/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15660562
Just wanted to tell you that your picture is not a real ratatouille.

>>15660562
Quiche is pretty good.
As well as cheesecake and biscuits.

some of my ideas some far:
>caponata
>minestrone
>falafel salad
>dal
>bean chili
>stuffed peppers
>bibimbap (sans meat obviously)

>>15660589
this is the version i usually make, but it looks like sloppa shit in a thumbnail

>find food you like
>substitute the animal products
How is that hard for you?
t. Vegan

>>15660623
it's nearly always disappointing.. there are a few exceptions like mushroom stroganoff and vegetarian lasagna though

>>15660623
vegan cheese sucks don't even front.

>>15660682
miyokos cheese is amazing
homemade cashew cheese is also godtier

leave it to a vegetarian to be good willfully ignorant

>>15660739
yes vegetarians deserve death

>>15660562
tasty vegetarian
oxymoron.

>>15660622
OP pic is a tian

>>15660739
>Caring about the binary good/bad judgement of internet dorks instead of realizing that marginal improvements still have an impact and being comfortable with your actions

OP, once you master the tofu stir fry you don't need anything else.

Also anything with the field roast sausages in it.

>>15660739
If your childhood self could see you know, so spiteful at the world, so trapped in your own personal bubble and so bigoted you can't handle the existence person who doesn't share 100% of your beliefs, what would you think of yourself? is this really what you wanted out of life?

P.S I'm not a vegetarian.

P.P.S Your rice is grown with the help of armies tens of thousands of domesticated ducks. You will never defeat the duck army.

>>15660739
I fucking hate Vegans. Eating living organisms when they could consume only lab generated nutrient is something that could be compared to the worst things humans have done in the world's history. At least ancient humans had he excuse they didn't have choice. But Vegans have absolutely no excuse now that you can synthesize nutrients from non-living organism.

i live in california but really enjoy throwing bbq's so i had to figure out some good vegetarian options for cookouts cuz, ykno, california.

jack fruit sandwhiches (prepare it like pulled pork sandwhich), fried eggplant, and portobello burgers were my favorite vegetarian recipes I would make for the veg people that showed up to my cookouts.

>>15660739
kek i want to shake the hand of whoever wrote that, im dying

>>15660739
this vegetable smegma isn't cheese where the fuck is my camembert

cant go wrong with caponata, delicious

>>15660786
is jackfruit really that good? seen it paraded as a meat substitute before but seemed like a total meme

You'll find a lot of vegetarian recipes in indian cuisine. Don't make them too often otherwise the smell will seep into the walls

>>15661221
mouth feel of pulled pork
boil it or rinse it thoroughly before smothering in bbq

>>15660562
Refried beans with soi chorizo.
Quesadillas
Sweet tamales
Esquites
Pasta

>>15661221
Jackfruit is mostly a meme, even among vegetarians. It's good some of the time but not a viable meat substitute nutritionally or flavor-wise.

>>15660623
>find food you like
>substitute the animal products
Then it is not the food I like anymore. Why are vegans so retarded?

>>15661325
Let's make a deal:
I won't call sparkling water "water champagne", and you don't call a chinese grain diarrhea "soi chorizo".

>>15660562
>>15660589
you posted it, Ratatouille is probably my all time favorite vegetarian dish.
I also like a good vegetable stew/soup

>>15661404
I have tried dozens of brands of chorizo and one of my top five was made with soi.

https://youtu.be/U9Y1Gsjj5iU
Don't use butter or yogurt

https://youtu.be/dNwIGKFvDYc
Substitute meat with sauteed mushrooms

https://youtu.be/b6nV1heycCY
Maybe no egg? Idk do you guys eat eggs?

These are the only ones I can think of

>>15661427
You can call that soi mush Harold if you wish, but not chorizo. It is like saying "hey, I bought this GM lamborghini", then point at pic

>>15660562
Spicy, vegan/vegetarian thai curry - however you want to make it happen, it doesn't need meat or meat-related things. It's just good on its own. I made a whole lot of coconut curry and tempura'd veggies when I was splitting a house with a vegan a few years ago... always felt weird eating raw animal faces and drinking the blood of the innocent in front of him... despite the fact that he'd prep us both coffee in the morning, and put cream in mine without a hint of judgment.

>>15660562
Potato Leek soup, just swap chicken stock for veggy broth.

>>15661451
Are you spanish or something?

>>15661539
No, I'm a decent human being.

>>15660562
Why is every person's girlfriend a vegetarian?

