Porn-a-rama Update + Cookbook Recs

[scribblinlenore]

Sex Toy Porn-a-rama Update

Important announcement: The deadline is extended through the weekend! I'll post a final list on Monday morning. To date, we have a number of entries, all hot, hot hot:

Seeing Red, Smallville, Clark/Lex, Red!K dildo, by yavannauk

A Gift, SGA, John/Rodney, AMTDI with anal beads, by mf_luder_xf

Untitled, SGA, John/Rodney, somebody discovers the Ancient sex toy chest, by alizarin_nyc

The Art of Losing, SGA, John/Rodney, John loses a bet and has to wear a butt plug to a meeting, by kassrachel

Cold Hands, Warm Heart, Firefly, Simon/Mal, fur-lined handcuffs, by executrix

There's still time to come out and play!


Cookbook Recs

My mission for 2008 is to change what I cook and how I eat so that I'm getting more vegetables and whole grains. Do you guys have any recs for vegetarian cookbooks you like? I'd be more interested in ones that concentrate on veggies, grains and beans than tofu or seitan. Help a gal out?

Comments

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

The Moosewood Cookbook really is a classic for a reason. The new edition removes a lot of the fat that the old recipes had, but not in a bad way (i.e. no fake cheese).

I'm a little biased because I grew up in the town where the restaurant is, eating their cooking both at home and in the restaurant, but I can recommend fully half of the recipes in it, and probably more that I haven't tried yet.

Their Black Bean Soup is excellent, although even better made with turkey stock and a hambone thrown in ;-).

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'd kind of forgotten about The Moosewood Cookbook, but when I first lived in New York and had a roommate, she owned a copy. And made some good stuff out of it. I'll definitely get that one.

[epeters.livejournal.com]

Sex Toy Porn-O-Rama and Vegetarian cookbook recs all in the same post. LMAO!!

Only on LJ ;)

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Hee! What can I say? I'm eclectic!

[tommybarbarella.livejournal.com]

Old school veggie cookbook - Recipes for a Small Planet. A bit labor-intensive, but follows your guildelines exactly and has been around for many years because it's good.

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the recommendation! I'll check it out.

[tommybarbarella.livejournal.com]

PS...don't get anal beads in your couscous, it'll play hell on your digestion... ;)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

From the awesome that is How to Cook Everything (http://www.amazon.com/How-Cook-Everything-Simple-Recipes/dp/0471789186/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207326927&sr=8-1) comes How to Cook Everything Vegetarian (http://www.amazon.com/How-Cook-Everything-Vegetarian-Meatless/dp/0764524836/ref=pd_sim_b_img_1). I don't own the latter, but I love the former to pieces.

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

How to Cook Everything sounds great! I ordered myself a copy. Thanks so much for the suggestion!

[layniek.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you're interested in just books, but if websites are good too, this is a good one: Jaime's Kitchen (http://shadesofjaim.com/recipes/). I found it when I was trying to find stuff that I could eat as a vegetarian that my mom could also eat on Weight Watchers. I'm not doing Weight Watchers myself, but I love the recipes anyway. The tortilla soup (http://shadesofjaim.com/recipes/spicytortillasoup.html) is one of my absolute favorite foods ever.

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Web sites are great, too! Thank you! I'm going to give that tortilla soup a try. It looks delicious!

[chopchica.livejournal.com]

*drags computer over to cookbook bookshelf*

Mollie Katzen's Vegetable Heaven: packed with grain and bean dishes, inventive soups, veggies galore, fun sauces, and really tasty desserts. Possibly my favorite cookbook. I make the bulger dish all the time.

The Essential Vegetarian Cookbook - Diana Shaw: I found my favorite risotto recipe in here, as well as my favorite gazpacho recipe (uses roasted red peppers instead of raw green). It's huge, and full of detailed info about different kinds of styles and recipes. Probably my most useful cookbook overall.

Moosewood Restaurant New Classics: My beloved Thai lemongrass and carrot soup comes from this one, as does my curried spinach pea soup. It's huge and packed with really hearty recipes. Lots of lasagnas and mac and cheese with tofu, and skillet hashes, with a ton of salads and veggies to balance it out. A great winter book.

The Whole Foods Market Cookbook: This one isn't strictly vegetarian, but the veggie recipes make it so worth it. I make *insanely* large batches of the chili every year (with bulger for meaty texture! and three kinds of beans! and bushels of veggies and lime juice and cilantro and omg yay!) and freeze it. There are a bunch of stock variations (terracotta, asian, three onion, aromatic, etc), wheat berries with green chiles and roasted pumpkin seeds, polenta dishes, veggie burgers, one-pot meals, sauces and dips, greens greens greens, and even more veggies.


Those are probably my holy four. Others I love are: Real Vegetarian Thai by Nancie McDermott, every single Moosewood and Mollie Katzen cookbook ever published (especially Moosewood Celebrates and Mollie Katzen's Sunlight Cafe), The Indian Vegetarian by Neelam Batra, and Passionate Vegetarian by Crescent Dragonwagon. And if you're interested in magazines, Vegetarian Times is a great choice.

Wow, now I am really hungry.

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the recs! I ordered a copy of Vegetable Heaven, and I'll get some of the others as well if this desire to cook more lasts. *g*

[kensieg.livejournal.com]

Do you just want to add vegetables to your diet or do you want to become vegetarian?

I'm an omnivore; I eat meat, veg and grain. Julia Child's cookbooks have wonderful grain and vegetable chapters as well as meat ones.

One of that was recommended to me by a teaching chef was:

Julia Child
How to Cook

I've always found that some standard cookbooks enormously helpful. Betty Crocker is a favorite. Better Homes and Gardens is good too.

