Dudes and Dudettes, it‘s Veganuary.
Share your best vegan recipe, your best vegan food, a story or just say Hi.
This is not for moral discussion. If you eat meat or consume animal stuff, just ignore.
Cheese is a big problem being vegan, but I had Vegan Camembert yesterday that was actually great.
I’m not a vegan or even vegetarian by any means but I absolutely love vegan dishes and it’s practically 95% of my diet. simple veggies in curry and rice, stir fry, vegan chebureki with chickpeas based filling (it’s easy enough to find the dough recipe online, for filling I soak dry chickpeas overnight, boil them for 1-2 hours until soft, fry them with dices onions, shredded carrots, garlic and spices to taste), proper pizza marinara (by proper I mean 24h dough, good quality tomatoes, some fresh garlic and good quality olive oil baked in a proper oven).
there’s so much good vegan food out there, the only thing I’m missing in my recipe book is a good vegan burger recipe, I don’t eat mushrooms (except for the funky ones) so pretty much every recipe I tried was a disaster (lentils, sweet potatoes, etc.), I had an insane beet burger in portugal some years ago from a food truck but couldn’t replicate the recipe, if anyone has a good vegan (not mushroom based) burger recipe please share!
I simply love a simple vegan dish, some buckwheat with fried veggies and some hp sauce, simple pasta with basic tomato sauce (just onions, garlic, olive oil and tomatoes, or you can make a better version of using finely diced carrots and slow cooking for 2-3 hours in a dutch oven to make a rich and thick sauce), fresh basil, yum.
Vegan for nearly 30 years here. If you’re ever in Chicago hit up Dimo’s pizza, they always keep vegan slices alongside the regular. Open super late on the weekend and walkable from Metro if you hit a show…
***Might I add the pizza is goooooood…
I know people oppose to prefabricated food a lot but for Burgers, go with Beyond Meat Pattis. They are so good. And don‘t Toast the Buns, the will become hard. Fry the pattys and put the Buns in the Pan afterwards too. A little bit olive oil. It inly takes a minute.
Vegan mayonnaise and a nice chili sauce. Veggies to your liking. Fryd onions, tomato, cucumber and salad. There you go.
Sadly I am in Europe. Do they nail the cheese?
beyond meat is my goto for years, but I love doing stuff from scratch so I reaalllly want to have a good recipe
Been transitioning towards vegan via vege for the last few months. I cook for the family, so it’s a bit of a process figuring what I can make that everyone will enjoy. Curries are a big winner in the vegan category so far, and my daughter’s surprisingly well on-board. Various Indian daal + Thai (everyone loves Massamam).
Nice to have this thread; will be on the look out for any interesting recipes
There’s some new cheeses that are just gooey, sharp and musky madness. Thin slices to top off a gorgeous lentil and cauliflower ground lasagna, with veg-burrata and mozzarella middles. That or like-for-like casserole has been my winter staple this season. It’s just heavy enough to fall asleep with the drooling food coma I want, and has all the beautiful chaos nutrients we deserve.
Unsure what it’s like in other countries at the moment, but Canada seems to be pushing the fake-meats out of the major grocers. Sure I’ll hit up local gems like Vegan Supply (vancity ayyy), and they’re incredible. But it’s the compressor on the wrong channel when it hits my shopping list by surprise. Beyond going under is such a bummer I can’t stand to see happen.
I tend to avoid and detest vegan cheese unless it’s the cashew spread type stuff. That being said, Dimo’s vegan cheese is pretty dang good. Not sure it would fool anyone but it’s yummy. It tends to be that all the slices on hand (vegan or otherwise) have a bunch of toppings. The vegan offerings include seitan with barbecue sauce, margherita style, and even macaroni! It’s the crust that cinches it though. That slightly charred thin pizza oven crust in a big triangle slice…
My family isn’t vegan, but what gets them snapping into vegan cheeses are bespoke small batch soft cheeses from culture-tanks. It spreads, it melts, it shmears and gets jears. Toss a little vegan charcuterie board together with fig-salami and the like. No one can resist the draw of charcuterie. This is very quickly becoming a requested plate at gatherings.