>>15661658
I'm someone's girlfriend and I'm as far from vegetarian as you can get. I help slaughter, butcher, and cook livestock for my boyfriend.

He's probably young and so is his girlfriend. Considering that he's looking up recipes I'm assuming she can't cook to save her life either (I can cook vegetarian, some of mine and my boyfriends relatives are vegetarian and I prefer that if they come over they eat delicious healthy food I can share with them and not fake meat and other store bought, hyper processed, heat-and-serve shit I refuse to eat.)

>>15661693
you will never be a woman

>>15661708
trannies live in ur head rent free

Learn to use mushrooms to replace meat sources, Ginger can help out recipes that seem to lack a full flavor and black beans can be used in most things to fulfill a protein source. The biggest thing to look out for is over-relying on sugar in recipes.

>>15661708
You don't even know you're being unkind
So much for all your highbrow Marxist ways
Just use me up and then you walk away
Boy, you can't play me that way

>>15661693
That's nice. Still, every person's girlfriends I've known outside my brothers' have all being vegetarian if not vegan, no clue why. I think its a phase for some like it was with my mate but like, is there some reason? Is it just the delicate nature of women or whatever or something else at play?

Good that you stick to making stuff properly, I always fear the day when I'll eventually settle down and get a gf just for them to try and force my to change to not eating meat. Cooking is one of the few enjoyable things left.

>>15661774
Just look for a certain type. A girl can love animals and eat them, but a vegetarian shows a certain kind of love. IMO they generally aren't actually interested in learning about animals, they just want to admire how "cute" they are. I would definitely say I am interested deeply interested in the specifics of animals. I always learn something new about them every day.

A girl who won't become vegetarian will probably be a bit more laid back, less neurotic if you will. She can still dress nice and wear makeup and be pretty, but she's not going to be super interested in getting validation from others and is more likely to run on logic as opposed to emotion.

If I were you, I would just weed out vegetarian girls. If you cant enjoy a nice steak with her she's not worth your time. There are plenty of hot meat eating women, and because of the extra iron and calcium and cholesterol in their diet they tend to be more mentally stable and have higher energy.

If I was a dude there's no way I'd date a vegan or vegetarian.

>>15660589
I like ratataoui withour the tomato base but a beef stock instead, what is that called? Too much acid with tomato I think.

>>15661996
beef-vegetable stew

This and Spanakopita.

spanakopita
also stuffed peppers

>>15660562
Gave up meat for lent
Rice and beans always works (shame to give up pork, but a bit of butter or coconut oil with flour adds some flavor back). Make sure to use smoked paprika and peppers, at least.
Does eggplant parm count as unhealthy?
Sweet potato can do a lot. Hash of that and fennel and egg (if you're allowing that) is good

>>15661658
Women are more often vegitarian because their body composistion consists of more fat IE carbs. Men need more protein in their diet, ergo, meat. This can be confirmed with many cases of morning sickness in women; too often it's the smell of cooking meat that wrenches their stomachs.

>>15660562
If you don’t find the taste of fruits and vegetables in itself yummy and amazing then there is zero hope for u.

>>15661726

>>15662061
That sag paneer? Good stuff.

>>15660562
Mexican food can easily be vegetarian and great. I had a bulking meal when I was vegetarian that was fried or roasted potatoes, beans of your choice, plain greek yogurt, salsa, peppers, spinach.

>>15660606
Quiche is delicious, but NOT vegetarian.

>>15663039
Yes it is. It's literally an egg and cheese pie. Just put in vegetables instead of meat.

>>15660762
your mom thinks vegetarians are tasty, every vegetarian in town,

>>15662061
>>15662077
>Spanakopita
I want that

>>15663048
But anon, this is a vegetable thread. Egg and cheese are not veggies. Take your meds.

>>15660562
Lo main
Fried ride
Egg rolls
Mapo tofu
Quesadilla
Chilli rilanos (might have spelled that wrong)
Humus plate with fresh pita
Spinach alfredo
Ravioli
Bruschetta panini
Eggplant parm
Lasagna
Literally any roasted vegetables with s an p with garlic and oil
Sauteed spinach with a fuck ton of garlic
Sauteed kale and ricotta calzone
Broccoli casserole
Broccoli soup
Marinated portobello sandwich
Pancakes (can vegetarians eat eggs? I think so)
Cookies
Cakes
Pies

>>15660562
Little portobellos stuffed with bread crumbs, cheese, more diced mushrooms, etc are really good
Falafel pitas with hummus or tzatziki is great too
Lentil soup probably isn’t too hard
If you want healthy you could make a simple vegetable stir fry with brown rice
What kind of food does your gf like?

