{"id":1572,"date":"2009-12-12T12:31:33","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T17:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2009-12-12T12:31:33","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T17:31:33","slug":"vegan-green-bean-casserole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1572","title":{"rendered":"Vegan green bean casserole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/k-vegan-greenbean-casserole-1.JPG' title='k-vegan-greenbean-casserole-1.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/k-vegan-greenbean-casserole-1.JPG' alt='k-vegan-greenbean-casserole-1.JPG' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While watching the ABC Evening News (not one of my normal news sources), I saw a commercial for green bean casserole. Once you get something like that in your head, you&#8217;ve got to have it.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to make a high-protein, reasonably low fat, vegan version. I just happened to have some leftover <a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1570\">cashew gravy<\/a>. To the gravy I also added a smooth sauce made from sesame tahini and ground roasted pumpkin seeds. I mixed in some cubed tofu. So the sauce contained nuts, seeds, and legumes. There&#8217;s a lot of saut\u00e9ed onion, of course. The bread crumbs came from the last remaining slice of a loaf of <a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1563\">sprouted wheat bread<\/a>. The green beans were frozen.<\/p>\n<p>If you do a quick survey online of recipes for green bean casserole, what you&#8217;ll find is pretty terrifying &#8212; heart-stopping mixtures of salt and fat. I&#8217;ve never met a traditional dish that couldn&#8217;t be greatly improved with good ingredients and some imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While watching the ABC Evening News (not one of my normal news sources), I saw a commercial for green bean casserole. Once you get something like that in your head, you&#8217;ve got to have it. I wanted to make a high-protein, reasonably low fat, vegan version. I just happened to have some leftover cashew gravy. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1572\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vegan green bean casserole&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}