Two Moons - Baconish: Sultry and Smoky Plant-Based Recipes from BLTs to Bacon Mac & Cheese

Praise for Baconish

If you are in the bacon makes everything better crowd, but you dont eat animals or you just dont want the cholesterol, youll love this brilliant new cookbook. Learn to make ten kinds of vegetable-based bacon, and then use them to make irresistible Baconish recipes from breakfast through dessert. Fran Costigan , author of Vegan Chocolate

The smart and inventive veggie-based bacons in Baconish bring so much spice, smoke, and sizzle that even your hipster, bacon-fetishist cousin will love them. Finally, vegans can safely, healthily, and deliciously take part in Americas favorite pastimeputting bacon on, in, and around everything. Brian L. Patton , author of The Sexy Vegan Cookbook and The Sexy Vegans Happy Hour at Home

As I paged through this book, the Hallelujah Chorus started to play in my head, and my mouth began to water. Its a complete game changer for those who are resisting going plant-based out of a fear of missing bacon, and it's a must-have for any former bacon lovers who have gone veg. A revelatory work that will save many liveshuman and porcine alike. Marisa Miller Wolfson , writer and director of Vegucated

I can't wait to make all these vegan bacons and let the yumminess waft into my hipster-filled Williamsburg neighborhood and then when they line up at my door, jump out covered in seitan and shiitake and say Ha! Its 0 percent pig, 100 percent delicious, bitches. Leanne Mai-ly Hilgart , founder and president of Vaute Couture

These recipes will expand your palate and your mind around what bacon is and, more importantly, what it can be. Chocolate-Peanut Bacon Truffles anyone? Yes, please! This book is post real bacon and is indeed the future of bacon. Be brave and step into the future! Chef Ayind Howell , lifelong vegan and coauthor of The Lusty Vegan

Leinana's book on vegan bacon is revelatory for animal lovers, vegans, andperhaps most interestinglyus kosher folk whove never even tried bacon but curiously wonder what all the fuss is about! We will have a blast playing with these divine, smoky recipes that are cruelty-free and good for the bod, the animals, and Mother Earth. Chlo Jo Davis , founder and editor of GirlieGirl Army

Leinana has cracked the bacon code and now everyone on earth can enjoy smoky, savory goodness without the attached heartburn, cholesterol, or dead animals. Leinana for president! Laura Beck , founding editor of Vegansaurus.com

There's something about the combination of salt, fat, and smoke that triggers a sacred pleasure center in the brain. It's a nostalgic, bold, and satisfying gastronomic triad. Leinana Two Moons is part alchemist, part hedonist in this crave-worthy collection of recipes that will expand anyones vegetable vocabulary in the uncanny realm of the crisp and umami. Let anyone who thinks bacon only comes from pigs kneel at the altar of cured, complex, and succulent mushroom, coconut, eggplant, chickpea, seitan, and carrot bacon. Joshua Katcher , founder of TheDiscerningBrute.com and BraveGentleMan.com

In Baconish, Leinana Two Moons turns the bacon craze on its head, managingin one heart-happy bookto both validate our nation's obsession with bacon while also offering mouthwatering recipes for anyone hungry for something better. Whether you sing the praises of animal-based bacon or you took animals off your plate long ago, this book will leave you pleasantly surprised by the palate-pleasing, plant-based alternatives. Baconish is nothing short of life-change-ish. Jasmin Singer , author of Always Too Much and Never Enough and host of Our Hen House podcast

Leinana was so passionate about vegan bacons before most of us even imagined, much less knew about, the many ways to make it. No surprise then that she can pull off a cookbook about vegan bacon that leaves one salivating for this beloved food. Thanks to her, we can get our bacon on while leaving pigs to live in peace! Demetrius Bagley , producer of Vegucated and Vegan Mashup

I have known Leinana for many years and I am excited to try her new book! As an executive chef, I love the sweet, salty flavor of bacon, and I cant wait to dig into her recipes. Doug McNish , vegan chef and author of Vegan Everyday

Baconish: Sultry and Smoky Plant-Based Recipes from BLTs to Mac & Cheese (Copyright 2016 by Leinana Two Moons)

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ISBN: 9781941252253

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Two Moons, Leinana, 1975- author.

Title: Baconish : sultry and smoky plant-based recipes from blts to bacon mac

& cheese / by Leinana Two Moons.

Description: Woodstock, VA : Vegan Heritage Press, [2016] | Includes

bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016001063| ISBN 9781941252246 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN

9781941252253 (e-book : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781941252260 (prc ebook : alk.

paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Meat substitutes. | Bacon. | Vegan cooking. | LCGFT:

Cookbooks.

Classification: LCC TX838 .T86 2016 | DDC 641.5/636--dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016001063

Photo credits: Photography and food styling by Anthony Two Moons and Leinana Two Moons. Front cover photo of .

Disclaimer: The information provided in this book should not be taken as medical advice. If you require a medical diagnosis or prescription, or if you are contemplating any major dietary change consult a qualified health-care provider. Neither the publisher nor the author are responsible for readers health issues.

Publishers Note: The information in this book is correct and complete to the best of our knowledge. The publisher is not responsible for specific health or allergy issues regarding ingredients used in this book.

Vegan Heritage Press books are distributed by Andrews McMeel Publishing.

Dedication

To my sous-chefs, Bodhi and Dahlia.

You make me want to make the world a better place for you.

And to the pigs.

I want to make the world a better place for you, too.

Contents

Foreword

Bacon lovers. Weve all met them. Hes that friend from high school who posts recycled memes on Facebook declaring his devotion to BLTshold the L and T. Shes the girl at the bar with a tee shirt telling us to Keep Calm and Eat Bacon. Theyre the avid commenters on vegan blogs compelled to express their passion for this pork product in all CAPS and explain in long rambling posts how deeply they dont care how pig farms are unthinkably cruel and terrible for the environment, because bacon. Bacon. Bacon. Bacon.

Its a broken record heard on vegan blogs everywhere. Every time I see one of these comments Im reminded of something another sort of Bacon once said. Sir Francis Bacon, that is:

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.