Seems like a fun way to try out fragrances. Do they allow you to filter by vegan and cruelty free? Or do you have to research and then tell them which ones you want? I can’t find this info
Not a vegan but as someone with religious dietary requirements for meat I love seeing how popular recipes can be veganised and adapted without compromising on flavour ❤
Liquid smoke is everything! I'm glad you decided to add it near the end. I use it in my savory dishes if I want to reaaaaallly enhance the umami flavor of things. It doesn't just add a smokiness to things... to ME, it makes any dish suddenly taste & smell like meat lol. Specifically, pork. I made a stew the other night and added less than a Tsp. of it and I swear it smelled like it had meat in it hahaha.
I love cooking for my vegan and vegetarian friends. I love to make food as my love language. It is always a welcome challenge to make delicious vegan food that everyone would enjoy eating. I’m hoping there are more folks like me out there.
Great video again Merle 👏🏻 let’s have more Justin on these videos too. I’ve always loved your dynamic with other people as you cook (like you and Arya in the Goodful days!)
This looks interesting! I wonder how it would turn out if you used all the same ingredients in the marinade as the liquid in a lentil “meat.”The color and flavors would be all in there and it would stay more moist. In case anyone wants to try it you can learn how to make lentil “meat” from Recetas de Gri here on RU-vid. I think she calls it her gluten free seitan and she has English subtitles.
I rarely see good and light vegan dips. Would love to see you try some. Also, the tofu is so firm! All the ones I bought till now never hold their shape. It always crumbles and falls apart. Loving all the content in the new space ❤
ahhh fur babies always letting you know you aren't giving them the attention they want right now lol Love this and love it more because there are no weird ingredients xox
Funny, as ever! An old/ancient, UK comedy show included the catchphrase "You are naughty.. but I like you!" Modifying, for you "You're nuts.. but we like you!"
Bahaha I am a TJs crew member and it's always so funny when I see our products in cooking videos. This looks so good, awesome video as always :)) #YaGirlMerleOrBust
Nobody is as pushy and judgemental as meat eaters. 99.999% of vegans I know only bring up that they're vegan if they're directly asked or if food preparation is being done. Meat eaters will start aggressively being anti vegan for no reason at any time. It's like they have to constantly defend themselves TO themselves.
While I do think the post that Katz’s made was stupid and incredibly hating on vegans for sure, im a meat eater and I can say with confidence that none of my meat eating friends are judgemental towards vegans. I would never try to push my food values onto vegans cause that is not my place. By making your comment, you are kind of placing all meat eaters into a box. I’ve had dinner parties and if anyone is coming that is vegan/vegetarian, I always make substitutes for them (and not just the veggie sides, direct vegan substitutes of whatever I make for my meat eaters). That being said, I’m sure there are judgey meat eaters out there (like Katz’s) and judgey vegans out there as well. If people just stopped judging and hating and let everyone mind their own business, the world would be a better place.
@@JubeiKibagamiFez dude I’m sorry, you clearly don’t know any non judgemental meat eaters. You come to my house, I’ll cook you some good vegan food and I’ll probably eat it too (except chickpeas, lentils or peanuts cause I’m allergic to all those things). I’m not gonna sit and tell you why you should eat meat, even though I do eat meat. And I’m indigenous…I’m certainly not gonna bring up the bible to you. And I’ve never met a judgey vegan either. If everyone stopped being judgemental, minded their own business, and respected everyone’s choices, the world would be a better place. So maybe we just all need to open our minds and not put people in boxes, cause the world is full of good respectful people along with the judgemental ass holes.
I have several people in my life who get really dismissive and rude when I bring my vegan food to gatherings. Like I never complain about them eating meat. But if I bring meat alternatives around I get told it looks disgusting. I swear to God meat eaters make hating vegan food 90% of their personalities it's so annoying. They think they are being super edgy and cool but they're just being rude as hell. I'm so sick of it. Meat alternatives have existed for thousands of years. Chinese people were eating seitan 1500 years ago.
