28 October 2007
I poached some peaches this afternoon. Even though I crave different foods at different times of the year -- and, ideally, would prefer to eat what's in season -- there are some things I want to eat at the wrong time. The peaches in the stores right now aren't very good, but they're still delicious when poached.
The peaches were sweetened with a bit of honey and flavoured with cinnamon and vanilla, and I slipped the skins off after they'd cooked and diced them before bottling them up again with the cooking syrup.
I've just recently tapped the deep and rich vein of vegan foodie blogs -- I love them for the same reason I prefer vegan cookbooks. Interesting ingredients, creative recipes, etc. I didn't realize how many vegan blogs there were; regular foodie blogs don't seem to link to them very often. So many new recipes to try and pictures to be inspired by! I'm really loving VeganYumYum, Fat Free Vegan Kitchen, and Don't Get Mad, Get Vegan.
The first three years I was vegetarian, I didn't eat eggs either. I think that these days, they'd be the one thing to keep me from really going vegan. There's not really any dairy I can't do without (if you think a sandwich sans cheese is boring, you're just not using your imagination) -- I only buy almond milk these days, although I do eat dairy yogurt, because I'm wary of consuming too much soy. But eggs are such a quick and tasty source of protein -- and I really did crave them when I didn't eat them.
I like tofu scramble at least as much as scrambled eggs, and I don't think it would really be much more work to eat balanced vegan meals, but. . . for the time being, I'm sticking to lazy veganism.
Nice blog.All looks like beautiful.Have a good life...
posted by Begüm at October 29, 2007 01:57 AM
I already knew the first blog you mentioned (a friend of mine made the colcannon recipe the other day and it was delicious), but not the other two - thanks for sharing that :)
posted by Tania Ho at October 29, 2007 11:32 AM
Hi! thanks for sharing the links. I'm a vegetarian and I was a vegan for several years while I lived in NYC. I feel the same about eggs.
xox
posted by ruthie at October 29, 2007 05:38 PM