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askye at 10:56pm on 26/08/2005
askye at 10:56pm on 26/08/2005I hate cooking in my kitchen. That's a recurring theme. It's just so damn hard to manauver. Plus there are all these little cracks for bits of food to fall into , down to the floor or behind the cabinets (since they are built in weird).
Also, I'm lazy. I admit that. It was a hell of a lot easier to cook when I could shove everything but three pans and my knife into the dishwasher. Now, I have to handwash everything, my sink's backign up again, I need to talk to my land lady about that, since it's been doing that since I moved in.Even when it was all shiny and polished on Saturday I didn't want to cook in it. Okay I did right up until I started cooking and remembered why I hate cooking int here
And I hate cooking meat. Seriously I hate the feel of raw meat. I always have but it's just been a minor irritation and now that's pushed the forefront. I can't do anything about anything else (except maybe the sink) but I can stop cooking meat at home.
Can anyone recommend a good beginners vegetarian cookbook? Not something that's chock ful of reasons why I should be one, but something that will help with meal planning and breaking out of the meat centric thinking?
Also, I'm lazy. I admit that. It was a hell of a lot easier to cook when I could shove everything but three pans and my knife into the dishwasher. Now, I have to handwash everything, my sink's backign up again, I need to talk to my land lady about that, since it's been doing that since I moved in.Even when it was all shiny and polished on Saturday I didn't want to cook in it. Okay I did right up until I started cooking and remembered why I hate cooking int here
And I hate cooking meat. Seriously I hate the feel of raw meat. I always have but it's just been a minor irritation and now that's pushed the forefront. I can't do anything about anything else (except maybe the sink) but I can stop cooking meat at home.
Can anyone recommend a good beginners vegetarian cookbook? Not something that's chock ful of reasons why I should be one, but something that will help with meal planning and breaking out of the meat centric thinking?
Vegetarian cookbooks
The Starving Students Vegetarian Cookbook: It's little, most of the recipes are 5 ingredients or so, and most of the recipes seem to be designed with little kitchens in mind. Not many of the recipes are terribly exciting, but there are a bunch of good basic staples. (There are a few other student vegetarian cookbooks, but this one's the only one I know.)
Vegetarian 5-ingredient Gourmet: exactly what it says. I like this one better than the Starving Students -- the recipes are a bit healthier, more likely to use fresh vegetables, and less likely to depend too much on cheese or peanut butter.
The Voluptuous Vegan: I don't actually own this one, and never cooked anything from it, but I've looked through it a lot and it looks pretty good.
Passionate Vegetarian: I've got mixed feelings about this one. It's mostly vegetarian versions of Southern/Appalacian foods, with a whole lot of other stuff, too. There have been some things I've made from it that were incredibly good (our Thanksgiving vegetarian main dish for the past few years came from this) and others that I really wasn't that happy with (the spices in the chili are all wrong.) Some of the things are pretty interesting, and it taught me how to cook a lot of vegetables (okra, collards, etc.) that I'd been kind of scared to try, but it also relies a bit too much on fake meats, rather than emphasizing vegetables, for my taste.
Re: Vegetarian cookbooks
I checked out Passionate Vegetarian and read through it and I liked that it was a vegetrian Southern cookbook, that can be hard to find sometimes. It looked a bit overwhelming.
I'll have to see if the library has the others and try out a few recipes.
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