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give animals a break
go vego on World Animal Day, October 4
Cook yourself a vego meal
It's easier than you think!
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| Isn't it difficult? Doesn't it take heaps of
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Vego cooking can be as quick and easy as you wish..... or as fancy
and complicated. Like any other cuisine, vegetarian cooking will
be what you make it. As easy or as difficult as you like, as bland
or as spicy, as "down to earth" or "haut cuisine"...
We find that vegetarian meals are actually quicker and easier than
meat meals (and best of all... the dishes are heaps easier to wash!)
The main thing to get used to is soaking legumes (like dried beans
and peas) overnight. It's essentially the equivalent of deciding
what meat you'll cook tomorrow, and taking it out of the freezer
to defrost.
Our recipes are based on basic ingredients and simple methods.
None of them will take longer to cook than your average meat meal.
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| Do I need wierd ingredients? |
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Vegetarian cooking doesn't require fancy or unusual ingredients.
Some vegos, like other cooks, enjoy seeking out and using new and
novel ingredients (or fancy and expensive ingredients for that matter).
But in general, you can create great, substantial and tasty vego
meals with basic and easily available foods.
For some of the foods you'll find in a well-stocked vegetarian
kitchen, what they are and how to prepare them, see our web page
What's in your cupboard?
If you're turning your kitchen vego for the first time, it's important
to focus on foods which provide the basis of a vego diet and vego
cooking (like different grains and a variety of legumes), and make
sure you have them in your cupboards.
Then you can create meals and menus around what you do have,
rather than focussing on what you aren't using. In fact,
if you stock your kitchen well, you won't miss it at all.
A vego cookbook is a good place to start. Nowadays, it's not hard
to find vegetarian recipes. You can find a selection of vego cookbooks
in most book stores. If you're in Adelaide, for example, check out
the main bookshops on Rundle Mall for a wide selection, or try the
'New Age' booksellers who tend to specialise in vegetarian titles
as well.
There are also oodles of vego recipes on the internet - visit one
of the large vego sites, or just try typing "vegetarian recipes"
into a search engine.
Vego cookbooks are also available by mail or internet order from
organisations such as the following:
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