Fake Meat, Real Food (a book of simple recipes)
Fake Meat, Real Food offers a book of stunning recipes by the queen of vegan cookery. Learn how to make, prepare and cook faux meats, all packed with taste and protein. From a tasty sandwich to a spin on a hearty chicken dinner, you’ll find many plant-based recipes to choose from.
Recipes include:
- Join the club turki sandwiches
- Pepper jack cheesesteaks
- Classic lentil beet-burgers
- Shredded beef and cabbage salad
- Steak salad with green gorgonzola
- Sausage oatmeal pancakes
Avoid sausages for young children and choking hazards (for older children, slice lengthwise and lengthwise again into strips). Recycle packaging at supermarket bag bins, if your kerbside doesn’t recycle.
Don’t give leftovers to pets, garden birds or wildfowl (due to onion, garlic, salt).
Read up on food safety for people and pets. For tinned ingredients, rinse/remove lids (or pop ring-pulls over holes) then step on upper cans to pinch rims together, to stop wildlife getting trapped.
Unless you have food waste bins, just bin pepper and allium scraps (onion, leeks, garlic, shallot, chives), citrus/tomato/rhubarb scraps. To avoid acids harming compost creatures.
Who wrote this book?
Isa Chandra Moskowitz learned to cook while volunteering for Food Not Bombs in a New York park. A TV show for a tiny cable network led to her first cookbook deal. And since then she and her sometimes co-author Terry Hope Romero have sold huge amounts of vegan recipe books worldwide.
Interestingly with all the hoo-ha in British politics over banning of Halal and Kosher meat, Isa is Jewish. Proving that you can still follow your faith and be kind to animals.
