Some nice dishes. As much as I love meaty and porky beans I make them for vegetarians.
Here’s one that worked out
white beans + trinity + beet greens
It’s hard to compete with bacon flavor so welcome more vegetarian ideas.
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I sometimes use smoked paprika bloomed in oil at the beginning, but vegetarians often don’t enjoy the smokiness — bacon is a flavor missed by those who know it, not by those who don’t.
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That’s a good idea. This is also what I have for dinner when we have beans too even tho I eat meat so tastier tips like that the better. Sometimes I make meat on side. Thanks
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Love beet greens. Hard to find them near me these days - even at WF they’re chopping the tops of bunches of beets.
During the pandemic my kale was going nuts as was the neighbor’s, and we had a lot of brothy white bean and kale soup. It was really good with a generous blob of harissa!
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Me too. I love 'em. Sometimes gotta just embrace vegetarian flavors. What else is like that? Kale is a staple here too not as tasty tho. Have u enjoyed gumbo des herbes? Can be done vegetarian too. Harissa nice call I should try that
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I think Gumbo des Herbes is traditionally vegetarian because it was what Catholic Cajuns ate during Lent.
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That looks wonderful! As for a bit of “meaty” in a veg dish, my vegetarian daughter often uses some nutritional yeast. It adds some “umami” (I hate using that descriptor, myself) and saltiness that’s at least a bit akin to bacon. Not really too close, but something like it.
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Thanks. Great idea never tried nutritional yeast.
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Popular as a vegan parmesan replacement.
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I am a vegetarian and our household has been on a bit of a jag with this recipe over the past month or so:
I never use thyme, don’t always use feta, have switched up the beans, etc. I happen to love smoked paprika, but I don’t always use that either. You get the idea…it’s very adaptable.
I’d happily eat a bowl of those beans you made!
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Thanks for that lookin good !
Those sound good! “The Ceci (Cooked Chickpeas)” are originally chickpeas for "Nancy’s chopped salad, and they " also include quite a bit of olive oil, although that recipe is for dried beans. I don’t know why, but it really seems to make a difference.
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White beans au vin is a crowd-pleasing vegetarian dish = “beef stew” with beans standing in for beef. Super delicious.
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Yes, when I cook the beans from scratch they are definitely better! You can absolutely lower the amount of olive oil if the full amount makes you twitchy. I typically just eyeball the amount of everything at this point.
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Not at all!
As it happens, when I first started making this recipe I was restricting carbs more strictly than I am now, but fat has never made me twitchy; at least not in a bad way!
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I like that collard greens kind of pot liquor in my vegetarian beans…been making that dish vegetarian too and i actually like it better that way now sans bacon…what happened?? who am i???
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my wife and daughter are in animal rescue…we spend too much time in berkeley lol!
In all seriousness tho, it’s really important for my girls to get healthy protein under the circumstances so ive been working hard on my vegetarian dishes…thankfully they aren’t vegan (yet). Beans beans beans is right…
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She got it originally because it’s a gonzo source of the B-type vitamins that are hard for vegetarians to source. Now she likes it for the flavor and adds it to several dishes, even “savory” oatmeal.
Before she found that I was adding B-complex tabs (dissolved and filtered out the microcrystalline cellulose) to my kombucha at the second ferment. If I kept it below about 200% RDA for most of the B vitamins, that distinct “b-vitamin flavor” wasn’t noticeable.
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