For me right now it’s either noodles with random veggies, tofu and a spicy sauce. Simple, easy to make and cheap. But really nutritious.
Or it’s classic Dutch kale stamp:
But with a veggie sausage as I don’t eat meat. It’s potatoes, kale, sausage and piccalilly sauce (sweet sauce made of pickles). It’s a great meal before or after a heavy workout and it’s very healthy. And great on a cold fall or winter day.
white rice because it’s communism
Just a spoonful
Sushi, I absolutely love it! It’s expensive tho…
It’s one of the foods that got hit hard with inflation here. Saw a pack with six pieces go for 7 euro’s a few days ago. Mental.
I dont have a favorite. I only have limits of what I might eat.
Ill try almost anything once.
I have been perfecting my chili recipe as I was invited to a big chili cookoff by my sister and I plan to kick everyone’s ass but who knows. I make like 4-5 gallons (16-20 litres) at a time and then freeze it in bowls and eat it over the course of a few weeks.
I use smoked roast for the meat that I then cube up and finish in a crock pot. This way when the meat shreds after half a day in the slow cooker it’s not huge strands that’s harder to scoop. Then I saute some onion, celery, and paprikas. Use lots of dices tomatoes, blended tomatoes, and tomato paste. Add all that into the pot with the meat and some extra beef stock. Then I add like 1.5-2 gallons of beans. I ferment the beans for 2+ weeks beforehand. Currently I use a mic of black beans, kidney beans, and some small red beans. Next batch I’m using pinto beans and black beans me thinks. Maybe some kidney beans too. I got like 3 quarts of pintos fermenting in a gallon jar. Then half gallons of black and kidney beans. Then I have my spice mix that I won’t share but it’s not exactly some crazy proprietary blend. I’m just to lazy to go look it up but it’s not pre mixed. I make it myself from the pure spices.
It’s some of the best damn chili I’ve ever had though. Last time I used some home made tomato paste and blended tomatoes that were also home grown. Last year I grew a ton of them and then fermented them and then made paste from some and the others I blended and froze. I’m big on lacto fermented stuff. lol
Combined with your soap making stories I always picture you living in a house with just big pots in it, with always something cooking lmao, like some mad scientist looking for a world changing discovery.
So actually… This is incredibly accurate. We have 3, 3.5, 5, and 7.5 gallon stock pots. Those are just big bois. We also have smaller pots too. And also my “old faithful” cast iron skillet I restored from literally a pile of rust. As in there was no untrusted metal on this pan when I bought it for $4 at a yard sale. Anyway back to pots. The 5 and 7.5 I got this last Xmas. The 7.5 gallon pot is actually bigger than my pressure canner that can fit like 7 quart jars in it at a time. I also have a huge metal stirring spoon that’s like 2ft long and would make Stalin proud. Also I have a portable burner and make stews and chili’s outside during the summer because heating a huge pot inside just wastes power because I’m now air conditioning a house while also hearing a pot of steaming liquid for hours… I’m kind of hard core about my stews, soups, and stocks. Lmao
Also slow cookers. We have 2 big ones and 3 more of smaller varieties. Half of them were gifts over the years. Like over a decade old in a few cases. At least 80% of the food I eat is cooked in a pot or a slow cooker at some stage in its life.
There’s just something pleasing about it. It’s like… The ideal meal. Make one big ass pot of this stuff then… Heat it up and bam full meal with minimal work. And like they always taste good and can adjust to whatever diet. Keto? Make keto stews. Vegan? Make vegan stews. Vegetarian? Make vegetarian stews. Not any of those? Make stew stew. Also gotta think outside the box. I have added sauerkraut (homemade) to stews to add an acid note and also some more crunch/texture. I’m sure this isn’t a new thing but you don’t see it often. At least not here. Also turnips and radishes as sorely underestimated in stews. They soak up the flavors far better than potatoes and hold their texture better over long cooks. Also are way lower on the carb list of you going lower carb/higher fibre. I prefer them to potatoes imo.
Amazing, really. Sounds incredibly fun to witness.
Thanks for the turnip tip, I’ll try it one day.
Sound like such a nouveau riche vegetarian, but I’ve been making this quinoa-tofu-spinach dish that I’m in love with recently, just delicious. Should be said that I get all that shit with EBT/food stamps before I give off the wrong impression 😅
It’s weird that it’s considered nouveau riche because quinoa-spinach-tofu would be incredibly cheap where I live.
Ever since I banned meat etc. from my diet I eat far cheaper really. Don’t understand why it’s considered an upper class thing to do.
