The Vegetarian & Vegan Thread

[Aimeeeee]

love quorn since i dont really like tofu. and they are getting more varied products they've just brought some bacon out which i want to try.

although i dont buy the frozen sausages anymore since i've found bits of plastic in them twice now but i've never had any problems with any other quorn products.

If it's the Bacon I'm thinking of, it come frozen in strips and you fry it right? It's soooo nice, better than the real thing but tastes just like it.

 

[Elegance.Is.Refusal.]

yeah i tired some made by sunnydale once i think! will just have to wait til i go shopping again and see if they have any since morrisons dont seem to stock a wide variety but they seem to have more than others....

 

[FrockRadar8]

I LOVE quorn, so much better than the real thing and much healthier aswell! They have such a range here aswell, you can get quorn meatballs, sandwich slices, sausages, escalops etc!! I love marinated tofu aswell yum! I just wish I could find some vegetarian kievs!!

Wha???
I'm incredibly envious. All I can find at the cutlets, naked cutlets (which are soooo versatile and yummy), nuggets and tenders. Escalops sounds interesting....

 

[FrockRadar8]

Those pictures look mouth watering!!! I especially love the Miso soup.

 

[J67X4]

I find soya smoothies for breakfast make my skin look great and i never feel like im lacking in anything.

 

[Totakeke]

misssakura - Oh. My. Gawd.

Food p*rn!

Everything looks so good, but I have a question about your miso soup. What do you use for the dashi? Just kombu? I've been wanting to make my own miso soup for a while now. Any tips?

 

[misssakura]

Well, my method is to use a miso paste. Be careful, a lot of these soups or prepacks contain bonito (fish), dashi (fish stock), eggs and milk. I use a Shinshu Shiro I buy at my local supermarket, which is a nice subtle sweet flavour, i've also used some red miso which is a sharper saltier taste, goes really nice with a buckwheat noodle.

http://okinami.com/php/list.php?cat_id=Miso This gives you a rough idea of what is available, just go into your local store and read the back of the pack to check whether it is suitable for your way of life

A guide to products that aren't suitable ( I have a few left from my non vegetarian days, i'm not entirely sure where the dairy and fish comes into the flavour o_o ) http://www.koamart.com/shop/9-instant_soup.asp scroll down to the instant miso and check the ingredients

 

[Melisande]

misssakura - Oh. My. Gawd.

Food p*rn!

Everything looks so good, but I have a question about your miso soup. What do you use for the dashi? Just kombu? I've been wanting to make my own miso soup for a while now. Any tips?

You use both dashi and miso...like misssakura says, a mix of both white and red miso is ideal. Make sure you add the miso last, after you turn off the heat, or it will get bitter.

For the dashi, I just use Kombu.

One way to add depth to the miso soup without fish stock is to simmer slivered onions in the dashi until soft, transparant and sweet. Daikon also adds sweetness.

missakura, your photos look so lovely!
I can't believe they put eggs and dairy in so-called miso!

JamieRL, soya smoothies sound so good! What do you include?

 

[misssakura]

^^Yes I was disappointed to find out it had dairy....

I thought i'd add tonight's dinner to the picture post:

I think i'll call it, "Falafelicious". XD Basically its a washed iceberg lettuce base, topped with halved cucumbers, runner beans, mixed toasted seeds and falafel. I also added a balsamic vinegar to the lettuce. Its super nice with a dipping sauce too, like a vegan salad cream or plum sauce (or if you're vegetarian just regular salad cream would taste lovely). Preparation time: 25 minutes

 

[Aimeeeee]

Wha???
I'm incredibly envious. All I can find at the cutlets, naked cutlets (which are soooo versatile and yummy), nuggets and tenders. Escalops sounds interesting....

I got them from Tescos Sainsburys do quite a variety too, if you live in the UK. Wow, I just looked on the Quorn website at the product range and there's loads I havent seen before!! Feta cheese and tomato escalops ! Spinach and cheese sausages?! Lol..

http://www.quorn.co.uk//cmpage.aspx?section=OurRange

 

[J'aime_la_mode]

^That looks so good!

