Plant Based Diet: Nutrition Culinary Perspecive

A plant-based diet is a diet consisting of only foods from plants, legumes, vegetables, grains, nuts, etc while also containing little to no animal foods. Over the years I've often wondered to myself the benefits of eating a plant-based diet rather than an animal-based one. Many people have different opinions on eating meat which goes against there animal rights movement, or for the fact that they find eating plants is more healthier. Some benefits of plant-based diets include the following: It's healthier for the body, its impact on the environment is more efficient, and it is cheaper to buy. These reasons often influence my decision on switching to a plant-based diet.



As a future restaurant owner, I'd like to appeal as much to my customers as possible. This means that I would have to change the menu from time to time for customers to stay loyal to our business. If incorporating some plant-based appetizers and entrees is what people wish to have then, by all means, I don't see any harm in doing so.

I don't usually do a lot of baking, in fact this is the first time I've ever baked by myself. Today I attempted to make banana bread for the first time. The recipe below went as followed:

- heat oven to 200C and mash together 3 bananas and mix with 75g of vegetable oil and 100g of brown sugar

- Add 225g plain flour and 3 tsp of baking powder and 3 tsp of cinnamon 

- Bake in a greased lined baking tin for 20 minutes until browning

This was the finished result:

Baking is not an easy skill to master and one that I genuinely wish to approve in. With baking, every ingredient must be weighed to the exact amount or else the whole dish just falls apart. As you can see this was my first attempt and it came out very mediocre. The flavor was somewhat there but the consistency of the bread just was not there. I respect a lot of pastry chefs as baking is once again is not an easy skill to master. As a chef, my goal is to discover every ingredient and master as many culinary techniques as possible, and baking is the first priority on my radar.