Guest guest Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 Oh yeah, Mark: try www.alibris.com, if you have the title (or if anybody else has a title they're looking for) of your book; they have a great used section. Amazon does too. If only I could remember the NAME of that lost cookbook of mine, but I'm afraid that the description " hot pink, sky blue and yellow patchwork laminated paperback cover " wouldn't do the trick...<mischievous grin>... We don't have any used bookstores 'round here, but thank God for online where there is a plethora of same! Bron On 1/4/06, Mark Sutton <soulveggie wrote: > > If the cost of veg'n cookbooks is an issue, I suggest going to used book > stores.... very often there's some excellent veg'n cookbooks therein. > > Online resources are a real breakthru, compared to several years ago. Use > a search engine like Google and you'll be amazed at what you can find. > > FYI, Mark > > blogsite: http://www.soulveggie.com > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 That is always a good place to start in buying anything actually. However, it has been my experience that the used vegan cookbooks are in short supply. I was looking for a more basic cook book so that I could learn just the basic cooking techniques for various vegetables and grains that I haven't cooked in the past. Then I can jump to cooking them more elegantly. The vegan cook books don't tend to show pictures, explain in depth the taste of the veggie or get real basic like the larger non-vegan cook books do. Many of the recipes in basic cook books like Fannie Farmers are actually very easy to adapt to be vegan. However, they also tend to be high in fat and sodium. The Joy of Cooking was excellent in giving me the information I sought. I need to go back and look at it more in depth to see how the recipes stack up nutritionally and how easy they are to adapt to being vegan. I have found that taking my pre-vegan recipes and veganizing them has been more satisfying to my family. I have been cooking for a long time, not a newbie by any means, raised five children and have always been considered a good cook. But I cook by the seat of my pants and once I know how a food is to taste in its purer form then I can go from there. I go to a monthly vegan potluck and what I have found is that my recipes that are just adaptations of non-vegan recipes really are popular over the other dishes, always gone, always asked for the recipe. I think that is important to show people that they don't have to give up old favorites, just have to teach them how to adapt them, but they won't even try that until you give them foods that actually are soul satisfying. Maybe some day I will learn how to write down a recipe that I have made up. LOL Then I can do my own cook book...never happen. So no competition here. <grinning> linda " Whatever you do will be insignificant and it is very important that you do it. " Mohandas Gandhi linda's Growing Stitchery Projects: womyn47 - Mark Sutton If the cost of veg'n cookbooks is an issue, I suggest going to used book stores.... very often there's some excellent veg'n cookbooks therein. Online resources are a real breakthru, compared to several years ago. Use a search engine like Google and you'll be amazed at what you can find. FYI, Mark blogsite: http://www.soulveggie.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 I have learned the same thing as you, Linda, about cooking and serving vegan: If it tastes like " home " food/soul food, folks'll flock to it and about pass out when they learn it's vegan. If it doesn't taste good and familiar, ain't no way folks'll touch it again in this century. :>) And I too am considered a good cook. The last church we were in, I was voted the best cook there, and over the past 15 years I have gotten a lot of free Southern Living cookbooks by sending in my own recipes which they've published. (Well, really, it was back in 1989, I b'lieve, that I sent in my last one...hmmm! Need to rectify that situation!) And so I'd get a free SL cookbook of that year, plus 25 bucks or so. Nice work if you can get it, huh? I'm gettin' a good rep as a good cook at our new church too, and simultaneously freakin' folks out because my food is vegan. LOL. I think you should really put down your recipes, Linda, and make you a cookbook. My dh keeps telling me I should do the same. Maybe I will, one of these days. :>) Bron On 1/4/06, linda <lindai81 wrote: > > That is always a good place to start in buying anything actually. However, > it has been my experience that the used vegan cookbooks are in short > supply. I was looking for a more basic cook book so that I could learn > just the basic cooking techniques for various vegetables and grains that I > haven't cooked in the past. Then I can jump to cooking them more elegantly. > The vegan cook books don't tend to show pictures, explain in depth the taste > of the veggie or get real basic like the larger non-vegan cook books do. > Many of the recipes in basic cook books like Fannie Farmers are actually > very easy to adapt to be vegan. However, they also tend to be high in fat > and sodium. The Joy of Cooking was excellent in giving me the information I > sought. I need to go back and look at it more in depth to see how the > recipes stack up nutritionally and how easy they are to adapt to being > vegan. I have found that taking my pre-vegan recipes and veganizing them > has been more satisfying to my family. I have been cooking for a long time, > not a newbie by any means, raised five children and have always been > considered a good cook. But I cook by the seat of my pants and once I know > how a food is to taste in its purer form then I can go from there. I go to a > monthly vegan potluck and what I have found is that my recipes that are just > adaptations of non-vegan recipes really are popular over the other dishes, > always gone, always asked for the recipe. I think that is important to show > people that they don't have to give up old favorites, just have to teach > them how to adapt them, but they won't even try that until you give them > foods that actually are soul satisfying. Maybe some day I will learn how to > write down a recipe that I have made up. LOL Then I can do my own cook > book...never happen. So no competition here. <grinning> > linda > " Whatever you do will be insignificant and it is very important that you > do it. " > Mohandas Gandhi > > linda's Growing Stitchery Projects: womyn47 > - > Mark Sutton > > > If the cost of veg'n cookbooks is an issue, I suggest going to used book > stores.... very often there's some excellent veg'n cookbooks therein. > > Online resources are a real breakthru, compared to several years ago. > Use > a search engine like Google and you'll be amazed at what you can find. > > FYI, Mark > > blogsite: http://www.soulveggie.com > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 I read something about roasting them...wanna share how that works...temp, time, beet preparation...do you peel them first or after roasting? Salt and pepper? I don't want anything fancy until I get the taste of the pure thing. linda Amy Bron =- please try them roasted before you give up on 'em completely... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 9, 2006 Report Share Posted January 9, 2006 True, true, Amy! ;>) Ah well...we can each say we tried....LOL Bron On 1/5/06, Amy <sandpiperhiker wrote: > > > OOOOH, I'm sorry but UGH! just the very thought of beets is enough, > > almost, to make me barf... > > Everybody has one food at least, like this, and beets, I'm afraid, are > > mine. > > > Can't say I didn't try! (After all, you tried to get me to eat cooked > greens... ;-) > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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