 

[sillybear]

Hi Everyone!
I was vegetarian for five years, and took a break for awhile due to becoming anemic, and now I have been a successful vegan for a few months. I feel so much better, have more energy, and better skin, along with the always nice addition of weight loss. Congrats to everyone who is doing something wonderful for animal, the environment, and their health. I have tons of recipes, information, if anyone needs any help.

I know this might sound a tad bit judgmental or annoying, but, if you are a following a vegan diet that means you never eat anything that comes from an animal source.

If you are vegetarian you do not eat fish.

I think labels are stupid to begin with, and that everyone should follow their own terms and follow their own opinions, but if you are vegetarian and eating fish, you are giving others who work so hard and put so much effort in a vegetarian diet a bad name.

You cannot eat fish and call yourself a vegetarian or a vegan, thats a fact.

 

[Sweets]

agreed

 

[susa31]

I'm agreeing too :-)
....and am not one of the fish-eating people calling themselves a veg.
to clarify: I don't eat animals (chicken, pork, beef, fish, seafood, game etc) and don't wear leather, fur etc....but I do wear for ex. wool and eat eggs, drink milk etc

so again...I'm a veg B-)

 

[misssakura]

I don't know about other countries, but in New Zealand and England, wool sheep are treated incredibly well, the slightest nick on the sheep during shearing is the mark of a bad shearer and can taint the wool. The process is done in under 2 minutes (have you ever watched? its fascinating). Sheep are kept in large naural areas, for example the hills and mountainsides and are only brought down for a dip twice a year and once a year for shearing, by sheepdogs who are not permitted to snap at the sheep. I know the situation is different in Australia for example but, all i'd like to say is that I've grown up around sheep, in countries where sheep are a way of life for many compassionate farmers who love their creatures.

And I agree about the fish thing, although i'm not necessarily sure whether it is a compassion issue for most people, or more a necessary concern about ecological impact on the oceans, or as far as farmed fish such as salmon goes, health problems due to the large number of antibiotics and unnatural conditions they are forced to live in.

I think if I was trapped somewhere and had to eat, I could probably eat a fish and not feel too cut up about it. But I don't need to eat fish cus....FALAFEL IS MY GOD

 

[susa31]

I don't know about other countries, but in New Zealand and England, wool sheep are treated incredibly well[...]The process is done in under 2 minutes (have you ever watched? its fascinating). Sheep are kept in large naural areas, for example the hills and mountainsides and are only brought down for a dip twice a year and once a year for shearing, by sheepdogs who are not permitted to snap at the sheep.

I think if I was trapped somewhere and had to eat, I could probably eat a fish and not feel too cut up about it.

I've watched it lots of times because I have relatives who are living in the countryside. They don't have sheep but a farmer close-by their farm does and because every farmer knows and is more or less friends with every farmer in the neighborhood I was allowed to watch a lot of times as a kid (my parents and I visited them often ....2 months in the summer, 3 weeks in winter and countless weekends throughout the year) and the sheeps get treated just as good as you explained it.

If I was trapped somewhere and had to eat some animal just to safe myself from starving I of course would eat it. I don't think there's anything wrong with eating animals theoretically. Just like one animal survives by "eating" other animals it's ok for men to eat animals but it's often disgusting how animals are threated in intensive mass animal farming wherefrom most of our meat etc comes from .... Now one could think that I could and would eat meat If I can be sure that the animal was threated good like it's the case for animals from where my relatives live....but I end up being too sensitive ....as long as there's a way around it I won't eat one.

PS: Sorry for my bad English...it's not my monther tongue ...I'm from Austria.

 

[misssakura]

Your english is very good

And I agree with you about eating meat. I personally think that being an omnivore is natural, we can be selective with what we eat or diverse. It is the way animals are treated that is by no means natural. In the wild we would have to trap our food ourselves and take responsibility for our actions, but we're in a society that doesn't think too much about how things are produced. Or why.

 

[sillybear]

It's great knowing young men and women who have the ability to say no to food, in order to make a great impact. It is very empowering, hopefully you will all be successful and have good karma.

ps- falafel is god!

 

[misssakura]

ps- falafel is god!

ALL HAIL FALAFEL

 

[Sweets]

stop teasing me! misssakura drop a recipe!