IT'S BACON!
Our first informational post is brought to you by the ultimate food, which can do anything - yes, it's bacon. This flavorful pork-belly product can be used in all sorts of recipes, but let's focus on one in particular: The BLT.
A classic, descended from Victorian British tea sandwiches, these sandwiches tend to range in bacon content from 4 standard to 6 thick slices (less than 1/4 lb to almost 1/2 lb before cooking), and often include extra ingredients like arugula and avocado.
Heidi Dehncke-Fisher shows how to make the ultimate BLT
Five different BLT varieties from MrBaconpants.com
A nice BLT with olive oil mayonaise
The ranch BLT chicken sandwich - maybe too meaty for this site? --- nah!
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
This website was the result of a brainstorm sparked by this Times Online article. "Give up meat to save the planet!" “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.”
The hell you say!
Still, it got me thinking... I'm rather skeptical about the global warming theory, with so much new evidence pointing towards solar-driven climate change being a greater factor than carbon dioxide. Still, reducing the market for meat would produce less pollution and increase the total available calories for human consumption (and fuel generation for that matter). Many people don't have enough vegetables in their diet, and much fast food is sparse in veggie content and high in fat. I like fast food and eat it often, and if you switched my 100% beef patties for vegetable burgers, I'd get *tick* really testy.
On the other hand, what if they weren't 100% vegetable? What if they also contained a significant dose of yummy, yummy beef? Might it be possible to create masterpieces with even more taste than a simple patty of ground meat?
That's what McDonalds has already been doing with their french fries, after all; crisp fried potatoes, with the added umami of beef tallow.
And the Unvegan concept sprung into being. Reduce the meat content of meals significantly, but not eliminating it. No moralistic argument to vacate the desire for animal flesh. No being chided by one's mom to eat one's vegetables. And they're starving less in Africa!
Yes, I know; everyone's going to hate it. :-)
To follow will be expansions on the concept and tasty recipes. Stay tuned!
The hell you say!
Still, it got me thinking... I'm rather skeptical about the global warming theory, with so much new evidence pointing towards solar-driven climate change being a greater factor than carbon dioxide. Still, reducing the market for meat would produce less pollution and increase the total available calories for human consumption (and fuel generation for that matter). Many people don't have enough vegetables in their diet, and much fast food is sparse in veggie content and high in fat. I like fast food and eat it often, and if you switched my 100% beef patties for vegetable burgers, I'd get *tick* really testy.
On the other hand, what if they weren't 100% vegetable? What if they also contained a significant dose of yummy, yummy beef? Might it be possible to create masterpieces with even more taste than a simple patty of ground meat?
That's what McDonalds has already been doing with their french fries, after all; crisp fried potatoes, with the added umami of beef tallow.
And the Unvegan concept sprung into being. Reduce the meat content of meals significantly, but not eliminating it. No moralistic argument to vacate the desire for animal flesh. No being chided by one's mom to eat one's vegetables. And they're starving less in Africa!
Yes, I know; everyone's going to hate it. :-)
To follow will be expansions on the concept and tasty recipes. Stay tuned!
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