Best Vegan Dish You've Ever Had?

Red beans and rice

I'm ok with vegan. Fake meat is ridiculous,though. Give me veggies, but don't try to use veggies to simulate meat.

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don't try to use veggies to simulate meat.

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Unless you have tried Beyond Meat burgers, cooked on a grill, you really can't make that statement. The texture, taste, look is all very, very close to a beef burger. My Vegan lifestyle isn't by choice, really, but by necessity....

I had a vegan banh mi at MJ’s Cafe that was awesome. They used marinated then grilled tofu for the ‘meat’.

Probably a vegetable biryani dish at an Indian restaurant.

We make a wild rice, sautéed mushroom and onion dish that is very good - Has no name. Sometimes add a few black beans and a little whole kernel corn also.

Whatever I might say, these are still my favorite vegetarian dishes.































However, we all need to understand (as my Grandson Patrick so elegantly puts it) eating vegetables is still murder.

Empanadas at la botanica in San Antonio

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chocolate

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does it have to be 100% cacao be vegan?

There is almost nothing I can think of cooked that I would like vegan. Vegetarian dishes, sure. I like lots of Indian and Mediterranean dishes that are vegetarion. But vegan? Hell no. Even corn on the cob is crap without good butter.

That said, vine fresh sliced tomatoes and cucumbers with kosher salt and fresh cracked black pepper in the summer is hard to beat, but calling that a vegan dish would be like saying an apple is a vegan dish.

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does it have to be 100% cacao be vegan?

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no

Why would that be a requirement?

I assume you're talking about the milk or butter component. Vegan friendly ones use coconut oil from what I've seen.