Vegan Home Cooks
Come join the Vegan Home Cooks!
Participation is really easy, just take a picture of what you cooked today and post it, no recipes needed.
This is a public forum for a discord server of friends who are all vegans and cook at home for their families.
We are here to share some inspiration, to see what others are doing and to stay engaged in something that is both our hobby and a required task.
This forum is not a "food porn" community, a recipe book or a place to teach you how to cook. It is a place for people who already cook to meet other people like themselves and provide on topic support and conversation as much as long distance friends on the internet can do. We are doing show and tell about what we made and we don't care about its instagram worthiness.
Veganism isn’t a diet but I have to eat every day. This is for the vegan home cooks. Anything non vegan will be deleted.
Rules
1. Be Vegan.
If it is not vegan it doesn’t belong here… or anywhere.
2. Post home cooking.
No restaurant or fast food. This is what every other vegan space is about and we don’t want to promote any large or small business tyrants.
We’re an active community of vegan home cooks that like to talk about what we are cooking today.
4. Do not make any rude comments or digs at anyone’s food, cooking style, specific diet, restrictions or technique.
While we are all cooks, we all have different requirements and we’re not asking for help, we are doing show and tell.
5. Do not use trademarked brands
Use generic names. We’re cooking with tvp not whatever business brands it and we’re not trying to turn comrades into billboards. No plant-based vegan-pandering capitalist crap like Impossible, Beyond, Dairy-company owned “vegan” cheese.
6. Do not ask for a recipe without otherwise engaging the OP (No posts that are just “recipe?”)
We are not food bloggers. Sometimes we're excited to share and will tell you the recipes we used but this isn't required. Instead try doing your own research and tell us what you learned and we can talk about it.
7. Careful with making unasked for suggestions.
Sometimes we like to hear suggestions but you should be nice about it and know the person you are making suggestions to. We are in the discord and you can get to know us that way. If you are just a visitor from the fediverse, this isn’t the place for you to start telling other people what to do.
8. Adults Only.
While this isn't a community for adult material we expect everyone who participates to be an adult. If you have a gross and profane username you will be removed.
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I use an instant pot for everything. It makes great rice.
Another instant pot vote.
I joke that it’s just a rice cooker for me 99% of the time but it’s nice to be able to do lots of other things in it plus a simple slow cooker function.
That and a Ninja oven/air fryer is basically all I need besides a stove.
Try throwing in some TVP with the rice! Here's the recipe I use:
Pressure cook for four minutes. Natural release for at least ten minutes, twenty is better. Once it's done I like to throw in some extra veggies (leftovers or just cooked separately). Broccoli or spinach are great, but they'll turn to mush if you put them in during the pressure cook cycle.
In 3 years I still haven’t tried TVP but that’s too simple not to try.
It's my staple recipe and probably accounts for about half of everything I eat. It's dead simple to add extra stuff either before or after cooking depending on whether or not it will survive the pressure cooking. It also takes really well to different sauces or seasonings on each serving. Some of my favorites include lemon pepper, Cajun seasoning, soy sauce, and bottled hot sauce. Not all at once, of course.
I'm also really happy with my electric pressure cooker. A rice cooker might be faster and slightly easier, but I am trying to minimize how many appliances I own.