Forums: September 2011 Kickstart Forum: Cooking
Created on: 09/02/11 07:40 AM Views: 875 Replies: 3
forestgreen Joined: 02/26/10 Posts: 6	Cooking Posted Friday, September 2, 2011 at 7:40 AM I've seriously been attracted to cooking, learning to cook lately. And of course, I want to eat what I cook. Like how to braise. So I made Braised short ribs. I have this duality. I want to eat healthy, and don't want to eat meat, but I want to cook these wonderful dishes at the same time. I can't seem to resolve this.
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Bugsmom Joined: 09/13/10 Posts: 2068	RE: Cooking Posted Friday, September 2, 2011 at 7:49 AM forestgreen wrote: I've seriously been attracted to cooking, learning to cook lately. And of course, I want to eat what I cook. Like how to braise. So I made Braised short ribs. I have this duality. I want to eat healthy, and don't want to eat meat, but I want to cook these wonderful dishes at the same time. I can't seem to resolve this. all sorts of greens are awesome when braised - we like to braise rainbow chard with a bit of water, soy sauce, garlic, and onions. Serve that up with a quinoa chick pea pilaf and YUM! Braising (or any other cooking technique for that matter) doesn't have to be about meat. If you're just at the "learning to cook" stage, great! You can focus on learning to cook awesome healthy vegan meals and not have a lot of fall back cooking habits with meat and dairy. --Deb R
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mollyhorn Joined: 03/03/10 Location: Fort Worth, TX Posts: 582	RE: Cooking Posted Friday, September 2, 2011 at 10:09 AM Forestgreen, I understand, and I'm similar. I also love to cook and want to cook many recipes that I see in various places – despite knowing that they are not vegan. For me, two things have helped. First, I am vegan for ethics primarily. Yes, health is very important, as is the environmental future of our planet, but overall, it is the suffering of animals that I don't want to be part of. I wonder if you looked some into this, it might help your indecisiveness? Mercy for Animals and Vegan Outreach are both great organizations. Second, and probably more importantly, I like to challenge myself to recreate meals in amazing vegan ways. If I see an amazing dessert that is dairy-based, I wonder how I can veganize it? If you love to cook meat, you'll probably have fun experimenting with seitan, Match brand meats, and even jackfruit! You'd be amazed at how many things can be made vegan. Eventually, THIS becomes the fun of cooking, not the cook-whatever-food idea. You might check out the Betty Crocker Project for some fun inspiration. A husband and wife team who set out to veganize the entire Betty Crocker cookbook! haha http://www.meettheshannons.net/p/betty-crocker-project.html I hope some of this helps. Molly Horn
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Bugsmom Joined: 09/13/10 Posts: 2068	RE: Cooking Posted Friday, September 2, 2011 at 10:16 AM mollyhorn wrote: Eventually, THIS becomes the fun of cooking, not the cook-whatever-food idea. You might check out the Betty Crocker Project for some fun inspiration. A husband and wife team who set out to veganize the entire Betty Crocker cookbook! haha http://www.meettheshannons.net/p/betty-crocker-project.html I hope some of this helps. Cool! This is what we've been doing. Hubby's motto (taken from Cook like an Iron Chef) is "Learn a recipe, you can make one dish; learn a technique and you can make hundreds of dishes" When we have a fav recipe, we sub one ingredient at a time (knowing it won't be 100% vegan right away necessarily, if there are multiple non-vegan ingredients) and perfect that step, then change another ingredient and so on. That way, we can figure out what needs to be tweaked if it doesn't come out just right. Changing the whole recipe at once means there are too many variables to deal with. We annotate our non-vegan cookbooks (if it's just one simple change) or re-type the recipe and put it into our big black 3 ring binder o'recipes. --Deb R
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