>>15660562
I like vindaloo

>>15663114
This is a vegetarian thread. Dairy and eggs are vegetarian.

>>15661325
sir, you can say soy on /ck/
its considered on-topic and is therfore not filtered

>>15663114
Not eating eggs and cheese is vegetalian

>>15660682
Aye yo thats a poop

>>15660562
The secret too good vegan/vegetarian food is food that doesn't pretend to be a nonvegan/vegetarian dish. If you're subbing in veggies or fake cheese or some shit it's going to suck dick 10/10 times. It's the biggest issue with most veggie dishes. For something more on topic I love cooking eggplants with some pepper/olive oil in the oven. That shit slaps.

>>15660739
Vegans are known for being annoying and preachy or else having the habit everyone on a diet seems to get of talking too much about their diet.

But erase the notion of vegetarian vs not in your head. Your ancestors could only afford small amounts of meat each weak at best. Most had a specific day on which they had meat. All else needed to come from somewhere else. All else was "Vegetarian" out of a lack of options.

If your meal has a protein it has a protein, if it doesn't it's still fine, so long as later or previous ones had a protein. A meal could be a simple rice and veggie dish. You could be accidentally vegetarian (and maybe not vegan) by being a poor college student who lives off of mostly rice, ramen, and eggs.

None of it matters. Vegetarians are no different from any other diet taken for health reason except the ones who assume there is a moral reason for their diet. They are welcome to it but when they preach that's the only time it's a problem. Most are young an naïve, thinking they've been enlightened to the bigger picture but still not aware of how insignificant their choices are in that picture.

>>15663329
Thanks, friend. I realized it a bit after posting that.

>>15660562
https://www.mushroomcouncil.com/recipes/easy-mushroom-soup/

>>15660562
If you make chili but without meat it'll taaste pretty much just as good
There's a lot of pasta dishes you can do, like just pasta + Cheese + kale is pretty good
There's a ton of japanese dishes that would apply

>>15663412
Someone fucking gets it.

I actually have had times where I have been vegetarian for a week or so, not because I deliberately chose to be vegetarian but because I just wanted to have potatoes, eggs, butter with rice and lentils and some vegetables here and there to fill in the gaps. While I stretch out the meat I have stored.

Just because I do it for a week doesn't mean I want to or even can quit meat forever.

People who base their moral status based on their consumption are clearly troubled individuals with a superiority complex.

>>15663478
For a pasta dish I would make a tomato sauce with mushrooms. I grew golden oyster mushrooms and that sautéed in butter with onions and garlic is a great addition to a tomato sauce with fresh basil and oregano. Just make sure to put in twice what you think you need because they shrink a lot. But the taste and texture is very meaty.

>>15660562
This is not your fucking diary. Fuck off back to plebbit, you piece of shit.

>>15663525
>give me recipes that meat X criteria
Seems like a fine thread to me

>>15661722
≥The biggest thing to look out for is over-relying on sugar in recipes.
Weird take/concern. I'd like to see you in the kitchen. Off the top of my head I can't think of more than 2 recipes that require a bit of sugar, and neither is vegetarian.

>>15661658
My gf isn't vegetarian, she's just hyper conscious about the environment. She wants to eat less meat and so she looks up recipes on various blogs. Everything with at least 4 different vegetables seems "delicious" to her. Yesterday she made this vegetarian "curry":
https://meyers.dk/opskrifter/vegetar-curry-med-naanbrod/p/71967/ which is what prompted me to make this thread..

And like >>15661693 says she can't cook to save her life. She's demolished countless recipes that had potential but weren't foolproof. Ironically she loves five guys, pic related. Bless her soul.

>>15660562

>>15660562
>trying to please my gf
how about you get a nice, hung bull so he can PLEASE "your" gf while you're cooking?
what a fucking cuck

>>15664084
>anon says to watch for excess sugar in vegetarian recipes
>"Weird take... I can't think of more than 2 recipes that require a bit of sugar, and neither is vegetarian
...
A lot of restaurant-aimed veggie curry is just swimming in oil/ghee and sugar. Seasoning's one thing, but picking the recipe or product loaded with (most likely unsaturated) fats, sugars/sugar-alcohols and enough salt to turn a camel into jerky is a separate can of meat substitute.

If you want to make something like rapini actually taste good as the highlight in a dish, you'll need to throw some stuff at it - carrot and tomato at least, but chances are there will be oil, and there might be sugar, and the resulting sloppa might need enough salt to make pemmican out of water buffalo. At that point, you're still eating vegetarian/vegan, but it's certainly no healthier than a Denver omelette.

