Just Jackfruit

Well, I went to Target yesterday and look at that! Three of the four varieties of Just Mayo were all sold out! All of the gross non vegan mayo was stocked to the max. Looks like lots of super bowl dips are going to be made using what is in my opinion the best mayo ever! I feel like when a non vegan tries something vegan and loves it, they become instantly more open to other vegan foods. Woot Woot!
Close up of unripe jackfruit fresh out of the can! When I opened the can I was floored by how much it smelled like hearts of palm in a can. It must be the brine.

Homemade BBQ sauce simmering away.

I wanted to post the BBQ recipe, but I don't feel like I perfected it yet. This was pretty good, and it made a great sandwich, but it needs more or less of something. I must tinker with the recipe more. Poor me, having to eat more BBQ sauce!

After simmering and shredding it looked something like this. Pretty crazy right? I can tell you how I got it to this point. I rinsed off the jackfruit pieces, and added them to my BBQ sauce, plus one cup of water and let simmer for forty five minutes. After that it was super easy to break apart with a fork and wooden spoon.

Big sandwich!

I made a slaw with cabbage and kale, and  piled that on top. It was amazing. The jackfruit is a unique texture. It's not quite soft, but after simmering it isn't crunchy either. I feel like it would be excellent for a vegan crab cake. It really soaked up the BBQ sauce flavor. Jackfruit is very low calorie. The whole can of fruit is like one hundred and fifty calories or something like that. I'm super glad I got three cans of this, I really love it. If you can find it in cans it is so much cheaper than Upton's jackfruit.

I mentioned yesterday that I would try the sweet lime this morning for my lemon water. As you can see, it looks just like a lemon, except it's like a lime in that there are no seeds. It has absolutely no flavor. I squeezed half of the lemon(lime) into my water like I do ever morning, and when I tasted my water, I swear it tasted like plain old water. I had to make sure I added the lemon juice. It's the strangest thing. I did a little googling and it seems that that is one of the qualities of this fruit, no flavor. Someone said it was suggested to eat it like an orange, and they said it still didn't taste like anything. Weird right?
If you're into the Superbowl, I hope your team wins, and you have lots of cauliflower wings, for all the rest of us, Happy Sunday!