Dang Merle, looking good today, you need to buy 7 colors of that top and wear one everyday. maybe an addition of a little oil in the marinade, roast it like you did, then take it and put in a pan and pour the marinade on it and poach it in the marinade until the marinade is mostly gone and soaked in. Then put it on rye with sauerkraut and dijon
It is almost midnight here, it was mistake to watch this video 😅 now I am eating simple sandwich 😄 I honestly never had pastrami but I would definitely try this one, it is just tofu with good marinade. And liquid smoke is amazing!
It's insane how much shit I get for being vegan...and I rarely even talk about it!! People ( coworkers have sought me while I'm eating lunch just to argue about what I'm eating. But I've thought a lot about this and I've come to the conclusion that for most (not all) of these crazy vegan haters, that it's a matter of projection. It's a projection of subconscious guilt. They're guilty of being ignorant, of being in denial of the fact that their everyday diet is super abusive and tragic to animals... a kingdom of beings that we should be kind to & caring for as humans. Ntm our planet.
Merle, would LOVE for you to do a video making vegan burrata cheese, and then maybe comparing it to the one you can in store (I’ve seen a vegan burrata at Whole Foods for sure)
I hate the "How can you tell if someone's vegan? They'll tell you!" joke, and I'm not even vegan (I'm just pescatarian). But you know why people who don't eat meat, or have allergies or intolerances towards foods talk about it a bunch? We're a social people and a large part of being social is eating together and people get REAL weird to you REAL quick when you're the one person bringing their own snacks to the get together and not eating any of the group's food - or the only person having to ask the server at the restaurant a bunch of questions. We have to self identify to avoid people doing the, "omg, why didn't you say anything? we don't have anything for you, I feel so bad." But when you do try to casually self identify before things get awkward, or remind people of your dietary things, they're like, "ugh, is that all you talk about? We can't be expected to accommodate you all the time."
I really enjoy when you do content like this. Whilst I do like you doing all those recipes with mushrooms and the like, as a someone who has absolutely hated every mushroom variant I have tried, and yes I've attempted quite a few, its brilliant to see a dish like this that doesn't have a dependency on veg like aubergines and mushrooms. Would be awesome to see more things like this that can get a veg hater like myself into more vegan/vegetarian dishes.
Excited to try this, but I can't find what you added when you went back to do it "your way." Can you share the ingredients and the amounts? Thanks so much, Merle!
I got a vegan shrimp (prawn) sandwich a while ago that was so good and so convincing that it blew me away, it's definitely worth a look into the vegan seafood world!
First; Merle, you are looking amazing! Second; I’ve been vegetarian for just shy of 3 years now, and I have this close friend who constantly gives me $hit about it, and family that passive aggressively tries to shame me on social media by posting “anti-vegetarian/vegan memes. I’ve never once in the past 3 years tried to guilt, or sway anyone in to eating like me. I always make sure my husband gets his dietary choices, same with company. But I’m constantly harassed! It’s so freaking annoying! Live and let live people, please!
I'm not keen on going to an overhyped tourist trap where staff yell at you, no matter how much of a NY institution it is. I kind of wanted to go when relatives of mine had gone and liked it, but no matter how much I love pastrami, I don't like this kind of meanness, either. It was very much unnecessary. The current owner sounds like a complete tool. I've been to excellent places that serve pastrami sandwiches in the Bay Area. There was a place called Saul's in the East Bay, that has since closed, but they were such a quintessential Jewish deli. Yay for freezing the tofu! This is the perfect method for getting the water out faster, and it does change the texture of the tofu as well, making it "meatier". Love doing this for Japanese tofu patties (ganmodoki).
@@MerleONeal I've just heard that they are very particular about their "rules", and tourists who make mistakes because they didn't really know the "rules" have experienced some less than stellar treatment. I sometimes buy frozen tofu patties at our local Japanese store, because it's quick and easy to just throw it in soup or with ramen. But I don't know if it's fully vegan or just vegetarian, since it might contain egg.
The drama thing reminds me how most German butchers have to advertise they sell meat "and sausage", because some meat products are so processed and full of non-meat things, they no longer qualify as meat, legally. Which makes it moderately hilarious to me that a deli is trying to argue that a food mostly marked by how it's made, not what it is made from, can't be vegan.
