When I began this journey of being vegan and gluten free, it started out as health reasons and the more I researched it also became moral reasons. As you may know from earlier blogs I have loved cooking since I was 7 years old. What you may not know is I was discouraged from becoming a chef.  So when I started this quest my wife encouraged me to create my own recipes. I decided not to look at one cookbook and just started creating dishes and reading books on the vegan lifestyle.

This brings me to my title. I started recording my recipes and my wife said why don’t you write a cookbook and so it began. And here is the second part of my title, my wife has been amazing through this process, letting me test recipes and try new ingredients and giving me feedback. I made meals that resembled foods from our pre-vegan days and other comfort foods. We enjoyed some and others needed tweaking.

This process has led me to the completion of my cookbook, the introduction and all the recipes are typed. As with cooking, we are tweaking the book to make sure everything is good to go. This journey, this blog, and everything else has been leading me to this moment, to celebrate the completion of writing a cookbook and the wonderful wife who stood by my side the whole way and to her I say Thank you!!

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