Re: ASKme about being vegan
I'm not vegan but I generally don't like meat as much as other things. I'll sometimes go a few weeks or months of veganism without really noticing it. I really like to cook, and people seem shocked that I don't plan my meals around meats. They assume that without meat/cheese/butter that it's impossible to make food with any flavor.
They only think this because they've never given any thought to how to cook the vegetables. Most people (in the US at least) eat vegetables by forcing themselves to because they know it's healthy. So they end up throwing together some nasty overdressed boring salad or some vegetables that have been cooked to death. All the flavor gets destroyed.
If you can cook reasonably well and plan the meal around grains and veggies, you can make some really good [censored]. It's funny how when I go to other people's houses, the veggies are usually terrible. No one ever talks about the veg dish, they just pass it around and eat it because they're mother always told them to eat some veg at dinner. But if I make something, like some stir-fried brussels sprouts, people are always like "holy [censored] this is awesome! And I've never liked brussels sprouts before!" And they look at me like I just turned my own poop into gold.
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