Texas Vegan Brisket??? Say it ain't so!
howdy folks and greetings from the Great Plains of North Texas!
I was shocked to see this recipe mentioned in a Texas magazine today.
For Texas that kind of thing is almost sacrilegious! lol.
check this out:
18 hours smoked over oak. Is it beef? Nope. But the taste/texture are
pretty great. Mix of jackfruit, seitan, miso, beer, Franklin BBQ sauce
made w extra sugar so it carmalized to a crust — and it did!
The creator says it was a great success.
how's it look?
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I'd try it. My friend @delishtreats has been teaching me the benefits of
a Vegan diet so see delishtreats... there ARE Texans who are Vegans!
This unusual fake meat was featured in an article about a big BBQ
roundup they're having in Dallas this week with 30 of the best BBQ
joints in Texas. That place is going to smell GOOD!
By the way, I worked as a grill master for a year in a local BBQ joint
which was a country restaurant about 5 or 6 miles outside of town.
We specialized in brisket but did beef and pork ribs, hot links,
chicken, turkey, several sausages.
That was quite the experience, it was fun when people from local
ranches would ride their horses over to the restaurant and tie up
at the front porch. We only used Mesquite wood and the briskets
were smoked for 12 hours. I can smell it now!
Here's the type of meals we were making:
thanks for stopping by folks, God bless you all!
-jonboy Texas
the gentleman redneck
ps- ya know...you might just be a redneck if:
Your idea of a 7 course meal is a bucket of KFC and a sixpack!
(actually sounds pretty good to me!)
No thank you! I'll take beef brisket any day over that strange fruit mess with barbecue sauce and sugar that you mentioned above. Really good beef brisket tastes good even without barbecue sauce!
My son got into smoking meat last year, it was one of those grin and bear it things. He's actually improved a lot over the course of the year, tomorrow he'll be back at it again in between helping me paint.
oh how interesting sunlit7..well if it's done right there's nothing like it so I wish him luck.
what are you painting, like your house?
Yes. I think I was telling you that I have my four year rental certification coming up. You can't have any peeling paint, if they find peeling paint they make you hire a professional to paint your house you can't do it yourself anymore....the only real difference is a professional takes a class, which I am sure they charge a nice sum for, then places caution tape around your house while they paint it...(lol). So basically I go around and spot check for peeling paint, scrape it, touch it up. I generally do the bottom half, my sons do the top. It takes them forever to get motivated, stay focused, etc., if I had a fiberglass ladder I'd probably do it myself, they are much lighter to handle then a steel ladder.
howdy again sunlit7! oh yes now I remember because I was amazed at all the regulations and everything, it's totally nuts like they want to micro manage everyone's lives up there! Well, you have a good system though if the boys do their part.
I'll eat my veggies the normal way next to meat!
haha! yes sir balticbadger that seems to be the growing consensus here! lol.
Hi @janton. That is a no from me for that veggie brisket. Looks as dry as old boots and if you going to be a veggie why imitate. The other food looks amazing by the way. I had ribs tonight and they were very good.
hahaha! sir cryptoandcoffee! very good sir a true carnivore lol. Hey I would try the fake meat, it might be good but I'm trying to avoid gluten and it's basically gluten so...
But a perfectly smoked brisket with Mesquite wood...the best. and we made tacos that sold like hot cakes, they were killer good.
I have seen the smokers and would love to try some proper smoked meats. Ilove my food and that would be on my bucket list. A trip to Texas to come and have some smoked brisket. You guys are known for this type of food so it will be worth the visit.
ha! yes sir cryptoandcoffee..if it's done right and smoked for 12 hours then it's like a bit of heaven and can't be beat!
One of these days I will be eating some and will remember these words.
One of these days I
Will be eating some and will
Remember these words.
- cryptoandcoffee
I'm a bot. I detect haiku.
