#plantbased

hernanlg@diasp.org

I baked a vegan "Oreo cake". Just a regular cake with my own take on the Oreo cream (made from cashews and coconut oil) in the middle, and covered by a coconut milk-based whipped cream and crushed Oreos on top. The inspiration came to me in a bout of ecstatic revelation, like old my gastronomical ideas.

#vegan #plantbased #cake #cooking #food #oreo

hankg@friendica.myportal.social

Next recipe experiments for lunch are a fresh plant based whole wheat pasta and “World’s Best Pasta Sauce” according to Pocket. Pasta was solid but I way overcooked it. Worth trying again. The sauce would be a not bad tomato soup maybe. I fell for clickbait #cooking #PlantBased #CookingChallenge
Fresh made whole wheat plant based pasta on a counter right after final cutting and separating but before cooking
Assembled meal of “the world’s best pasta sauce” over the whole wheat pasta

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hankg@friendica.myportal.social

Until my 30s I found all beans and legumes disgusting, except green beans. I'd eat them if served them but would think to myself "FML this is disgusting." In my 30s I got introduced to some great Indian restaurants by coworkers and it got me to the point where I love them now and try to use them in more and more ways. I just had my first foray with black eyed peas this month. Later this year going to try to make Akara/Koose (a West African fritter made with black eyed peas). I'd love to be like Chetna and have literally a dozen varieties in the pantry but they can be hard to find. I still haven't found fava beans locally yet even! Dr. Lecter would be so displeased :(. Anyway, this is a great run through. I'm going to use it to step up my legume/bean culinary game. #food #cooking #Nigeria #Ghana #India #IndianFood #IndianCooking #PlantBased #legumes
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faab64@diasp.org

One more reason to avoid Boitoni products!

Buitoni and Impossible Foods announced the debut of the first-ever ravioli filled with Impossible Foods' pesticide-laced GMO fake meat. The packages advertise "beef made from plants" and "Italian sausage made from plants." As if they were healthy for you or the environment. Impossible Foods’ food-like products certainly are not good for either. Impossible Foods uses genetically engineered soy grown on industrial farms using toxic synthetic herbicides, insecticides and fungicides. Yummy. And these industrial farms' crops can't grow without the petrochemical fertilizers because the soil is dead from all the chemical use. These synthetic pesticides and fertilizers kill pollinators, poison wildlife, and then runoff and pollute our streams, rivers, and oceans, killing off even more species as they flow. Ever heard of ocean dead zones? Yep, monoculture GMO farms are responsible for those. Ever heard of deforestation? Yep, monoculture GMO farms are responsible for that, too. When corporations like Impossible Foods use marketing like “made from plants” and “plant-based,” they’re trying to evoke images of whole-food vegetables.

"Plant-based to me means that a plant was actually involved in the process, or at least close to the process. In the case of these particular products that call themselves plant-based, I feel like it's almost a co-opting of that term," says Dr. Urvashi Rangan
It's not "almost co-opting." It is co-opting. And greenwashing at its finest. Do yourself a favor. If you were thinking about buying anything with Impossible Foods products in them, just don't. If you want to reduce your meat consumption, eat a whole-food, organic salad. Both your body and the environment will thank you.

#Buitoni #ravioli #ImpossibleBurger #ImpossibleFoods #GMO #soy #FakeMeat #vegan #PlantBased #health #enviroment #deforestation #EatRealFood #gmofreecanada #gmofreeusa #toxinfreeusa