Simple, yummy, filling, nutritious, high-fiber, guilt-free meal. Baked potato with chili beans, blanched broccoli, vegan bacon, and plant-based cheese sauce (link HERE).
-Wash potatoes. Place in 350 F oven. Cook for about 75 min. (There's probably a quicker way that I haven't learned, yet).
-Open can of chili beans, pour into small sauce pan, and heat over medium heat
-Cut rinsed broccoli into bite-size pieces and blanch (click HERE) in boiling water for 2 min. Drain.
-If using vegan bacon, follow directions. (Mine needed to be thawed, then cooked for 2 min each side on pan
-Slice skin off from top of potato. Mash the inside. Pour on hot beans with its own sauce, then top with cheese sauce, broccoli, and vegan bacon...or whatever toppings you are craving :)
Bacon tastes good because of the salt and fat (and sugar) combination
our tastebuds crave (pig meat doesn't taste good without those things).
As I was cooking this plant-based version, my husband and son
came in a said it smelled like bacon. They liked the vegan bacon.
It's good in a sandwich. It doesn't have the same texture
as pig bacon. When I knew how much the young pigs suffer,
it was easy to give up pig bacon. Additionally, pig bacon is a
Class-1 carcinogen...bad news for our body, the pig's body,
as well as the environmental damage from animal agriculture.
