I like vegetarian minestrone. It's very delicious and flavorful. :)


Ingredients

* 2 teaspoons olive oil
* 3/4 cup chopped onion
* 3 cups water
* 2 cups diced zucchini
* 1 cup diced carrot
* 1 cup drained canned cannellini beans or other white beans
* 3/4 cup diced celery
* 1/2 teaspoon dried basil
* 1/4 teaspoon salt
* 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
* 1/8 teaspoon coarsely ground pepper
* 1 (14.5-ounce) can diced tomatoes, undrained
* 1 garlic clove, minced
* 1/4 cup uncooked ditalini (very short tubular macaroni) or elbow macaroni
* 4 teaspoons grated Parmesan cheese

Preparation

Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add onion; sauté 4 minutes or until lightly browned. Add water and next 10 ingredients (water through garlic); bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat to medium-low, and cook 25 minutes. Add pasta; cover and cook an additional 10 minutes. Ladle into individual bowls, and sprinkle with cheese.

I am a vegan, and as such I must let everyone know. You see, as a vegan I have self esteem problems, and by letting everyone know of my ethically and morally superior lifestyle I am proving I am better than you.

You see, I have a psychological impairment that does not allow me to differentiate between animals as food and humans. You know how pets like cats and dogs are bread with certain characteristics to make them more appealing to humans, well its like that except I am attracted to, I mean I feel for all the worlds animals.

I am educated (obviously as a vegan more educated than you) and believe in evolution. The traits that humans exhibit such as, poor ability to digest plant matter (I do fart too much and my breath wreaks), omnivore digestion system and lactose tolerance past adolescence are things I don't understand because its just carnivore propaganda that everyone just calls proven facts.

I, being so in tune with nature, only eat organic. Even though organic food means nothing, I choose to believe it makes me better. The food I eat is so natural, even though I must eat lots of heavily processed foods (like soy) fortified with nutrients (mostly made from the byproducts of bacteria one would never eat) I can't get just from plant life. And because it is not possible to maintain my health using only local plants, the extra carbon created by all the hauling of foods from around the world to me is offset by how awesome I am.

I am vegan, and although my diet isn't healthy or sustainable, I am better than you.

>>1519398
lol faggot

some people do it purely in protest of the horrible practices by certain companies.

also lol meat being unhealthy, generalize moar why don't you

Vegetarian spaghetti sauce:

1 lg. onion, chopped
12 fresh mushrooms, chopped
3 tbsp. butter or olive oil
1/2 tsp. instant minced garlic
1/2 tsp. oregano
1 tsp. basil
1 tsp. mint leaves
2 to 3 bay leaves
1/2 tsp. sugar
Salt & pepper to taste
1 (28 oz.) can pear tomatoes
1 (6 oz.) can tomato paste
1 3/4 c. water

Saute onions and mushrooms in oil or butter in a 3 quart saucepan. Add garlic and herbs and spices. Stir and simmer 3 minutes. Then add tomatoes, tomato paste and water. Simmer uncovered 30 to 60 minutes. Stir occasionally to prevent scorching. Yields 4 generous servings.

Is this pedestrian thread actually existing?

Veggie chili, one of my favorites.

Ingredients:

* 1 can black or pinto beans, drained
* 1 can kidney beans, drained
* 1 can diced tomatoes
* 1/2 onion, diced
* 3 cloves garlic, minced
* 1 bell pepper, diced (any color)
* 2 tbsp olive oil
* 1/4 cup vegetable broth
* 2 tbsp chili powder
* 1/2 tsp salt
* 1/2 tsp pepper
* dash cayenne pepper (optional)
* dash red pepper flakes (optional)
* 1/2 cup TVP + 1/2 cup water (optional)

Preparation:
In a medium to large soup pot, sautee the onion, bell pepper and garlic in the olive oil.

Add tomatoes, vegetable broth and chili powder and stir.

Reduce heat to medium low and add beans. Stir occasionally and cook for at least 20 minutes. Add TVP and water 10 minutes before done cooking. Of course, the longer you cook chili the better, but if you're pressed for time, 20 minutes is fine.

My ten-year-old half-sister decided she's vegan a few years ago.

Unfortunately, she's still a little kid and has an aversion to vegetables, whole grains, beans, or anything nutritious at all. It's really unnerving to spend time with her. She won't eat anything other than candy and cheap as shit pizza. Sometimes you can tell she gets exhausted or cranky from low blood sugar but she just won't fucking eat. She's also really small for her age and I can't help but think malnutrition has something to do with it.

