It's already known that soy is a viable source for protein, but if you are like most people I know that word... SOY, frightens the hell out of you. A more frightening word... TOFU, then there are others TVP, Tempeh, Seitan (although that ones not soy). Not one of these products is something to fear, I've logged countless man hours on the web, my nose buried in cookbooks, and annoying my vegan and vegetarian friends about the different uses of each one of these. Their versatility, for me, has made cooking an adventure and it caters to my impatient disposition. More often than not the prep-time for these dishes trumps the length of the cooking time. You can sneak these power foods into most anything you can imagine to make! (just be careful when entertaining... be mindful of soy allergies and wheat gluten intolerances) Never having been much of a meat eater and a carb lover, I am sure my diet was lacking the protein that it needed. I would always be hungry, never satisfied for long... but once I started infusing more soy protein sources into my diet, cravings stopped, energy levels boosted, I even lost a couple pounds. More than that, I know that I am putting something good in my body and I know exactly what when into preparing them for me... I felt detoxified.
At first I was looking for recipes to tell me exactly what to make, but when I tried them, they weren't bad but they just seemed like health food. I'm an American, I want to eat something hearty! It's obvious I'm not the only one who thinks this way since we are tipping the scale as one of the most obese countries. So I used them as a guideline, more so to get cooking times and really, just a feel for what others were doing in their kitchens. What I quickly realized was that I needed to keep cooking the foods I loved, I'd just have to figure out a way to make it work modify them for myself, and so that I could introduce this way of eating to my soy-shy family. So far, it's worked!
No comments:
Post a Comment