Vegan Sloppy Joes

I have been wanting to make these forever, mainly because I have had a big jar of TVP on my counter that was never going to get used otherwise. In my humble opinion, why use TVP when you can use cracked bulgar or something a little more natural and unprocessed? Anyway, I had some, and I love sloppy joes, so I finally made the vegan sloppy joes recipe from Where it All Vegan. I give it four out of five stars. I think the taste is close (I haven't had an original style sloppy joe in years), and the taste is good. It is satisfyingly sloppy and the texture is right. It goes great with Fritos, which are also vegan and surprisingly free of weird ingredients, and it's easy to make. I think the taste is closer to a really thick, chunky spaghetti sauce, but I also used more tomatoes than the recipe called for because I had to open a can and I used the whole thing where it only called for one chopped tomato. I am without a method of downloading pictures at the moment, but I took some and will download them when the boyfriend comes home and figures out my computer issues. So please check back Tuesday, and in the meantime, go pick up Where it All Vegan. The awesome lentil burger recipe I'm always talking about comes from that book, as well as a lentil stuffed squash recipe that is delicious. In fact, every recipe I've tried from that book has been great. That's the true test of a good cookbook. I have a tendency to fall for a pretty cover and lots of pictures, but you never really know how good a book is until you give a handful of the recipes in it a try. My favorite and most used vegan cookbooks are Vegan with a Vengence and Where it All Vegan. Of my non-vegan books, my favorites are my Better Homes and Garden cookbooks (circa 1970 and 1995), and my Whole Foods cookbook. I have another one that I love, but I just realized I don't think I have made any of the recipes. It's Prevention's Low-Fat, Low-Cost Cookbook, and it has a ton of great money saving advice and cheap, healthy, practical recipes. Practical meaning mainly that they are ingredients you can find anywhere and that your family will actually eat them. I am going to try to give it a test drive and I will report back.