As far as Vegetarian goes the only cookbook series that comes to my mind are the Moosewood cookbooks. I think that one of the sequels is The Enchanted Broccoli Forest. My sister who is a good cook recommended them to me. If you have the time peruse some cookbooks in a library or used book store before you settle on one to buy.

recipe.net is an online collection of recipes than can be searched by type of food. I've searched there when I wanted bread recipes.

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

I don't want to set any rules about my eating, so I don't want to become a vegetarian exactly. I do, though, want to change the way I think about meals and learn to cook more things that don't include meat. I do have the Better Homes and Gardens cookbook that I also find really helpful.

The Moosewood Coobook seems like a good place to start. I ordered a copy. Thanks so much for the rec!

[ratcreature]

I don't have many English cookbooks but I like Vegan Planet even though I fail to stick with vegan eating, and am merely vegetarian (while feeling guilty about the cows and chickens suffering).

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the rec! That looks like a good cookbook.

[alizarin-nyc.livejournal.com]

More people are posting about vegetarian recipes than are writing sex toy porn. It's time for me to leave LJ, clearly.

*huffs*

I have at least one more ficlet in me for this challenge...

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

*hugs you* It is a sad day for sex toy porn, indeed!

[alizarin-nyc.livejournal.com]

Where is YOUR contribution, speaking of?

[slinkling.livejournal.com]

Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone (http://www.amazon.com/Vegetarian-Cooking-Everyone-Deborah-Madison/dp/0767927478/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207338830&sr=1-1), by Deborah Madison, is fantastic: in addition to being HUGE, and having an enormous variety of recipes, the book is actually organized by vegetable, so you can search for recipe ideas based on what's in your fridge.

I've heard good things about Madison's other books, too, but haven't checked them out yet.

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

in addition to being HUGE, and having an enormous variety of recipes, the book is actually organized by vegetable, so you can search for recipe ideas based on what's in your fridge.

That is SO helpful. I'm always trying to figure out what I can make from the veggies I have on hand. Thanks so much for the rec!

[allyoops.livejournal.com]

I've found that any tofu/seitan recipe can be adapted to include grains fairly easily which is a good thing 'cause there's not that many veg books that don't include tofu (unless you get a soy allergy recipe book).

All the books below are ones I've found to be good for getting a balanced, vegtastic diet. They're a little vegan heavy so I've placed the vegetarian ones at the top. I recommend them all, but I reckon the best thing to do would be to see if you can find em at the library or view the table of contents at Amazon so you can see if they perfectly match your needs for buying, of if there's only one or two things that strike your fancy (and I can type 'em up for you).

Essential Vegetarian Cookbook, The - ISBN 1-74045-409-X (v. v. veg heavy)
Sarah Brown's Vegetarian Cookbook - 1-86466-009-0
Easy Vegetarian Cooking - 0-7225-2620-2
Vegetarian & Vegetable Cooking - 0-681-87935-1
Recipes from a Vegetarian Goddess - 1-56718-016-7
Everyday Vegan, The - 1-55152-106-7
365 plus one Vegan Recipes - 0-7225-2617-2
Mediterranean Vegan Kitchen, The - 1-55877-359-9
Angelica Home Kitchen, The1-58008-503-2 (yum!)
How it All Vegan - 1-55152-067-2 (this one is amazing)
Easy Vegan Cooking - 0-7225-3696-8
Vegan Cooking for One - 0-7225-3923-1
Skinny Bitch in the Kitch - 978-0-7624-3106-9 (best.polenta.ever)

http://vegweb.com/
http://community.livejournal.com/vegancooking/profile (see the memories)

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the recs! I'm going to check them out at the bookstore. And cool. I didn't realize there was an LJ community for vegan cooking. That's so helpful!

[korestemenos.livejournal.com]

Here are two brilliant books:

Vegan with a vengance (http://www.amazon.com/Vegan-Vengeance-Delicious-Animal-Free-Recipes/dp/1569243581/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207394020&sr=1-1) - this is one of those cookbooks that I have a several favourite recipes out of. I'm not a vegan so I often substitute, but even the vegan versions are yummy.

The new whole grains cookbook (http://www.amazon.com/New-Whole-Grain-Cookbook-Nutritious/dp/081185647X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207394161&sr=1-1) - this does amazing things with grains and is really really easy to follow when it explains how to cook a total variety of grains.

Enjoy!

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the recs! I've got my eye on The New Whole Grains Cookbook in particular.

[llaras.livejournal.com]

I've got almost every Mollie Katzen and Moosewood cookbook out there and I love them to itty bitty pieces. Easy, smart and good.

[scribblinlenore.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for the recs! I ordered the Moosewood cookbook and Mollie Katzen's Vegetable Heaven. I appreciate the help!

[zeldadestry.livejournal.com]

It's not a cookbook (although it does contain a selection of simple recipes), but I find Dr. Weil's 'Eating Well for Optimum Health' helpful. I especially appreciate the information about essential fatty acids (EFAs) and other foods that help reduce inflammation, and that it has an appendix in the back where you can look up different medical issues and see dietary suggestions.

His website is at www.drweil.com It has a lot of ads (yuck), but you can probably find most of the info from the book over there.

Happy eating!!!

[tehomet.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the sex toy links!

I too recommend anything by Mollie Katzen, and the Vegan with a Vengeance cookbook. Apart from those, my favourite cookbook is Cookin' Healthy with One Foot Out the Door: Quick Meals for Fast Times by Polly Pitchford and Delia Quigley, which is very funny too.

And I learned to cook by working my way through cookbooks by Rose Elliot, so I recommend those as well! :)