Maiden voyage...

"If I were to be reincarnated as a vegetable, I would like to be a fava bean, hiding inside that little stem, living inside a velvet room!

-Todd English





When I first opened a cookbook titled 'Great Chefs Cook Vegan', I was struck with how gourmet is was, the pasta and limp, olive-colored vegetables that most people associate with vegan cooking had disappeared! It had pictures of artfully arranged plates with food that looked so delicious you wanted to eat it right off the pages...
My Dad had given this cookbook to us (with the hope of reinventing our cookbook cupboard - HA!), after we had mostly gone vegan in our family (always a few slip-ups here and there though... :) While I was perusing the pages, it struck me of how fun it would be to cook through it in a couple months. -not trying to copy Julie&Julia at ALL : D It would definitely broaden my perspective on cooking...and give me some ideas. I wanted to be able to finish cooking through it by summer, so I decided my deadline - end of May.

The cookbook is divided into several segments, with a chef heading each one, and giving a 3- or 4-course vegan meal. I decided I could skip through it randomly, cooking whatever looked good that day, instead of going in order.

So. I have 98 recipes, 144 days. Here we go....







~Jennie