>>15664503
Imagine being so warped you think cooking a meal for your girlfriend is the same as having someone else fuck her, Jesus dude

>>15664925
I made your favorite: another man's penis! 98.6, just how you like it.

What are some vegetarian and vegan dishes that feel hearty and filling? Preferably not a soup, stew, slop, or salad either.

It's probably because of regularly eating meat but its hard to substitute that level of filling with vegetables. I'm not sure if its the chewing or the fat. I'm trying to expand my horizons but I feel like I end up repeating the same staples: falafel, eggplant parm, quiche, paneer, spanakopita. I've had good tofu in restaurants but haven't been able to cook it satisfyingly well yet.

I know its dumb people ate whatever little they had throughout human history but I'm so used to biting down on a piece of meat for lunch and dinner that its hard to replace that satisfaction. Falafel is my go to vegetarian dish but I want more options.

>>15665074
Root vegetables: butternut, squash, carrots, parsnips, yams, turnips, taro and a fucking whole lot of others

>>15665074
anything that isn't slop is going to be somewhere along the lines of a falafel - mashed up stuff that's fried or baked in patties so as not to be wet. You can make a pretty alright black bean burger with some black beans, mushrooms, garlic, beets, cumin, paprika, thyme, salt, pepper and a little cornstarch... but it's basically falafel with extra steps.

Roast parsnips are great and simple, but they're very much just a veggie, no matter how much stuff you put in with them, or how many taters you serve them with.

For your own tofu, get the extra firm stuff, drain off the liquid, poke a few holes and marinate it to give it some flavour (or serve it with/in something saucy), and either fry slices or cubes as is, or dredge in flour/cornstarch and (deep) fry for something more chicken nugget-esque.

The easiest, hearty veggie dishes are stews, curries and pasta. All of which are sloppa on a plate at heart.

>>15665089
Squash are not a root vegetable. They are fruits.

>>15660562
>I find 99% of vegetarian blogshitter recipes to be downright disgusting.
well no fucking shit. why do you think that is...

>>15665124
That's true, I feel ashamed of my post

>>15665124
The culinary arts are not an exact science. Botanically, they're fruits, and raspberries aren't.

>>15660562
Tempura is a really fucking good vegetarian "recipe". Just get many different vegetables and it'll be awesome

>>15663412
>Your ancestors could only afford small amounts of meat each weak at best.
if you go far back enough, it was mostly meat, fish, eggs etc. that people ate, you know coz meat and fat are the natural food for humanz.

>>15665162
Raspberries also are fruits. They are a type of stone fruit.

>>15665168
sweet potato and taro tempura are awesome

>>15664503
>must
>mention
>cuckoldry
>at
>all
>cost
fuck off underage faggot

>>15665171
I think if you go far back to traditional pre/non agricultural diets you'd find they ate whatever the fuck they could. If they took down a large animal, they would be eating a lot more than if they came across a berry bush, thats for damn sure.

>>15665074
not really, no. enough butter or other fats might do the trick, but not very healthy when rest of the meal is just whatever carbs that you have to eat till you feel like bursting. but still not satiated.

>>15665178
I meant to throw the word berry in there and bring tomatoes into the equation. Raspberries are a drupe, but tomatoes are a berry, and in a sense, so are squash.

>>15665190
mix legumes with the starches. Rice and beans is a thing for a reason.

>>15665201
Yes but none of what you mentioned are roots of a plant.

>>15665189
yeah I don't disagree with that. what i also implied is that gathering isn't just vegetables, but also covers things like carcasses etc. and hunting being natural activity that humans enjoy(ed) like other predators.

>>15665208
shh, I'm high. Want some celeriac?

>>15665213
But using the term gathering for carcasses is misleading. You just call it scavenging.

>>15665218
If I want some I'll grow it.

>>15665223
suit yourself

>>15660562
Try this shit anon
A fucking tofu, just a slab of decent tofu, none of that silk shit, just regular chink tofu.
Right, and then you fucking salt it, then fry that nigger.
Just salt, literally salt, that's all you fucking need.
It's like bread and butter all over again but it's rice and tofu. Go make sauce with a few chilis and garlic, add some water, add some vinegar, blend it, boil it. Pour it over your tofu. Ain't that some shit?

Or you can try >>15665168 I can recommend tempuras, they're fun to make and you can tweak with the batter to your liking to suit your needs.

