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Looking for good vegan Puerto Rican recipes. My bf is despairing over his inability to cook me his classic family recipes. Family meals were the only really happy times in his childhood so it's super important to him that he can show his love by cooking, so our different diets has caused us a lot of stress recently.
I think if I can find something that hits all the right flavor notes, that he could optionally add meat to if he really insists on it, would go a long way for us.
I would be so insulted if someone added meat to a meal I made
Yeah I'm making a lot of compromises to be with someone who I was with long before I stopped eating animals.
spring_rabbit can have little a cognitive dissonance, as a treat.
Good luck to you. I've had carnist boyfriends and they don't work out for me. Just can't handle someone who thinks so little of the feelings of others that they insist on eating their tortured corpses even when it's completely unnecessary, even at the expense of my feelings. Can't stand the thought of kissing a mouth that has bits of corpse decaying in it.
Don't compromise your heart too much. You deserve someone who cares about what's important to you
Yeah I think I'm hard on the "I can fix him" cope, but we'll see how this goes I guess.
I had to deal with that for a full week last year when I did all the food prep for a backcountry canoe trip with my cousin. Thankfully it wasn't huge amounts/variety since the only thing that'll last out in the woods is cured meat, but it still makes you feel a bit shitty to spend all that effort making it tasty and protein-heavy enough for someone for them to just dump flesh into every helping.
I asked him near the end if there was anything he'd change about the food, and he said, "No, it was all great! I'd just add meat" :sadness:
im completely ignorant about puerto rican food, do you have any example recipes so we could maybe suggest alternatives to the meat in them, or similar vegan recipes?
Well he would probably consider it the greatest of insults if I tried to make asopao without the requisite animal bits, but papas rellenas and rice and peas look like they would pretty adaptable without the beef/pork. Unfortunately most of his childhood comfort foods amount to "meat, but seasoned really special."
Or like a good flan or tres leches recipe would be pretty cool. I want to cook cero leches.
few thoughts that may or may not work:
for that asopao or others that rely on medium-sized animal chunks in a sauce, you could try king oyster mushrooms, which i think are by far the best meat replacement and just so damn good generally. Chopped into decent-sized pieces and scored (important - really helps them soak up flavour) before a bit of frying, they give a really satisfying texture. Well-marinated firm/hard tofu can also help satisfy that craving for chunks of more chewy stuff, although could of course be a harder sell cos of the bad rap tofu gets with omnis. and for the small pieces of ham in that, i think a good replacement for small bits of ham etc in things like fried rice and soups is enoki mushrooms, which i think hit that satisfying texture and flavour note
for the papas rellenas or others that rely on mince, perhaps well-seasoned brown lentils or textured vegetable protein, with the seasoning including some smoked paprika to give more of the mince vibe? they can be bland and a bit weird if not seasoned well but it seems like the spices are doing the heavy lifting here anyway even when theres animal involved
of course you could always try the actual fake meats that people make, but im personally not so into those so i dont really have suggestions, and i kinda think they invite comparison with actual meat and might just really remind him that hes "missing out"
i have zero suggestions for the sweet stuff, sorry!