{"id":144,"date":"2019-03-22T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T00:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainablestudent\/?p=144"},"modified":"2019-04-05T02:17:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T02:17:58","slug":"smoky-tempeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainablestudent\/2019\/03\/22\/smoky-tempeh\/","title":{"rendered":"You Need To Try Tempeh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My sister, a vegetarian for over four years now, has been one of my biggest inspirations for wanting to give up eating meat. One recent evening while I was staying at her home, she offered to make one of her favorite dishes: smoked tempeh sandwiches. My response? <em>&#8220;What the heck is tempeh?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It turns out tempeh is a fermented soy product. The difference between tempeh and tofu is that tempeh is made from whole soybeans, while tofu is not. The soybeans are compressed into a &#8220;cake,&#8221; offering a chewy and hearty texture. Plus, it is packed with plant-based protein!<\/p>\n<p>The sandwiches turned out delicious. The tempeh was marinated in barbecue sauce topped with a creamy coleslaw. I couldn&#8217;t help but grab seconds! I recently found myself wanting to try cooking tempeh myself. I found a good recipe online with an easy-to-follow You can find the it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/frommybowl.com\/how-cook-tempeh\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once your tempeh is cooked, eat it on a bun with whatever toppings you&#8217;d like, or you can dice it up and add it into a salad! That&#8217;s the great thing about tempeh, you can get really creative with it!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Friday!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My sister, a vegetarian for over four years now, has been one of my biggest inspirations for wanting to give up eating meat. One recent evening while I was staying at her home, she offered to make one of her favorite dishes: smoked tempeh sandwiches. My response? &#8220;What the heck is tempeh?&#8221; It turns out tempeh is a fermented soy product. The difference between tempeh and tofu is that tempeh is made from whole soybeans, while tofu is not. The soybeans are compressed into a &#8220;cake,&#8221; offering a chewy and hearty texture. Plus, it is packed with plant-based protein! The sandwiches turned out delicious. The tempeh was marinated in barbecue sauce topped with a creamy coleslaw. I couldn&#8217;t help but grab seconds! I recently found myself wanting to try cooking tempeh myself. I found a good recipe online with an easy-to-follow You can find the it\u00a0here. Once your tempeh is cooked, eat it on a bun with whatever toppings you&#8217;d like, or you can dice it up and add it into a salad! That&#8217;s the great thing about tempeh, you can get really creative with it! Happy Friday! &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7831,"featured_media":159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930389],"tags":[77762,32,952728,77803,770,952449,46347,953209,46346,952970],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-fridays","tag-alternatives","tag-environment","tag-soy","tag-soybeans","tag-sustainability","tag-tempeh","tag-vegan","tag-vegan-recipes","tag-vegetarian","tag-vegetarian-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainablestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainablestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainablestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainablestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainablestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainablestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainablestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainablestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainablestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainablestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/sustainablestudent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}