just fillin' all you wannabe vegetarian/vegans in with some info: relying too much on soy protein in your diet will raise estrogen levels and turn you into a girly man

dok i remember seeing pics of your vegan foods on your myspace




none of them look like food sorry!

that pizza looks like white slugs strewn across some uncooked dough with leaves thrown on it

I'm pretty weak, I spent 5 weeks in India over a year ago and still can't really bring myself to eat the stuff anymore. Which is a shame because both my mom AND dad make pretty good Indian dishes and I used to really love rice and dal. I can stomach samosas and rogan josh but CLOVES man, everything has fucking cloves and I can't take it.

I think I just got sick of SPICES. Everything is spiced, even McDonalds MAHARAJA MAC over there is spiced. I was craving just boiled potatoes my last week there. Luckily we were staying at a pretty nice little place towards the end of the trip with a cook and he made me some BOILED POTATOES and vegetables (and this digusting greasy catfish from the river nearby but it was so good ​)

Oh, and there was the DOMINOES that I ate at about midway through the trip. We were up in one of old British hill stations in the foothills of the Himalayas (Musoorie) and it's sort of a hotbed for foreign students because there are several international privates schools there, which warrants a few Western style restaurants (Dominoes being one of them). I couldn't help but notice the ingredients were just BETTER, like the onions and shit on the pizza were really nice, and not sort of old/greasy/reconstituted like in fast food places here.

But seriously, every morning was just fruit/omelettes/toast, for like 40 days, and then curries, curries, and more curries for dinner and supper. I know Indian cuisine is ridiculously varied, considering there's an unbelievable number of different cultures in the country, but it all started tasting the same to me. And chicken/mutton were the only meat choices, and that's if you went to a nice place because the average corner shop or stall was vegetarian. It was also the fact that EVERYTHING had to be cooked, for us at least, because it just wasn't safe eating raw vegetables!

Hey, sorry for hijacking the topic with more india stories, that was pretty uncalled for! The point is, I'm not cut out to be a vegetarian or an Indian

i once spent a month or two in a village with intermittent power and my grandparents dont eat anything but rice, lentils, occasionally fish, and potatoes. maybe some bread once a while. for every meal.

by the end i was actually going a bit crazy. it was exactly like prison gruel, it started to break your soul.

okay i looked up a few links and found these. only posting the ones with pictures or that were triple recommended though.

http://www.101cookbooks.com/ 101 cookbooks is a good start for anyone. it's mostly vegetarian but you can sort on the side. look at dat porcini mushroom soup.

http://www.theppk.com/ veganomicon is the most famous vegan cookbook for good reason. a lot of the older recipes are sans picture though.

http://goonswithspoons.com/Category:Mr._Wiggles's_Recipes yo if you have an SA account and have been to GWS, you know this guy. Mr. Wiggles is the dude who got me respecting vegetarian cooking. just filtering the dinner thread to his posts is always good.

How does one do this vegan thing? Everywhere I look is meat, meat bi-product, or something similar. :/ Even this hot and sour soup has shrimp in it...

Well I am a vegetarian unless I am at a sandwich shop that doesn't have good vegetarian options (Subway), and it is actually pretty easy.  I still eat eggs and milk and stuff on a daily basis though so I don't know what to tell you.

You just have to learn how to cook!

okay i looked up a few links and found these. only posting the ones with pictures or that were triple recommended though.

http://www.101cookbooks.com/ 101 cookbooks is a good start for anyone. it's mostly vegetarian but you can sort on the side. look at dat porcini mushroom soup.

http://www.theppk.com/ veganomicon is the most famous vegan cookbook for good reason. a lot of the older recipes are sans picture though.

http://goonswithspoons.com/Category:Mr._Wiggles's_Recipes yo if you have an SA account and have been to GWS, you know this guy. Mr. Wiggles is the dude who got me respecting vegetarian cooking. just filtering the dinner thread to his posts is always good.

i take it you like cooking, right? you know all these vegetarian links and watch top chef..
do you often cook vegetarian? all the chefs i know are pretty much insulted when i ask them to make something without meat.

I used to cook but no joke cancer stopped that too. I couldn't hold a saucepan for days. now I live at home and if you have ever cooked in an indian woman's kitchen you know it is awful because LET ME HELP *does entire thing* is the state of affairs.

chefs used to have this shtick they probably picked up from anthony bourdain when he was like UGH THEY DONT EAT FOOD but thats because they're chefs. imagine you are a gun store and someone is like "do you have any tasers, I hate guns". there's too much stuff made with stocks and fat that a lot of chefs don't like making things deliberately vegetarian NO CHICKEN STOCK BUT I WANT A SOUP *takes a leak in your food*

however any chef who dismisses vegetarian cooking is a dummy. ignoring religious and personal convictions, vegetarian cooking is also incredibly healthy for you and the overreliance on eating meat in everything is why fastfood does so well.

so in short anyone who does this is being a purposefully contrarian dick who doesn't realize how good vegetables are and probably forgot indian food is all vegetarian and still owns.

okay also salt and efficiency im just bein dumb.

are you a vegetarian?  don't you miss a nice....juicy......piece a meat

yes, and believe me, i've heard every sexual inuendo about it that there is including various types of sauage jokes, "firm"/"soft" tofu, meat is murder/eggs are sexual harassment, fish jokes, etc.

when i was working at a restaurant, every single day this old spanish woman would be like "yourhero, you want a sausage!? you still like sausage, rigth!?"

I used to cook but no joke cancer stopped that too. I couldn't hold a saucepan for days. now I live at home and if you have ever cooked in an indian woman's kitchen you know it is awful because LET ME HELP *does entire thing* is the state of affairs.

chefs used to have this shtick they probably picked up from anthony bourdain when he was like UGH THEY DONT EAT FOOD but thats because they're chefs. imagine you are a gun store and someone is like "do you have any tasers, I hate guns". there's too much stuff made with stocks and fat that a lot of chefs don't like making things deliberately vegetarian NO CHICKEN STOCK BUT I WANT A SOUP *takes a leak in your food*

however any chef who dismisses vegetarian cooking is a dummy. ignoring religious and personal convictions, vegetarian cooking is also incredibly healthy for you and the overreliance on eating meat in everything is why fastfood does so well.

so in short anyone who does this is being a purposefully contrarian dick who doesn't realize how good vegetables are and probably forgot indian food is all vegetarian and still owns.

yeah, i'm way more impressed with people who can cook a good meal with limitations- veg or vegan meals, cooking for people with certain allergies, etc.

vegan is annoying as hell to cook though to be honest I would understand a chef getting irked. like you can do it but you need to be way prepped beforehand and it's more expensive, or you'll be making mac and cheese sans cheese. same with gluten/dairy allergies but at least then it ain't a personal choice but an allergy.

vegan is annoying as hell to cook though to be honest I would understand a chef getting irked. like you can do it but you need to be way prepped beforehand and it's more expensive, or you'll be making mac and cheese sans cheese. same with gluten/dairy allergies but at least then it ain't a personal choice but an allergy.

My cousin has a gluten allergy AND diabetes, so I know how fucking awful it can be to find foods for people with that.  My aunt has a really hard time buying groceries for her.

Well I am a vegetarian unless I am at a sandwich shop that doesn't have good vegetarian options (Subway), and it is actually pretty easy.  I still eat eggs and milk and stuff on a daily basis though so I don't know what to tell you.

You just have to learn how to cook!

I'm actually really good at cooking. :/
Just never bothered much with veggies. It's good to know I can have eggs and milk though.