Finally, a project I can sink my teeth into!

[serene]

Inspired by The Julie/Julia Project in Julie Powell's blog, I'm going to spend the next year cooking all the recipes in a vegan cookbook. I own many of them, but not all. Any suggestions for the best vegan cookbook to use? (No lacto-ovo books need apply -- I already know how to make quiche and a killer cream sauce.)

Comments

[lyrical1.livejournal.com]

How cool! While not completely vegan, I love the Moosewood Cookbooks. Many, many of them are vegan and most can do with out what ever lacto-ovo ingredients are included. Have fun! I'd love to hear about the adventure.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Gonna do an explicitly vegan book, but I LOVE Moosewood stuff, too. I may start a new blog for the project. Haven't decided, but I'll post it here one way or the other.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

There is that vegetarian Mediterranean cookbook that someone sorta kinda almost got for you. I don't think it included any lacto-ovo stuff.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

*big grin* It was a very generous gesture, love, and it means both Carol and I got one. :-)

I'm gonna go with something more general-purpose, though. I think I'm gonna do either Vegan Vittles or How It All Vegan. Or May All Be Fed, maybe. Oh, well, I'll decide, and then I'm going to make a new blog just for the project. Should be fun.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

*nod* that sounds right. Is there something about the vegetarian gene that also causes puns?

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I know. I really am considering crossing How It All Vegan off the list just because it's so damn cutesy.

[stonebender.livejournal.com]

And everyone knows how very not-cute you are!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

ExACTly. THANK you. :-)

[lcohen]

but you *are* nice!

*smooch*

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Grrrrrrrr.

(*smooch*)

[pameladean]

From opposite ends of the spectrum, The New Farm Vegetarian Cookbook and The Now and Zen Epicure; the latter is by Miyoko Schinner.

The first is very American and down-home, with cornbread, and tofu got up (pretty successfully) to be like a breaded fish patty that you eat in a bun, and like that. The second has a lot of esoteric ingredients and relies a lot on wine sauces, but it does have simpler stuff; and such recipes as I have made have been spectacularly good.

I will add, however, that "Janie's Good Biscuits" from the first book just really aren't. The cornbread is lovely, though.

Pamela

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Thank you! This is useful.

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

This sounds like something I'd love. If you do start a new journal for it I'd love to read it. I think I might like to do something similar with one of the new Minimalist cookbooks I just bought, but I'm not sure who I'd feed all that food to. My husband, while a lovely man, has very Severe Food Issues. Hmm. I guess I'll just have to start a regular have people in to be experimented on night. Of course, the problem with that is how very irregular my life tends to be what with all that traveling.

MKK

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I considered using a cookbook with far fewer than 365 recipes, so I could skip a lot of days, but I ended up with about 300 total. My live-in sweeties are not picky eaters at all, so I'm lucky. I am really looking forward to being all moved so that I can have guinea pigs over to try the new stuff.

[robinraven.livejournal.com]

I'm a vegan, and I wish I could do that. I think that's a great idea! I love PETA's cookbook. It's all vegan. You can even win some vegan cookbooks over at the site, www.peta2.com by doing stuff for animals. It's very cool.

I love your journal. More vegan power to you!! (-:

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I need to get the PETA cookbook. What's your favorite recipe in it?