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| Bugsmom
Joined: 09/13/10 Posts: 2069 |
RE: Just to keep people chatting Posted Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 11:41 AM Yes there is SO much good information and recipes "out there" now - books, websites, etc. used to be that vegetarians and vegans were Euel Gibbons eating tree bark and undernourished hippy types with long scraggly hair and bare feet. Read a short story once called Rule Golden - flipped the Golden Rule backwards in that whatever you did to someone else (which included all sentient beings), was done to you. So, for example, fisherman felt jaw pains and difficulty breathing. Within a matter of months (time for it to spread worldwide), the world was vegan simply because killing any animals caused pain, if not death, to the killer. --Deb |
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| tinabean
Joined: 09/08/10 Location: Pasadena, TX Posts: 113 |
RE: Just to keep people chatting Posted Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 7:34 PM
Yes there is SO much good information and recipes "out there" now - books, websites, etc. used to be that vegetarians and vegans were Euel Gibbons eating tree bark and undernourished hippy types with long scraggly hair and bare feet. I remember when I first went vegetarian 20 years ago, I was a skinny teen and my family worried about my nutrition. An aunt or two gave me these vegetarian cookbook/manuals. I appreciated the nutrition info, but none of the recipes appealed to me at all. They were so 60s blah (but in the early 90s). Today I was browsing around Amazon's 4-for-3 specials and came across the first vegetarian cookbook I bought myself: Soy not Oi! It was such a punk, cheap little publication. I was so shocked and amused to see that it was not only reprinted, but in stock and on sale at Amazon! |
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craftycat70
 Location: Southern California Posts: 139 |
RE: Just to keep people chatting Posted Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 11:40 AM Re: Oceandog I also have gluten/wheat issues. I bought "The Gluten-Free Vegan" cookbook by Susan O'Brien I've just gone through and marked the ones I want to try.......one being "Veggie-Stuffed Bell Peppers" Not a large cookbook, but has some good information & suggestions as well I'm still trying to find a good cold gluten-free cereal. I do cook some gluten-free oats. They don't seem to bother me too bad. Bob's Red Mill makes a good "Mighty Tasty GF Hot Cereal" that I like too. http://www.bobsredmill.com/gf-might-tasty-hot-cereal.html
P.S. Well, while we are also on the subject of marriage.....I will celebrate my "40th" Anniversary this coming Sun. Oct 17th. I got married at 18, just 4 months out of High School. (which is also where we met) Has it been "easy"?......definitely NOT! We even separated a couple of years ago for about 4 months. But no relationship is without difficulties...and we sure have weathered our share of storms over the years!!! Many times though, the "storms" are the things that draw you closer. I can't even believe 40 years have gone by already, it just doesn't seem possible. We had two sons, which we also grew up with.....and now one granddaughter who is the "joy of my life" Craftycat - Southern, CA |
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Oceandog
 Location: California, USA Posts: 642 |
RE: Just to keep people chatting Posted Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 11:42 AM I also went Veg 20 years ago last August. I don't even remember if I bought cookbooks or just cut out meat and dairy and ate what was left! haha I do remember a few years later discovering Veg cookbooks and WOW! I have too many! Love them even if some of them I probably have never used. I liked to page through them and tell myself when I have more time or money. Ahem.... 20 years later.... Always offer kindness and a soft word to the beings around you; You do not know their journey. Your words can be the hug they need or the shove that breaks them. |
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| Bugsmom
Joined: 09/13/10 Posts: 2069 |
RE: Just to keep people chatting Posted Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 11:45 AM Congrats on 40 years! I'll have to look up the Gluten Free Vegan book (and recipes). We've got several friends who are gluten free. So, when we can find vegan recipes that are also GF, that's really good. Especially for things like desserts - we can do the entrees okay with things like soups, stews, chili, etc. Plus, there are lots of good GF pastas out now (we like the quinoa varieties ourselves) so we can do GF pasta dishes. But, so many desserts are either vegan OR GF and not both. Hubby is thinking of trying to make his signature panna cotta using almond milk (instead of cream) and agar (instead of gelatin) and see how it goes. Anyone have a 'conversion factor' for subbing agar for gelatin? |
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| Oceandog
Location: California, USA Posts: 642 |
RE: Just to keep people chatting Posted Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 12:37 PM 40 years! WOW!! Hooray!!!! Another person I can say aaawwwww for! Yippee!! I love happy stories! I also have the Guten-Free Vegan and I think I use that cookbook more than any other I have ever owned. I cook for my sister and she LOVES every single thing I have ever made her out of it. I think the Pad Thai recipe was a bit too much on the vinegar for me but we both love the Mexican Quinoa Salad and many others, breakfast risotto was great! For a vegetarian (not lowfat) but delicious cooking I like Sara Kramer (I think that is her name) She wrote How it all Vegan, La Dolce Vegan, Garden of Vegan and I think one other, excellent recipes but not GF and not low fat, so those are a treat thing or for others only. I don't know if any of you have had an opportunity to go to Native Foods restaurant here in CA, but it is AMAZING! They also have a cookbook out but sadly not GF, but many recipes can be adapted. The food is fantastic if you ever get to So Cal,look it up. In the CA Bay area, there is Garden Fresh, all vegan, some GF. If I ever get my stuff out of storage again (someday??) I will have to inventory all of my cookbooks! The only ones I brought with me when I moved (in my suitcase!) were GF Vegan, The Kind Diet, 3 Bowls, and The Conscious Cook. I do wish I had not bought the latter though, it is just too much to try to make GF. I may have to give it away cause I can't use it at all. Always offer kindness and a soft word to the beings around you; You do not know their journey. Your words can be the hug they need or the shove that breaks them. |