To be fair, it is pretty annoying to walk away to get more crackers and there’s no fig-salami left though 0_0
Here in Germany I have the impression that it becomes more and more available. But the meat lobby is pretty strong. The EU even made it a law that vegan stuff can no longer be named after the stuff irs trying to mimic. So Soy Milk isn‘t allowed to be called milk and soy Steaks csn‘t be called steak. Most stupid stuff I‘ve heard in a long time but the meat industry is strong.
Damn we need to find good cheese. 
And does anyone know how to make good cheesecake? Most recipies are always kind of soy pudding and don‘t resemble cheesecake at all.
As far as I know they put fake cheese on the frozen prebaked Pizzas over here. Was a big skandal back in the day.
Now everyone is on the lookout for that stuff that tricked us then 
Curries are a massive win, here too. What I also found to be pretty spectakular is vegan ramen.
I have a cookbook called vegan korean kitchen. Lots of really good stuff.
I made tofu with china cabbage today, my secret sauce is portoguese sweet wine mixed with soya sauce and regular soup powder.
I bought some nigri seaweed, it helps to tame insulin spike from rice. Also it contributes to the overall flavour
In my next live i want to be reborn in Asia. I always hated german food and ate only side dishes as a child.
my current fave is the brand ‘this isnt’ … they make a nice caramelised onion sausage … cooked in an air fryer and theyre ‘yummie’ …
the worst ‘fake’ fish thing ive ever tried were fake fish fingers … they were like small slices of cardboard mushed up … horrible.
i mostly eat fake meat instead of real meat… quorn / linda mcartney brands (in the uk) …
otherwise … whatever recipe i have for meat i just swap in fake meat…
in a local chinese supermarket they have deep fried tofu cubes… very nice… just add them into a stir fry / curry etc… theyve got a crispy outside and soft inner …
I often think, that it might be a big problem that there is so much fake meat stuff thats is just bad. I often got people to be interested and wanted to try stuff, if it was good they always said that they will be more open and would try to use less meat. But if it was schitty stuff that tasted like cardboard the door was closed immediatly.
Not vegan here but vegetarian and my wife’s family originate from Gujarat in India. Most of their food is vegan anyway, lots of simple veggie curries and dhal.
That said, generally have yoghurt on the side but you can skip that.
We’ve had some proper carnivore types come round for dinner and they don’t know what’s hit them, they’re practically begging for the recipe.
To be fair, lots of British people have been bred on awful boiled vegetables with no seasoning next to an overcooked bit of meat. People can’t cook so they don’t know where to start with decent vegetarian food.
Some of those fake meat sausages etc are fine but I’m generally of the opinion that trying to “swap out” real meat for a fake won’t satisfy the meat eaters. They need to eat some “proper” veggie cooking and then they get it.
We’ve been vegan with my gf for the last 5 years. Tried it in veganuary 2021 and it just stuck. There’s no turning back now. It was kinda easy for us as we had been vegetarian for years before that, so the leap wasn’t huge.
I’d say the biggest problems have been getting a proper breakfast at any hotel and getting used to vegan cheeses and yogurts. I bet that if I now ate ”normal” cheese, I’d find that kinda yucky and weird. You get accustomed to certain tastes quite fast.
We have a couple of favourite recipes for normal weekday cooking and we tend to repeat ourselves a bit. Going vegan has made us really think about our eating and also appreciate the small things.
For a vegan it’s a huge thing when you get some new vegan grocery released in the shops, for an omnivore they don’t even notice new things in the shop because there’s millions of groceries for them to buy anyways. It feels good to be enthused about food things again.
My gf doesn’t really care for any fake meats etc. but tomorrow she’s going to an arts museum with her friends so I’m planning to make a vegan salami pasta for my lunch.
We also like to travel inside Finland quite a lot and it’s always a pleasure to find new vegan friendly restaurants. At some point we considered moving to another city just for their amazing vegan restaurants. Life is good!
ive never tried to make it myself but all of the ethiopian food i’ve had has been vegan and incredibly delicious. i wish i could make my own injera because that really completes the flavor
I’d love to cut out meat for a while but my family would kill me. Then find someone new to cook me!
That it is my friend!