Can't Find any Decent Vegan Recipies? Make Your Own!
Whether you are new to vegan cooking or you've been at it for decades, a new and reliable source of vegan recipies is always welcome. Have you perused all of your cookbooks, checked all of the message boards on your favorite vegan sites, and thumbed through the cards in your recipe box only to come up with nothing exciting? How about creating new vegan recipies of your own?
Vegan recipies are surprisingly simple to make up. If you are cooking a savory dish for a lunch or dinner main dish, the most important things to remember are variety and balance. Try to incorporate all of the vegan food groups into your meal so that you get optimum nutrition from the combination of food that you choose.
Some of the best vegan recipies for lunch and dinner occur on the spur of the moment. If you are making a fresh vegetable sandwich and suddenly feel like putting something unexpected on it like apple slices, go for it! See how the flavors mingle and balance each other out.
Not all vegan recipies have to be about balance, however. A brunch can be an indulgent and decadent experience that you don't have to feel guilty about. Try putting together your favorite vegan sausage, some fried potatoes, and various leftover vegetables that you have in the fridge. Combine them all in a skillet, then sprinkle with nutritional yeast and other seasonings. Fry until everything is heated throughout, then serve alongside toast smothered in apple butter.
Some vegan recipies are best left to the experienced cooks. Baked goods are something that a lot of vegan cooks won't do without a recipe because doing so could cause the necessary proportions to be thrown off. If you don't feel comfortable making up vegan recipies for baked goods on your own, why not try modifying existing vegan recipies? Take a muffin or cookie recipe and change around a few of the ingredients. Instead of chocolate chips, try dried cranberries. Instead of blueberries, try sliced almonds. As long as you keep the proportions of liquids to solids roughly the same, you should be successful. And if your recipe doesn't do well, at least you will have learned from the experience!
New Sources of Recipes
If making up your own vegan recipies just doesn't seem like something you want to do, there are new vegan cookbooks coming out every day. There are tons of websites dedicated just to sharing vegan recipies among users. If you look hard enough, you'll find a new and exciting recipe just waiting to be whipped up in your kitchen.
