10.22.07
Vegan recipes
I’ve eaten vegan for a while now and then. With good planning, such a diet can provide sound nutrition and excellent dishes. (Fitday turns out to be extremely useful in such diets, since you can see the cumulative nutritional analysis of the food you eat over a day, a week, etc., and thus spot easily any imbalances.)
A friend asked me this morning for vegan recipes, so I went a Googling and found some useful sites that I’m bookmarking for my own use:
http://www.veganconnection.com/recipes/index.htm http://www.randomgirl.com/recipes.html (these look particularly good) http://www.veganmeat.com/recipie.html
http://www.veganchef.com/
http://www.fatfreevegan.com/
http://vegweb.com/ (has a newsletter)
The other resource is, of course, the library. I often have this experience: buy a cookbook that looks wonderful, get it home, go through it, and find no recipes that I like—the recipes are boring, or too complex, or require special equipment, or use two pots, or the like. So I’ve found that when I get cookbook-hunger, the best thing is to hit the library and check out the cookbooks that look good. Then, when they prove unsatisfactory, I just return them. Those that prove to be great, I order from Abebooks.com.
