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Chloe's Vegan Italian Kitchen might help make the transition a little easier. I've made a few things from there that have all been great. Her Rockin' Ricotta is really yummy.

All home-made last weekend, using the recipes from Chloe's Vegan Italian Kitchen - the book is full of excellent recipes, highly recommend picking it up!

she deserves your money

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She has a few but I have been cooking from her Italian Vegan Kitchen cookbook, which has been amazing.

Depending on where you live, your library might have a bunch. You can check them out, try some recipes, and see if it's one you might want to buy.

I like a lot of international and multi-cultural flavors so I like a wide variety of cookbooks including:

Afro Vegan

Vegan Richa's Indian Kitchen

Chloe's Vegan Italian Kitchen

and a general cookbook that helps you make your own dishes using vegan staples:

The Homemade Vegan Pantry

Good luck. We're here if you need it. In the meanwhile, here are some good vegan cooking starters:

Chloe's Vegan Italian Cookbook
Some are simple, some less so. All so far have been fantastic.

The Lotus and the Artichoke
Lots of restaurant favorites and a good way to get your feet wet on things like tofu, seitan and tempeh.

Joy of Vegan Baking
Hands down the best vegan cookbook I've ever had.

Yeah blandness is not something I'm into. I was 16 when I first went to the dark side, and I tried to find as many awesome recipes as I could to convince family and friends I wasn't just a masochist, haha.

Basically anything from Isa Chandra Moskowitz is going to be good. She is all about flavor.

If you like Italian food, Chloe's Vegan Italian Kitchen is bangin'. ByChefChloe has a ton of her recipes. Mama's spaghetti and meatballs is one of our favorites. I usually make the meatballs and serve with pesto, I'm not really crazy about spaghetti.

One of my favorite restaurants is The Grit, and they also have a cookbook. If you check out the preview/look inside feature, you'll find a recipe for black bean chili that I dream about from time to time. A lot of my friends still live in Athens and I use them as my excuse to go eat there. There's also a yeast gravy recipe you can see in the preview, and that over some of their tofu (next page), brown rice, and steamed veggies... I think I know what I'm prepping for lunches next week now, haha.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1476736073/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1476736073&linkCode=as2&tag=chechl-20&linkId=S6J36OAGZZ7OH3H5

This is definitely the one me and my family most often use. Delicious and easy meals.

I haven't tried them unfortunately :( I'm in Canada and they're only available in the US from what I know. But apparently they're amazing and taste like the real thing.

Yeah unless you do it well tofu tastes bland. You've gotta wrap the tofu in paper towels, and place some heavy stuff on top (e.g. textbooks) to press it in for around 20-30 mins, so that you get all the water out of it. That way it'll soak up all the sauce.

Try out some bean curries and stir fries too, those are my favourite. In fact if you wanna get a cookbook, I recommend this or this times a million. Not a single recipe I've made in those books that all my meat-eating friends haven't loved.

Chiming in here with the most fantastic Italian vegan cookbook- Chloe's Vegan Italian Kitchen (it's an Amazon link, fyi)! I've made so many recipes, including homemade pasta from her cookbook and it's awesome.