Nom-Able

Well, the second one isn’t even really a question, but I’ll address them both at the same time.

I’m an omnivore. Sometimes, I eat things that include poultry, fish, and dairy products. I do not eat red meat (and no, pork is not “the other white meat”) so you won’t find any beef, pork, veal, or venison on this site. The reason I include vegan recipes is the same reason I do not eat red meat: I am aware that our current agricultural practices in this country are not sustainable, and the products of Big Agra are not healthy. Thus, for health and environmental reasons, my husband and I have animal-free evenings — which, I hasten to add, has also reduced our grocery bills substantially.

There are many good and valid reasons to be a vegetarian or a vegan. Hell, I did it for 46 days as a Lent experiment, and our weekly grocery bill shrunk to about $70/week, just to see if I could. The problem is, I’m a sucker for comfort food, and there’s nothing more comforting to me than my mother-in-law’s spaghetti bolognese, which is just not the same with vegetable broth and tempeh or vegan meat crumbles. (Trust me, during the 46 days, we tried both. No dice.)

I can’t give up meat and cheese (soy milk is perfectly fine, but the lack of a truly melty, tangy, perfect non-dairy cheese seals the deal for me.) Thus, we have those recipes. But, for the times I do want to cook a cheap, healthy, sustainable meal — or show others that vegan food doesn’t mean “all vegetables” or “raw diet” — I do vegan recipes. And I post both here, so that should there be a time when meat gets too expensive or rare, we don’t to turn to soylent green (which, I remind you, is people.)

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Second, I do apologize that this isn’t updated daily. As much as I’d love to do this blog — testing out lots of recipes and inventing my own — on a full-time basis, this website is a money suck. It costs money to host it, and the ad revenue is zilch since my ads only pay off when someone clicks through and buys something from the site. I can’t get per-view ads right now because my readership is about 20 people per day right now.

What would it take for me to be able to do this on a daily basis? $22,800: which are my annual living expenses so I could quit the day job and just cook and write full time. Donations toward this cause, naturally, are accepted.