Posted on 05/29/2023 8:56:04 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. -- Brat Fest is getting a lot of attention this weekend, but on Saturday a smaller festival showcased all that can be done without meat or dairy products.
Vilas Park played host for Vegan Sausage Fest, where vendors made delicious and creative vegan-friendly dishes. Attendees could sample plant-based foods in a traditional festival setting with plenty of options to choose from.
Organizers said about 1,000 people attended, with social media used to promote the event.
"The last two months we've been putting a lot of social media content out there, and really promoting it," organizer Beth Skogen said. "The turn out is so much better than I thought."
Two farm sanctuaries were on hand taking donations, and anyone who donated $10 was entered into a raffle for a $50 Food Fight restaurant gift card.
Vegan Sausage Fest, eh? I’m not going near the topic. The jokes are just too easy.
A mournful sausage for a mournful day.
Easy and Delicious Soy-Free Vegan Sausages!
Ingredients
Wet Ingredients:
120 g cooked white beans
200 ml vegetable broth
1 tablespoon pork sausage seasoning
80 ml aquafaba
2 cloves garlic peeled and chopped
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon coconut aminos
1 teaspoon liquid smoke
Dry Ingredients:
150 g vital wheat gluten
2 tablespoon nutritional yeast flakes
1 tbsp buckwheat flour
2 tablespoon dried onion flakes
Equipment
high-powered blender
steamer pan
Instructions
Bring the water to boil in a large saucepan fitted with a steamer insert. You want the the water level to come just below the bottom of the steamer.
Blend the wet ingredients together until smooth.
Mix the dry ingredients together in a large bowl, then add the liquid.
Mix well, making sure that everything is completely incorporated. (The mix will be quite wet.)
Knead for a couple of minutes, then divide the dough into 8 equal parts.
Cut 8 strips of tin foil, roughly 30cm (12”) long.
Place a vaguely sausage-shaped piece of the dough onto the centre the foil, along one of the edges, then roll up into a sausage shape. Twist the ends tightly.
Place into the steamer, reduce the heat, and steam for 40 minutes.
Once cooked, remove the sausages from the steamer, and set aside to cool.
Put the sausages, still wrapped, in the ‘fridge for at least five hours to firm up. Overnight is better.
To heat
Gently fry for a few minutes on each side (I recommend either a non-stick skillet or a cast-iron one, brushed with a little oil).
If you’re going to use the sausages in a casserole, or with a sauce, etc., there’s no need to fry - simply add them to your dish five minutes before the end of the cooking time to warm through.
To store
Keep in the ‘fridge, in the wrapping for up to a week. They also freeze well.
Not at my house by a long shot.
In my cold dead meat filled hands.
Some lab-grown fungi mashed up with lab-grown mammalian cancer cells, with some nice natural herbs and spices and apples and various fruits and nuts and whatever.
Bon appetit, baby! This is your future!
Why do vegans work so hard to make their fake meat look like real meat? That is just bizarre.
I suspect most of the people who would go to such a thing would enjoy that kind of “Sausage Party”.
I’m sure going to enjoy my pork barbecue this evening.
My bad, I misread the title, I thought it was “Virgin Sausage Festival.”
So sad. The whole practice of calling ersatz food as though it were the genuine article is deplorable. If it ain’t meat call it what it is or make up a new term without trying to steal the positive associations of meat. Plant based sausage is a nauseating concept and a misuse of the English language.
Dictionary:
A sausage is a type of meat product usually made from ground meat—often pork, beef, or poultry—along with salt, spices and other flavourings.Other ingredients, such as grains or breadcrumbs may be included as fillers or extenders.
That’s just gross
May as well eat dog poop
They deserve it
Why do these veggietards want something that tastes like meat?
Fake Saisage Fest.
If vegan food is so great, why do they disguise it as real food??
This is Meat Face!
No different than Black Face or Woman Face.
Let’s throw in some bugs for added protein, and we can rinse things down with some processed semi-milk made of something not coming from cows.
The left can shove it all up their Dorkbamaholes.
Vegetable pudding
Why bother pretending it’s sausage? If beans is what you want, just eat beans and call it beans.
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