Her mom spoils her fucking rotten and my dad can't say shit about it, really, since her mom and him are separated and he only sees his daughter a few times a year. It drives me fucking crazy. She's going to develop low bone density or something before she even hits puberty.

I was a vegetarian for a year then i accidentally ate a kebab.

>>1519439
Hopefully it's just a phase. I don't see why anyone would turn vegan and NOT eat anything nutritious.

>>1519439
Maybe you can "trick" her into eating real meat but saying it's fake meat?

>>1519445

Then lose her trust forever once she finds out.

>>1519447
Who the fuck cares? It's just a ten year old. She's bound to forget about it in a week.

You have supremely high expectation of what "fake meat" tastes like.

>>1519449
The thing that worries me is she's been doing it since she was seven. I admire her willpower but I fear for her health.

>>1519445

No. She wouldn't even take candy I offered her until I showed her the list of ingredients AND she made me google the weird ones to make sure it wasn't from an animal.

>>1519455
Some of them are actually pretty good. Not that I'd go out and buy a shitload of them, but I don't object to some spaghetti "bolognese" once in a while.

ITT: Malnutrition and denying instincts

>>1519458
Then you should seriously take her a to a doctor. Her health is probably completely in the shits by now.

>>1519464

How the fuck can I? She's my half-sister, I live in another state, I see her even less than my dad does. He mom won't even give me their phone number.

Anyway, I'm off. Thanks for listening to my rant /ck/, I've been wanting to get that off my chest for a while.

>>1519439
lol good parenting.

I was a vegetarian for along time than i accidentally the whole steak

>>1519390 For those who simply want to eat unhealthier
fix'd

Vegetarianism is for "cool" retards.

>>1519468

Child services should be notified. Kid might need to see a shrink.

I'm saving every single recipe from this thread.

>>1519439

Can you give her some multivitamins for her to take? I know that you can't directly interfere with her diet, but the least you can do it to make sure she's getting the nutrients she needs. And a lot of calcium + Vitamin D for her bones, probably. And B12, since you can't get it in while you're on a vegetarian diet.

http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/nutrition/vegetarian_diets.html

I never liked meat when I was a kid, but my mom made sure I got my meat products in while I was still growing. Hope your sister turns out alright. :/


PEANUT NOODLE SALAD from a kindly Anonymous from /ck/

Vinegar, Rice Wine (0 cals) 1.25 x 1 tsp
SoySauce, Kikkoman Less Sodium (4 cals) 1.25 x 1 tsp
Lime Juice, fresh (1 cals) 0.65 x 1 tsp
Peppers, Sweet, Red, Raw (19 cals) 0.65 x 1 cup, sliced
Garlic, Raw (3 cals) 0.65 x 1 tsp
Broccoli, Raw (20 cals) 0.65 x 1 cup, chopped
Peanut Butter - Trader Joe's Organic Creamy PB (200 cals) 2 x tbsp
*Tofu, Firm, Prepared With Calcium Sulfate And Magnesium Chloride (Nigari) (110 cals) 1.25 x .5 cup
Barilla Plus Rotini Pasta (262 cals) 1.25 x Two Ounce

Meal Recipe:
Cook pasta. Steam broccoli until almost tender = al dente. While pasta & broccoli cook, make sauce: puree together the peanut butter, rice wine vinegar, soy sauce, lime juice, garlic plus a pinch of cayenne and 1 tsp water. Toss sauce over tofu. Slice red pepper into thin strips. When pasta & broccoli ready, gently combine all ingredients. Chill in fridge & serve.

Makes 4 (small) servings (160 calories per serving)

*I have no idea what nigari is, but you can just use a plain old firm tofu and drain it before using. Or you can lightly toast it like I did.

I was vegetarian until I realized I was being a pompous, emo-fag, attention whore. Now I eat what I want because the real weight-maintaince diet secret is: exercise and portioning.

>>1519390
>actually just give a shit about animals.

care about animals != not eating animals

I could live without meat but I couldn't live without butter.

nigari is the catalyst that turns the soymilk into tofu.
magnesium salt of some sort, so that's just regular tofu.
brought to you by the animal liberation front

I'm black and my girlfriend who's a vegetarian told me ''You shouldn't eat meat, they trap animals in small confinements and torture them till death. What if white people decided to do that to black people?" I ignored it because she's awesome most of the time, but damn if I didn't look at her differently from then on.

