The other day I had an appointment on the other side of the city so I dropped in on the new library they recently completed in that neighborhood. It was very well planned out and easy to find everything you wanted. And that is where I found this cookbook. Usually I will find Vegan, Paleo,Keto,Dash,Atkins and on and on but rarely do I find a strictly plant-based one.
I was pretty excited and then I got pretty unexcited. Whenever I get to the section on Tofu, Tempeh and Seitan my eyes glaze over and I’m like…Meh. Soy and I do not get along well. At all. The reason I don’t eat meat is because of the texture, plus I could never kill anything, well except for that coyote who was stealing my chickens that one time. But back to the soy. I don’t want to make pretend meat. I don’t like Tofu. And soy milk makes my boobs grow a cup size overnight, and it tastes like a petroleum product to me.
Needless to say the book wasn’t a winner with me. I like my food in the simplest form possible. If a recipe has more than 9 ingredients, I’m not cooking it. I did find one good risotto recipe in there, now I just need the 3 different types of mushrooms to make it.
My philosophy now is that plant eaters don’t really need a cookbook. You know what you want to eat or in my case, because of my Celiac and Crohn’s, it’s what I can eat that doesn’t cause me pain and bloating for days.
Try it out and you may just like it. It just didn’t make the cut for me.
This sounds good. We eat less meat every year and are always eager for recipes. 🙂
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I cheat now I don’t much cooking. We have a plan I cook the plain meals and my daughter uses her cook book or magazines and makes lovely dishes. She can peel onion with out crying!
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Oh that’s a nice way to do it!
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Can you peel onion with out crying? I can’t !
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I can. I’ve never shed a tear cutting up an onion.
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