I've been asked a lot about where to find good vegan recipes. The truth is, they're all over, and easier to find than you think. So the absolute hands-down best vegan recipe resource in my husband's and my opinion is Recipezaar.
Here's why:
- 12,692 vegan recipes and counting
- extensive nutrition information for every single recipe
- detailed recipe sifter allows tag-style recipe filtering (time, ingredient, prep, etc)
- most recipes have a picture or multiple user-submitted pictures
- ratings tell you what people really thing about the recipes
- 12,692 vegan recipes and counting
- extensive nutrition information for every single recipe
- detailed recipe sifter allows tag-style recipe filtering (time, ingredient, prep, etc)
- most recipes have a picture or multiple user-submitted pictures
- ratings tell you what people really thing about the recipes
- 12 ounces tempeh, cubed
- 1 stalk celery, minced
- 2 tablespoons red bell peppers, minced
- 1 large dill pickles, minced
- 2-3 scallions, minced
- 1 tablespoon fresh parsley, chopped
- 1/2 cup soy mayonnaise or regular mayonnaise (more or less to taste)
- 1 tablespoon yellow mustard (spicy golden brown is nice too)
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- salt & freshly ground black pepper
Directions:
- 1 stalk celery, minced
- 2 tablespoons red bell peppers, minced
- 1 large dill pickles, minced
- 2-3 scallions, minced
- 1 tablespoon fresh parsley, chopped
- 1/2 cup soy mayonnaise or regular mayonnaise (more or less to taste)
- 1 tablespoon yellow mustard (spicy golden brown is nice too)
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- salt & freshly ground black pepper
Directions:
1. Place the cubed tempeh in a saucepan of boiling, salted water.
2. Reduce heat to low, and simmer for about 12 minutes, drain and set aside to cool.
3. I usually toss it in the fridge.
4. In a large bowl, combine the celery, pepper, pickle, scallion and parsley.
5. Run a knife through the cubed tempeh, just to give it a rough chop (optional, the cubes work fine too)
6. Add chopped tempeh to the bowl, along with the mayonnaise, mustard, lemon, salt and pepper.
7. Fold everything together, cover, and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes to let the flavors combine.
8. This will keep covered in the fridge for 2-3 days. This salad goes great on wheat toast, in a pita pocket, or in a lavash wrap.
Here are a few more great vegan recipe sites we use (more can be found on the "links" page on www.beavoiceforthevoiceless.com):
- ChooseVeg
- Vegan Food
And our favorite vegan cookbooks:
- The Joy of Vegan Baking
- Vegan Planet
- You Won't Believe It's Vegan!
- Skinny Bitch in the Kitch
- Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker
And a good overall book on vegan anything and everything is The Vegan Sourcebook.
Remember, I don't do any paid blogging AT ALL. Anything I recommend ever is a recommendation simply from my own personal obsession with the product. :)
Remember, I don't do any paid blogging AT ALL. Anything I recommend ever is a recommendation simply from my own personal obsession with the product. :)
4/10/2009 01:41:00 PM |
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hey! uh, srry if this isn't relevant but i'm having a little trouble with the whole going vegan thing... does God want me to? like every one is all, "well the Bible says that God gave us animals to eat" um, like even in ancient "Bible times" they ate lamb at the passover, and God told them to. like i totally respect being vegan, but... i dunno, im confused. i love animals, i have two (well fed =P) animals, and love them like children, but they eat chicken-flavored dog food, why can't i eat chicken? when the owl uses his instinct given by God to hunt and eat, is he sinning? trying to nourish my family with blessed protein from a cow, am i sinning?? help!!!!
I received a similar question sent to my www.beavoiceforthevoiceless.com site, and wanted to post the reply I sent to this person here... hopefully it's helpful! :)
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Well, to me, being vegan is a very good thing. It's a lifestyle that is filled with cruelty-free decisions... not allowing animals to suffer lonely lives in farms, or horrible deaths in slaughterhouses or fur farms, or to be tested on, for my sake. The way I look at it is that when you read Genesis 1:29, you see that right after God finished His creation, He instructed man that plants were to be his food. It wasn't until after sin entered the world that God permitted the use of animals for food.
In today's time, we have so many alternatives to animal products that using animals for food is no longer necessary. Same with leather and fur. Back in Bible times, they didn't have Gardenburgers, soy ice cream pleather or faux fur. Now we have all of these products readily available to us, and so to me, I would rather eat or wear something that I know an animal didn't have to suffer to give me. To me, it's just a basic question of necessity, and animal products aren't necessary anymore.
I have felt very fulfilled since going vegan, knowing that my choices in what I buy, eat, wear and use no longer cause any suffering. As for the food part, I have never felt healthier! The human body was not designed to metabolize animal products efficiently. I have a video on my site in the gallery page under the animals section, called "omnivore vs. herbivore" that explains this better. :)
I don't know if any of this is very helpful in answering your question, but hopefully you'll find sometihng I said at the very least, interesting. :) Please let me know if you have any questions, or want some support in trying to go vegan for 30 days. :)