>>1520113
lol she sounds like a brilliant brilliant woman with serious subconscious racial inferiority issues

FUCK YOU TROLL

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>>1520113

Is she white?

this thread reeks of smugness and old cabbage farts.

i once tried out vegetarianism. i think it was like eight years ago and it lasted for maybe a year. then i accidentally a whole deep dish peperoni pizza one night. being a good vegetarian, i of course shamefully thought to myself that it was only a one time thing. but the huge shit i eventually pressed out after that meal was actually such an eye-opening epiphany that i dropped the whole veggie bullcrap then and there. never looked back.

Eat meat faggots.

>>1520113
Sounds like a good idea, actually. At least then niggers would be useful for something.

>implying eating meat is unhealthy

I want to go vegetarian, but I don't like beans. I'm not sure how to proceed.

>>1520113
Yes, back in the 20s and 30s. Then a guy wrote a book, people shat bricks, and the gub'ment stepped in.

Protip: The USDA and FDA exist specifically to keep shit like that from happening. Yes, food animals like cows, pigs, and chickens live a majority of their lives cooped up, and I can't say I don't feel bad for them. But they're not tortured, they're kept healthy, groomed, and well fed, and they don't have to worry about shit until they do what all prey animals are specifically born to do in the wild. This is a lot more than can be said for a lot of humans these days.

And what do these people want to happen, exactly? Factory farms to get shut down? "Better living conditions" for meat animals? If every animal had "roaming" space, production costs would skyrocket and output would plummet simply because they wouldnt have enough room for all the animals they currently do. The price of meat would triple (probably more) within a year, resulting in a huge demand for produce; a demand that there is no way in hell farms could keep up with. Tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands would starve, and thousands more would be driven to poverty.

Factory farms being shut down outright would result in a food shortage on such a scale that the country would literally fall down around our ears.

These people have no idea how much food these places put out on an annual basis, nor how much we depend on them.

Sorry, rant over.

>>1519390
>implying fish is unhealthy

>>1520694

The USDA and FDA don't really do their jobs anymore though.

I'm not opposed to factory farming outright, I just think it's far too dependent on fossil fuels to be sustainable the way it currently is.

And fuck the animals. Until people decide to limit population growth we can't afford the luxury of extending rights lower down the foodchain. If you don't eat that pig a guy in China will.

>>1520706
>Until people decide to limit population growth we can't afford the luxury of extending rights lower down the foodchain.

You summed up about 50% of my point right there.

>>1520055

That Nadia, rather starving to death on that island instead of listening to good old Jean

>>1520694
Not really. You do realize those animals raised for slaughter eat food too, right?

If anything, food prices would plummet overnight because the farmers used to selling their corn and alphafa for fodder will have to find human consumers instead.

>>1520724

And you'd have widespread protein deficiancies. Currently our factory system is geared to produce corn and wheat, not legumes, which is the only way to get complete protein from vegetable sources. And lentils aren't as cheap to grow as corn.

Our entire system is out of whack. There's nothing wrong with meat per se - however the feed does matter. It's why farmed fish aren't as good for you as wild, they're full of omega6's from the corn rather than omega3's from the algae.

But when you see a population growth of 300% in 2 generations there's always gonna be problems. The main issue is that every bushel of crops right now takes too much oil to make and distribute.

i don't think being a vegan or vegetarian gives you the right to shove your ideals down anyone else's throat. but it is difficult to talk about it without sounding like you're stuck-up..
the only time i ever even bring it up is when people go on and on about how they're for "animal rights" but know nothing about nutrition or factory farming and the impact on:
1. your own body
2. the animals
3. the planet

>implying not eating animal fats like nature intended is healthier

"For those who simply want to eat healthier, or actually just give a shit about animals."

If it was legal, I would kill and BBQ you. Some of us aren't pussies.

Blood for the blood god.

>>1520875
nature has no intention.

I'm a pretty dedicated carnivore but I give respect to a solid vegetarian meal if it can stand on it's own as good food, without bringing morals or ethics to the table. Tofu treated as faux-flesh is an abomination. Tofu treated as just another food product can be amazing.

For the most part, the secret to good vegetarian food is to look to cultures with a long tradition of vegetarianism. Indian, Asian and Ethiopian come to mind when I think of food that has centuries of trial-and-error behind making something that looks good, tastes good & is properly nutritious.

With Western food, you're mostly out of luck. Even in times when meat was very expensive, the poor insisted on putting -some- of it (or making due with low-quality cuts) in their food. Going meatless is, for the most part a recent thing, so most of your recipes involve trying to make familiar foods, which results in lots of bad meat substitutes.

