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Lady Disdain
Jan 14, 2013


are you yet living?
I have made this buddha bowl and this tempeh cacciatore, and seem to remember them being pretty good.
I've had it on burgers (just a slab of tempeh, griddled) and have made it into burger patties with black beans. Both good.

Tempeh also works very well in an Indian curry.

Lady Disdain fucked around with this message at 00:16 on Jul 13, 2022

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AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

I've made tempeh saag before and it was really good. Just make sure to season and pan fry your tempeh beforehand.

Ornery and Hornery
Oct 22, 2020

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Any marinade will work for tempeh. My recent favorite has been this recipe for buffalo tempeh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3VcUwimMyM

I also enjoy making tempeh kebabs, scrambles, and keema.

Buffalo cauliflower is top tier

TychoCelchuuu
Jan 2, 2012

This space for Rent.

Fitzy Fitz posted:

I think I want to make tempeh a staple of my diet. Any recommendations for simple recipes? So far I've just thrown it on the skillet with some oil and browned it a bit.
My advice from last time someone asked:

Some other stuff:

https://thefoodietakesflight.com/stir-fried-tempeh-with-kecap-manis/

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1022382-tempe-penyet-smashed-tempeh-with-sambal

https://dailycookingquest.com/fried-tempeh-with-chili-sauce.html

https://dailycookingquest.com/perkedel-tempeh-tempeh-fritters.html

https://dailycookingquest.com/tempeh-goreng-lengkuas-fried-tempeh-in-galangal-sauce.html

https://whattocooktoday.com/kering-tempeh-kacang.html

https://chejorge.com/2021/01/08/vegan-taiwanese-braised-tempeh/

As a comfort food I like to make sweet American style teriyaki tempeh. You can use whatever your favorite teriyaki sauce recipe is. Mine is 1/4 c brown sugar (I use less usually), 1/4 c soy sauce, 1/4 c rice vinegar, 1 chopped up hot chili or 1/2 t chili flakes, 2 T sesame oil, 3 cloves garlic, minced, 3/4" piece of ginger, skinned and grated. Fry up your tempeh then coat it in the sauce and reduce it a bit.

notwithoutmyanus
Mar 17, 2009

Lady Disdain posted:

Things I put in salads (and think would probably last a week):

All sorts of cooked beans/legumes/pulses (tinned lentils tend to be a bit delicate, ime, but boiling them from dry and keeping them al dente works);
Brown rice;
Vegetables:
- cooked: green beans (also good raw), broccoli, cauliflower, sweet potato, corn;
- raw: kale (just massage it really really well as you wash it to make it tender), grated beetroot, finely sliced fennel bulb, cabbage;

Nuts

This is a great list and I concur on the lentils, as sadly that has happened to me as well. I'll try to add onto this:


With kale, a distinct trick I noticed for freshness and texture preference for my family was cutting kale perpendicular into tiny narrow strips, stems and all. Grated carrots can be nice and a chopped sweet onion can go well in small portions.



For nuts, I find I use either pepitas or walnuts depending on the dressing/recipe style.

I personally find myself roasting beets more than grating them since it's just a cup of water with 30 minutes in an instant pot, basically.

I think dressing matters here in terms of defining what matches with the salad concept but honestly quite a lot does. You could make a vegan kale Caesar salad (plenty of recipes), or a pecan parm, or a beet salad (feasting at home has a great one you can swap the feta for tofu or vegan feta), or an asian salad ala miso dressing and so on. Sometimes I'll just do Italian seasoning or herbs de provence with some oil and vinegar, or add olives or make a southwest bean/corn salad with salsa.

On top of that you could put the entire salad into a pita to make it greek/Mediterranean (maybe tzaziki ideas or harissa), or even get some nori and basically make sushi with salad ingredients - grated carrots, celery, avocado, red pepper, rice - now you have sushi or a sushi bowl from leftover salad stuff. Lazy cat kitchen has a good recipe for a sauce there. Maybe a mock cobb salad with tofu?! Turn it into a sandwich with some tempeh. Lots of options to keep things fresher.

So many options.

One significant thing I did observe is using a salad spinner for the lettuce/leafy greens makes an enormous difference on weeklong freshness.

Carotid
Dec 18, 2008

We're all doing it
I am a huge fan of barbecue tempeh sandwiches. Slice into slabs, cook in barbeque sauce, serve on soft buns with fixins like slaw and onions, and a side of vegan mac and cheese, beans, etc.

Fitzy Fitz
May 14, 2005




Great ideas. I bought several more packs of tempeh and am going to try some things. I need to convince my wife to like it, so nothing too fancy yet. She liked the "bacon" I made the other day, but I think I can do better than that.

Mister Facetious
Apr 21, 2007

I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

:canada:

Fitzy Fitz posted:

Great ideas. I bought several more packs of tempeh and am going to try some things. I need to convince my wife to like it, so nothing too fancy yet. She liked the "bacon" I made the other day, but I think I can do better than that.

