[Homestead] Vegetarian diet was Fennel
EarthNSky
erthnsky at bellsouth.net
Mon Nov 17 14:07:11 EST 2008
Yes, what I saw was without a doubt, very labor intensive. Your
Thanksgiving dinner sounds wonderful, Sage. People forget that
Thanksgiving is less about the food, and more about friends and family
and SHARING the wealth. It is THE Socialist holiday...ROTFLMAO!
Bev
eureka at hctc.net wrote:
> Yes, at first eating meat substitutes that mimicked meat for me was
> sort of repulsive from a food allergy standpoint: eat meat=get sick.
> But since I have a lot of friends who aren't vegetarian, these
> products help socially being able to offer meals that don't look or
> taste like they came from another planet and it also helps my friends
> have easy things they can offer me as their guest. Most vegetarians
> simply desire to fit in, and don't want to cause undo trouble or
> panic for others.
>
> I have a couple of raw food cookbooks and I find the recipes to be
> labor intensive. I made some patties from carrot pulp (juice
> extracted first) that had to dehydrate below 113 degrees in my
> dehydrator for two days. Now that's *slow* food! I do have recipes
> for vegetable loafs that are cooked that are wonderful, though. I am
> cooking Thanksgiving (my birthday!) for some neighbors: spicy pumpkin
> soup, salad with a blue cheese mint dressing, cornbread stuffing with
> sage, cranberries and pecans, and Quorn cutlets and whatever veggies
> and deserts our friends bring.
>
> --Sage
>
>
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:55:31 -0500 EarthNSky <erthnsky at bellsouth.net>
> wrote:
>> I saw something on the food channel that looked pretty good. It
>> was some kind of veggie loaf that was made of mixed veggies,
>> pureed, then dehydrated into a slice-able loaf. It was totally
>> raw, and because of the nuts and whole grains in it and on it, I
>> would have tried it in a flash, and probably would have liked it.
>> The show pondered what Vegetarians eat on Thanksgiving, and that
>> was one of the dishes showcased.
>>
>>> Quorn www.quorn.com (my favorite, made from mycoprotein ie.
>>> fungus and tastes like chicken-patties, cutlets, tenders)
>>> Morningstar Farms www.seeveggiesdifferently.com (steak strips
>>> (husband's favorite), chicken strips, sausage patties, links,
>>> fake bacon, bratworst and Italian sausages) Boca
>>> www.bocaburger.com (most meatlike burgers) LightLife
>>> http://www.lightlife.com/product_category.jsp?c=deli (pepperoni,
>>> turkey, balogna, ham lunchmeat) White Wave
>>> http://www.tofutown.net/index.php?sid=Products (wheat meat,
>>> tempe, seitan, baked tofu, tofu)
>>
>> I used to work in frozen foods, so I am familiar with these
>> products. The one thing I would always ask is why non-meat products
>> are made to look like meat if meat is so disgusting? It seems
>> counter intuitive to me...If I don't eat cow dung, I sure as heck
>> don't want my food looking like cow dung, ya know? One of the
>> things I really liked about that loaf above is that it did not try
>> to mimic and therefore compete with anything else, taste wise. It
>> would be new and exciting flavors, all on its own.
>>
>> Bev
>>
>> -- “Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger
>> leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” Yoda
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