What's your favorite vegan comfort food?

Fellow Dutchie here. Those shoarma pizza's are the best.

Never had it. I was already tempted to come to the Netherlands to see some of the urban infrastructure (I'm a nerd), but now I'll have to add the pizza to the list of things to look at and try if I ever go.

From Eastern Europe: what the hell is a shaorma pizza? I googled it, looks like it's just a pizza.

Ze shaorma must be in ze pita bread! Zis is ze law!

One of my local veg meat makers started putting out a really frigging good seitan shawarma. I can't tell you how good it is, it's just perfect. Our local Donaire place closed down not long after I gave up meat (I hope this is a coincidence?) and now I'm working on perfecting my recipe for homemade ones. I think they're already better.

Those are all things that I am craving right now. When my partner and I make pizzas or calzones, that requires me making cashew mozzarella. We'll be ordering some more cashews soon enough, but don't have them now... and I'm jonesing more than I care to admit.

I love making my own veggie burgers. I've tried the Beyond burgers. They're okay, but the homemade ones are still really good and much, much cheaper.

I love nuggets! My case of tofu is coming in tomorrow, so I might go ahead and make some. I freeze the tofu once for texture, slice them up, boil them in "chicken" broth concentrate, then bread and deep fry them in coconut oil.

Ooh, that sounds delicious.

Ooh, I'd have to type everything out! It's a multi-step process for both.

For the calzones, my partner makes a dough (usually a combination of rice, tapioca, cassava, and almond flour)... I don't have the recipe, but it can really be a vegan pizza dough of your choice). I make the cheese (4c. raw cashews, 4c. water, 3 tbsp. apple cider vinegar, 2.25 tsp. lactic acid, ¼c. tapioca flour, and ¼c. kappa carrageenan) by blending all of the ingredients except for the carrageenan in a high-speed blender until smooth. Then I add the carrageenan in and blend again for a couple of minutes until thick. Pour the blender into a pot and stir until the cheese gels up. Pour out into whatever containers you want to become the mold for the blocks of cheese. Roll out the dough, and put whatever you'd like onto half of the "pizza crust". Cheese, veggies, fake meat, whatever. I always add some extra oil for that greasy authenticity. Fold it over into a calzone, and put into the oven at _375°F/191°C for about 45 minutes. Take out and nom once cooled. Marinara sauce goes really well on the side.

For the cheesesteak, chopped up tofu into "chipped steak" consistency slices and boiled them in a flavorful, salty broth that mimicked the taste of beef. I can't remember the spices I used exactly, but any "fake beef" bouillon is a good start, at about 2x the recommended concentration. After they've soaked in the flavor, lay them out on a baking sheet and dry them out a while. Not extra crispy, or anything, just enough to get a good amount of the water out. Then I fried them in a frying pan with coconut oil (for that realistic saturated fat taste) and some chopped onions. I melted a few pieces of storebought vegan cheese in with some almond milk and some nutritional yeast, and whisked it together until it was a thick cheesy sauce. That made the cheese for the cheesesteak. All of that can go onto whatever your favorite steak roll is.

Damn! Unfortunately I wasted some chickpea flour recently (I had bought it years ago, and it went kind of stale and weird). I hadn't found many uses for it, but I may have to try some socca. It sounds amazing, and I'm amazed that I never heard of it.