VEGETARIAN 'n' VEGAN Recipes …

You are welcome to take a recipe and experiment with it.

Please feel free to adjust the ingredients and whip up any dish to your own liking ... Discover the pleasures of cooking, it can be therapeutic ...

Enjoy and have fun!

The recipes here are simple and ingredients are easily available. So, it takes very minimal effort to churn out a quick, healhty and home-cooked meal.

Vegetarian cooking can be fun and exciting, keep experimenting and thinking out of the box. And keep recreating and reinventing new and delicious taste of your own - something out of the norm. Happy cooking!

Just leave some comments, if you like ... cheers : )

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P.S - Buddhist Vegetarians are forbidden to consume the five pungents (onions, chives, leeks, shallots and garlic), hence please omitted these ingredients in the recipes.

Here is a rough guide on various types of vegetarian:

VEGETARIAN: Overall term for people who live on a diet of grains, pulses, nuts, seeds, fruit and vegetables, with or without eggs and dairy products. Does not eat any meat, poultry, fish, or shellfish.

LACTO-OVO-VEGETARIAN: Most common type of vegetarian, who eats eggs and dairy products.

VEGAN: Does not eat dairy products, eggs or any other animal product.

OVO-VEGETARIAN: Eats eggs

LACTO-VEGETARIAN: Eats Dairy products

PESCO-VEGETARIAN: Eats fish and non-mammalian seafood but does not eat any other meats.

POLLO-VEGETARIAN: Eats poultry but does not eat red meats such as beef and lamb.

FLEXTARIAN: Eats mainly vegetarian food but will eat animal meant occasionally for cultural, social and nutritional reasons.

Source: July27, 2008 thesundaytimes