Guest guest Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Looking for advice on good vegan cook books anybody have any good suggestions? Keep in mind I like to keep it semi simple I'm by no means a master chef so throwing the vegan julia stiles my way probably wouldn't be a good idea haha @gro ups.com [vegan_ chat@ .com] On Behalf Of Patricia 01 March 2010 08:26 @gro ups.com Re: Re: From VegSource I love them and eat them and don't have a weight problem. Patricia --- On Sun, 2/28/10, heartwerk <jo.heartwork@ gmail.com> wrote: heartwerk <jo.heartwork@ gmail.com> Re: From VegSource @gro ups.com Sunday, February 28, 2010, 11:55 PM Avacado and nuts are highish fat foods - just good fat. Jo @gro ups.com, yarrow wrote: > > I disagree that people who don't eat fat and sugar feel deprived. > > I, personally, don't like greasy food and don't cook with oil. I much > prefer eating foods such as avocado or nuts or (my favorite) peanut > sauce, rather than coating my food with oil. It's possible to > stir-fry using water, or a sauce with peanut butter, agave syrup, > rice vinegar, and water. > > In my experience, since I don't eat greasy food, eating high-fat > foods is a miserable experience. The last time I ordered eggplant > casserole in a vegan restaurant, I had a stomachache the rest of the > day because I'm not used to all that fat. > > Ditto for high-sugar foods: I didn't even eat icing as a kid and have > eaten cake now and then mostly to be polite. If it tastes mostly like > sugar, I can't choke it down even to be polite, though. > > Food without oil, sugar, and salt is not boring. I've been eating > from my garden a lot lately. Tonight's salad contains mache, miner's > lettuce, garlic chives, and parsley. The main course is a lentil soup > made with nettles, chinese celery, celery, marjoram, perennial kale, > and parsley from my garden, plus onion. > > > > At 3:25 PM -0700 2/28/10, Dena Jo wrote: > I disagree with the "good for us" part of the your sentence about > fats only because free-standing fats don't exist in nature, and I > don't believe that God or nature, however you want to view it, gave > our bodies a requirement that God or nature didn't provide for. If > olive oil is supposedly good for us, then we should be consuming it > in the form of olives. > > That said, nothing is going to make being vegan a more miserable > experience that feeling completely deprived, and I don't see why we > need to be. An occasional high-fat meal or high-sugar dessert is not > going to kill us. The trick is that it needs to be occasional and > not every day. > > - > <moondreamer6 4_2000@.. .>Patricia > I think I didn't make it clear that I don't personally believe that > that is all so bad for us; I should have added a comment.I really > don't want to live like a prisoner and be isolated from everyone > else by never being able to eat anything but the most boring food > possible. As far as fat is concerned, I believe that there are fats > that in moderation are nor only harmless, but are indeed good for us. > ------------ --------- --------- ------ To send an email to -unsubscr ibe Groups Links <*> http://groups. / group/vegan_ chat/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups. / group/vegan_ chat/join ( ID required) <*> To change settings via email: -digest -fullfeat ured@ .com <*> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 I have lots of vegan cookery books, but I like the Rose Elliott Book - Vegan Feasts. If you eat cakes Sinfully Vegan (very good once us Brits have figured our the American measures!) and the Vegan Cupcakes book looks good too. In England, from vegan fairs etc. there is a very thin pamphlet type book called Ronny's Cakes - which was the first vegan cake book I bought. That was when I first discovered that vegans could eat delicous cakes. Jo , Sarah Tomecek <sarah.tomecek wrote: > > > > Looking for advice on good vegan cook books anybody have any good suggestions? Keep in mind I like to keep it semi simple I'm by no means a master chef so throwing the vegan julia stiles my way probably wouldn't be a good idea haha > > > > > @gro ups.com [vegan_ chat@ .com] On Behalf Of Patricia > 01 March 2010 08:26 > @gro ups.com > Re: Re: From VegSource > > > I love them and eat them and don't have a weight problem. > > Patricia > > --- On Sun, 2/28/10, heartwerk <jo.heartwork@ gmail.com> wrote: > > heartwerk <jo.heartwork@ gmail.com> > Re: From VegSource > @gro ups.com > Sunday, February 28, 2010, 11:55 PM > Avacado and nuts are highish fat foods - just good fat. > > Jo > > @gro ups.com, yarrow@ wrote: > > > > I disagree that people who don't eat fat and sugar feel deprived. > > > > I, personally, don't like greasy food and don't cook with oil. I much > > prefer eating foods such as avocado or nuts or (my favorite) peanut > > sauce, rather than coating my food with oil. It's possible to > > stir-fry using water, or a sauce with peanut butter, agave syrup, > > rice vinegar, and water. > > > > In my experience, since I don't eat greasy food, eating high-fat > > foods is a miserable experience. The last time I ordered eggplant > > casserole in a vegan restaurant, I had a stomachache the rest of the > > day because I'm not used to all that fat. > > > > Ditto for high-sugar foods: I didn't even eat icing as a kid and have > > eaten cake now and then mostly to be polite. If it tastes mostly like > > sugar, I can't choke it down even to be polite, though. > > > > Food without oil, sugar, and salt is not boring. I've been eating > > from my garden a lot lately. Tonight's salad contains mache, miner's > > lettuce, garlic chives, and parsley. The main course is a lentil soup > > made with nettles, chinese celery, celery, marjoram, perennial kale, > > and parsley from my garden, plus onion. > > > > > > > > At 3:25 PM -0700 2/28/10, Dena Jo wrote: > > I disagree with the " good for us " part of the your sentence about > > fats only because free-standing fats don't exist in nature, and I > > don't believe that God or nature, however you want to view it, gave > > our bodies a requirement that God or nature didn't provide for. If > > olive oil is supposedly good for us, then we should be consuming it > > in the form of olives. > > > > That said, nothing is going to make being vegan a more miserable > > experience that feeling completely deprived, and I don't see why we > > need to be. An occasional high-fat meal or high-sugar dessert is not > > going to kill us. The trick is that it needs to be occasional and > > not every day. > > > > - > > <moondreamer6 4_2000@ .>Patricia > > I think I didn't make it clear that I don't personally believe that > > that is all so bad for us; I should have added a comment.I really > > don't want to live like a prisoner and be isolated from everyone > > else by never being able to eat anything but the most boring food > > possible. As far as fat is concerned, I believe that there are fats > > that in moderation are nor only harmless, but are indeed good for us. > > > > > > > ------------ --------- --------- ------ > > To send an email to -unsubscr ibe Groups Links > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Try Vegan With A Vengeance by Isa Chandra Moskowitz. You should be able to look at it on Amazon.Patricia--- On Mon, 3/1/10, Sarah Tomecek <sarah.tomecek wrote:Sarah Tomecek <sarah.tomecek Vegan Cooking Date: Monday, March 1, 2010, 11:13 AM Looking for advice on good vegan cook books anybody have any good suggestions? Keep in mind I like to keep it semi simple I'm by no means a master chef so throwing the vegan julia stiles my way probably wouldn't be a good idea haha @gro ups.com [vegan_ chat@ .com] On Behalf Of Patricia 01 March 2010 08:26 @gro ups.com Re: Re: From VegSource I love them and eat them and don't have a weight problem. Patricia --- On Sun, 2/28/10, heartwerk <jo.heartwork@ gmail.com> wrote: heartwerk <jo.heartwork@ gmail.com> Re: From VegSource @gro ups.com Sunday, February 28, 2010, 11:55 PM Avacado and nuts are highish fat foods - just good fat. Jo @gro ups.com, yarrow wrote: > > I disagree that people who don't eat fat and sugar feel deprived. > > I, personally, don't like greasy food and don't cook with oil. I much > prefer eating foods such as avocado or nuts or (my favorite) peanut > sauce, rather than coating my food with oil. It's possible to > stir-fry using water, or a sauce with peanut butter, agave syrup, > rice vinegar, and