- Good morning, friends!
Today I am going to do another
"What I Eat in a Day as a Vegan."
Yay!
This is my second episode, so if
you want to see what I ate last time
I ate all day, I eat everyday.
If you want to see what I ate last time,
click the link below this video.
Yeah.
I already had a soy milk latte
and a big glass of lemon water
and I drank those like I always do
almost every morning while I answer emails
and comments from my blog.
Yay!
And now, I'm going to quickly have some breakfast
and then I have to go run out and
get my eyes tested because I think I need glasses.
We will see.
I picked up this cereal at the grocery story the other day,
but I thought the word veganic
was pretty goofy so, obviously, I bought it immediately.
Who doesn't want chocolate first thing in the morning?
I want chocolate first thing in the morning.
I always try to get a bunch of
fruit in in the morning because
I love fruit and it's super good for you.
I'm going to toss some raspberries in this
chocolate cereal because raspberries and chocolate?
I think so.
So, I just got my eyes tested to see
if I need glasses, apparently I do.
This eye likes to think it's better than everyone else
and likes to lead the way and this guy's
just left behind doing nothing.
That's what I learned today.
So I'm going to have some lunch, now.
I have some leftover sweet Korean lentils,
which is one of the recipes I posted on my blog.
I posted it maybe a month ago, maybe a little bit more
and it is one of the most popular recipes
on my blog, just like that.
I'm guessing the reason is it takes
just 15 minutes to make and it
tastes so good, so good.
The rice took way longer to cook than the lentils.
I picked some Romaine lettuce leaves from my garden.
If you don't have a garden, you can
go to the grocery store.
This is one of my favorite ways to eat leftovers
because I get a bunch of greenage in,
it's delicious, I get to eat with my hands,
all good things.
I'm just going to pile in some lentil goodness,
like so, and some leftover rice.
Sometimes I'll cut up extra veggies.
Today I'm not going to because I'm lazy.
I'll add a little extra sriracha because
who doesn't like sriracha?
And then I'll just roll it all up like burrito.
(upbeat music)
(crunch)
So good.
It is so dark in here now.
It's pouring rain out.
Thunder!
Alright, and now it's time for me to make some dinner
because I am getting hungry for dinner.
Good introduction!
I'm going to make Tofu Bolognese.
The recipe is one my blog if you want to make it.
I'll put a link in the comments below.
I've got my recipe over here that I'm looking at
because I don't remember my own recipes.
Some soy sauce, olive oil, nutritional yeast.
If you've never had nutritional yeast before,
I recommend trying it.
It's got kind of a nutty, cheesy kind of taste,
so vegans are obsessed with it.
The first time I tried it, I did
not like it, but now it's one of my favorite things.
Got some chili powder, garlic powder.
Sometimes people tell me, they're like
"Oh my god, vegan food is so bland."
And I'm like "Dude, look in your spice cabinet.
You're entire spice cabinet is vegan."
Liquid smoke.
If you've never heard of liquid smoke before,
you can actually find it in the barbecue section.
It'll be right next to the barbecue sauces.
It is basically the condensation
collected from a fire, so it's natural.
It's not a fake ingredient and it really adds,
it's kind of like a smoky, meaty, kind of flavor to things.
So, if you want to get that flavor that is when you use it.
So I've got my seasonings in there.
Very exciting.
I'm just going to make this kind of brown, pasty business.
That's exactly what we want.
Then you take a block of tofu and you're
just going to crumble it all in there
into, kind of, little ground textures.
A lot of people are afraid of soy or tofu,
and here's the thing, okay.
First of all, if you want to be vegan
you don't have to eat tofu.
If you don't like soy, you don't have to eat it.
There is so many options.
So much else is available.
You really don't need to eat it.
But if you're worried about it because
of these claims of estrogen and all of that,
it's just total baloney.
It's not real at all.
These are just myths that have been spread.
Soy, just like any other bean, is just a bean
and it has all of the same kind of nutrients
and fiber and all of those things
that are really good for you.
It doesn't contain any estrogen, believe it or not,
it contains phytoestrogen, which is plant estrogen,
and it doesn't react in your body the
same way as real estrogen does.
You know what does contain real estrogen?
Animal products.
Particularly dairy.
So if you actually want to avoid estrogen,
switch to plants, avoid the animals.
Stop blaming the bean!
Oh, don't throw tofu.
Get in there.
So I've got all my crumbles and I'm
just going to toss them well.
Just getting in there with my hands.
Clean hands, please, because it's just
a lot faster and easier sometimes.
It smells delicious.
I always talk about smells in these videos,
but you eat with your nose.
No, you don't eat with your nose,
but you know what I mean.
They say that smell is an important part of,
I don't know what I'm saying.
Spread it as much as possible so it can dry out evenly.
Then I'm just going to pop this in the oven.
You see, that took no time.
My oven hasn't even heated up yet
and I've already done most of the work of this recipe.
Boom!
That's what I'm talking about.
For this pasta, I'm going to be using
good old, regular, store bought tomato sauce.
Don't tell my mom.
She always makes tomato sauce from scratch.
But I'm making the tofu from scratch,
I feel like that's enough for this recipe.
And I'm going to be using a brown rice pasta.
You can use regular pasta.
Most dried pastas are vegan, you might
just want to double check to make sure there's no egg
but most of them are vegan already.
I'm opting for brown rice because
I always try to go for whole grains over
more processed stuff because you know,
it's better for you.
But honestly, I hate whole wheat pasta.
Brown rice pasta, as long as you cook it
the correct amount of time, tastes pretty
much the same as regular pasta
and so, it is my go to.
Yes.
♪ Waiting for things to cook because I'm hungry ♪
♪ La la la la la ♪
I pulled the tofu out of the oven.
You can see that the little bits are nice
and dark and brown and the bigger bits
are a little bit light.
That's just what we want.
So you just stir it in in the sauce
will moisten it all up, make it lovely and chewy.
And if you find that your sauce gets a little bit too thick,
just add a little bit of water to thin it out.
My pasta is cooked.
I'm just going to spoon over some of this gorgeous sauce.
What, check it!
It looks amazing!
I'm so excited!
My stomach just growled ferociously.
A little bit of Parmegan, which is my recipe
for vegan Parmesan.
Boom!
Tell me you don't want that immediately.
Delicious.
Now I'm going to have some popcorn as a snack
while I go watch a movie.
I love popcorn.
I could eat truckloads of popcorn,
but I try not to and stick to one giant bowl
as a reasonable portion of popcorn.
I got this new air popper, which I'm a big fan of.
And then I like to sprinkle some salt
and lots of nutritional yeast on top
and it is, it's so delicious.
I just like it a lot okay?
♪ Eating things is what I do ♪
Thank you for watching this video.
I hope you enjoyed it.
Let me know if you have any questions
in the comments and be sure to give
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Lots of delicious veganess to be had.
Bon Appetit!
(clucking)