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| revolutionoftheheart
Joined: 01/07/10 Location: NYC Posts: 164 |
RE: Just to keep people chatting Posted Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 1:56 PM Bugsmom wrote: We just picked up a copy of Veganomicon (we had a 33% off coupon!) Hubby loves the writing style (he's an Evil Dead and Bruce Campbell fan LOL). Since we can't try everything all at once, what are some of your favorite recipes from this book? --Deb Hi again -- I've made Chickpea Cutlets on pg 133 a few times and they were well received. (There's also another version Quinoa and Red Lentil Cutlets that I think she improvised off Isa's recipe: http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2007/11/trying-on-thanksgiving.html. Oh also, all the tofus are great pgs. 126-129. My friend (who is a much better cook than I) raved about the Tangerine Baked Tofu with the Asparagus Risotto (pg 19 Let us know whatcha make! Confession: I've made the Lemon Poundcake pg. 255 too many times. That was pre-PCRM "In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought." Isaac Bashevis Singer, author, Nobel Prize 1978 |
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| Bugsmom
Joined: 09/13/10 Posts: 2069 |
RE: Just to keep people chatting Posted Thursday, October 14, 2010 at 2:01 PM Thanks for the tips. I was looking at the chickpea cutlets last night (while making the grocery list after dinner) but we decided we'll probably stick with the PCRM black bean patties for the time being for our "burger like" substance. Yeah, I noticed that there are a lot of recipes that use lots of oils and other fats in the book. I think we may make them once as written and then (a) decide if we like it (b) figure out how to lower the fat content if we like it (if we want to put in the time for it) --Deb |
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| mommyof2nc
Joined: 12/31/09 Location: North Carolina Posts: 172 |
RE: Just to keep people chatting Posted Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 1:11 PM revolutionoftheheart wrote: Bugsmom wrote: We just picked up a copy of Veganomicon (we had a 33% off coupon!) Hubby loves the writing style (he's an Evil Dead and Bruce Campbell fan LOL). Since we can't try everything all at once, what are some of your favorite recipes from this book? --Deb Hi again -- I've made Chickpea Cutlets on pg 133 a few times and they were well received. (There's also another version Quinoa and Red Lentil Cutlets that I think she improvised off Isa's recipe: http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2007/11/trying-on-thanksgiving.html. Oh also, all the tofus are great pgs. 126-129. My friend (who is a much better cook than I) raved about the Tangerine Baked Tofu with the Asparagus Risotto (pg 19 Let us know whatcha make! Confession: I've made the Lemon Poundcake pg. 255 too many times. That was pre-PCRM I haven't posted on here in a long time but had to weigh in on this. We've tried probably 2/3 of the recipes in Veganomicon and so far, the only one we really didn't like was the Broccoli-Millet Croquettes. We all love broccoli but those were not good at all. |
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| Bugsmom
Joined: 09/13/10 Posts: 2069 |
RE: Just to keep people chatting Posted Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 1:16 PM Thanks for the tips. We won't be trying any of the tofu recipes (me and tofu/tempeh/soymilk/other heavily soy products don't get along well) but it's good to know that most of the recipes work out well. We tried the rice and chickpeas with dill and kale last night. Could've done without the dill (the smell of dill was too strong for son to even taste it - couldn't get it past his nose) and less cayenne - it was hard to taste the garam masala with everything else going on. We picked that one specifically to try the g.m. So, next time, we're going to 'tweak' the seasonings a bit. Oh, and we found that the rice needed more liquid than the recipe indicated. Tonight we're having a friend over to dinner and we're making rice and red lentils with stir fried greens (chard, kale, baby spinach). It was a favorite last time we had it. The combo of brown rice and red lentils was almost polenta-like and yummy. |
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Wild4Stars
 Location: Florida Posts: 832 |
RE: Just to keep people chatting Posted Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 4:50 PM Thanksgiving is just around the corner. I would love to hear what some people have planned. We are probably going to a "bring a dish, pot luck" with my in-laws, which means all omnivores and all over 75-80 years old. I'll need to take something I can eat and share. Probably either a huge salad or a rice and bean dish. Maybe both. Are you cooking? Going to relatives? How do you plan to stay vegan for the day? Vikki ~ Wild4Stars@gmail.com |
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| Bugsmom
Joined: 09/13/10 Posts: 2069 |
RE: Just to keep people chatting Posted Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 5:18 PM Before the family finalized anything (like where dinner would be) some friends asked us to their house for Thanksgiving so we said Yes. Hostess of dinner is vegetarian anyhow, so it should be pretty simple to stick pretty close to vegan. Odds are pretty good there won't be a huge old turkey on the table or sausage in the stuffing. We had planned that if dinner was at family house, we'd bring mac'n'cheese as a 'side dish' which could double as my main course - using the not-cheese from one of the earlier threads here (cashew based). --Deb R |
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It's almost (but not quite) gotten mainstream - soy milk and tofu are in just about every grocery store, veggie patties are on many restaurant menus (even fast food places like BK and McD's have decent veggie patties).
I think someone even gave it a bad review, citing the vulgar language. I'm going to have to dig that dusty old baby back out.
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All of the above mentioned recipes are great! Also try the Pineapple-Cashew-Quinoa Stir-Fry and the Cheater Baked Beans. Both of those (as well as most of the tofu recipes)are regulars in our house. | New Topic Reply Subscription Options |
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