/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Get your Chinese, Southeast Asian and Indian cooking chops together. Those cuisines, along with Mediterranean and Middle Eastern are your best bets for vegetarian eating.

Remember that vegetarian food will never be as unctuous as omnivorous food. You have to readjust your taste toward clear, simple flavors. Until you do everything will taste like cardboard.

Olive oil, peanut oil and coconut milk are your new best friends. Nuts, too. Good luck.

>>4311464
I learnt a word!

>>4311475
Good for you!

lentil curry bro. I just made one. It's easy as fuck; one just boils the lentils, then boils them some more with spices. and boil rice too. easier than with meat. I'm a new veggie too.

>>4311490
here is the result

>>4311500

I know it looks burnt, but it tastes fine. Make sure and keep water in it, I suppose.

<Exact instructions.

>>4311500
wat

>>4311500
That looks like the shit my dog took this morning. You running around collecting dog shit in pots?

In a similar vein one could make rajma (it's fucking easy), and serve with rice and greens (I like a mix of spinach and mustard greens seasoned with garlic, onion, ginger, hot pepper and salt).

srsly thanks for the advice bros
some good tips

>tfw i thought i would get saged to hell

>>4311525
You should have been saged to hell. Unfortunately vegan is becoming the new black. While being dogmatic about it is worthy of ridicule, it makes sense for day to day eating.

>>4311520
>>4311464

This is solid advice. I challenge anyone reading to name five dishes that are both genuinely American and, to make this difficult, vegan and at least half a century old. Omitting or replacing meat/dairy with vegetables in a dish doesn't count (e.g. vegetable lasagna or lentil loaf). It must also be cooked and served warm, so no salads. God mode: no soups.

I can't think of any, but I haven't really tried. Yet if I think of Middle Eastern cuisine I can think of dozens.

>>4311558
Western cuisine (American, European) is not at all veg friendly. Nost northern cuisines are not, because a short growing season practically required the diet be supplemented with dairy, meat and fish. You can't have a vegetable based dietary traditions when fresh vegetables are not available year round. Buddhism helps, too. Anywhere where there's Buddhism you can find a tradition of decent vegetarian/vegan cooking.

>>4311558

Certain forms of biscuits, french fries, apple pie, a bunch of other baked goods. But I'm afraid you're right, most American dishes have some animal product in them.

As for OP. Well, I don't have a guide. I should perhaps make one.

Just make sure to take your B12, and not to eat eggs with your B1, and you should be OK.

>>4311597
>apple pie
traditionally a lard crust, bro

The only one I could come up with was guacamole.

If you're not dogmatic about being vegan you won't even need the B12. Eating a plant based diet 95% of the time, then having a little animal protein once a week or so (because it's fucking tasty) will give your body enough B12 to coast by.

>>4311617

I'm not your brother.

Also meat used as a B12 supplement is counterproductive, and no, it's not enough. I don't think the retention rate for B12 is high enough.

>>4311620
>I don't think the retention rate for B12 is high enough.
Your body stores the shit outta B12. The average omnivore has a couple years' worth stored in their system.

Eating a plant based diet most of the time gives you the health benefits (and the smug ethical high ground, if that's your thing). If you say fuck it every now and then for a steak or a piece of fish you don't have to worry about B12.

>>4311597
I'm OK with derivatives, but none of those are. For instance, Americans didn't invent pizza or even pies, but the Chicago-style deep dish is absolutely an American creation. Covering things in batter and frying them isn't a new idea, but if you had said corn dog, I would have let you had it (after removing the vegan requirement, of course).

According to Wikipedia, "Apples have been grown for thousands of years in Asia and Europe, and were brought to North America by European colonists," and, "apple pies have been eaten since long before the European colonisation of the Americas." It would seem that Americans haven't reinvented the apple pie enough to claim it as their own.

>>4311617
>guacamole
Come on, are you serious? That's not American. Wikipedia says it originated with the Aztecs in Mexico.

>>4311639
>That's not American.
Mexico is America.

>>4311656
Not this shit again.

>>4311635

Absorption rate in the GIT is very low, though. While 2 - 5 mg of B12 can be stored in the liver with a 0.1% per diem secretory depletion rate, in per os administration, doses ranging from 5 to 50 µg result in 1.5 µg absorption ± 0.1 µg.

So eating meat once a week is insufficient to maintain or replenish stored B12. I'm not sure about the actual use in the body of B12, like, how much is actually used in DNA replication, but it's gotta be fairly high, especially in a newvegan subject, where AA availability may be limited, in males, etc.

>>4311558
What are some Middle Eastern dishes? I've become obsessed with the Middle East as of late/