Any Vegans out there?

HRinNH

We have a close friend who's Vegan. If anyone has any recipes (casserole or dessert) that you'd care to share, I'd appreciate it. Gracias.

LarryC

What's a Vegan? Is that like a vegetarian?

Paul in Cannon Beach

Vegan? No, but I have been to Reno. Rimshot!

I'm here all week, folks.

A vegan is a person (as I understand) who does not eat animal products, including meat, fish, seafood, dairy, eggs. My experience is that people are "vegan" to varying levels. Some vegans don't wear leather for example as a way of showing respect to all animal life.

I am not a vegan but I think its admirable when any person actually lives out a strongly held conviction or belief.

Paul in Cannon Beach

I apologize. Our responses weren't very helpful.

Here's a couple recipes I found online for Vegan casseroles:

[url]http://vegetarian.allrecipes.com/az/VeganCasserole.asp[/url]

[url]http://www.fatfree.com/recipes/casseroles/veggie-casserole[/url]

I can't say whether they are any good but your friends will probably appreciate the thoughtfulness.

HRinNH

Thanks Guys...for the humor and recipes.
The vegan friend I have is not opposed to wearing leather that I know of. He just won't ingest anything at all that comes from an animal.

Have a good weekend!!!

Parabeagle

I consider myself a vegetarian, not a 'vegan.' I will not eat meat, fish or poultry, or eggs for that matter. I love my leather jackets and my leather shoes.

Unfortunately, I'm also a lousy cook so I'm afraid I can't be much help here. x;-)

ray a

Beagle, was that a brown or black leather jacket? I forget.

HRinNH

I think he told us it's brown.

Whirlwind

I can no longer find the cookbook that contains this recipe so I'm going to wing it...

Spiced Avocados Over Rice

Saute some chopped onions and finely minced garlic in EVOO. Run some fresh tomatoes thru the blender or food processor until pureed. Don't worry about the seeds or peel -- more fiber that way.

Add the tomato puree to the onion mixture along with maybe 2-3 Tbs. of vinegar -- cider vinegar is good. Let that simmer very slowly while you cook some brown rice and cut a couple of peeled avocados into cubes.

Add the avocados to the tomato mixture until they're just heated through -- don't really cook them.

Serve this mixture over the rice.

This is, I think, the only warm avocado dish I've ever had, and it's really good. Of course, it's better with crumbled crisp bacon, but that would kinda ruin the vegan aspect.

Paul in Cannon Beach

mmmm... bacon....

HRinNH

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 03-12-06 AT 10:04AM (CST)[/font][br][br]Where's Gillian3? He's the master at avocado recipes. What's EVOO stand for?

This sounds good Whirlwind. Thanks mucho. I'm going to e-mail it to my vegan friend's wife.

Whirlwind

EVOO = extra virgin olive oil

G3 isn't around anymore. I recall him saying something awhile back about retirement, so maybe he rode off into the sunset.

Paul in Cannon Beach

There is a little cooking school here in Cannon Beach called EVOO. Its pretty nice. You sit around drinking a glass of wine and "learn" how to cook a fancy dish or two.

Cooking has become such a spectator sport it should be in the olympics along with sweeping... I mean, curling.

HRinNH

They're making hair styling an Olympic Sport??? xB-)

Whirlwind

If only!! xpray I got butchered last week and it's going to take at least a bronze medalist to undo the damage. I think my stylist took out her broken engagement on my hair with a pair of scissors.

Paul in Cannon Beach

At least you probably were never dumb enough to go to a "barber college" to save a few bucks the day before your driver's license picture was to be taken.

HRinNH

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 03-15-06 AT 08:23AM (CST)[/font][br][br]UGH...the last time I went to a cosmetology school for a cheap cut, that's exactly what I got.