May i recommend checking out videos on YouTube by a guy named Sauce Stache? Dude leans heavily into the food science genre of meat substitutes, and has multiple recipes for "bacon", "chicken", etc using ingredients as varied as tofu, seitan, eggplants, and daikon.

Ornery and Hornery
Oct 22, 2020

Tempeh texture is weird for me

Or maybe it was Seitan - always get ‘em mixed up

Mister Facetious
Apr 21, 2007

I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

:canada:

Ornery and Hornery posted:

Tempeh texture is weird for me

Or maybe it was Seitan - always get ‘em mixed up

The canned seitan I've had always reminded me of soft chicken.

Segue
May 23, 2007

I got a craving on the weekend and just googled around for a doubles recipe. Found this one from Eater and it actually came together surprisingly quickly. Not daunting at all.

I am a huge fan of the very simple mango chutney. Thought it may be a tad spicy but since there aren't peppers in the chana it balances really well.



gently caress me, frybread is like eating a pillow. Lovely.

In summary, make doubles, they're easy

Eason the Fifth
Apr 9, 2020
I have been underappreciating zucchini my whole life. Anyone have any favorite summer squash recipes?

Lady Disdain
Jan 14, 2013


are you yet living?
I'm from Australia, where the term "summer squash" is meaningless, so I'm going to assume it means zucchini and carry on from there (pretty sure zucchinis are the only summer squash I eat, anyway).

Zucchini are wonderful in everything ! Seriously, put them in anything !

Stuffed (I like brown rice, veg, and pesto, but you sort of can't go wrong).
Ratatouille.
Pan fried strips on burgers with pan fried eggplant and mushrooms.
this taglietelle, with sliced adult zucchini rather than the babies.
In couscous salad.
In fritters.
I remember this briam being pretty good.
Soup with zucchini, broccoli, peas, and lots of garlic and miso is so bloody good.
In a veggie lasagne (in place of or in addition to pasta sheets; eggplants, potato and sweet potato are also great).
Recently had a side salad at a restaurant, consisting of charred zucchini and green beans, with some sort of vegan labneh. I've been meaning to try to recreate it, probably with vegan cream cheese.
In some sort of puff pastry tart (caramelised onion, grilled zucchini and pine nuts would be fab).
In a risotto.

Also, I recently made these air fryered zucchini chips, which were fabulous. If you happen to have an air fryer, I highly recommend them.

There are so many other things that I can't think of atm, so I might be back with more later.

TychoCelchuuu
Jan 2, 2012

This space for Rent.

Eason the Fifth posted:

I have been underappreciating zucchini my whole life. Anyone have any favorite summer squash recipes?
Some miscellaneous zucchini stuff:

https://memoriediangelina.com/2022/05/13/zucchine-a-fiammifero-zucchini-matchsticks/
https://www.tasteofbeirut.com/zucchini-and-cracked-wheat-pilaf/
https://dailycookingquest.com/tumis-tahu-zucchini-tofu-and-zucchini-in-spicy-coconut-milk.html
https://www.archanaskitchen.com/andhra-style-zucchini-tomato-chutney-recipe
https://blog.themalamarket.com/yu-xiang-zucchini-yu-xiang-xia-nan-gua/

Android Apocalypse
Apr 28, 2009

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Illegal Hen
I'm a fan of making zucchini noodles (or as the kids call them, zoodles). I take a mandolin with the julienne cutter and make small strips with them. Then I can use them in with regular pasta sauces.

TychoCelchuuu
Jan 2, 2012

This space for Rent.
Also I forgot one of my favorite recipes for when you've got like 400 pounds of the poo poo: zucchini butter!

von Braun
Oct 30, 2009


Broder Daniel Forever
Cut into medium long chunks with portabello for fajitas is great!

Ornery and Hornery
Oct 22, 2020

I love chickpeas.

I love curry.

I am unstoppable.

TychoCelchuuu
Jan 2, 2012

This space for Rent.
Who is ready for this jelly?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TGki_Mht88

Lady Disdain
Jan 14, 2013


are you yet living?
I was not ready. I don't want to make it, but by god do I want to eat it.

notwithoutmyanus
Mar 17, 2009
I have certainly never had anything like that. I'll definitely say it's interesting.

Lady Disdain
Jan 14, 2013


are you yet living?
Update:
Made it. Ate it. Enjoyed it.
Incredibly fast and easy. Mine didn't seem quite as gooey (is that the right word?) as the one in the video, so I think next time I'll try 7:1 (water to starch) instead of 6:1.
Made a different sauce, because that was a lot of chilli and I'm weak and lazy. (Peanut butter, soy sauce, lime juice and gochujang.)

TychoCelchuuu
Jan 2, 2012

This space for Rent.
Here's another popular jelly-based food: liang fen. And some jelly desserts while we're at it: lemongrass. rosewater and walnut, and almond.

Eason the Fifth
Apr 9, 2020
Great suggestions on the zucchini, thanks.

Lady Disdain
Jan 14, 2013


are you yet living?
What is that first jelly if not liang fen ? It even says liang fen in the title of the video :thunk:

TychoCelchuuu
Jan 2, 2012

This space for Rent.
Yeah it's the same stuff, but this recipe uses mung bean starch (the kind the uncle in the video liked to eat) rather than the starch the video used, and it's a different dipping sauce which uses douchi/fermented beans.

