Cooking

[miss_ellie]

Good job @Koala.

[em2009]

That is ok, we can still be friends

[Bomb_Doe]

tsk tsk

I presume , em, you won’t appreciate the vegan koulourakia Mrs Doe made this arvo. They turned out very good.

[alex.f.94]

My dog used to make those in the back yard

[bomber_girl]

Would you say that if she said she was vegan?

[em2009]

I love vegan koulouria and paximadia!

They actually look more like moustakouloura, which are also awesome.

[em2009]

Nope. That’s why I asked the question. Hehehe.

[Shelton10]

This time it’s my turn to ask why? I honestly can’t see any real virtue in being vegan. Vegetarian, okay, if you don’t believe in killing animals even though it’s what human beings do, but veganism, well, I understand the arguments, but they don’t add up to me.

[user_name]

I’m not a vegan, or vegetarian, but there’s a million reasons why it makes sense. Animal welfare and the environment being right at the top.

[Bomb_Doe]

I know there’s a vegan thread elsewhere so I don’t want to turn this into a vegan debate.
Plus, I wouldn’t classify myself as vegan, although that term is easier to use… if you had to use a term. Rather, what best captures how we eat is: whole foods, plant based.

So we prefer to avoid animal products and processed foods. i.e we buy fresh veggies and fruits, uncooked pulses etc.

And where we have to buy processed stuff we choose minimally processed foods: i.e. peanut butter (which is 100% peanuts, nothing else added).

The primary reason we do this is for health reason. The data suggests whole foods, plant based eating is the healthiest diet.

And vegan cooking does not necessarily meet this criteria. It can be vegan and be unhealthy due to large amounts of salt, sugar or bad fats.

So we basically do what Michael Pollan surmised: " Eat food, not too much, mostly plants".

[Shelton10]

Sounds good to me. But I do think that if you’re going to have a sweet, you may as well have a proper one.

[Bomb_Doe]

They’re good shelts
Recipe is basically swapping out butter and eggs for olive oil. Works fine.

[bomber_girl]

I think the “virtuous” ones ruin it for people like Doe. I did it for a couple of weeks due to stomach issues, and it fixed me up, so it has it’s benefits. Long term, it would be tough. Unfortunately you have your mad activists running around giving everyone the absolute ■■■■■. They’ll be in their “vegan leather” shoes, which actually do more damage to the environment than real leather, but they are too stupid and hypocritical to even consider that.

[em2009]

I may have already posted this, but this is a great website…

https://thegreekvegan.com/

[GRR]

Love it, but now I feel compelled to attempt some of these recipes and I’m too old to cook new things. Problem is I like eating but hate cooking.
Music, wine and familiar recipes work, but new ideas make my brain hurt.

[em2009]

If I were to pick one, do the okra. So yum.

[Bacchusfox]

Did you fry or roast the dog ?

[bltn]

[davethedon]

I’m not vegan or vegetation. My daughter is vego but likes cheese and our own backyard eggs.

We probably eat vegetarian 3 nights a week, on average, and eat meat at breakfast or lunch rarely.

My daughter will often do a multi dish Asian meal and I’ll only notice it’s Vegan when she mentions it. Would happily eat this routinely.

Been growing lots of mushies since late winter - helps make vego stuff seem meaty.

Vegan fish and oyster sauces are revelations…

[Shelton10]

I would happily eat vegetarian quite frequently, but Mrs S usually says that she doesn’t feel full unless the meal has some meat in it. An exception is Indian, which we’re getting as takeaway tonight. The rice and the thick sauces are sufficiently filling.

I was looking at Nagi’s Asian vegetable stir fry. It looks delicious and plenty filling with rice.