vegetarians...

ch3 · Post by **ch3** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:10 pm

Thanks for the english lesson! (It's the language I use daily at home, but have yet so much to learn...)

You should definitely try it out. It's a nice soup and the best thing is that you don't have to actually do much in order to prepare it. Btw soups are also great to be made in bigger quantity, so next day you just reheat. And often they are even better the following day.

boomphat · Post by **boomphat** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:33 pm

Bought 8 celeriacs for 9p each at Tesco's. We had 3 in a casserole yesterday and 3 in a soup just now. Fantastic

parson · Post by **parson** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 6:34 pm

i've been fighting the urge to start a thread called vagetarians... all week

datura · Post by **datura** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:22 am

Parson wrote:i've been fighting the urge to start a thread called vagetarians... all week

do it

camthedrummer · Post by **camthedrummer** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 2:48 am

we are a vegetarian cafe and we play dubstep ...
yeah

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macroclimate · Post by **macroclimate** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 3:39 am

That's wicked... I wish I lived in NZ...

watermelonman · Post by **watermelonman** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:01 pm

Probably Indian. Being vegetarian's easy but I don't touch tofu or any of that shit.

boomphat · Post by **boomphat** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 9:26 pm

Tofu is next level business!
Dip in flour and fry, or just deep fry, serve with tamari and salt.

macroclimate · Post by **macroclimate** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:12 pm

I like the way it tastes, but it's (debatably) bad for you and bad for the environment, so I try to stay away from it.

shonky · Post by **shonky** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:16 pm

macroclimate wrote:I like the way it tastes, but it's (debatably) bad for you and bad for the environment, so I try to stay away from it.

Soya's a bit of a no-no isn't it really - seems a waste too when there's so many other sources of vegetable protein. Seems to be one of those big stop off points for those moving from meat to vegetarian cuisine.

parson · Post by **parson** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:19 pm

i only eat tofu when its at a restaurant or somethin but i didn't know it was unhealthy for me or the planet

shonky · Post by **shonky** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:22 pm

Parson wrote:i only eat tofu when its at a restaurant or somethin but i didn't know it was unhealthy for me or the planet

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/ju ... odanddrink

Still better than meat but big business is involved so ethics are out the window

macroclimate · Post by **macroclimate** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:25 pm

Yeah... pretty much sums it up.

It's not like you'll destroy the world and kill yourself in one fell-swoop with a bit of tofu... I drink soymilk and eat tofu occasionally (mostly in restaurants, like Parson said), but I tend to stay away from soy products when cooking for myself and stuff.

parson · Post by **parson** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:28 pm

what about all the asian forests being decimated to cultivate palm oil. that shit is in all kinds of products and is just as bad for the environment.

shonky · Post by **shonky** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:38 pm

Parson wrote:what about all the asian forests being decimated to cultivate palm oil. that shit is in all kinds of products and is just as bad for the environment.

It never really ends to be honest. Ideally we'd just eat food grown within five miles, without being padded out with cheap harmful ingredients and chemicals. From what I can gather, northern europeans would have spent the majority of the year eating berries,fruits, wild herbs and whatever they could hunt, as vegetarianism would be nigh on impossible during the winter momths, so we're not greatly equipped for living both vegetarian and environmentally friendly. Pretty sure I've seen stated that most organic food in this country is technically worse for the environment than non-organic, given that a huge amount of it is flown in from Africa and South America.

The best protein source in this country would probably be nuts and beans, seems quite wrong to import so much soya when we could grow a lot of useable material here.

ch3 · Post by **ch3** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:25 am

But isn't majority of this soya grown to actually feed animals for the meat industry? Do you really think it's grown to make tofu...? And soya itself - nothing special. It does become more valuable, when processed -> tofu, natto.

Shonky:
It never really ends to be honest. Ideally we'd just eat food grown within five miles, without being padded out with cheap harmful ingredients and chemicals. From what I can gather, northern europeans would have spent the majority of the year eating berries,fruits, wild herbs and whatever they could hunt, as vegetarianism would be nigh on impossible during the winter months, so we're not greatly equipped for living both vegetarian and environmentally friendly. Pretty sure I've seen stated that most organic food in this country is technically worse for the environment than non-organic, given that a huge amount of it is flown in from Africa and South America.

I'm lucky to be able to buy food from local organic farmer, but as you've said, it's for the short period of the summer only

I wish I could do it all year round. The stupid thing is, I don't like it too warm and humid - if there exists a place with temperature max 25 C, moderately humid, with plenty of local fruit and veg all year round, please tell me.

I also do some garbage diving occasionally, amazing what amounts of good food you can find from supermarket's rubbish bins... Basically, the moment fruit actually gets ripe (another problem with imported food, it's usually raw and tasteless), it's tossed away, because it seems people prefer to get constipation from eating bananas, that are not ready yet.

seckle · Post by **seckle** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 5:28 pm

ch3 wrote: I also do some garbage diving occasionally, amazing what amounts of good food you can find from supermarket's rubbish bins... Basically, the moment fruit actually gets ripe (another problem with imported food, it's usually raw and tasteless), it's tossed away, because it seems people prefer to get constipation from eating bananas, that are not ready yet.

heavy!

be careful though bro. you could end up catching something like botulism or e coli.

steelcity · Post by **steelcity** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 5:31 pm

if theres no meat in it, its not a meal. standard

ch3 · Post by **ch3** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:07 pm

seckle wrote: be careful though bro. you could end up catching something like botulism or e coli.

I mostly take fresh stuff. We have bio bins, which basically means a paper or bio-degradable bag filled with veg and fruit. Used to have this rubbish bin by the donut shop, where they were dumping all the left-over donuts from the day, neatly packed in big paper bag. Some of them were baked just an hour earlier! It was like... what do I feel like eating today, a chocolate mint cupcake, or maybe a maple syrup glazed donut? - and you could pick whatever you fancied. And when there was a school party or smth, you would just grab the whole bag. Buggers have put the fence around the bins now, so the whole thing got much more complicated

shonky · Post by **shonky** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:32 am

http://www.tajrecipe.com/indian/cooking ... y_231.aspx

This is fucking lush, tried it out the other day. Lacked the cream and curds so substituted coconut milk (perfect for the vegans). Enjoy

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