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Hey everyone, I’m #newhere. I’m interested in #books, #cooking, #fermentingfoods, #food, #go, #movies, #nordic-walking, #tempeh, #vegan-food, and #wfpb. Thanks for the invite, @Welcome Diasporg!

I have no idea where this will take me, but I like the disorientation that comes with a new venture. Today I roasted a few purple potatoes in my compact convection oven (aka "air fryer"). I roast them whole, just rubbing a little olive oil on the skin. What's available here are Stokes Purple® potatoes, though there are several varieties. The Stokes potatoes tend to be long and skinny, so once they're done (25 min at 350ºF), I refrigerate them to make the starch resistant, and then eat them cold from the fridge, where they occupy the same sort of food niche as, say, a chilled banana: sweet, no seeds or bones, and filling. Also very healthful: https://youtu.be/FzZ3DaqpYCw

I just made a new batch of tempeh, this time using Du Puy lentils and Kamut® khorasan wheat, a 50-50 mix (1.5 cups of each, measured before cooking and cooked separately). I like to a do a mix of an intact whole grain and beans/lentils. This batch is described here: https://leisureguy.wordpress.com/2022/11/24/lentils-kamut/
in reply to Michael Ham

Welcome! Hope you enjoy Diaspora 😀 Vegan here as well and will be checking out your tempeh link

I remember the first time I saw purple potatoes 😁
in reply to Michael Ham

Thanks. I really like my whole-food plant-based diet, and today I'm making a batch of tempeh chili. I made the tempeh using a 50-50 mix of Du Puy lentils and Kamut wheat.

I'm not really a vegan, since a vegan diet includes some foods I avoid — refined foods (for example, refined sugar, refined flour, fruit juice (though I eat a fair amount of fruit, generally 3 pieces of fruit and a bowl of berries every day)) and also highly processed foods, manufactured using industrial methods from refined ingredients. I try to stick with whole foods — intact whole grain, for example — or minimally processed foods — old-fashioned rolled oats (also a whole grain, though no longer intact).