• GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    14 days ago

    I love doing trash food with fancy ingredients, and while also vegan i feed meat guys as a job and need to imagine what they like. Waygu would be really bad for chilli cause its too fatty, it would split the sauce. One of the only meat foods I still get a weird craving for is my mom’s mid as hell tuna melt, I’ve tried to replicate with a lot of things but its just never quite there. All she did was mix canned tuna, mayonnaise, relish and diced onions and spread it on a bisquivk based dough. I’ll figure out a recipe that hits that spot one day but its my trash food white whale.

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      13 days ago

      lots of people use mashed chickpeas instead of canned tuna but imo the texture and flavor are both off. you could use finely chopped green jackfruit maybe but shit’s expensive in the west i’m sure

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        13 days ago

        Ive tried both. I think a combo and some tofu can make it all come together. I’ll get it and ill lost about it when I do. Jackfruit is actually cheap af but you gotta go to an Asian market for it, which is fine and dandy, they have the cheapest domestic veggies too