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:
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It is hard to avoid tofu when you dont really love meat
Thatās why I eat meat. To avoid tofu.
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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 donāt cook much, but i do make vegetarian chili once in a while. havenāt 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 thereās so much variety of dried beans, and they are small and light to store. We had a traditional stove-top pressure cooker, but I didnāt like having to watch it and fiddle with the temp and make sure it didnāt explode.
With the instant pot I just dump everything in, and set it to ābeansā for the right time, and take it out when I want to use it.
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Beans, beans, the musical fruit
The more you eat, the more you toot
The more you toot, the better you feel.
So letās have beans with every meal.
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My spouse makes black beans on the regular for me, and I donāt 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 doesnāt 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.
Iāve also made really delicious French toast casserole? in the instant pot. But that was slow cooking. Maybe itās just hit or miss.
is itā¦
growing up in asia Iāve never even heard of people not being able to eat noodles or dumplings or bunsā¦like, you have nothing to eat if you canāt eat gluten. Heck, you can buy marinated gluten in a jar and itās delicious and goes with everything.
So itās like the white personās version of being lactose intolerant?
As a non lactose intolerant Asian who also doesnāt 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 āpretty common.ā Not āextremely rare.ā
Also, people can simply tell others that āgluten bothers my stomach,ā and others should simply STFU about it. Also, once people tell others about it, they themselves can also STFU about it.
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I meant āpretty common as serious food sensitivities goā, and 1% IS pretty common. Honestly, I didnāt realize it was as high as 1%. Soy is a pretty common allergy, too ā moreso than I realized. Although itās more common in children than adults.
Soy is one of the āBig Eightā allergens, along with cowās 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 āfor their healthā, some
And thatās 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 thereās the whole āitās the current fad to avoid glutenā because people have this vague sense that itās generically good for you to do so. Thatās pretty much BS, imo, but thereās always some food fad. There has been all my life. They change a lot, but thereās always something.
soy is even more confusing than gluten.
canāt even imagine being asian without gluten and soy.
Soy sauce, tofu, soy milk, etcā¦
can you even cook asian food without soy sauce?!
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Dunno if you can, but I canāt.
Well, I can cook Indian food without soy. And I guess my beef with oyster sauce recipe doesnāt call for soy sauce, although I suspect thereās soy in the oyster sauce. But yeah, if Iām cooking Chinese, I have the soy sauce out.
if you take soy out of oyster sauce then it becomes ter sauce
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Today was St. Chadās feast day!
Sorry for not notifying my fellow Catholics
Also, sorry, I donāt 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/