>>15665115
Yeah I still eat sloppa for breakfast. Usually I eat oatmeal, fruit/veggie smoothie, or israeli salad. For lunch or dinner though I need something else.

I think you hit the nail on the head with regards to wetness. Vegetables are 90-95% water and when cooked its either wet or its dehydrated, its hard to get a good balance on water content. I've had grilled cabbage "steaks" that were decent which probably were somewhere in-between. Beans and legumes when soaked and cooked are easily around 60-70% water which is around the same as meat when cooked.

I guess I'll try making black bean burgs sometime. I also want to try tempeh which I've never had.

Kenji Lopez's chickpea stew is a really good vegan dish.

https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/01/vegan-garbanzos-con-espinacas-jengibre-spinach-chickpea-stew-ginger-spanish.html

>>15663412
>5 paragraphs to end with no substance other than a nirvana fallacy
the meatcuck low IQ meme is real holy shit

>>15660739
Giving such high value to the lives of animals, especially farm animals, I an insult to human life. It is morally reprehensible and disgusting.

>>15660562
Try caponata and parmigiana

>>15665283
Someday you are going to have to step outside of your fantasy world where a complex issue has a simple solution you're just going to have to sit back and accept your vegan shit lifestyle isn't the cure all for the issues created by postmodern industrial consumerism, hyper urbanization and globalization.

Simply abstaining from animal products and continuing to contribute to all the issues created by participating in an urban environment makes you useless.

The more the countryside loses people to live in the city (some countries in the world having over 90 percent of their population crammed in cities), the worse our environmental issues get.

Cities are disgusting cesspools in their own right, but they also don't allow their residents to produce shit. Most of them can't even grow a garden. Supermarkets weren't even a thing until the 1940s, and now it's what people depend on 100% of the time. Trace back every item the grocery sells and you'll find issues with each ingredient.

Food Sovereignty>Veganism.

>>15661376
oh no, it's retarded

>>15665353
>longer lives, better sex, higher IQ, more attractive, higher testosterone
meatcucks will continue to seeth

>>15666154

>>15666177
a single image of your favorite YouTuber is not an argument, Chris

>>15666482
Vegans all look like shit and no one likes them
They are basically muslims, they hate you for not being in their religion, agreeing with all their religion, and if you join their religion you better do it right and also attack others in the religion for not doing it correctly, and if they leave the religion you attack them too.

Vegans are spiteful little goblins. You guys even look like goblins.

Off the top of my head:
>chickpea salad
>chole
>Various caribbean chickpea curries
>bhindi masala
>sabich
>baba ghanoush and pita
>lots of legume and dairy-based pita sandwiches
>ful madames
>soy chorizo, kidney bean, hot sauce, and tomato sloppa topped with sour cream and cilantro
>various lentil stews
>mapo tofu with tempeh crumbles (this is actually incredibly good trust me)
>lemon- or vinegar-braised kale topped with chickpeas, feta, and roasted red peppers
>borscht with beans
>lentil beet "burgers"
>lo mein
>spaghetti squash with parmesan, olive oil, and pine nuts
>>15661722
Good advice- the liquid from rehydrated porcini and shiitake is nice and meaty too.

literally indian food just make some indian food

>>15664084
>Yesterday she made this vegetarian "curry":
>https://meyers.dk/opskrifter/vegetar-curry-med-naanbrod/p/71967/ which is what prompted me to make this thread..
Wow, what a shitty recipe. Is the meme about Dutch food really true?
If she's that bad at cooking, she should either be making tried-and-true veg dishes that can be easily rescued (e.g. chana masala, baba ghanoush, red lentil stew) or stick to assembling vegetarian ingredients into salads, wraps, or burritos.

>>15665074
This is weird to me- I feel extremely full with starches like noodles and legumes; meat doesn't do the trick on its own.
Vegetarian dishes really come up short once you leave the sloppasphere, as >>15665115
mentioned fritter and patty-type things are your best bet, and there are some decent sandwich options if you eat dairy. Otherwise, baked
grain-stuffed vegetables can be pretty hearty.

>>15660589
Apparently it is though?

why do keto cultists brigade every vegetarian thread?

ottolenghi has the best veg centric recipes on the market right now

>>15660739
neither of those are palatable they're disgusting trash consumed by anemic weaklings

>>15667063
what's ottolenghi?

>>15667329
a gay israeli chef with a bunch of restaurants in london. he's not entirely vegetarian, but he's very veg friendly. he'll get you cooking lotsof fresh herbs http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=E8B17F86643837832547C8B7933EC10F

>>15660589
"""""real""""" ratatouille looks like garbage and lazy.