Resources - List of Member-recommended Vegan Books, Blogs, Webpages, and Docus

henridw2095

Cookbooks
Many vegetarian (or even non-vegetarian) cookbooks contain vegan recipes, but I enjoy the following cookbooks. Hoping others will recommend cookbooks they use a lot and I will add them to the list! I have several more, but either haven't used them yet or don't use them a lot.

• America's Test Kitchen: The Complete Plant-Based Cookbook: 500 Inspired, Flexible Recipes for Eating Well Without Meat
• Vegan Richa's Indian Kitchen
• Vegan Planet by Robin Robertson
• The No Meat Athlete Cookbook by Brandon Frazier and Stepfanie Romine

Vegan Recipe Blogs

1. https://www.veganricha.com/
2. https://www.eatfigsnotpigs.com/
3. https://www.theppk.com/
4. https://schoolnightvegan.com/
5. https://veganyackattack.com/
6. https://mygoodnesskitchen.com/
7. https://thefirstmess.com/
8. https://www.mississippivegan.com/
9. https://www.thefullhelping.com/
10. https://www.noracooks.com/
11. https://www.seitanismymotor.com/
12. https://healthyhappylife.com/
13. https://jessicainthekitchen.com/

Nutritional Information

1. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/

Book About Why to Become a Vegan/Vegetarian

• Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Animal Liberation Now, by Peter Singer

AnnPT77

Evidence based vegan nutrition information, from vegan registered dietitians:

https://veganhealth.org/

Maya440

My last preferred cookbook is "Be A Plant-Based Woman Warrior: Live Fierce, Stay Bold, Eat Delicious".
I encourage anybody who struggle to eat veggies to look at their interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvcqUquUt9o
It is both informative and funny

takinitalloff

I just finished this delicious dish of Salt and Vinegar Kale Chips With Fried Chickpeas and Avocado from a recipe by Hetty Lui McKinnon. (I reduced the amount of chickpeas to stay low-carb.)

I made it as written with the egg included (i.e. vegetarian, not vegan) but the egg is listed as optional. This recipe is from the book Tenderheart: A Cookbook about Vegetables and Unbreakable Family Bonds which has received excellent reviews on GoodReads. I plan to check out the book from the library later, but this dish was sooo good that I had to share my find right away The book is organized by vegetable and apparently each recipe comes with suggestions for veganizing + other optional changes for food sensitivities etc.

Maya440

Wow it looks incredible 😋

henridw2095

@takinitalloff this looks delicious! I saved it in my NYT recipe box and will have to try it sans the eggs I was just googling what I could use instead of fried egg and saw that people are actually making vegan sunny side-up eggs that even look the part (seems like a lot of work)...I'm not hugely into imitating non-vegan foods, so I think I will fry some tofu slabs instead

takinitalloff

@henridw2095 Please let me know how you like it! I'm not into imitation foods either -- back when I was fully plant-based I never got into the fake burgers and vegan cheese; and now that I'm eating low-carb I also don't make any keto breads or artificially sweetened desserts. Substituting an ingredient here or there is fine as far as I'm concerned... but when I have to replace everything to make a poor approximation of the dish, why not just make an actually yummy dish that's not trying to be something it's not?

henridw2095

I agree…much easier to appreciate foods for what they are than to try for something they are not!

jfp420

I just received a new cookbook Craving Vegan by Sam Turnbull (her blog is called It Doesn't Taste Like Chicken). I have had good results with her recipes before so have high hopes for these new ones. Simple and easy for weeknights.

SparkSpringtime69

Resources
Recipes:
https://minimalistbaker.com/recipe-index/?fwp_special-diet=vegan - overall the site is not 100% vegan/vegetarian, but she does have loads of recipes in those categories and everything is well labeled.
https://pickuplimes.com/
https://onegreenplanet.org/ recipes and articles
https://wickedkitchen.com/
https://diannesvegankitchen.com/

Info:
https://nutritionfacts.org/
https://foodrevolution.org/ info and recipes
https://pcrm.org/ lots of good nutrition info and recipes (along with a lot of animal rights stuff). They also have a free 21-Day Vegan Kickstart program with daily recipes and info. I did it once years ago and enjoyed it.

Maya440

I have often heard about the minimalist baker, in podcasts and so, I will have a look.

SparkSpringtime69

@henridw2095 I've visited numbers 1, 2 and 10 blogs, the rest are new to me I'll have to check them out. Thanks for a great list.
@AnnPT77 I took a quick look at that site, I like how they have the categories set up and will definitely be reading through some stuff in Veganuary
@Maya440 I love the Esselstyns! I'm going to watch that podcast tomorrow, thanks for the link. I have to say, every recipe I've tried from Minimalist Baker has been good to absolutely delicious. And she has a great filter on the site to narrow down the recipes (Veg, Vegan, GF, season, ingredients, and more).
@takinitalloff that dish looks delicious and the book sounds interesting. I'm going to see if my library carries it.
@jfp420 I've been to that blog but don't think I've tried any of her recipes yet. I'll have to give it another look.
Thanks all for these recommendations.

mtaratoot

I know they are old. I'm still a fan of Mollie Katzen's cookbooks. I use them for guidance; I typically don't follow recipes exactly as written.

henridw2095

I had never heard of these and will check them out!! Time to renew my library card!

mtaratoot

My library has several of Mollie's books. I only own the two "classics,"

If your library doesn't have Moosewood Cookbook, it's possibly worth getting a used copy. Classic yes, but it's very heavy on the butter. Feel free to modify the recipes with abandon. They'll still be good. A friend gave me his when he moved away, so now I have two copies. Just in case.

As long as you're ordering, you might as well pick up Enchanted Broccoli Forest.

henridw2095

I love cookbooks, but then always end up tossing random foods onto a sheet pan for dinner…I will still check them out!

osmith1999

My favorite websites are:
1) https://nutritionfacts.org/ Dr. Gregor has extensively researched every topic and has published great books. They also have a YouTube channel
2. Mic The Vegan https://www.youtube.com/c/MictheVegan - takes on all the rumors, challenges, popular media about vegan/vegetarian diets with humor and science.
3. Plant Chompers https://www.youtube.com/@PlantChompers Chris MacAskill, a geophysicist and former tech exec entertaining and informative YouTube channel about food and health (borrowed description from Ruth Talks Food).

takinitalloff

Apologies if this has been mentioned already, I don’t have time to check.

The New York Times has a weekly newsletter called The Veggie which is available to anyone (NYT subscription not required).

Tanya Sichynsky shares the most delicious vegetarian recipes for weeknight cooking, packed lunches and dinner parties.

You can subscribe here: https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters

and see previous editions here:
https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-veggie?emc=edit_veg_20240428&nl=the-veggie&te=1