i can cook...a little. ok, a very little. i'm decent at following recipes and good with spices though! i'm usually too tired when i get home to prepare anything
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the cheaper ones are cheap because they contain surplus depleted uranium, which reduces cooking time using less wattage, but slightly irradiates your food.
ps, i was going to add some recipes instead of this goober-tastic entry until i got to the 2nd paragraph.. i don't know diddley about vegetarian and especially vegan cooking. sry. :(
This cookbook seems to get good reviews for the most part, and I have heard good things about it from vegetarians. If you are looking for fairly simplistic though not strictly vegetarian, any of the Jamie Oliver cookboks have quite a few good recipes. I tend to recommend them to everyone. For most people, unless you plan to do a lot of baking or want to get very technical, pots, pans, spoons and maybe a whisk or other things like that would be pretty much all you would need. Once you start making a few things you will figure out really what you need, although it sounds like you have what you would need already for the most part. Another excellent resource is epicurious.com, which collects the recipes of Gourmet and Bon Appetit and is usually an excellent searchable resource with lots of fairly decent reviews by people who have tried the recipes. (factoid: I went to culinary school so this is sort of my thing, hopefully this is helpful)
yea awesome....i always forget about websites. i should go through epicurious and print stuff and file it together....ugh, i also need a good spice rack already. my pots and pans are crap; so are my knives.
Yeah I use epicurious rather often. I like the fact that I can send the recipes to my phone so I can just use that at the grocery store to shop. Plus, most of the recipes I have used from it, particularly the ones from Bon Appetit, tend to turn out pretty damn good. A couple of good knives can make a WORLD of difference in making things easier and faster. If you are getting knives, start with a decent 8" chef's knife, then a paring knife and then a serrated bread knife (Or get them all at once, but that would be the order of importance I would pick). Those knives would be the most useful for all-around knives. If you are looking to get decent pots and pans, the way I did it somewhat cheaply was to get single pieces of Calphalon (the One range is the equivalent now) over time when it went on sale. Generally Macy's or places like that will put like one pot or pan on sale at a super low price at certain times and I just grab them then. Eventually you have a kickass range of expensive pans that you paid a lot less for than if you bought a
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dude, be-friend my ljpal glueandglitter... shes a vegan I think, or at least a vegetarian, and shes always making delicious things. she has some recipes here: ggrecipes
Sounds like you're going through the same thing as me...I don't know how to cook but I want to learn. A friend of mine recommended that I go to a bookstore and look through the cookbooks, and try to find one that reads like a textbook. If I can follow what they're talking about, then it's probably a good cookbook.
You could also ask my sister Charity or my friend Megan. Charity's a vegan and Megan's a vegetarian. They might have some good recommendations; contact Mrs. Spackman and DorothyDread, respectively, in my top myspace friends.
moosewood cookbook (mollie katzen) is a great place to start. i might just be saying that because my mom had the first edition of it, so i grew up eating those recipes, but it was the first cookbook i bought, and it's served me well. the veganomicon (isa chandra moskowitz) is also a good reference for just about anything you could think of
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cool, i have not heard of that cookbook. and i had that feeling about knives. i can't really buy any good ones just yet but i plan to at some point. steamer as well! i'd also like a decent rice cooker. i really could live on rice and veggies and tofu i think. well, and loads of ice cream course, but that goes without saying!
That is also an excellent cookbook, highly recommended. Your post has made me really realize all the crap I have for cooking (knives, good pans, kitchenaid mixer, fuzzy logic rice cooker, chinois with stand, mandoline, a giant bookshelf full of cookbooks... man I could go on and on and on). Long story short, I got all this stuff over a lot of time, just start with a few basics and get quality stuff that lasts and eventually you will have enough to make whatever you need. :)
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The prepared foods section at Whole Foods
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i actually don't have a microwave yet, can you believe it? everytime i get a ride to target, they're out of the cheaper ones. bitches.
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ps, i was going to add some recipes instead of this goober-tastic entry until i got to the 2nd paragraph.. i don't know diddley about vegetarian and especially vegan cooking. sry. :(
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shes a vegan I think, or at least a vegetarian, and shes always making delicious things.
she has some recipes here:
ggrecipes
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well nevermind
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You could also ask my sister Charity or my friend Megan. Charity's a vegan and Megan's a vegetarian. They might have some good recommendations; contact Mrs. Spackman and DorothyDread, respectively, in my top myspace friends.
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