Recipe of the Day

[patgund]

Today's recipe is one for Vegan Poutine.

Vegan Poutine

Ingredients (use vegan versions):

one portion of french fries (your own fat-free recipe or other)
1/2 cup of b.b.q. sauce (with no-meat product)
1/2 cup (or more) of grated vegan soy cheese
Directions:

Mix french fries and cheese (not too much to avoid the decomposition!!!), and put (a lot of) sauce on the top. The recipe can be made with spagetthi sauce (also your own recipe).

Serves: 1

Preparation time: 15 min

Comments

Survey Sez---BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

[aeddie.livejournal.com]

French Fries--ok

BBQ sauce--even meatless fine, BBQ sauce is just there to enhance the meat anyway.

Vegan soy cheese--NOT going to happen, cheese is supposed to be made from milk, whether it's from a cow, a goat or a sheep, heck, I'd even try llama or camel.

[tepintzin.livejournal.com]

I agree, this is wrong. If you're going to go for healthy poutine, you might as well look for square circles and dry water while you're at it.

When I go back to Quebec in October, I'm bringing back cans of St Hubert poutine gravy (chicken based!) and the proper cheese curds.

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

and dry water while you're at it.

I was at a store once where they were selling dehydrated water.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

It seemed.....strange....to me, based on what little I know about this dish.

catmccroy is threatening to introduce me to poutine when I go up to Vancouver in October.

[catmcroy.livejournal.com]

pffft it's catmcroy (one c) :-p

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Oops! Sorry love, typo monster

[catmcroy.livejournal.com]

*grins* 23 days till BC rolls

[cahwyguy.livejournal.com]

Are you vegan? If so, let me know and I can send you my wife's killer recipe for a vegan chopped liver.

[patgund.livejournal.com]

If there is a diametric opposite to Vegan, I'm more than likely it. I have some friends that are, but I'm way too much of a carnivoure myself......

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

You do know that soy cheeses are NOT vegan, don't you?

Don't care if it does say Vegetarian or Vegan - even those packages, I read the label, they have casein, milk protein.

Not that I'm a vegan or give a damn, but you know, Brendan's diet.

[nolly.livejournal.com]

Some of them are.
They're rare, usually found at specialty stores, and in my non-vegan opinion, not very cheese-like, but vegan "cheese" does exist.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Must be rare indeed. I've read labels on them at Central Market, Trader Joe's, and Whole Foods, and they all had casein.

[silkensteel.livejournal.com]

There is *one* brand that is made without casein. The only product they make that isn't foul is the parmesan-style sprinkles. I can't remember the brand name, but the label's green.

[catmcroy.livejournal.com]

Bah. I will make you REAL poutine.

Hork Pitooey

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

This sounds exactly like what I camapign against. NO FAKE FOOD! If you want to be a low fat vegan, eat real low fat vegetables and leave fake food alone! There is nothing wrong with baked potatoes with BBQ sauce, but it's not Poutine.

My intermittently-vegetarian father likes a restaurant in the valley that says it is vegetarian Mexican. OK as far as that goes. But almost all the dishes incorporate either fake chicken, fake meat and/or fake cheese. Again, there are enough good real foods in the Mexican milieu that this is TOTALLY un-necessary. Bleargh.

Re: Hork Pitooey

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Oh totally. I've never quite understood the various veggie sausages, patties, "fry-strips" and other meat analogs out there.

Personally, if you're going to go to the trouble of using analogs like that, might as well have the meat.

Re: Hork Pitooey

[ikkeikke.livejournal.com]

I gave this exact impassioned speech once and the response I got (from a relative) was that fake meat is for, well, older people who need to give up meat for health reasons but can't quite figure out how, so they make the same dishes they always did with fake meat instead of real meat.

Us wacky younguns can adapt and eat lentil stew, but I was told I had to cut older people a break. :)