For those of you who cook, this is a great website for flavorful vegan cooking. I'm not vegan (or even vegetarian, for that matter) but I try to cook with fresh (& local when possible) organic veggies, and at first I had a hard time figuring out what to make. During one of my bouts of procrastination from school work, I stumbled across a most excellent source of delicious yet healthy recipes. I've been getting ideas & recipes from it at least once a month for the past two years and haven't been disappointed yet. She even has a searchable recipe index & recipes sorted by type (dessert, soup, etc).
http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/
And Sig, she has a "ridiculously easy" section of recipes too. So no excuses!
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I do like ridiculously easy. :) One problem I foresee with vegan cooking, however, is a lack of cheese. Well, that and all the veggies.
I was perusing the ridiculously easy and everything looked pretty bland -- and then I figured out why. So many veggies (ick), so little cheese (gasp). I was reading the post on picky eaters and how her recipes just won't satisfy everyone. She was talking about kids, but my taste buds are pretty kid-like, so I decided she was writing about me too. I mean...chili mac without cheese? Come on. Some noodles and some chili powder...and then some greens? Very, very wrong.
I will keep looking, though, because it's pretty clear to me that this woman *does* know how to concoct a yummy recipe...I'm just afraid we're on different wavelengths in terms of what qualifies as "yummy."
She does suggest cooking corn on the cob in the oven, though, and that's pretty interesting to me...so I'm going to try it. The lentil soup looks pretty good to, so I will print that one out and save it until fall. :)
So just add some cheese to a recipe if you want some cheese. Like I said, I go there for ideas too, not just recipes. I modify most of what I cook (from *any* recipe, regardless of where I find it).
One good place to start might be some type of taco or burrito with black beans instead of greasy meat. Add some pico de gallo and some roasted corn salsa and lettuce (and cheese if you must) and voila!
I have completed my first week of veganism--yay! I'm not bossing everyone to go veg, but I've decided to make the change for myself. Giving up dairy is pretty easy for me, as I'm no longer able to digest it anyway. I am back to loving the internet in terms of cooking--I don't have to buy a new cookbook, now. I'm totally addicted to my vegan "parmesan," and "meatballs." Yummalicious.
I couldn't go vegan because that means I couldn't cook my family recipes. But when cooking for just myself I really prefer a lot of dishes without meat. I have a hard time chewing a lot of meat, so I find the tough cuts that go into dishes like stir fry to be unpleasant.
Yeah, I live with man-meat carnivores, so I find I still prepare meat and dairy dishes for them while I eat other things. I don't know what's going to happen at holidays--I hope our families don't think I'm being a rude-ass by not eating their food.
I tried being vegan for a few days this year (hoping to go for a week) but found that I just couldn't eat enough beans and tofu to get the protein I needed to stay sane. It was odd. One day, I was trying to force a bean and lettuce salad into my mouth while also hungry, but couldn't do it.
These days, I've fallen almost completely off the vegetarian wagon out of dietary laziness. I'm still trying to eat healthy, I'm just adding more chicken to the mix.
The odd thing is that after 8 years of a vegetarian diet, I find that I don't like chicken most of the time and that I usually have no appetite for most cuts of beef or pork. I'm fine with either of those meats in sausages or hot dogs (if hot dogs contain much meat at all), but I haven't yet had a burger because I don't actually like burgers (even veggie burgers).
The other meat I've been eating is luncheon meats with my occasional white bread and mayonnaise sandwiches. Well, mayo on the lettuce side, mustard on the meat side. (I met someone this weekend whose father had the same rules for his sandwiches. I thought I was the only one who did that consistently.) These sandwiches remind me of getting meat sliced at Pete's Market and Locker and making sandwiches at home in the summer when I was a kid.
I haven't been back to Wisconsin since 2007. I'm getting really homesick, people. It is bad.
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