Comfort gone meatless

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  • Sunshine_And_Sand
    Sunshine_And_Sand Posts: 1,320 Member
    Cherilyn, are you wanting strict vegan or just vegetarian? Big difference IMO.
    I feel like vegetarian comfort food is definitely doable but I wouldn't be any help with vegan comfort food.

    Try a hash brown casserole (maybe a southern thing):
    -1 bag frozen shredded hash browns
    -1/2 stick melted butter
    -3 tbsp extra light tasting olive oil (important not to use EVOO as the cheese won't brown as well in this)
    -8oz sour cream
    - 1 can cream of celery (a lot of people use cream of chicken here but those weird little bits of bright pink chicken are creepy to me anyway)
    -1/2 cup hot sauce (I like Texas Pete) if u want a little extra zip
    -salt and pepper to your taste
    -1 block of the sharpest cheddar u can find and grate it up
    Mix up all that, cover tree top with more cheese (or some people use corn flakes)
    and bake at 350 for 45 minutes

    Definitely qualifies as comfort food and is meatless (but wouldn't work for vegan)

    Also make a lasagna with extra cheese (I like to use fresh grate ricotta salata blended cream cheese and an egg) just skip the meat in your sauce

    Crap... now I'm hungry
  • French_Peasant
    French_Peasant Posts: 1,639 Member
    Gumbo z'herbes. New Orleans and the Cajuns have been doing meatless for a few centuries, once Mardi Gras is packed up.

    https://www.chowhound.com/recipes/gumbo-zherbes-10906
  • Tweaking_Time
    Tweaking_Time Posts: 733 Member
    Grilled cheese sammich and a bowl of tomato soup...
    ^^^This is wintertime comfort food^^^
  • w_angelique
    w_angelique Posts: 1 Member
    JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
    crazyravr wrote: »
    JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
    Ain't none.

    Veganism hasn't been around long enough for it to have 'classic comfort' to describe it.

    Now, one classic comfort meatless food in my house is pinto beans and cornbread, but if you're not culturally Southern U.S., you know nothing of it.

    Thats what I thought. But then discovered jackfruit. Amazing as a "pulled pork" in a slow cooker. Seriously. I love meat but this blew my mind. If done proper you would not tell this isnt pork.

    My local Wal-Mart is bare of many shelves but none of them are labeled for jackfruit. They do have bags of cassava root. Is that similar?

    You can find jackfruit in the produce section precooked & flavored. I was shocked. If you are in Texas it's in HEB.
  • nowine4me
    nowine4me Posts: 3,985 Member
    Roast butternut squash with pecans is about as comfort foody as it gets. Or a nice roast corn chowder. Green Giant cauliflower tater tots aren't bad either (frozen food aisle)
  • RedSierra
    RedSierra Posts: 253 Member
    CherilynWalker wrote: »
    Looking for some classic comfort foods made meatless.

    Cooked apples, cored and stuffed with a little brown sugar and cinnamon.
  • vegmebuff
    vegmebuff Posts: 31,389 Member
    JeromeBarry1 wrote: »
    Ain't none.

    Veganism hasn't been around long enough for it to have 'classic comfort' to describe it.

    Now, one classic comfort meatless food in my house is pinto beans and cornbread, but if you're not culturally Southern U.S., you know nothing of it.

    What??? What about Indian or Lebanese? The world doesn't just mean the good old USA lol! ;)
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