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As someone who is currently learning more vegan dishes specifically so I can reduce my animal product intake- yeah 100%. Its honestly really frustrating. That being said, venting is messy since its important for people to be able to express their frustration with people not getting why their passion subject is important, but its not good to practice bitterness for everyone who doesnt already get it. Most vegans didn't show up in the world that way, and everyone starts in a different place
Open source and free license shit is the same way. The solution to wanting the world to be kinder and better to people is usually not to be worse to the people standing in front of you
Personally I find sharing your excitement about something with no expectation others be interested more productive. And if folks are open to it, you can cook them your favorite vegan dish you've been working on. Or help them set up a fedi account, even if they still have twitter. Or show them your sweet linux setup you're proud of.
I think it helps to let people share in your passion. It works a lot better than shame :)
Well said. And I agree on the open source community too.
I have been positing my dinners on the vegan home cooks group. Maybe it catches the eye of somebody who wants to reduce meat consumption and shows alternative dishes that look appetizing.
I'm subbed to that comm specifically for inspiration ☺️ I'll have to keep an eye out for your username in particular- feeling like this is a place with actual folks I see regularly and can say hello to makes me happy :)
Out of curiosity, do you have any "incidentally vegan" faves? Like dishes that are already vegan, or that are super close with minimal modification?
So far my two dishes I'm really happy with are chickpea curry (just made it with coconut milk for the first time so its totally vegan now ☺️) and mujadara (I've been making it with a Greek yogurt sauce as topping, but I wanna try making a tahini sauce at some point. Its just more expensive 😅)
Or honestly I'd also welcome any easy but tasty dishes, I find a lot of recipe websites wanna suggest super elaborate stuff but I kinda struggle to keep up with eating and making food, so simple staple dishes really help, and those would also probably have the biggest impact in displacing meals I'd otherwise eat that have animal products
Chilli is always an easy one, and most stores sell a dried ground up TVP to toss in instead of Ground Beef.
My typical go to is an Indian style lentil soup with a variety of lentil types and mixed be. I find it simple because I set it on simmer for half hour or so, and fry up the veg to toss in for the final simmer. ( Daal Fry )
I work from home so getting dinner started , or oven going is easy to monitor; so I'm not the best person to ask for simple meals.
If you go to my account and click posts, you'll see 90% of them are vegan dinner dishes.
Thats for the reccomendations! ☺️
I really wanna try tvp at some point but haven't seen it around at the places I shop, I'll have to search for where I can get some
Lentil soup has been high up on my list of things to try. Daal too, I'm curious what its like. I only tried lentils in like the last year but I really like the green ones I've had so far- I'm hoping to get some brown lentils for the mujadara some time cause I think I'd like them better for that dish than the green
Thank you for taking the time to type out your thoughts ☺️ hope you have a lovely day!
Most veggie/vegan natural stores sell it. Just a dried protein. A slight generic flavour to it like cereal. It absorbs flavour from your sauces or marinades. Here it is about $8-$12 for a bag that will last quite a few meals. But we found an Indian grocery story that sells it as Soya Wadi and its only about $3 per bag. Same stuff. Either in big chunks or ground up into ground beef size bits.
Goes well into tacos, chilli, shephards pie, etc.
Daal mostly depends on what you cook with it, besides the lentil themselves, like a tomato based sauce, yogurt, lemon, etc. The black lentils stay the firmest and have texture after cooking, the red lentils will cook down to a paste...and there are a ton of other types.