water. > > In my experience, since I don't eat greasy food, eating high-fat > foods is a miserable experience. The last time I ordered eggplant > casserole in a vegan restaurant, I had a stomachache the rest of the > day because I'm not used to all that fat. > > Ditto for high-sugar foods: I didn't even eat icing as a kid and have > eaten cake now and then mostly to be polite. If it tastes mostly like > sugar, I can't choke it down even to be polite, though. > > Food without oil, sugar, and salt is not boring. I've been eating > from my garden a lot lately. Tonight's salad contains mache, miner's > lettuce, garlic chives, and parsley. The main course is a lentil soup > made with nettles, chinese celery, celery, marjoram, perennial kale, > and parsley from my garden, plus onion. > > > > At 3:25 PM -0700 2/28/10, Dena Jo wrote: > I disagree with the "good for us" part of the your sentence about > fats only because free-standing fats don't exist in nature, and I > don't believe that God or nature, however you want to view it, gave > our bodies a requirement that God or nature didn't provide for. If > olive oil is supposedly good for us, then we should be consuming it > in the form of olives. > > That said, nothing is going to make being vegan a more miserable > experience that feeling completely deprived, and I don't see why we > need to be. An occasional high-fat meal or high-sugar dessert is not > going to kill us. The trick is that it needs to be occasional and > not every day. > > - > <moondreamer6 4_2000@.. .>Patricia > I think I didn't make it clear that I don't personally believe that > that is all so bad for us; I should have added a comment.I really > don't want to live like a prisoner and be isolated from everyone > else by never being able to eat anything but the most boring food > possible. As far as fat is concerned, I believe that there are fats > that in moderation are nor only harmless, but are indeed good for us. > ------------ --------- --------- ------ To send an email to -unsubscr ibe Groups Links <*> http://groups. / group/vegan_ chat/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups. / group/vegan_ chat/join ( ID required) <*> To change settings via email: -digest -fullfeat ured@ .com <*> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 Also, a lot of the recipes from the book (and others by the same authors) are posted at the website theppk.com so you can try them out without buying the book. I have a bunch of cookbooks, but I use them to get ideas. I don't follow recipes. If I don't have an ingredient (or 2 or 5), I improvise. So I couldn't recommend a cookbook! But I've found that when I have ingredients I want to use or have an idea about something I want to make, I've found theppk.com usually offers something interesting to explore. When making hummus, I used to have 3 cookbooks open to get an idea of the proportions, but I didn't exactly follow a particular recipe. Now I just eyeball it. At 12:35 AM -0800 3/2/10, Patricia wrote: Try Vegan With A Vengeance by Isa Chandra Moskowitz. You should be able to look at it on Amazon. --- On Mon, 3/1/10, Sarah Tomecek <sarah.tomecek wrote: Looking for advice on good vegan cook books anybody have any good suggestions? Keep in mind I like to keep it semi simple I'm by no means a master chef so throwing the vegan julia stiles my way probably wouldn't be a good idea haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 go to your local indepent bookseller and buy it there!! if they don't have it, have em order it amazon is the devil Patricia Mar 2, 2010 3:35 AM Re: Vegan Cooking Try Vegan With A Vengeance by Isa Chandra Moskowitz. You should be able to look at it on Amazon.Patricia--- On Mon, 3/1/10, Sarah Tomecek <sarah.tomecek > wrote: Sarah Tomecek <sarah.tomecek > Vegan Cooking Date: Monday, March 1, 2010, 11:13 AM Looking for advice on good vegan cook books anybody have any good suggestions? Keep in mind I like to keep it semi simple I'm by no means a master chef so throwing the vegan julia stiles my way probably wouldn't be a good idea haha @gro ups.com [vegan_ chat@ .com] On Behalf Of Patricia01 March 2010 08:26@gro ups.comRe: Re: From VegSource I love them and eat them and don't have a weight problem.Patricia--- On Sun, 2/28/10, heartwerk <jo.heartwork@ gmail.com> wrote: heartwerk <jo.heartwork@ gmail.com> Re: From VegSource@gro ups.comSunday, February 28, 2010, 11:55 PM Avacado and nuts are highish fat foods - just good fat.Jo@gro ups.com, yarrow wrote:>> I disagree that people who don't eat fat and sugar feel deprived.