So, as much as I enjoy knocking heavily-processed soy products (tofu is just fine), let me bring back a little Catholic content here
First, Sts. Peter and Paul:
And next, upcoming novena for St. Joseph:
https://twitter.com/meepbobeep/status/1364948896875700227
It is hard to avoid tofu when you dont really love meat
Thatâs why I eat meat. To avoid tofu.
We eat a lot more bean dishes than tofu dishes. We have lentils, chickpeas, chilli, and beans & greens soup (with red and white kidney beans and butter beans) pretty regularly. My husband also makes a cauliflower stew that has red lentils in it and two nights ago he did an awesome Indian dish with moong dal (mung beans).
I love meat, especially meat on the bone. But I also love variety. And the bean dishes are a welcome addition to our rotation.
i donât cook much, but i do make vegetarian chili once in a while. havenât in a while though. i should.
Buying an instant pot has made it a lot easier for me to use different kinds of beans. Canned beans are easy, of course. But thereâs so much variety of dried beans, and they are small and light to store. We had a traditional stove-top pressure cooker, but I didnât like having to watch it and fiddle with the temp and make sure it didnât explode.
With the instant pot I just dump everything in, and set it to âbeansâ for the right time, and take it out when I want to use it.
Beans, beans, the musical fruit
The more you eat, the more you toot
The more you toot, the better you feel.
So letâs have beans with every meal.
My spouse makes black beans on the regular for me, and I donât think that would happen prior to the instant pot. We actually have two now, so that the rice I like can cook at the same time.
They actually get used a lot for making potatoes and egg bites as well. I like chili made in the Crock-Pot better because the squash that we like to add doesnât do well under pressure, but is great slow cooked, and the instant pot as a slow cooker is not as good as the Crock-Pot.
Iâve also made really delicious French toast casserole? in the instant pot. But that was slow cooking. Maybe itâs just hit or miss.
is itâŠ
growing up in asia Iâve never even heard of people not being able to eat noodles or dumplings or bunsâŠlike, you have nothing to eat if you canât eat gluten. Heck, you can buy marinated gluten in a jar and itâs delicious and goes with everything.
So itâs like the white personâs version of being lactose intolerant?
As a non lactose intolerant Asian who also doesnât get red while drinking, I must have superpowers or something.
yes and no. Celiac is pretty common, but there are other people with slight gluten allergies and people who just avoid gluten for health reasons. I would venture a guess and say the Other is the larger portion and many will claim Celiac, mostly just to keep people from being judgey on their eating habits
From this:
Celiac Disease: Fast Facts | BeyondCeliac.org.
An estimated 1 in 133 Americans, or about 1% of the population, has celiac disease.
So, not âpretty common.â Not âextremely rare.â
Also, people can simply tell others that âgluten bothers my stomach,â and others should simply STFU about it. Also, once people tell others about it, they themselves can also STFU about it.
I meant âpretty common as serious food sensitivities goâ, and 1% IS pretty common. Honestly, I didnât realize it was as high as 1%. Soy is a pretty common allergy, too â moreso than I realized. Although itâs more common in children than adults.
Soy is one of the âBig Eightâ allergens, along with cowâs milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, wheat, fish, and shellfish. These are responsible for 90 percent of all food allergies, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Soy allergy is one of several food allergies that begins early in life, usually before age 3, and often resolves by age 10.
As for all those people who avoid gluten âfor their healthâ, some
And thatâs a lot more than 1%, especially as people get older. And the foods that contain fodmaps overlap a lot with the ones that contain gluten. Most of the people who legit feel better when they avoid gluten are actually benefiting from avoiding fodmaps.
And then thereâs the whole âitâs the current fad to avoid glutenâ because people have this vague sense that itâs generically good for you to do so. Thatâs pretty much BS, imo, but thereâs always some food fad. There has been all my life. They change a lot, but thereâs always something.
soy is even more confusing than gluten.
canât even imagine being asian without gluten and soy.
Soy sauce, tofu, soy milk, etcâŠ
can you even cook asian food without soy sauce?!
Dunno if you can, but I canât.
Well, I can cook Indian food without soy. And I guess my beef with oyster sauce recipe doesnât call for soy sauce, although I suspect thereâs soy in the oyster sauce. But yeah, if Iâm cooking Chinese, I have the soy sauce out.
if you take soy out of oyster sauce then it becomes ter sauce
Today was St. Chadâs feast day!
Sorry for not notifying my fellow Catholics
Also, sorry, I donât know who the patron for celiacs or people with other food sensitivies is. Maybe this lady:
I guess you can give up the Johnson and Johnson vaccine for lent as well
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/02/archdiocese-new-orleans-johnson-vaccine/
