The Vegan Thread

Depends on the lentils...
Red lentils: Tarka Dal, spiced moroccan soup, lentil loaf...
Green or puy lentils: short crust pie (can get the jus roll vegan pastry and make one in 15 mins); cottage pie etc.

Interesting. I'd only use put for the color I think. Not much between the more expensive put and red really.

I disagree on the red/puy similarity arguement as puy hold their shape much better, and have a more earthy taste. That said puy are very expensive. I just buy 5kg bags to get good deals!

Once cooked I mean. Taste is very similar to me. Agree - texture is tougher with the puy. Probably better with a slow cooker / stew.

£15 on amazon for a 5kg bag!

Don't know if it's been mentioned here before, but Mildred's has a Camden branch now, and it's almost fully vegan (apart from a couple of things with halloumi and a creamy pasta). Discovered it Monday, went again on Saturday. Don't usually eat desserts, but went for them here - the chocolate tart thing is the best I've tasted and the rhubarb pavlova with coconut cream is a revelation.

NB - as we're talking egg replacements, the meringues there are made with chickpea brine. Mind blown.

Holy macoroni chickpea brine! Thats amazing innovation.

no way, i've tried this and yes it looks like meringue but it's well chickpea tasting!

Yeah, they'd probably never sell any if they told you before you ordered. You wonder how someone ever worked it out, but it's a really simple recipe - a few versions googleable online...

get down Khans Bargain in Peckham Rye: they do industrial amounts of all sorts of beans, pulses, lentils and dhal. Think 5kg of chana dal cost me under a tenner the other day!

Thanks - I'll check it out sometime

Went to a bunch of different vegan places in Berlin...

Brammibals DONUTS!!! Nice little cafe, also spotted them at a couple of food markets, very good
rawtastic nice but pricey, service was super slow despite it being pretty quiet
Charlies (FB link) - japanese inspired cafe, very chilled out, food was nice, fresh, healthy
The Bowl (above Veganz) - food was good but service was dreadfully slow, the forgot our order twice...
Ruby's - does amazing pizza (had 2 vegan specials as well as whatever is on the menu), proper pizza oven, home made soy mozzarella, well worth calling by
Turkish Market in Neukolln also had a several stalls with vegan bits, as well as loads of amazing olives and super cheap avocados
Markthalle Neun - bunch of vendors doing vegan bits in the food market, very busy but probably quite good, donut people at the top of the list were there too!

Called in at the obvious place... Delores, voner, Yellow Sunshine, Veganz etc.

Re earlier discussion a page or two back, I would probably eat the lasagna. The intent from the friend is there, it's difficult in a 95%+ omnivore world for non vegans to get everything right; and possibly more beneficial for longer term "conversion" of my friend to eat it, while still highlighting the egg in the sheets. I do what i can, when I can. Can't always be 100% absolutely pure and sure of everything, and I'm not inclined to pursue that path, as to me it reminds me of religious zealotry.

Having said that though, if there was meat in there somehow, then I guess that would be a red line, and I'd have to say no. For ethical reasons obvs, but also because it messes up my stomach. I accidentally ate some fish a few years back, and was puking my guts up (which was not psychological, I didn't realise until after I'd been sick and checked the box), so could not handle it any more. So then I'd go to the "let me whip up something" option.

I just tried making "pulled pork" from jackfruit for the first time. I'll definitely be doing it again, it was really easy and really tasty. Most recipes tell you to use loads of BBQ sauce which I'm not into but it just soaks up any flavour you use, I used smoked paprika, garlic and chilli mostly and it was banging.

I've been doing this for a while now, good thing about it is that you can add to the jackfruit and create something new... mushrooms are always a winner as is baked sweet potato

I have some jackfruit in atm. Defo trying this. Cheers

You vegans and your salads..

Icenocream sandwich..

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good cheese

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Anyone going to Vegan Beer Fest on Sat?

Pre-Dynamo, so I'm giving it a miss this time. I'd love to go to both, but I haven't ridden the Dynamo properly for years, so it's a priority this time.

potentially if i can get the day off of work

been missing lasagne recently so made an experimental "cheese" sauce: soy single cream, smoked paprika, tahini, garlic purée, salt and pepper. Turned out really tasty + was nice and runny to get into all the gaps.

My favourite topping is pine nut cream from a moussaka recipe.

Sounds really tasty! I've been making a nutritional yeast/mustard/garlic/oil/tamari/oat milk combo for mac and cheese cravings.