Cooking: Vegetarian / Vegan Alternatives?
In another post, there is a recipe for using leftover foods from a recipe. It contained a recipe for a quiche with cheese cracker crumbs used as a pie crust. (See https://tiogaherald.com/category/cooking/). My own experience is to consider vegan or vegetarian alternatives. Thinking about such alternatives, here is what I offer as alternatives for the cooking mentioned in this link.
Cheese crackers: not familiar with vegan “cheese” crackers. If there is such a product, then it can be used. Otherwise, one might need to bake their own cheese crackers. If one searches Amazon.com, one finds plant-based, dairy-free “cheeze” crackers from Simple Mills or Real Food from the Ground Up brands.
Eggs: I have found a product called Just Egg – Eggs from Plants – to be a great alternative. Otherwise, there are recipes using flax to create a vegan alternative to eggs. Recipe using nutritional yeast to produce scrambled “eggs.”
Cheese: Daiya, Madly Hadley or brands. Often the word “cheeze” is used to identify such products.
Ground meat: Impossible or Beyond “meats” and sausages.
There are also good programs from PBS / Create TV which discuss vegetarian / vegan ideas and alternative cooking. For example: The Jazzy Vegetarian. Conscious Living, Christina Cooks (Christina Pirello, America’s Healthy Cooking Teacher).
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