@janton is the first picture not brown bread? I love the way your first picture was something vegan and looks like crap and then you balanced it up with 3 beautiful photos that made me drool!! haha
hahaha! it's true there's not much they could do to make the first photo look better, it looks like a piece of dried bread and it basically is, the principle ingredient being gluten, but it's supposed to be a good flavored bread! lol.
have you had an excellent BBQ like 12 hour smoked brisket sir blanchy?
What is brisket? Ive had barbeque's with ribs, steaks and burgers but not a whole roast. There this show on tv that follows the barbeque pro's down your neck of the woods. Id love to try some of it!
well sir blanchy it's basically the shoulder, one of the best parts and perfect for smoking and if it's done right and smoked for 12 hours..oh man..it's just the very best!
I would love to try that! Sounds delicious
well sir blanchy I appreciate your enthusiasm but you would probably have to come over here to find the real stuff so you might have to wait awhile!
A vegan BBQ brisket in Texas! I am vegetarian (mostly) but if you are going to feed me brisket, it had better be the real thing! LOL You know the food is good if the good old boys ride up on their horses to get it!
haha! yes Ma'am cecicastor that was an interesting time but I agree that if you eat it you want the best!
Man, that looks dry. I would give it a bash though!
haha..what is a "bash" sir meesterboom? you would give it a try? It might go good with beer!
A bash yeah, a try! It probably would go well with something wet, lol!
A bash yeah, a try!
It probably would go well
With something wet, lol!
- meesterboom
I'm a bot. I detect haiku.
Red meat. Read my lips, red meat. Brisket is red meat.
These people who make this kind of crap and then try to peddle it ought to be strung up at high noon from a big live oak tree.
Those "Texans" who are vegans are normally either transplanted Texans or who are native Texans that were in FFA and didn't realize that their first place lamb at the FFA show would end up being sold to the local meat market at the champions auction and on display the next week in the meat case with a picture of the blue ribbon award ceremony taped on the front glass of the cabinet by the lamb roast.
My wife happens to be the latter of those two examples by the way.
hahaha! ok sir sultnpapper it IS kind of shocking to see that in an article about the best BBQ joints but I think they just put it there to attract attention, which it did mine.
Your wife is a transplant from another state is that what you're sayin?
She is a native Texan, I went back and edited my comment to better reflect what I was trying to get across.
Her lamb won first place when she was a junior in high school at the FFA live stock show.
The local grocery store that was in Tomball, Texas at the time was the Klein Brothers Grocery and Meat Market.
They purchased her lamb at the champions sale and the next week when she was in the store with her mother grocery shopping she found her lamb butchered and on display in the glass meat case of the meat department.
Her meal prior to that shopping trip was the last time she ever ate meat. She has been a vegan or vegetarian since then, I know there is a difference between the two V's but I couldn't swear which she technically falls under, but she damn sure doesn't eat meat.
wow sir sultnpapper! what a remarkable story..and she gets plenty of protein from other sources I guess but what about fixing meals she fixes meat but doesn't eat it herself I guess.
She doesn't have a problem with cooking it she just won't eat meat. I don't know if she "gets plenty" of protein or not but she is alive and kicking.
haha! she's alive and kicking...probably kicking your butt! lol. well that sounds great, I'm sure she can judge when she needs more protein, women are usually so sensitive about such things.
Wow....
I can't knock it until I try it...
(:
Is the vegan slow roasted thing healthy janton? I can see why the BBQ was popular. Ain't life grand?
ha! yes it really offends people that someone would try to make fake brisket but it IS much healthier if you have a health condition that limits your diet.
Yes the fake meat is basically flavored gluten so it's fine unless you're on a diet to limit gluten which is what Mrs. J and I are on at the moment, so it would be better for us to have the real thing.
But janton is brisket a healthy meat? I thought there was too much salt in it.
howdy angiemitchell! as far as I know it's very healthy, it's an excellent cut of meat but I've never heard of it being high in salt. I could google it but I'm too lazy.
You are right, I confused it with "silver side," lol