If you are curious about vegan cooking, this club is for you! Each month, participants make three recipes from popular cookbooks then share their reflections with the group. Novice to expert cooks are welcome, as are interested non-cooks. Registration for the online meeting is not required—get log-in information below.
Download the recipes here
About Veganistan: A Vegan Tour of the Middle East and Beyond
From the Publisher:
“The newest release from prolific food writer Sally Butcher, Veganistan is full of healthy, accessible, and delicious vegan recipes for everyone, inspired by a Middle Eastern kitchen.
The Middle East is a region lush in its vegetation, a gift to the non-meat-eater. Much of the cuisine is naturally plant-based, with a lot of the flavor of recipes coming from the herbs, spices, cooking methods, and sheer joie de cuisine traditional to Middle Eastern dining.
[… I]n Veganistan Sally Butcher starts to play more with seitan, tofu, and tempeh using them as vehicles to showcase the wonderful range of flavor this cuisine offers. […This book is] celebrating the wonders of Central Asian, Iranian, Turkish, Arab, and East African vegetable cooking and creating a volume of accessible dishes.
This month’s featured recipes
In the recipe club this month we will discuss these recipes:
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A Falafel Refresher Course (aka Great Balls of Fire) — pg 56
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Shor Nokhod (Afghan Street Food) — pg 58
- Simple Pan-Friend Na’an — pg 68
optional:
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Finally, a Viable Vegan Ghormeh Sabzi — pg 91
- Vegan Yogurt — pg 185
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Homemade Halva — pg 152
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Megan the Vegan’s Secret Seitan Recipe — pg 180
Vegan Recipe Club General Details
The Vegan Recipe Club is for everyone—those curious about vegan cooking and those more experienced with it. The club explores plant-based recipes created by cooks of varying cultures and nationalities and cookbooks are suitable for the novice to experienced cook.
This club aims to feature recipes that are great tasting and support the health of participants. It’s a great way to explore great new recipes, work out issues in different recipes, and to build community with others interested in vegan cooking. Best of all, these meals also help the animals and the environment!
How does it work?
In the month prior to the Vegan Recipe Club meeting, you can download the recipes for free from the top of this page. Try making one or more of the recipes then come to share and discuss what you thought about them with the group.
The group is facilitated by volunteer Henry Patterson of Compassionate Action for Animals (CAA). If you have questions about the recipes or the Vegan Recipe Club between meetings, email info@exploreveg.org.
Join us online!
The club meets monthly on the third Tuesday of each month at 6:30 pm. Meetings are held via Zoom — see details below. Several times a year we host an in-person potluck in conjunction with the meeting. It will be in our new CAA office space which is in Ste. 108 at 34 13th Ave. NE, Minneapolis, 55113. Keep your eye posted to the event page for more information.
Join Zoom Meeting, with passcode 467109
Or use the dial-in information: Meeting ID: 815 7424 7392 Passcode: 467109 Dial by your location: +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 929 205 6099 US (New York) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
