10 Essentials of the Vegan Kitchen

When you are outfitting your kitchen, one should always think of spices, dry pastas, and rice. These items its best to look for when they are on sale and get them when the getting good. Having these sorts of items at hand always is really important, so you don’t have to grab spices when a recipe calls for them, instead you can focus on finding the fresh vegetables and quality ingredients. It will also save you money in the long run.

There are a lot of amazing vegan cookbooks, and it’s really hard to figure out which ones one should get when they are starting out. However I suggest start with one book that is more or less a vegan primer, for beginners like Sarah Kramer’s How it all Vegan, and then a more experienced book – for the money Veganomicon will definitely give you a lot of choices. But it’s best to ease into cooking, if you are new at it. Some vegan recipes can be pretty daunting for novices.

Though this should be quite obvious, when you are cooking from recipes, things can get disastrous especially in baking if you just eye ball everything. You don’t need to get anything amazing in terms of measuring cups, plastic ones usually suffice.

You will use a mixer a lot, and having a good countertop variety, instead of the hand models are really going to save you a lot of headache. However, I hate to say that YOU need to have the more expensive kind, but it’s a lot more convenient in the long run.

If you’re like every vegan out there, you need to get your baking on. You don’t necessarily need to spend a good deal of money on your baking sheets, and cupcake pans, as one can usually get away with reusing the aluminum ones as long as you have a good quality deep pan to lay it in.