damn there are so many food blogs out there

gosh.. I just was browsing out there and practically every person that is cooking has a blog up and they have pictures too.
One good thing out of all this is that .. a lot of recipes will not get lost.. a lot of women who are old and cook old world recipes are managing to leave behind a legacy of cooking for the younger teenagers whose parents only fed them packaged food..these teenagers can now get online and learn cooking from some other older person other than their parents.. there is a worldwide exchange of tastes and practises and I am loving it..
I shall soon contribute to this cookbook world with my own cookbook but not just yet.. but prolly by next year.. till then.. I love the exchange of cooking love that goes on on the internet.

revelling in purple cabbage

judging from the previous blog entry ,which happens to have been my grocery list since i turned vegan.. YOu might notice that there is a lot of different colored veggies
At this point.. I am so in bliss with the harricot beans and the purple cabbage..Oh so crunchy, oh so tasty and a sense of peace pervades if eaten after having cooked them the right way.. Love , love it
As usual, no recipes here..coz a lot of recipe stealers on here , not only steal the recipes , but then proceed to put them on their own blogs and a while later, before you know..they are publishing a book of the recipes that they stole from all over...So yeah.. till i write my own cookbook, all the recipes are under wraps

My vegan Grocery list

Grocery list suggestion for newbie vegans wanting to shop for a vegan meal

here goes people
i turned vegan 5-6 months ago and i have been loving it..I had been wanting to become vegan since the age of 14 and it suddenly happened after so many years.
So, yeah.. as soon as i tell people that i am a Vegan..they raise their eyebrows and say,”Oh, but what exactly does a vegan eat?there is nothing much to eat , don’t ya think?”

And  now, it is my turn to raise an eyebrow..

I bring it to their attention that they themselves are far more vegan 

than they think they actually eat

.. They themselves do eat a lot of vegan food without realizing that is is vegan.

Anways.. to give you a gist of what goes into my vegan cooking..Here is a list of things i purchased when i very recently went grocery shopping
1/Large bag of white rice
2/Small bad of Brown rice
3/Semolina
4/Couscous flour
5/Red lentils
6/yellow lentils
7/green lentils
8/Black lentils
9/Black beans
10/White beans
11/garbanzo beans
12/Noodles-plain whole wheat noodles
13/Rice noodles
14/Soba noodles
15/sphagetti
16/macaroni
17/fusilli
18/unrefined corn flour to make cornbread and to make masse
19/Tapioca pearls
20/Burgul of wheat
21/Aubergine
22/japanese egg plant
23/green and red peppers
24/zuchinni
25/mushrooms-button and oyster
26/broccoli
27/carrots
28/brown sugar
29/refined sugar
30/Chayote squash
31/Yellow pumpkin
32/Japanese lotus root
33/REd kidney beans
34/onions
35/tomato
36/potatoes
37/Sweet potato
38/Garlic
39/Tofu-firm and silken
40/Silk soy milk
41/Silk soy yogurt
43/Tofutti-mozzarella cheese
44/potato flour
45/Rice flour
46/Soy flour
48/Pure dark cocoa powder
50/Dark vegan chocolate
52/Vegan crackers
54/Baking powder
55/pears
56/Apricots
57/Pears
58/Small watermelon
59/naval oranges
60/plain oranges
61/Cabbage
62/Lettuce
63/apples
64/Spinach
65/REd amaranth
66/Picked up all varieties of greens.. one bunch each..
67/Large bag of malt-o-meal breakfast cereal—they have minimal packing and thus environmentally friendly
68/Avocados
69/jalapenos
70/Mustard seeds
71/Cinnamon bark
72/cloves
74/Nutmeg
75/Fennel
76/Cinnamon
77/Paprika
78/Cayenne pepper
79/Tamarind
80/Iodized salt
82/Mixed dried Italian herbs
83/Cilantro
84/Red cabbage
85/Rodicchio
86/Persimmons
87/Dark grapes
88/Grean beans
89/Cluster beans
I forget a few other things i bought
90/lemon grass
91/Sesame seeds
92/Rice bran oil
So yeah..I am pretty sure , all of you buy all the above and then perhaps purchase a piece of some dead slaghtered animals leg or hand or thighs or heart… along with all the above..
And i guess.. dontcha think, you are more vegan than you actually give yourself credit for ?
I promise i can cook around 120-250 dishes with just the ingredients i bought
yeah, i also bought
93/corn cobs
94/pimento
This article was originally created on dec 19,2008 and slightly modified as on jan 12.2009

Lost taste for coffee-Coffee the vice of the vegans

I recently turned vegan from having been vegetarian all my life.
so yes, coffee was one vice that transcended into my vegan life from my vegetarian life.. Coffee was one external drug like stimulant my strict ethical lifestyle permitted..
So last week when i got real sick.. the antibiotics kinda made lose all taste.... I mean.. I lost my craving for coffee altogether.. and the smell of coffee started making me sick..
I figured that the metronidazole was doing the trick of altering taste but looks like even after days of getting off the drugs.. I still havent regained my coffee liking... I am thrilled by this development..
I always used to be scared , I do depend on coffee each morning..Mind you, I am no coffee guzzler ever. it would mostly be only a cup or two per day.. but then that one cup in the morning i surely needed..
So yes, this new found aversion to coffee has actually improved my self esteem.. I made me realize that i can start off a day without coffee and not feel a loss..Yay for Antibiotic induced pica which caused this coffee aversion..Makes me feel less of a dependant..LOL