> > I, personally, don't like greasy food and don't cook with oil. I much > prefer eating foods such as avocado or nuts or (my favorite) peanut > sauce, rather than coating my food with oil. It's possible to > stir-fry using water, or a sauce with peanut butter, agave syrup, > rice vinegar, and water.> > In my experience, since I don't eat greasy food, eating high-fat > foods is a miserable experience. The last time I ordered eggplant > casserole in a vegan restaurant, I had a stomachache the rest of the > day because I'm not used to all that fat.> > Ditto for high-sugar foods: I didn't even eat icing as a kid and have > eaten cake now and then mostly to be polite. If it tastes mostly like > sugar, I can't choke it down even to be polite, though.> > Food without oil, sugar, and salt is not boring. I've been eating > from my garden a lot lately. Tonight's salad contains mache, miner's > lettuce, garlic chives, and parsley. The main course is a lentil soup > made with nettles, chinese celery, celery, marjoram, perennial kale, > and parsley from my garden, plus onion.> > > > At 3:25 PM -0700 2/28/10, Dena Jo wrote:> I disagree with the "good for us" part of the your sentence about > fats only because free-standing fats don't exist in nature, and I > don't believe that God or nature, however you want to view it, gave > our bodies a requirement that God or nature didn't provide for. If > olive oil is supposedly good for us, then we should be consuming it > in the form of olives.> > That said, nothing is going to make being vegan a more miserable > experience that feeling completely deprived, and I don't see why we > need to be. An occasional high-fat meal or high-sugar dessert is not > going to kill us. The trick is that it needs to be occasional and > not every day.> > -> <moondreamer6 4_2000@.. .>Patricia> I think I didn't make it clear that I don't personally believe that > that is all so bad for us; I should have added a comment.I really > don't want to live like a prisoner and be isolated from everyone > else by never being able to eat anything but the most boring food > possible. As far as fat is concerned, I believe that there are fats > that in moderation are nor only harmless, but are indeed good for us.>------------ --------- --------- ------To send an email to -unsubscr ibe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 You can probably buy it used at Amazon. Another option is the library, but I like to own my cook books.Patricia--- On Tue, 3/2/10, fraggle <EBbrewpunx wrote:fraggle <EBbrewpunxRe: Vegan Cooking Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 11:11 AM go to your local indepent bookseller and buy it there!! if they don't have it, have em order it amazon is the devil Patricia Mar 2, 2010 3:35 AM Re: Vegan Cooking Try Vegan With A Vengeance by Isa Chandra Moskowitz. You should be able to look at it on Amazon.Patricia--- On Mon, 3/1/10, Sarah Tomecek <sarah.tomecek@ > wrote: Sarah Tomecek <sarah.tomecek@ > Vegan Cooking@gro ups.comMonday, March 1, 2010, 11:13 AM Looking for advice on good vegan cook books anybody have any good suggestions? Keep in mind I like to keep it semi simple I'm by no means a master chef so throwing the vegan julia stiles my way probably wouldn't be a good idea haha @gro ups.com [vegan_ chat@ .com] On Behalf Of Patricia01 March 2010 08:26@gro ups.comRe: Re: From VegSource I love them and eat them and don't have a weight problem.Patricia--- On Sun, 2/28/10, heartwerk <jo.heartwork@ gmail.com> wrote: heartwerk <jo.heartwork@ gmail.com> Re: From VegSource@gro ups.comSunday, February 28, 2010, 11:55 PM Avacado and nuts are highish fat foods - just good fat.Jo@gro ups.com, yarrow wrote:>> I disagree that people who don't eat fat and sugar feel deprived.