very brief cooking notes from last week

[schmerica]

Salmon fillet = mmmm, yummy.

Ground lamb burgers = okay, but rather bland; need rather more flavoring.

Amy's non-dairy frozen pot pie = decent filling but the WORST pie crust I have ever tasted in my LIFE. Self, have you not learned about buying things labelled vegan-friendly? They do not love you. They hate you and want you to suffer.

Angel's hair pasta = quick and easy, but rather less tasty than most other pasta. Although maybe I just needed, like, three times as much garlic in with it.

Spoonfuls of Nutella from the jar = wrong, yet so tasty.

Comments

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

I used to really like Amy's pizza pockets, and the lasagna's okay, but eventually it got to where I just went "ergh" at the food, possibly because of the Fake Vegan Food factor. I don't really understand the market for fake vegan versions of intrinsically non-vegan food; vegan bologna, for example. I sort of thought the point of vegetarian and vegan cooking was to make tasty things with non-animal products, not bend over backwards trying to make fake animal products.

Anyway, I think this is why most of the Amy's stuff kind of fails.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

The frozen pizzas are quite tasty, actually.

I agree with you on the fake vegan thing, actually but somehow I don't think of "pot pie" in the category as, like, vegan bologna and vegan turkey and vegan cheesecake and vegan mayonnaise and so on. If I had realized this was vegan, I wouldn't have bought it, actually; I didn't notice the big "non-dairy" labelling.

[miss-pryss.livejournal.com]

Oh me oh my... welcome to my vegan hell. No pre-fab vegan foods taste any good (except veggie burgers, 'course), so it's take-out or stove-slave every night for me and my vegan darling. It is to sigh!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Eee, that is unfortunate -- I am sorry. I am a ridiculously picky eater as it is; I can't imagine trying to survive on a really limited diet like that.

[miss-pryss.livejournal.com]

Let's put it this way... you know how cheerios are, like, the most important food to have around when you've got a little kid?

Same deal with vegans of any age.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

well, I don't know about the vegan stuff, but I do like a lot of the Amy's vegetarian stuff. Like the pot pie (not the non-dairy one), and the spinach-n-feta pocket sandwich. Mmmm.

I sort of thought the point of vegetarian and vegan cooking was to make tasty things with non-animal products, not bend over backwards trying to make fake animal products.
I used to say that all the time -- usually with more four-letter words sprinkled in ;) -- but now I've mellowed. ;) Hey, some vegetarians really do miss eating meat and appreciate having the fake substitutes around. And if you want to market a product to a broader audience, including people who aren't vegetarian at all, sometimes it's easier to have fake meat than tofu or (horrors!) only veggies.

I'm just sayin'. I don't really care for any of the fake meat products myself. Heck, I don't even like veggie burgers.