#Vegetarian and Vegan

[askwhatsforlunch]

Pak Choi Noodles (Vegan)

These simple Pak Choi Noddles make an easy, yet flavourful and hearty dinner. Happy Thursday!

Ingredients (serves 2):

200 grams/7 ounces egg noodles

4 cups boiling water

1 ½ tablespoon toasted sesame oil

1 thumb-sized piece fresh ginger

a large garlic clove, minced

half a red chili pepper

a large, beautiful pak choi (or 2 smaller ones)

1 tablespoon rice vinegar

2 tablespoons soy sauce

2 tablespoons sweet soy sauce

Place egg noodles in a medium bowl. Cover with boiling water, and place a lid on top. Allow noddles to cook, about 5 minutes.

Meanwhile, in a large wok, heat toasted sesame oil over medium-high heat.

Peel ginger, and cut it into very thin slices. Add to the wok, and fry, a couple of minutes. Add garlic, and cook, 1 minute more. 

Thinly slice red chili pepper, and stir into the wok. Cook, a couple of minutes.

Thoroughly rinse pak choi under cold water.

Cut off and discard the bottom of the pak choi, and cut off the leaves, reserving for later. Chop white part of the pak choi, and stir into the wok. Cook, coating in oil and spices, about 5 minutes.

Deglaze with  rice vinegar, soy sauce and sweet soy sauce.

Drain cooked egg noodles, and rinse under cold water. Set aside.

Stir half of the reserved pak choi leaves into the wok, and cook until just wilted. Then, stir in drained egg noodles, and remaining pak choi leaves, coating well in the sauce.

Serve Pak Choi Noodles hot.

[tinykitchenvegan]

Tuscan "Marry Me" Butter Beans

[vegautistic]

Calling vegetarian/veganism a “white people thing” as some fucking racist bullshit lmao

I am Afro-caribbean and Indian. Firstly India has the highest vegetarian population in the world, and in the Caribbean the rastafari have their whole ital movement/diet - which my Jamaican father is a massive believer in.

Y’know what other countries have massive populations of vegetarians and vegans? Mexico. Taiwan. Ethiopia. The fuck do you mean it’s a “white thing”?

[vegan-nom-noms]

No Bake Hazelnut Protein Cheesecakes

[typhlonectes]

Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare

A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other overlooked animals experience consciousness.

In 2022, researchers at the Bee Sensory and Behavioral Ecology Lab at Queen Mary University of London observed bumblebees doing something remarkable: The diminutive, fuzzy creatures were engaging in activity that could only be described as play. Given small wooden balls, the bees pushed them around and rotated them. The behavior had no obvious connection to mating or survival, nor was it rewarded by the scientists. It was, apparently, just for fun. The study on playful bees is part of a body of research that a group of prominent scholars of animal minds cited today, buttressing a new declaration that extends scientific support for consciousness to a wider suite of animals than has been formally acknowledged before. For decades, there’s been a broad agreement among scientists that animals similar to us — the great apes, for example —  have conscious experience, even if their consciousness differs from our own. In recent years, however, researchers have begun to acknowledge that consciousness may also be widespread among animals that are very different from us, including invertebrates with completely different and far simpler nervous systems...

Read more: https://www.quantamagazine.org/insects-and-other-animals-have-consciousness-experts-declare-20240419

[vegan-yums]

Kale Detox Salad w/ Pesto

[triflingthing]

vegetables are vegetabling

[fattributes]

Roasted Cherry Tomato Bruschetta Pasta

[milk5]

i think a sufficient way to describe the relationship between meat animals and the average american is that the animal is more like the mascot for the meat rather than the source. as in like the beef in your $6 burger is a cow themed commodity that is produced similarly to plastic

[vegan-girl-69]

[daily-deliciousness]

Tuscan artichoke salad

[askwhatsforlunch]

Spiced Roasted Red Kuri Squash Soup

This hearty Spiced Roasted Red Kuri Squash Soup, fragrant with seasonal spice, makes a deliciously comforting and heartwarming dinner, after spending the arvo installing Christmas lights in the cold (and rain!) Happy Monday!

Ingredients (serves 4):

2 small or one large Red Kuri Squashes, thoroughly scrubbed

1 onion

2 garlic cloves

1 teaspoon coarse sea salt

½ teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper

1/2 teaspoon Mixed Spice

1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika

2 tablespoons olive oil

1 ½ litre/6 cups boiling water

2 tablespoons demerara sugar

Preheat oven to 200°C/395°F.

Halve and seed Red Kuri Squashes, cut them into large pieces, and place into a large roasting tin. Peel and quarter onion, and place in the middle of the tin as well. Peel garlic cloves and add to the tin, too.

Season Red Kuri Squashes with coarse sea salt and black pepper. Then, sprinkle evenly with Mixed Spice and smoked paprika. Finally, drizzle generously with olive oil. Toss with clean hands, to coat the Red Kuri Squash pieces in spices and oil.

Place in the middle of the hot oven, and roast, at 200°C/395°F, 1 hour.

Remove roasting tin from the oven and wait about 5 minutes. Combine roasted and Red Kuri Squash and onion and boiling water in a blender, in batches if necessary, and blitz until smooth, adding more water if necessary.

Pour into a large pot, and heat over medium heat. Stir in demerara sugar until dissolved.

Serve Spiced Roasted Red Kuri Squash Soup hot.

[tinykitchenvegan]

Vegan Fire Noodles with Crispy Tofu

[vegautistic]

It’s crazy that “sometimes meat is all people can afford” is seen as a criticism on veganism and not on capitalism.

Humans NEED vegetables, that is a fact. The majority of humans can lead healthy lives without meat, but a lack of vegetables in one’s diet will almost certainly cause issues.

There is absolutely no reason why a person should have their access to vegetables restricted. Instead of using the fact that sometimes meat is cheaper to try and “dunk” on vegans, you should be advocating for people to have more access to other foods and therefore have the ability to lead healthier and more ethical lives.

It’s not vegans that are the problem, it’s the bullshit system. Not only is it funding abusive industries, but it’s forcing people to adhere to a diet that has been proven to only hurt them health-wise, making them sicker. Vegans are not your enemy.

[vegan-nom-noms]

Creamy Vegan Tomato Soup With Roasted Red Peppers