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EstraDoll makes EstraDal (hexbear.net)
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It's Toor Dal, actually. From a packet but still very delicious, reasonably easy, vegan, and I haven't crunched the numbers but extraordinarily cheap. I should have tried cooking more Indian stuff years ago, this is great

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[–] BironyPoisoned@hexbear.net 2 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Indian food is a cheat code for vegan meals. Get yourself some Garam Masala without salt and it makes a great "put on everything" spice. Each box of prepped spice you find can easily last 4 meals and it costs a few bucks. The only problem is the sodium but that's where the Garam Masala mix comes in.

Also, I'm going to piss some people off with this claim. Kimchi sucks and it's just less flavorful Indian pickle with cabbage.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 3 points 17 hours ago

kimchi sucks

someone has clearly only ever had the white-people-approved supermarket variety

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 16 hours ago

Indian, Indonesian, Japanese, amd Levantine cuisines span a huge base of vegan recipe development.

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Indian food is a cheat code for vegan meals.

that's about 90% of the reason I've been on an Indian food kick recently, and it's true! Whatever isn't vegan typically takes like 2 substitutions to make vegan if it wasn't already

Each box of prepped spice you find can easily last 4 meals and it costs a few bucks.

that's also true, but i also find them a fun little shortcut into me tasting a recipe before trying to make my own version with my own spice rack. I recently splurged a bit and loaded my own spice rack up with a little bit of everything and it's incredibly satisfying to make the spice mix from scratch

bold opinion on kimchi though. That's okay, I'll still keep eating that garbage (i could have sworn we had the trump taco bowl tweet as an emoji here)

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

it's lentil season on hexbear

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

it's a good season

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

'lil beans

[–] Civility@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

😋

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cam you make extra estradal for the rest of us please doggy-beg

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

I will, it was vvv yummy and i ate most of it in one sitting

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Daal is delicious as fuck and one of my favourite gotos.
If you wanna add something to it, then I can heartily recommend finely chopping an apple and throwing it in with the oil, spices and onions in the beginning

[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

oh shit that sounds delicious. noted blackbeard-writing

[–] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

It also allows you to feel like a fancy Indian because, im told, most of India doesnt have a suitable climate for apples, so they're kind of expensive over there