 1 seaweed), and some intense politics and 2 oranges and basically I don't think this vegan thing's gonna be so rough!

Check out the post punk kitchenfor inspiration. I'm going to make their chocolate pudding pie ASAP!

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blissed · 02-11-11 03:40:22

That looks nice. Be nice with some extra virgin olive oil on the bread.

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blissed · 17-11-11 02:45:14

I'm eating strawberries one by one and it's making me dance

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