Culinary Experiments

[the_eggwhite]

Out of idle curiousity I've been digging in to how I could do a vegan chilli. Partly because I'd been thinking about doing a chilli (it's been over a year since I last did one) and partly because it occurred to me that if I did one these days cryx wouldn't be able to eat it, and that's just wrong.

Okay, so she wouldn't be able to eat it without a four figure airfare anyway, but that's a trivial detail.

My research tells me that sweet potato or squash are the non-soy non-tofu "use these instead of meat" option. I can get behind that. Especially sweet potato. Those things are awesome. Having to resort to pseudo-meat just makes something disappointing, but shifting to something completely different means you get something that can still be interesting and flavoursome.

Next I just have to remember how to do the sauce from scratch and get the herb & spice balance right without it having hints of tasty, tasty cow leakage in it (milk-solids - aka: the good kind, not any of the bad kinds). I've done that bit before, but I made it up as I went along and foolishly didn't write down what made it work. I'm sure I could throw stuff together again and see what works.

I may have to experiment at some point to see if I can make one.

For science, you understand. SCIENCE!

Comments

[blue-cat.livejournal.com]

the veggie chilli I have made in the past has focused on different sorts of beans and many more mushrooms to plump it out. I seem to remember, however, Cryx being mushroom averse so that may be a bit more difficult!

Sweet potatoe is awsome, the other one to consider is butternut squash :)

[cryx]

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I've never thought of using sweet potato in chilli, what a great idea! Mine usually rely on a bevy of beans for bulk and nomminess. I've also occasionally chucked in a courgette (or Zucchini! as they say over here - yes, I always hear it like jawas are exitedly shouting it).

[anonymous-james.livejournal.com]

:) I have an image in my head now of two jawas shouting at one another:
Jawa one: Utinni!
Jawa two: Zucchini!
etc. Repeat for comic effect.
Probably endings up with one of them zapping the other to end it.

[evilref.livejournal.com]

...she wouldn't be able to eat it without a four figure airfare anyway...

Chilli should be easy to can/bottle, and so to post.