2 great ones!






The second will have LOTS of vegan recipes, and you will quickly learn how to adapt many recipes to vegan anyway - use olive oil instead of butter, that kind of thing.

CarrieMpls said:

Of course they are.hat animal product could be an ingredient in beer?

CarrieMpls said:

Of course they are.hat animal product could be an ingredient in beer?

Drinkers of commercial brews, however, might be surprised at what could be in the bottle.

•Albumin - made from eggs or dried blood
•Casein / caseinate - from milk
•Charcoal - may be made from bone
•Colorings - sometimes from insects
•Glyceryl monostearate - an anti-foaming agent and sometimes an animal derivative
•Isinglass - made from the swim bladders of fish
•Lactose - milk sugar
•gelatin - derived from bones, skins and tendons
•Pepsin - a heading agent that is sometimes made from pork

Most of the ingredients listed are clearing agents, and not all breweries use all of them. Many of the breweries that use them also use a process of sterile filtration. Depending on the micron size of the filter, this process theoretically can remove all traces of these substances.

ZombieKitten said:

we'll probably end up having our picture taken in one of those
machines on the street.

let's pray we'll be so drunk we'll forget to wait for the pics
to come out.

I wonder who has the best soup recipe for Butternut Squash? I butchered my first attempt, I'm hesitant to try again. I've had one sitting on my counter for weeks now. I should draw a face on it and tell it my troubles.

drgnfly said:

this is important, I plan to meet the poster of this thread in summer, but BEER must be present

I know they use egg white to filter some wines, so I was wondering maybe they do that to beer too?

ZombieKitten said:

actually yes... you will need to find someone who does home brew and is a vegan that is why I said yes some beer and some wine are out there....or you might need to go to a store that carries vegan foods ..... if you have those close to you?

KoolEaze said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isinglass

I first heard about this as I read in a reputable magazine that Guiness uses animal bones for filtering...

The most common things I've read about are gelatin and isinglass but here's a list I found online:

are there any very good books on the subject of vegan/vegetarian cooking
that you can recommend me?

i've decided for ethical, moral and health reasons to quit animal meats
and almost all related products.

been off all dairy products for more than a year now, and replaced all
with soy, which works very well and makes a noticable difference in my
overall well being.

food itself and it's nutrients, contents etc has always been a bit of
a hobby of mine so i know what stuff to combine and how to eat a well
balanced diet without any meat products.

so i'm basically not looking for a book that explains all of that, but
rather i'm looking for just good, thorough cookbooks.

i think vegan books would have my preference since the only thing i'm
planning on eating still, on occasion, will be eggs from my uncle's
free roaming chickens and i guess vegetarian cookbooks might include
cheese in a lot of their recipies which would therefore be of no use
to me anymore. (there is nothing on this earth that i didn't enjoy
when tasting it. in fact i've made it a point to taste everything,
no matter how weird or bizarre, yet soy-cheese remains the only thing
i've ever had in my mouth that made me absolutely gag).

doesn't have to be a straight forward recipies only book either tho.

i'm difficult, bear with me

i like sort of reference style books, filled with little tips or
information bubbles inbetween recipies etc.

but a page by pag recipy guide would be fine too.

The second will have LOTS of vegan recipes, and you will quickly learn how to adapt many recipes to vegan anyway - use olive oil instead of butter, that kind of thing.

It's really not that hard to become a vegetarian ...vagan on the other hand that one is hard

drgnfly said:

I thought that too, but recently found out that cheese, yogurt, sour cream might be giving me headaches so I have eliminated almost all dairy. I eat eggs and fish though, and am pretty happy with how I feel.

heartbeatocean said:

well a true vegans also avoid all dairy and eggs.
I wish you well in your finding of what it is giving you the headaches. Make sure to keep your calcium levels up ~which btw there really is no calcium in milk so your not missing anything~ also your B12 or in the long run this can make you very ill. Although I am sure you are taking supplements to help with this

drgnfly said:

yeah, I didn't mean to imply I was a vegan. Just that I've felt my diet was fragile enough, then was surprised by how natural and easy it was to eliminate dairy.

RAW Veganism is actually not as extreme as it sounds once
you come to the realization that food preparation doesn't
need cooking all the time. What's the point of cooking
the life out of a vegetable when you can just combine it
with spices in such a way to make it taste good?

The absolute best Raw Vegan 'uncook' book I've read
is "RAWVOLUTION" and the 'meat' recipe in there is
terrific.. I love raw vegan burger recipes. They actually
taste very delicious. Also, raw burittos made of
sunflower seeds instead of cooked beans taste even
better and are better for you than the real thing.