Oh man tempeh is awful to me. I went vegan and I love tofu, I'm Latin American so I love beans, and there's lots of other great stuff but I dunno why I thought tempeh was terrible when I tried it.
I like the meat substitutes they sell now. I have loved Bologna since I was a kid and I thought I'd miss it till I found vegan Bologna that tastes exactly the same. Hot dogs as well.
15Tempeh tastes to me like a savory, moist granola bar. It’s not a bad taste, but the texture is the worst part of cooked nuts, imo.
Tofu, beans, lentils, and seitan are all great in my book, but I haven’t figured out a way to eat tempeh that I like.
5@idiomaddict @jo3rn it’s easy for sure to have a bad tempeh meal – i’ve had lots if them! my favorite preparations now have been fresh tempeh in indonesian-like recipes. also, homemade tempeh “bacon” with avocado on anything
#tempeh #vegan https://www.bonappetit.com/story/all-about-tempeh
4@idiomaddict @Nuke_the_whales it pays to chase down good tempeh. Here in Australia the supermarket tempeh is very bland. Buy from a producer at a market, or from an Asian grocery.
You can also make it yourself! Nothing like fresh tempeh.
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The best tempeh I've had was when it's cooked with sauce, onions, and peppers, then put on a sandwich to make, essentially, a vegan cheesesteak. i was vegatarian at the time so it had feta on it, but it'd be great with fake cheese.
4Yeah, I'll take tofu or seitan any day over tempeh. I don't hate it, I just don't like it enough to ever really buy it.
I do find it goes well in Thai~ish dishes with satay sauce, though.
2I'm the opposite. I hate most soy products (especially tofu and soy milk), but I love tempeh
1I think tempeh is hard to cook with if you're not used to it. I cut out most of any acidic ingredient if I'm cooking with tempeh because it tastes pretty acidic already imo, but I hated it before I figured that out
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Legumes? Isn't that just french for vegetables?
9It is French for vegetables ("les légumes"), but the English meaning is somewhat different. It's basically lentils, beans, peanuts, chickpeas and such: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legume
Sometimes, they're also referred to as "pulses".
24last time I called them pulses my coworkers though I was talking about something sexual. legumes it is.
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Dunno in French but it Portuguese the word legumes kinda got misused over time to mean just vegetables. We have the word "leguminosas" to mean legume-type foods.
6Legumes = Hülsenfrüchte
4Mind blown
1Fabaceae
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I want to see this meme format take off.
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