magpie diner

about me

First off, have to say that I love recipes, love reading them, love collecting them and love trying them.

I've been a pesche ovo lacto vegetarian (got that right? not sure...) for over 15 years, simply put I just don't eat meat. I do however cook for a wide variety of dietary needs, including a family of carnivores and my two young children under 5. Trying to move to an all vegan diet in November (09).

I try not to cook 2 different main dishes every night and love it when I can split one recipe into 2 pots and leave the meat out of one so that everyone is satisfied. I also love veg dishes that I can just add some chorizo on the side for those that want it. On top of that, I'm trying to lose some weight so low cal is another consideration.

I collect cookbooks and have about 70 of them. Absolute faves are Madhur Jaffrey and all the Moosewoods/Mollie Katzen. I usually come on recipezaar looking for meat recipes, but now I'm totally addicted to the site and am using it for all sorts of things (like gluten free baking, which I'm fairly new to). I'm now spending time searching out vegan ideas.

I love cooking, find it therapeutic, and like being able to keep my kids away from processed food as much as I can.

I'm finding this a great site so far!

Favorite Foods:

Indian anything, Thai everything....and pretty much anything with spice or sauce!!

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