One of the few Western groups that comes to mind as having a meaningful vegetarian tradition in The States would be the Seventh Day Adventists - I think they're theology is a little weird but they're probably a good resource for western-style veggie recipes.

Oh, yeah - I'll take a good spicy black-bean burger patty over a so-so burger any day of the week. The best, however, is to have a double burger with quality examples of both.

>>1520886

Fuck off, /b/tard.

>>1520728
Dude, food is made on farms, not factories.

Its not a huge deal for a farm to plant legumes instead of alphalfa for a nitrogen fixing crop.

PAPPA AL POMODORO


6 tbs. extra-virgin olive oil
4 cloves garlic, chopped
2 bunches basil, chopped
1 pt. vegetable broth
3 lbs. ripe, peeled and seeded tomatoes, cut into large pieces
2 loaves day-old country bread, cubed
salt
black pepper, freshly ground


Heat 4 tbs. olive oil, 3 cloves of garlic and half the chopped basil in a saucepan over a low heat. Do not brown the garlic. Add the tomatoes, cook for 20 mins. and set aside.

Mix 1 tbs. oil, the rest of the garlic with the bread cubes in a baking pan. Add salt and pepper to taste, and bake until golden. Add stewed tomatoes to the bread and the broth; cook for 10 more mins.

Serve into single soup bowls adding the rest of the basil and a dash of extra-virgin olive oil.

Panniza

9 oz. chickpea flour
4 tbs. olive oil
4 cups water
scallions
salt
pepper

Version 2:
Sieve the chickpea flour finely. Pour it slowly in hot water and stir and stir. Cook slowly for about on hour, stirring often. The mixture will come off the sides of the pot when ready. Season with salt and pepper. Pour into serving dishes, drizzle with oil, chopped scallions, salt and pepper and serve hot.

Olive and Brocolli torte

4 eggs, separated
7 oz. Ricotta cheese
1 lb. broccoli florets
24-30 olives
1/2 oz. grated parmesean or romano cheese
1 oz. grated breadcrumbs
1 tbsp. chopped parsley
butter
salt and pepper

Pit the olives and chop with the raw broccoli florets and parsley.

In one bowl whip the egg whites. In another mix the ricotta cheese with the egg yolks, the grated cheese, salt and pepper. Then add the chopped olives and broccoli. When this is well mixed, delicately fold in the egg whites.

Butter four ramekins, dust with the breadcrumbs and pour in the mixture up to the rim. Place the ramekins in a baking dish with water. Cook in a pre heated oven at 325°F for about 20 minutes. Remove and serve hot.

it's not food if no poor cute little animal has died for your pleasure.

Eat with ETHICS.

Never eat something that can't fight back.

>>1521190
I was almost killed by, and I kid you not-
A chicken (spurred my neck, inches from jugular)
A fish (lol, shark. almost bit my hand off)
A cow(Almost got trampled)
A boar(Pissed it off bowhunting, nearly gored me)
A deer(Charged at me, almost trampled me)
... so whats your point?

>>1521190
Ive never been attacked by a vegtable, however. so vegans, YOUR IN THE WRONG! eating such defenseless fruits and veggies.

Sup faggots?

>>1521190
guess you're not going to eat your fucking lentils or chick peas now then.

>>1521250
>YOUR
>WRONG

Mmm hmm.

>posting actual recipes instead of bitching about either side of the argument

>>1520953

Yeah, all those mechanical seeders and harvesters that enabled us to feed ourselves with 1% on the farm are setup for lentils as well.

OH WAIT THEY'RE NOT. THAT REQUIRES A MASSIVE RETOOLING. PERHAPS THAT'S WHY OUR CURRENT SYSTEM IS CALLED FACTORY FARMING

>>1522068
Dude, modern threshers and sorting machines are pretty versatile. Lentils are easy to harvest, you just tap the plant on a sorting table and the edible bits fall through a mesh. Exactly how dried corn is seperated from the cob.

Vegetarians are fucking stupid.

>IT'S WRONG TO KILL AND EAT ANIMALS

What the fuck you think was gonna happen to them anyway? If we don't kill and eat them another animal will. At least we give them a painless/near painless death.

You ever watched the discovery channel and see a pack of hyenas jump on a Zebra? They eat it while it's still alive and you can hear it crying in pain.

You wanna be vegetarian? Fine but don't go around saying stupid shit like that.

>>1522043

Your opinion is wrong.

>>1520055

oh shit man, nadia is a stupid veggie ? or the fansub team sucked at translation ? you totally ruined one of my childhood anime love, can't fap to her doujin anymore