Chickpea Coconut Curry

I adapted this recipe from The Vegan Stoner. I love their recipes because they're really good basic starting points, and you can add whatever you want to them! And really, playing around with ingredients and adding your own spin is what cooking is all about.

All the delicious ingredients to start. Yogurt base, spices, veggies and chickpeas.

I haven't had chickpeas in forever, and I've been craving them for a week since I first glanced at this recipe. I just had to wait until I could snag a container of coconut yogurt from Whole Foods.

My kitchen smelled amazing when all of this was heating up in the pot. I was also roasting sweet potato in the oven, so it basically smelled like thanksgiving. My roommates even ventured away from their chemistry books to see what I was cooking and steal a bite (of course I'm always happy to share.)

And voila! Delicious vegan coconut curry. It hardly took anytime at all and I'll be eating the leftovers all week.

Chickpea Coconut Curry

1 16 oz container of coconut yogurt
1 can of chickpeas, rinsed and drained
1 cup of corn
1 bell pepper, chopped
1 large carrot, chopped
1 T curry powder
1 t garlic powder

Heat everything in a pot and serve over brown rice! Yeah, it’s that easy. 

Moving On and Moving Up

My journey began earlier this summer when a friend and I decided we were going to start eating vegan six days a week so we could be healthier and lose weight. I had been vegetarian before, but reading The Kind Diet was the last motivational I push I needed to jump into veganism. I believed the same myths as everyone else, that it was hard. That it was expensive. That you could only eat plain vegetables. Within that first week, everything was proved wrong. It was easy, it was cheap, and I was eating some of the most delicious food I'd ever had. So out the window with only six days a week, I fell in love with being a vegan. My first favorite meal is below, the black bean burger.

I created a tumblr mainly to follow other vegan oriented tumblr blogs, but I never dreamed that I would gain so many of my own followers. Nothing made me happier than posting recipes and looking back the next day to see how many people liked it or re-blogged it. The traffic on my blog has been my main source of motivation over the last few months. It's radiated in every aspect of my life. I find people are completely intrigued in my lifestyle as a vegan, and want me to share my stories. It's even been the center of a few job interviews and the highlight on my resume. So today I decided I would upgrade from my Tumblr domain to this one. I plan on still maintaining my tumblr, because it's a great way for people to easily re-blog my recipes. If you want to check that out, it's http://maddegoesvegan.tumblr.com But here I plan on telling you a bit more about my life, why I decided to cook certain meals, and just going more in depth on my vegan lifestyle.

So this blog will be all of my favorite parts of me- I'm Madde. Nineteen. A Northeastern husky. And a Vegan, who's favorite thing in the whole world is cooking and sharing.