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The Spicy Meatless Thread... (ya I went there)

I know going into this that this thread is going to get meat bombed... but there's gotta be at least a couple other people on this forum that have herbivore tendencies.  Lately almost everything I have been cooking has been meat-free unless its for the dogs.  I've been toying with recipes and finding ways to get the flavors of dishes that usually have animal muscle as the main feature.  Hopefully some of y'all do the same from time to time and we can swap and share some spicy veggie recipes. I've held off on making this thread for a while because I know the ridicule that will inevitably come, but I guess its better to clog my own thread with my hippy food rather than all the other cooking threads. 
 
So here goes, last night per request I made some arroz congri and tostones.  
 
For the rice and beans, I chop up a green and red bell pepper, 2 onions and about 4-5 cloves of garlic. Cook up that in the pot before adding the rice and beans and sufficient water.  Season it up, and pretty much just leave it on the stove for a while.  I don't have any fresh pods yet so I seasoned my batch up with some smoked naga powder for good measure.  The tostones start by cooking them a bit on each side before pulling them from the pan.
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After the tostones are cooked and pulled from the pan you gotta squish em dip em in cold water and throw em back in the pan, for the second round of frying. When you pull them out you can season them with whatever you want, I like to make a garlicky spicy sauce concoction to dip them in.  Also, make yourself a guava-lime rum drink for good measure. 
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Eventually, after a long long time (especially if you use brown rice), your arroz congri will be ready.  
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Happy vegetarian eating! (I also ate left overs this morning covered in cheese and a fried egg)
 
Let's see what you got....
 
A least slice it man! :)
 
LOL. Wow, a tortilla!
 
Rawk, that looks delish!
 
I made kale chips the other day. They never last more than a day. I coat them with a special blend of cashews cilantro lemon juice and seasoning, then dehydrate them for a few hours.
 
Rawkstah said:
I made kale chips the other day. They never last more than a day. I coat them with a special blend of cashews cilantro lemon juice and seasoning, then dehydrate them for a few hours.
My wife made them before and she liked them I likened them to going out in the backyard and eating the leaves that are crispy on my lawn  :sick:
 
Egg Salad sammy with kale chips for a crunch.
 
Egg salad has chopped celery in it, mayo, greek yogurt, onion powder, garlic salt, Knepper's Pepper's smoked powder, and smoked paprika. 
Kale chips were made last night, I pureed cashews, olive oil, pink salt, garlic, smoked powder, nurtitional yeast flakes, cilantro, and the juice from a lemon, tossed the kale pieces and dehydrated for ~3 hours.  Slapped it on some toasted brownberry healthnut bread or whatever multigrain loaf I got this time around. 
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I'm really not into vegetarian food, but do enjoy vegetables a lot.. there just needs to be (some) meat to it though. For you veggies.. a nice dish is "Raiwadadschi" (Reibekuchen for the Ruhrpott people). It's basically finely rasped potatoe cookies/fritters. They work GREAT with chili and onion/garlic.
 
 
+/- 2 lb of potatoes (Erdäpfe)
2 egg yolks or if you want to do it fast.. a single egg (yolk+white)
Salt, chili flakes and pepper to taste
3 cloves of garlic (or to taste.. whatever you prefer)
2 tablespoons of Haferflocken (I believe you guys call it oat flakes?)
3 tablespoons of breadcrumbs
1 finely rapsed onion
Little splash of oil, molten butter or lard.. whatever you prefer. Lard is nice, but.. well.. not very vegetarian.
 
Peal the potatoes and rasp them very (!) finely. Let them sit for 10-15 minutes.. than press the moist out (wrap them in a clean dish towel). Get the water out as much as possible. Mix all the ingredients as well as possible. Add egg and/or breadcrumbs if they don't shape well. Make cookies and bake in a frying pan (scoop a big tablespoon and press it as a cookie). Better don't bake in oil (due to the water content they tend to cover your whole kitchen in grease droplets). Bake gold brown and enjoy. Works great with habanero flakes, but some kinds of flakes like baccatums don't work that well taste wise.
 
Goes great with beer and slabs of cow muscle...
 
my first vegetarian post lol thai green curry with rice, purple and thai basil, bird pepper, orange bell pepper, green beans, onions, squash noodles + sliced. and kaffir lime leaf
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have been gaining some weight so I decided to try to do weekday veganism. Here's my mock duck seitan fake daiya cheese tortillaless enchiladas with red home made red sauce. It actually turned out so good I made seconds!
 
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BigB said:
have been gaining some weight so I decided to try to do weekday veganism. Here's my mock duck seitan fake daiya cheese tortillaless enchiladas with red home made red sauce. It actually turned out so good I made seconds!
 
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What's the sauce recipe?
 
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