Come join the Vegan Home Cooks!
Participation is really easy, just take a picture of what you cooked today and post it, no recipes needed.
This is a public forum for a discord server of friends who are all vegans and cook at home for their families.
We are here to share some inspiration, to see what others are doing and to stay engaged in something that is both our hobby and a required task.
This forum is not a "food porn" community, a recipe book or a place to teach you how to cook. It is a place for people who already cook to meet other people like themselves and provide on topic support and conversation as much as long distance friends on the internet can do. We are doing show and tell about what we made and we don't care about its instagram worthiness.
Veganism isn’t a diet but I have to eat every day. This is for the vegan home cooks. Anything non vegan will be deleted.
Rules
1. Be Vegan.
If it is not vegan it doesn’t belong here… or anywhere.
2. Post home cooking.
No restaurant or fast food. This is what every other vegan space is about and we don’t want to promote any large or small business tyrants.
We’re an active community of vegan home cooks that like to talk about what we are cooking today.
4. Do not make any rude comments or digs at anyone’s food, cooking style, specific diet, restrictions or technique.
While we are all cooks, we all have different requirements and we’re not asking for help, we are doing show and tell.
5. Do not use trademarked brands
Use generic names. We’re cooking with tvp not whatever business brands it and we’re not trying to turn comrades into billboards. No plant-based vegan-pandering capitalist crap like Impossible, Beyond, Dairy-company owned “vegan” cheese.
6. Do not ask for a recipe without otherwise engaging the OP (No posts that are just “recipe?”)
We are not food bloggers. Sometimes we're excited to share and will tell you the recipes we used but this isn't required. Instead try doing your own research and tell us what you learned and we can talk about it.
7. Careful with making unasked for suggestions.
Sometimes we like to hear suggestions but you should be nice about it and know the person you are making suggestions to. We are in the discord and you can get to know us that way. If you are just a visitor from the fediverse, this isn’t the place for you to start telling other people what to do.
8. Grown Ups Only.
Cooking for our kids is great, Acting like one is not. While this isn't a community for adult material we expect everyone who participates to be an adult and act like one. Please follow the Anarchists Code of Conduct. No profane usernames allowed.
I happened across some store bought vegan pepperoni, and decided I'd do one of the most simple pizzas in existance: the NY style pepperoni pizza. It totally wasn't because I was lazy and it takes like almost zero effort.
My dough caught on the peel as I was shimmying it on to the griddle, so I kinda got this weird teardrop-shaped pizza. Oh well. (:
There's really just something very comforting about a basic-ass slice like this. It's not fancy or pretentious, just delicious.
This looks incredible as always wow! I never use cheese products and go for mashed tofu but this really looks like something you'd get at a fancy nyc pizza bar lol good job
Thanks!
I think there should be no reason for vegans to feel like they're missing out on food they used to eat, so I sometimes like to make nostalgic foods I'd eat from before I went vegan. I used to order from an omni chain that was... only OK. But after messing up my order, I decided I could just do it myself but better, and with no chance of "oopsie, we gave you animal milk".
I think vegan cheeses are still so immature, and there's no reason they can't be as good or better than animal milk ones. The down side is the cost and packaging waste, so I've been thinking of trying to make my own. Hopefully I can find the time and energy to do it in the not too distant future. ^_^
I have had quite okay experiences with making cashew mozzarella. I tried different recipes from different sites and they generally work about as well. Here is an example: https://www.noracooks.com/easy-stretchy-vegan-mozzarella-cheese/ But make sure to do it in advance, it needs to spend a few hours in the fridge or freezer before you put it on a pizza. I usually make it the day before and put it in the freezer, then just grate it when I need it. I also make bigger batches so I can use it for a long time.
I also put a lot of nooch (for taste) and a little turmeric (for color) in my cheese
I've done one like that before, and used it fresh, but I found it doesn't really melt very well, so it'll just stay in whatever shape you put it, which for me was big blobs. xD I think like you said, freezing and grating would give a better result!
I found a YouTube channel all about vegan cheesemaking which had some really interesting looking aged cheeses. The rough part is it usually takes several months to a year before you get the results of your experiments, so you have to be fairly meticulous about note keeping to figure out what to tweak. Also, the long lag time means you can only iterate changes infrequently. In a way, though, I guess that's also part of the charm. ^^
Here's the channel btw: https://youtube.com/@gourmetvegetariankitchen
We have the same taste in pizza dough haha
It's sooo good. I've been doing the dough every 2nd week, and the week long fridge fermented one is really nice. Tomorrow morning is dough day! ^_^
Wow one week, that sounds good. Also happy dough day haha!