Vegan Planet Cookbook Review

May 2, 2010 By Amy Leave a Comment

The book is Vegan Planet: 400 Irresistible with Fantastic Flavors from Home and Around the World. It shows perfectly how vegan cooking doesn’t have to be difficult or boring. With a bit of imagination, creativity, and some help from good cookbooks, you’ll be well on your way to enjoy the advantages that a vegan diet can bring you. The Vegan Planet cookbook offers, in my opinion, a wide range of different tastes for all types of palates. I am sure you can please even your non-vegan friends with a scrumptious selection of some of the 400 recipes in this great book.

I like it that the book provides recipes from different ethnic kitchens adapted to be vegan. There is a section on soups, salads and slaws, sauces and dressings, grains, pasta, beans, grilling and stir-frying, stuffed, pizza, smoothies, shakes and not forgetting delicious vegan desserts. You also learn tricks of the vegan trade on how to make eggless Hollandaise sauce or vegan Bechamel Sauce.

Overall, I think this cookbook appeals to people who either want to sometimes incorporate vegan foods into their diet due to health reasons or people who are vegan and in need of some new recipe ideas. Don’t you think Vegetarian Spring Rolls with Spicy Peanut Dipping Sauce, Basmati-Stuffed Grape Leaves with Pine Nuts and Dill, Luscious Lemon-Cranberry Cooler or Nut and Date Truffles just sounds delicious? Yep!

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Start A Vegetarian Lifestyle

March 19, 2010 By Amy Leave a Comment

Health is wealth is a well known phrase if you are reading this article then you probably already know all the benefits of starting a vegetarian lifestyle. Many people have a very good reason to turn to vegetarianism but they are procrastinating because they are unsure how to do it.

Well, guess what?

You just found out how to do it.

The best way to do it is to just bite the bullet, and go for it.

You must be thinking there will be so much temptations and distractions and you are right. There will be a lot of temptations and there will be a lot of distractions, but it will be all worth it in the end. It’s your health that is more important than anything else that may look tempting.

In fact, it is quite easy to start a vegetarian lifestyle if you know how to go about it. Here are a few tips that will help you on the way.

A. You must be think about made you decide to adopt vegetarianism .

B. You should minimize meat consumption gradually day by day. You will never be able to turn vegetarian in matter of week or two. It would take at least few months to completely  adapt to the vegetarian way of life. You should first start by becoming a semi vegetarian.

C. You would need to try out different vegetable  dishes. You should learn to prepare and eat  tasty vegetarian meals. Your new menu should be full of fresh fruits and juices of vegetables and fruits, soups, pasta, whole grain breads, spices and herbs etc. You should try to make your meal complete by adding tasty items like  spices, cheese, various sauces to add flavour.

D. Another thing which can help you in your quest of turning a veggie is encourage your family also  start the vegetarian life along with you.

E. You can also join some diet classes which will have professional people who will help you in your goal of turning vegetarian.  You could get over your temptation of eating meat through mediataion.

F. Buy cookbooks and learn new vegetarian dishes from different resources like magazines, internet websites etc. The possibilities are limitless, you just have to find them.

G. If at any point you feel like you want to give up, just ask yourself this basic question. Why did you want to turn vegetarian in the first place? The answer will keep you on track and will give you enough motivation and will power to continue.

Be persistent  and before you know it, you will be a vegetarian.

Remember, your health is your real wealth you . Do it justice and do it right by turning to a healthy, wealthy and wise life style that is Vegetarianism.

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7 Ways To Find Delicious Vegetarian And Vegan Recipes

March 19, 2010 By Amy Leave a Comment

Becoming a vegetarian or vegan is entirely an individual’s choice and decision, sometimes when people decide to become vegetarian they struggle with vegetarian cooking because they can’t find delicious vegetarian recipes. It seems that the options are a few and the vegetarian diet is supposedly repetitive and boring. This is so not true.

 

This article will show you 7 Ways to Find Delicious Vegetarian and Vegan Recipes. Here is the list:

1. Buy cookbooks, cooking videos or eBooks on vegetarian & vegan cooking: The best way to learn something is to see it happen. Learning is a receptive skill that comes naturally to human beings. One can buy cook books from anywhere  local book stores, internet etc. With options flooding the book galleries –low cal recipes, cheese specials, low calorie vegetarian desserts etc, there is no dearth of sources to find vegetarian recipes.

2 Searching the internet for vegetarian and vegan websites like blogs: Internet certainly has become the first and last of everything. You can search on the internet for vegetarian recipes and you will be flooded with options. The best part is most celebrity and famous chefs have their own blogs. They share their old and new recipes on these blogs and you can learn great amounts from them.

3 Joining free and paid online website newsletters and subscriptions: If you are willing to make strong efforts to learn vegetarian and vegan cooking, you can also join free or paid online website newsletters and subscription. These websites will either not charge you anything or demand a suitable price for rendering you their services. Once you have subscribed, your mail box will flow with mails regarding vegetarian and vegan cooking.

4 Buying magazines in your local shops: People today have become very conscious about what they eat. They not only want the food to be healthy but delicious too. This is the sole reason why so many cooking magazines are flooding the markets. Some of them are real good and come up with new recipes monthly or even weekly. Choose one which suits your taste buds best.

5 Asking from your vegan and vegetarian friends: Seeking advice from others is all together a great option. You may have many vegetarian and vegan friends. Seek help from them. They might know recipes that you don’t and if they have been vegan or vegetarian for long, their experience will surely help you.

6 Watching cooking shows on TV or channels and watching and writing down their recipes: Many channels run weekly cooking shows. The hosts or presenters are generally renowned chefs. Keeping up with these shows will eventually grant you a good knowledge of flavors and different combinations.

7 Going to the library and borrowing vegetarian and vegan cooking books: The more you will read about cooking, the more you will know about it. You may go to different libraries and get cookery books on vegetarian and vegan diets issued. Read them. You are sure to stumble upon new things and discover secrets.

Learning to cook new vegetarian meals isn’t hard. You just need to know where to look for easy and healthy vegetarian meals. With the tips provided above you will be learning to cook new vegetarian dishes every day. Find some time to find new recipes and your vegetarian and vegan meals will be full of new and delicious ideas that you have never thought of before.

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