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From acclaimed author Jeanne Thornton, an epic, singular look at fandom, creativity, longing, and trans …
This was great but so rough, I would like to read something light now? something where a smaller percent of the characters are traumatized?
Throughout time, people have chosen to adopt a vegetarian or vegan diet for a variety …
If I could only own one cookbook, it would be this, which isn't actually a cookbook, but rather an encyclopedia of what flavors go with what. I have one ingredient in mind that I'm excited to bake with, and I can look it up and get a comprehensive list of what will go well with it. A particularly good outcome was bread with preserved lemons, fennel seeds, and green olives.
This whole cookbook reminds me of a recipe note in Veganomicon, which advises the reader not to bother serving it to omnivores, and "save this for appreciative vegetarians and vegans." If you're not already pumped about fake meat, skip this.
Most of the book is recipes for meals which include fake meat. The ones I made were pretty good! I generally find that I add more seasoning and fat than she suggests, and of the recipes I've added to my rotation, I don't make any of them exactly as written.
I've been living off the batches of the chili for weeks, with some added veggies and almost twice as much chili powder.
Usually I get recipes intended to have meat in them and do substitutions, which works fine for me, but it was fun to cook from recipes that are on the same page as me from the outset. …
This whole cookbook reminds me of a recipe note in Veganomicon, which advises the reader not to bother serving it to omnivores, and "save this for appreciative vegetarians and vegans." If you're not already pumped about fake meat, skip this.
Most of the book is recipes for meals which include fake meat. The ones I made were pretty good! I generally find that I add more seasoning and fat than she suggests, and of the recipes I've added to my rotation, I don't make any of them exactly as written.
I've been living off the batches of the chili for weeks, with some added veggies and almost twice as much chili powder.
Usually I get recipes intended to have meat in them and do substitutions, which works fine for me, but it was fun to cook from recipes that are on the same page as me from the outset.
The later part of the book has recipes for DIY'ing the meat itself, which is extremely my jam -- I almost always make my own. It's almost all seitan, which is fine by me, and her recipes are great. I love the ground beef, which goes through a stage in preparation which she describes as resembling a "strawberry milkshake" but comes out an appetizing brown.
My only complaint is that I wish she'd given more technical info and instructions for the meat recipes. Seitan has a bit of a learning curve, and, like bread, it makes a big difference if you know what textures feel right. I always have to use quite a bit more gluten than recipes call for because whatever brand I get isn't as glutinous; that's not on her and I know the territory, but I'd be cautious sharing the recipes with people who've never done it before.
As a seitan nerd, I wish she'd explained why she was adding, for example, oat flour or pea protein (which I still haven't found in stores). And I was disappointed that she doesn't use cooked chickpeas in any, which produces my favorite seitan texture.
Overall, I've really enjoyed it and I'll make my version of a handful of the recipes on the regular, which is the ideal outcome for a cookbook.
"In the nineteenth century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologies on …
had me at "The Luddites are Right"
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I like her chili recipe! I'm making it tonight with bulgar and mushrooms instead of fake meat
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I'm making her butter chicken recipe but with (actual cheese) paneer. Early take: it should have called for coconut cream instead of coconut milk. But we shall see!
From acclaimed author Jeanne Thornton, an epic, singular look at fandom, creativity, longing, and trans …
This seems like it'll be an odd one!
Return to the Scholomance - and face an even deadlier graduation - in the stunning …
At long last, the library queue came through for me
Is there no explanation of the mystery of The Haunted Hotel? Is The Haunted Hotel …
no lesbians in this one, unfortunately for a wilkie collins novel
The other Sumer book I'm reading is pretty dry, but I am so enthused about getting extremely specific here
I put this on hold at the library thinking it was a book but it turned out to be a children's pamphlet. That surprise aside, it was quite good!
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the trumpet mushroom bacon is good! I've been looking for a replacement for my seitan-based bacon and I think this is a keeper.
Content warning this is the pettiest recipe pet peeve, but:
when she lists ingredients that will go in at the same time, she will list wet ingredients before dry ingredients the use the same measuring tool. So my tablespoon with be covered in oil or whatever and I can't dip it into my nutritional yeast jar without cleaning and drying it first. If she listed the dry ingredients first, it would be no problem.
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I fuckin love making vegan meat, if I can find yuba I'm gonna try the chicken breast stuffed with butternut squash and champagne pomegranate sauce TONIGHT
At Noma--four times named the world's best restaurant--every dish includes some form of fermentation, whether …
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The first chapter is lactic acid fermentation -- I started four batches:
See yall in a week I guess!