If you’ve ever wanted to bake something but had no eggs in the house, or if you have someone in your family with an egg allergy, you should check out a website I recently found called Madhuram’s Eggless Cooking.
Although I am not vegan, I do like to keep my egg and dairy use to a minimum. We don’t drink milk and we don’t eat eggs, other than in baked goods, because it’s nearly impossible to do otherwise. Now vehement vegans everywhere will argue that point, but a busy single mom on a limited budget doesn’t have the time or money to hunt all over town for vegan bread.
The only time I ever buy eggs is when they are called for in a recipe, and then the least number I can buy at the grocery is 4. There are no chicken farmers here in suburbia that I can get a single egg from, and neighbors would quickly tire of me bumming their eggs. So I will typically use one or two eggs out of the carton and give the rest to the family next door, who I know can use them. Ditto with milk.
I know you can often substitute applesauce in some foods, but not all, as eggs serve different purposes in different recipes. And I am not very comfortable changing ingredients in recipes without knowing what I’m doing.
So I appreciated finding Madhuram’s Eggless Cooking site. Very colorful photos and a wide variety of dishes. The author is Indian so lots of great Indian recipes as well. Note that the site is not vegan – many recipes call for lots of cream and butter. So I think it primarily caters to those with egg allergies. Or, people like me who don’t want to pay an arm and leg for a carton of eggs when I only need one. :-)
Friday, December 19, 2008
Eggless Cooking
Posted by Jennifer at 6:17 AM
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Thanks for sharing the link! This stuff looks stupendous! I definetely want to try The Eggless cookie bar...yum!
Also I was glad to see that you eat dairy and eggs at least in baking, not because I worry about your food intake (ok I have once or twice) but because I sent you something yummy and hemmed and hawed about it because it contained both egg and dairy but I decided what the heck...you won't be able to resist because it's soo yummy or at the very least it will be engulfed by your teenage daughter.
Honestly, I can't imagine life without eggs... I buy mine from a friend/neighbor who has a small flock of well tended hens.
The PA I worked with at my former job has a sister who is vegan and she somehow has it figured out. She is a good cook and was always bringing stuff to her sister. And Cathy would let us sample.
We eat alot of eggs around here. I am thinking about getting a few chickens because we have a chicken coop.
I can't imagine going without eggs or milk. Lots of both. Neither has much of a reaction with me. (My Greek neigbour, thats a different story!) Its pea meal or pea flour that reacts violently in my gut! Lets not develop any visuals here...they would NOT be pretty! But a bag of Poppadums or carob in any form, or a bowl of anything made from soy will pretty much leave me looking nervously around for a bathroom. If beans are the musical fruit, then soy beans are a freakin symphony!
A lot of people can't drink milk. My Greek neighour, I have already mentioned cannot drink cow's milk. He can however, drink goat's milk, and I have discovered that I really like goat's milk. (With ouzo) And goat cheese. (with pasta) And sheep's cheese (pecarino)(with tuscan vinegar). I presume in order to get sheep cheese you have to get sheep's milk, but I have never seen it on a supermarket shelf.
Of course, when I was in Italy, there were a lot of things I wouldn't normally eat which were on the menue. Presuming you were smart enough to be able to read the menue...grin! I remember a cous couse cherry tomato mozzarella "something" which I only found out later contained cubed octopus. Well (I thought to myself) looks like you are not allergic to octopus anyway! Now I am quite blase about tentacles....and I dearly love to freak Brenda out by happily slurping them back.
Hey, my ancestors fought their way UP the food chain.
Yet the strangest item I ever et was right in the US...in Maryland. A deep fried soft shelled crab. On a hamburger bun. Oh it wasn't the crab (which, yup, looked much like a crab...lots of breaded legs and eyestalks hanging outside the bun...that caused Brenda to start to heave as soon as she looked at it....it was the fact that they deep fried it. And then (turn your face away) they put American Catsup on it! Ewwwwwww.
I have been told they only do that in Baltimore. In DC, they put a white tartar sauce on it. In Halifax, they don't deep fry it, they boil it. And in Tokyo..well, never mind...
Well, enough of Bill's culinary tour...well, almost. I picked up a package of Wensleydale cranberry filled cheese for Brenda's Christmas prezzy. I know when I was in Yorkshire (thats where wenslyedale is) the cheese was as good as the company and the company was as good as the ale, and the ale was as good as the sleep afterwards. Never had cranberries chopped into my cheese before though. Oh well, it has to be better than the chilis chopped into my mozzarella...I call it "pizza surprise".
Oh, the surprise...well, you will just have to wait until the next morning....
Anna, I can’t wait!! :-) Believe me, there is noooo reason to worry about my food intake these days, lol.
Aola, I really wish I knew a farmer to get my eggs from. Even then, I would only use them to bake though. Noelle and I both can't stand the thought of eating eggs.
McMom, I think it’s great that you want to raise your own!
I like fresh, real cheese but can’t afford it. Trader Joe’s has a wonderful cranberry-encrusted goat cheese log that is divine. I just can’t stand processed cheese of the American variety. Goat milk lacks a particular protein present in cow’s milk, which is why some people can drink goat’s milk but not cow’s milk.
Stag, the octopus and deep fried crab make me want to gag. : /
But, to each his own!
Yeah, Brenda has much the same reaction....like she says, "I can't watch, but I can't look away!!!! Ewwwww!!!"
I remember the first time I had yoghurt....I had to watch somebody else eat it, and pronounce it good. Riiiight...its SUPPOSED to taste that way? Really?
I think it took me another half dozen tries at it before I decided that maybe this stuff isn't so bad, and another half dozen yoghurt cups before my taste buds decided that this is a good flavor. Now I use it instead of sour cream on my baked potato.
I was asked once if there were any foods I refuse to eat for philisophical reasons. The lady who asked me this was almost militant...she would not eat jelly beans or refined sugar, so candy was pretty much right out. (I got her addicted to maple sugar candy though...evil grin!)
I decided that there were plenty of things I won't eat because I found the idea to be icky(no need to list them here...I'll let your imagination work on what BILL would find too icky to eat) so we agreed that perhaps we were in agreement, just that we draw the line in a different place. I was okay with that.
Oh, and eggs...the local farmer's market has banned all products made with fresh eggs, they have to be made with powdered eggs, or an industrial product called "egg beaters", or irradiated eggs. Seems eggs are really good culture media...and there have been scares.
(insert wry face and razzberry here...)
Regards, and may the peace of the season be upon you. I have to get out and shovel, so I shan't be live-with-able for awhile.
cuss cuss grumble grumble
we don't drink milk at all, I've seen far too many cow abscess videos to ever want milk again.
Plus, a case of soymilk from costco costs $12 and keeps forever.
Eggs. I like eggs. They are also a food source for every species on the planet, from fish to top predators, so I feel ok eating eggs. :)
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