Lady Disdain
Jan 14, 2013


are you yet living?
Okay, thanks; I was getting confuzzled.

StarkingBarfish
Jun 25, 2006

Novus Ordo Seclorum
Cross-posting from the pizza thread: Does anyone have any recs for vegan mozzarella substitute that swings closer to mozzarella di buffala for high-temp pizza cooking?

StarkingBarfish posted:

Speaking of cheese... I recently had a party where 1/3 of the guests were vegan. I spent a bit of time checking out mozarella substitutes and settled on this: https://shop.purezza.co.uk/products/the-melty-one

It was... ok I guess? It went a bit translucent and the texture lacks that 'fresh' liquidiness you get from mozz on a neapolitan margherita. More importantly, it doesn't have the creamy flavour of mozz. The flavour profile is closer to imitating a combination of mozz and hard cheese, so it has advantages in that you don't also need to find a parmesan substitute, but it doesn't really hit the mark. I know this is probably a 'dairy free will never get that right' kind of problem, but any suggestions? I was thinking of cutting it with some oat or soy milk to get back some of the texture and creaminess.

TychoCelchuuu
Jan 2, 2012

This space for Rent.
Make cheeseless pizzas. There are lots of great pizzas without any cheese. My absolute favorite is potato pizza (example recipe) but there are many options. Some suggestions:

Zucchini, Red Onion, Squash, Thyme, Pistachios

Caramelized onions, can of crushed tomatoes, sun dried tomatoes, olives, basil, panko bread crumbs

Roasted red peppers, olives

Tomatoes, basil, olive oil

Asparagus, red potato, pesto

Zucchini, onions, kalamata olives, pine nuts, pesto, basil

Zucchini, red onions, cherry tomatoes, parsley

Pine nuts, eggplant, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, parsley

StarkingBarfish
Jun 25, 2006

Novus Ordo Seclorum
Thanks- I've made plenty of 'red' pizzas before, and that potato pizza is one of my go-to ones already, but I'd specifically like to get as close to a margherita as I can since if it works it really helps level the playing field.

Lady Disdain
Jan 14, 2013


are you yet living?
I have never had vegan cheese that was much at all like real cheese.

Ornery and Hornery
Oct 22, 2020

Same

Ornery and Hornery
Oct 22, 2020

But now I hunger for delicious tomato-ey vegan pizza WITHOUT the fake cheese.

Mango Polo
Aug 4, 2007
This is the only pizza cheese I bother to make: https://schoolnightvegan.com/home/super-cheesy-vegan-mozzarella/

Even then that’s a rarity now. Slow Caramelised onion pizza and pesto potato pizza are just too a++

von Braun
Oct 30, 2009


Broder Daniel Forever

Lady Disdain posted:

I have never had vegan cheese that was much at all like real cheese.

doesnt have to be to be good

StarkingBarfish
Jun 25, 2006

Novus Ordo Seclorum

Mango Polo posted:

This is the only pizza cheese I bother to make: https://schoolnightvegan.com/home/super-cheesy-vegan-mozzarella/

Even then that’s a rarity now. Slow Caramelised onion pizza and pesto potato pizza are just too a++

That looks the part and is simple enough to make that it's well worth a shot. Thanks!

Ornery and Hornery
Oct 22, 2020

Mango Polo posted:

This is the only pizza cheese I bother to make: https://schoolnightvegan.com/home/super-cheesy-vegan-mozzarella/

Even then that’s a rarity now. Slow Caramelised onion pizza and pesto potato pizza are just too a++

…mama Mia…. That sounds so good

for fucks sake
Jan 23, 2016

Lady Disdain posted:

I have never had vegan cheese that was much at all like real cheese.

I've had something close: a cashew cheese cultured with real bacteria. It was like a sliceable cream cheese more than a cheddar, but it had the right kind of lactic sourness real cheese has.

Lady Disdain
Jan 14, 2013


are you yet living?

von Braun posted:

doesnt have to be to be good
OP specifically mentioned getting as close as possible to a margherita, so I'd think "authenticity" would be part of the deal.

for fucks sake posted:

I've had something close: a cashew cheese cultured with real bacteria. It was like a sliceable cream cheese more than a cheddar, but it had the right kind of lactic sourness real cheese has.
Right you are. I made cultured cashew Roquefort and brie (chronicled my efforts itt; second batch gave me food poisoning). It was bloody good and hit a lot of the right notes. I forgot about it because brie and roquefort don't reside in the same part of my brain as "pizza" cheese.

e:
"The page you are looking for no longer exists."
Is this the same recipe ?

Lady Disdain fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Jul 26, 2022

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AngryRobotsInc
Aug 2, 2011

I think my biggest issue with vegan 'cheese' recipes is getting my hopes up, clicking, and then seeing nutritional yeast staring at me from the ingredient list. I sometimes think I'm the only vegan on the planet who thinks that stuff is vile.

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