Using herbs in vegan recipes

As with vegetarian recipes, vegan recipes nearly always have herbs, and commonly spices, included in the ingredients.

Without the wonderful varieties of cheeses available and dairy products generally, vegan cooks have to be even more inventive to achieve, not just interesting flavours - that, I found, was the easier part of cooking vegan recipes- but also to match the variety of rich textures that dairy products offer.

These vegan recipes are some of the more interesting that I made. Even the kids liked them! Some of them, anyway.

I am concerned that many vegan recipes tend to call for hot spices to the extent of overpowering any flavour there might have been, also extremely salt-laden and sugar-laden sauces from the supermarket shelves. From a health point of view you would be better to go back to being a carnivore.