Jane has Mark Bittman’s “How to Cook Everything Vegetarian” on loan from our local library. She likes to test drive new recipes prior to buying a new cookbook. This cookbook looks very promising. It’s almost 1,000 pages and seems quite comprehensive. The recipes we’ve read sound appealing. So we’re pretty [...]

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It’ s been cold here again. That always makes me think of soup. Luckily, Jane thinks the same way, so we’ve been having a variety of soups and stews lately. In our pre-vegan life, one of our old standby meals was cream of tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches, with a green [...]

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Dinner tonight was some kind of stew: Black eyed peas, yams, spinach, and soy-chorizo (a Mexican spicy sausage). When I used to cook, Jane and I would have discussions about whether cooking is a science (my opinion) or an art (her opinion). I used to follow recipes exactly. [...]

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So far we’ve been fairly pleased with our vegan diet. The products have been mostly good. The recipes we’ve tried have, for the most part, been things we’d make again. Although I didn’t love the peach cobbler, and there was a cabbage salad that we won’t be making ever again, we haven’t [...]

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