We as a family are making some changes to our diet to improve our health and one of our biggest changes is that we are trying to eat more vegetarian meals. Can anyone recommend a good source for finding vegetarian recipes, especially ones that don't revolve around dairy?
I just discovered sparkpeople.com. It's a site designed to help motivate you to get or stay healthy. They have a nutrition tracker where you can specify vegetarian meals. I love that it offers a meal plan and grocery list that goes along with it.
Hi E. ~ Vegetarian Times is a good magazine, yummly.com is a good website where you can customize according to your preferance and tasteofhome.com also has good veggie recipes. I also have a good veggie lasagna recipe that a use a non dairy cheese w/it's really good. Message me if you're interested & I'll send it to you. HTH
I get a lot of recipes from "How it all Vegan!" by Tanya Barnard and Sarah Kramer. I picked it up on a whim from the library a few years ago and used it so much that I finally bought a copy. My favorite recipe is the chili. We aren't vegans or even vegetarians, but I try to make a couple of meatless and dairy-free meals each week.
I really like the Moosewood books. The older ones are much more focused on dairy and the newer ones more so on ethnic cooking with less emphasis on dairy. Moosewood is a vegetarian restaurant in Ithaca, New York. Molly Katzen (with or without the Moosewood collective) is the author of the books. Also, look into Indian cooking - Madhur Jaffrey is an excellent author with lots of vegetarian recipes.
I've been vegan for about 20 years. I highly recommend anything by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero as well. Those two women have redefined vegan cooking. Also great is the Peas and Thank You cookbook (check out her blog as well at peasandthankyou.com -- lots of recipes are posted). 1000 Vegan Recipes by Robin Robertson has tons of quick and yummy recipes. As for vegetarian (non-vegan, but with plenty of vegan options) recipes, Mark Bittman's How To Cook Everything Vegetarian is a great compendium of recipes. Dreena Burton has 3 (soon to be 4) vegan cookbooks geared more towards families (as is the Peas and Thank You book/blog). Feel free to message me if you have questions. I am a cookbook addict and have dozens upon dozens of vegan/vegetarian cookbooks.
E.,
We only eat meat of any kind 1-2 times a week, this is one of our favorites, we have it at least once a month. The recipe calls for chicken but I often make it with just the veggies. You can make them as spicy or as mild as you like. Ohhhhhh so goooood!
Enjoy,
Z.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/thai-chick...
Hi E.,
I've been a vegan for the past 15 or so years. So most of what I have to recommend is vegan (so no dairy! but also no eggs).
f you're looking for recipes online, check out the following Sites:
vegweb.com
vegetariantimes.com
veganyumyum.com
thppk.com
For cookbooks, I recommend anything by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and/or Terry Romero, especially Veganomicon, Vegan Brunch, and Viva Vegan! And we love Vegan on the Cheap (for relatively easy, yummy food) and Supermarket Vegan for weekday dinners.
My family are ovo-lacto vegetarians and they love all of these cookbooks/recipes, too!
Good luck,
R.
I get almost all of my recipes from blogs and that is how I got started when we went vegetarian. Now that we have been vegetarian for 5 years I also have some great vegetarian/vegan cookbooks that I like, but I might recommend starting online at first or checking cookbooks out from your library. My favorite vegan (so they have no dairy) blogs are:
http://www.yourveganmom.com/
http://vegandad.blogspot.com/ (his more recent recipes are not so healthy, but his older stuff is more so)
http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/
http://sharetheveganlove.blogspot.com/
http://busyveganmama.blogspot.com/ (has good recipe suggestions-usually from cookbooks-but doesn't always share the recipe)
I liked vegetarian times magazine when we started out. Besides great recipes, there was good info about the health aspects, and how to make sure you find a good balance. They have a table/chart thing in the back that breaks the recipes out by dairy free, vegan, etc., to help make it easy to look things up. It's just a good resource, and may be worth your time. Maybe pick up one copy at a bookstore to see how you like it?
I know blogs and websites will also be a great and easy way to get recipes. There was no such thing as blogs when we went veggie so I can't comment!! :-) good luck.
My favorite is vegweb.com. This also includes vegan recipes which exclude dairy. Hope this helps!
I don't have any sources, but one of our favs is adding lots of veggies to the pasta sauce in a jar (we like to add mushroom, peppers, onion etc) then eat it over whole wheat/grain pasta. It's very satisfying and filling - not only that, I make a huge batch of it and separate it into meal size portions and freeze. It's so easy and tastes just as good. We also like to make stir fry.
The Silver Spoon
It's not a vegetarian cookbook, it's the Italian Bible of cook books. About 85% of the dishes are either vegetarian to begin with, or can be made vegetarian. Italians eat meals in courses, and there is a specific meat course, so the other courses are either meat free, or the meat is something of a garnish. The dishes are mostly simple 5-6 ingredient fresh whole food courses. Italians eat by the season, by and large, so you'll find a lot of trending in the meals.
Up until 2 or 3 years ago, getting a translated version into English was well over $100. Now, though, you can get a copy through Amazon for under $40. Best. Cookbook. In. The. World. And it's infinitely versatile. Recipes in Italy are more like guidelines than hard and fast. Play. Have fun. Make it your own. Substitute as you please.
I second vegweb.com. I have tons of recipes from there!
My father is a vegetarian and we are not, so cooking is interesting. A large number of common dishes can simply be made without the meat... gravy over noodles instead of chicken and so on. I also found a really good eggplant meatball recipe and then freeze them for use in place of hamburger in recipes.
Allrecipes.com is a great source for any recipe. Type in "vegetarian" dishes.
My family members that are vegetarian eat a lot of rice, beans of any kind (black bean, refried beans, soaked navy beans etc.).
If you are not completely vegan, you can incorporate fish & shrimp.
Pastas
Homemade veggie pizzas (yum!)