> > I, personally, don't like greasy food and don't cook with oil. I much > prefer eating foods such as avocado or nuts or (my favorite) peanut > sauce, rather than coating my food with oil. It's possible to > stir-fry using water, or a sauce with peanut butter, agave syrup, > rice vinegar, and water.> > In my experience, since I don't eat greasy food, eating high-fat > foods is a miserable experience. The last time I ordered eggplant > casserole in a vegan restaurant, I had a stomachache the rest of the > day because I'm not used to all that fat.> > Ditto for high-sugar foods: I didn't even eat icing as a kid and have > eaten cake now and then mostly to be polite. If it tastes mostly like > sugar, I can't choke it down even to be polite, though.> > Food without oil, sugar, and salt is not boring. I've been eating > from my garden a lot lately. Tonight's salad contains mache, miner's > lettuce, garlic chives, and parsley. The main course is a lentil soup > made with nettles, chinese celery, celery, marjoram, perennial kale, > and parsley from my garden, plus onion.> > > > At 3:25 PM -0700 2/28/10, Dena Jo wrote:> I disagree with the "good for us" part of the your sentence about > fats only because free-standing fats don't exist in nature, and I > don't believe that God or nature, however you want to view it, gave > our bodies a requirement that God or nature didn't provide for. If > olive oil is supposedly good for us, then we should be consuming it > in the form of olives.> > That said, nothing is going to make being vegan a more miserable > experience that feeling completely deprived, and I don't see why we > need to be. An occasional high-fat meal or high-sugar dessert is not > going to kill us. The trick is that it needs to be occasional and > not every day.> > -> <moondreamer6 4_2000@.. .>Patricia> I think I didn't make it clear that I don't personally believe that > that is all so bad for us; I should have added a comment.I really > don't want to live like a prisoner and be isolated from everyone > else by never being able to eat anything but the most boring food > possible. As far as fat is concerned, I believe that there are fats > that in moderation are nor only harmless, but are indeed good for us.>------------ --------- --------- ------To send an email to -unsubscr ibe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010  "Looking for advice on good vegan cook books anybody have any good suggestions? Keep in mind I like to keep it semi simple I'm by no means a master chef so throwing the vegan julia stiles my way probably wouldn't be a good idea haha" I think The Vegan Family Cookbook by Brian McCarthy is a good beginner's vegan cookbook. Dena Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2718 - Release 03/02/10 00:34:00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2010 Report Share Posted March 2, 2010 I noticed that there is a Dummies book for vegans and a Complete Idiots book, I need to look those over.Patricia--- On Tue, 3/2/10, yarrow <yarrow wrote:yarrow <yarrowRe: Vegan Cooking Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 1:18 AM Re: Vegan Cooking Also, a lot of the recipes from the book (and others by the same authors) are posted at the website theppk.com so you can try them out without buying the book. I have a bunch of cookbooks, but I use them to get ideas. I don't follow recipes. If I don't have an ingredient (or 2 or 5), I improvise. So I couldn't recommend a cookbook! But I've found that when I have ingredients I want to use or have an idea about something I want to make, I've found theppk.com usually offers something interesting to explore. When making hummus, I used to have 3 cookbooks open to get an idea of the proportions, but I didn't exactly follow a particular recipe. Now I just eyeball it. At 12:35 AM -0800 3/2/10, Patricia wrote: Try Vegan With A Vengeance by Isa Chandra Moskowitz. You should be able to look at it on Amazon. --- On Mon, 3/1/10, Sarah Tomecek <sarah.tomecek wrote: Looking for advice on good vegan cook books anybody have any good suggestions? Keep in mind I like to keep it semi simple I'm by no means a master chef so throwing the vegan julia stiles my way probably wouldn't be a good idea haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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