Ive been vegetarian for 30 + years .
Ive gotten really good at converting most recipes to its vegetarian counterpart.
My wife just recently became vegan, which means now I have to convert vegetarian to vegan.
Being vegetarian has kinda been my driving force to learning new cuisines and trying ingredients I may have never tried if I weren't.
Now with this recent vegan hurdle, I have to learn to be even more creative, and Im up for the challenge.
What I have done is registered with Purple Carrot (
https://www.purplecarrot.com) , A company that supplies you with the ingredients to 3 vegan meals a week. everything comes proportioned already, and just has to be assembled and cooked. ( like a vegan version of Blue Apron).
I joined this more for getting new recipe ideas than any other reason. It provides me with recipes that I may overlook if I were searching myself. kinda like ab unbiased recipe source. Some of the recipes are great, some are good, and every now and then there are a few stinkers.
About 1 year ago I actually visited the Purple Carrot Kitchen ( Outside of Boston), where I met and hung out with the owner, toured the facility, spent time with the chefs and got to cook with them as well. It was kinda cool to see the behind the scenes of a place like this and find out the process of recipe selection, criteria , trial and the journey the recipe takes from selection to finally being delivered to the customer.
They also have a list of all their past recipes on their website ( a little difficult to find, but its there somewhere).
Sometimes its not necessarily the whole recipe I like but a certain spices, or flavor profile or a specific vegan ingredient . The way I look at it, is as long as I learn something from each box, then its a success for me.
I've always been and didn't even know it!