Honestly I think a lot of the narrative that vegetarians must be very privileged and that it’s much cheaper to eat meat stems from nothing more than concern trolling and whataboutism when confronted with uncomfortable truths about the global meat industry, “eating vegetarian is too expensive”, bringing up the exploitative nature of the quinoa industry etc. (I don’t tend to bring this aspect of my politics much to Marxist-Leninist circles because I do understand why many comrades eat meat, but I have pretty militant views regarding the meat industry, its impact on health and the ethics of animal suffering etc.)
In the U.S. there is some truth there, the meat and dairy industry is one of the most subsidized food industries alongside corn, whereas healthier foodstuffs esp. fruits and vegetables are not subsidized so tend to be more expensive. The bag of quinoa I got is like $12 usd and could maybe last me a week if I ate it every day, whereas I could probably find a box of 12 shitty frozen burgers for about $5 or so. So there is some truth I guess. I find myself, personally, spending substantially less money on food as a vegetarian. The meat substitute stuff can be expensive, but it’s not healthy to eat burgers, Beyond Meat or not, every day anyway.
I agree. People not knowing what to cook is a problem for going vegetarian. The typical Dutch food is potatoes, meat and veggies and if you substitute the meat for fake meat you will still spend a lot of money and tbh most of them don’t taste that good.
But there are so many cuisines out there that are naturally vega(n) and healthy and tasty and cheap. But you have to look for it.
In my area of the US, it’s often tied to a lot of food trends that are heavily capitalized on, like “organic” kale vs the kale right next to it that’s not marketed as organic and is cheaper. That, and the difference in cost between fresh produce and prepackaged foods. Most of the people around here don’t imagine things like canned vegetables being something vegetarians eat, just the fresh produce.
Absolutely… and from my understanding the “organic” shit they peddle doesn’t tend to be any better for you, or even less pesticide-infused than the non-organic stuff. In my experience it just tends to rot quicker. Sweet peas are 50c a can where I’m at and they’re a staple food for me. Vegetarian canned chili costs just as much as beef canned chili. Supplement my diet with nutritional yeast and flax+chia seeds, the latter two being pretty expensive but they last a long time. You don’t even need to spend a whole lot to eat somewhat healthy as a vegetarian, just have to be able to wade through all the over-advertised and expensive crap to find affordable fruits and veggies.
Spicy Tacos 🤤 All mexican food really
There’s a vegan foodplace where I go every time I feel acomplished and have nowhere else to go, and I always order a seitan sandwich, with raw pepper, onion, avocado, tomato and lettuce. The bread is home made too. Usually accompannied by an orange juice. I love it…
Colcannon. Traditionally it’s mashed potatoes with shredded green cabbage and pork belly mixed in. Whenever I eat it I literally cry, it’s such an emotional comfort food for me.
However as an adult I now eat a vegan version, where I use red cabbage (because that is so much tastier) and then instead of pork belly I usually fry the cabbage up with some coconut oil and tofu.
My local Chinese supermarket sells crazy good vegan pork belly that’s just like the real deal. I figure other Chinese shops in other countries have them as well. Forgot what the brand is called though.
Vegan pork belly?! oh my god thank you for this information, I will definitely look, where I live there is only local farmer and chinese grocery.
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Cuisine wise its probably Mexican. I will never say no to a fat plate of cheesy fajitas or a juicy steak burrito. I’m also big into hearty Cajun food like Gumbo or Jambalaya. Beyond these, I like simple dishes that can be whipped up with little effort while remaining tasty; Chicken teriyaki with steamed broccoli and rice is effortlessly delicious. My innate Britishness also demands that I eat sausage baked beans on cheesy toast at least once a week.
Eggs and cheese. Mostly because I like a tasty cheese omelette ngl.
Had an onion and gorgonzola omlette with fried potatoes for dinner last night. Gnam gnam!
The Flesh of liberals
That’s gotta be rotten.
Lots of fire
Mexican food, Indian foods. Just gimme beans and big spices and I’m gucci
Dumplings. All kinds of dumplings: German, Czech, ravioli, gyoza, potstickers, pierogis, pelmeni. Just give me a ball of boiled dough optionally with other delicious things inside.
I used to hate that when I was a kid but I can now easily eat a 24 pack of mushroom gyoza from my local Chinese supermarket
if you want new dumplings to try, check this out: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatayef
they’re mostly filled with sweet stuff but you can make them savory too.
Paella
mexican food, central american, pizza, thai, vietnamese, italian…almost everything basically lol
Same I just shove everything in my mouth really. I just like food.
lol yeah pretty much
