Internet + Cooking + Me is kind of bad -- I look up a recipe, find six or twelve, look at them, notice the commonalities, and then make up my own version.
That's exactly what I do! Unless I'm using a recipe written by an actual person I know and trust. I have one vegan cookbook that I've used for about 10 different things, all of which have come out much better when I've used her version (vinegar in chocolate cakes an' all), so now I trust that author to know what she's talking about. Other cookbooks I own are terrible - I've followed the quantities and times to the letter and the food's been inedible.
On the internet recipe sites, I find that American volume measurements to metric conversion accounts for an awful lot of oddity, and if it's not an explicitly vegan recipe so I'm changing half the ingredients anyway, I might as well change the rest of it.
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That's exactly what I do! Unless I'm using a recipe written by an actual person I know and trust. I have one vegan cookbook that I've used for about 10 different things, all of which have come out much better when I've used her version (vinegar in chocolate cakes an' all), so now I trust that author to know what she's talking about. Other cookbooks I own are terrible - I've followed the quantities and times to the letter and the food's been inedible.
On the internet recipe sites, I find that American volume measurements to metric conversion accounts for an awful lot of oddity, and if it's not an explicitly vegan recipe so I'm changing half the ingredients anyway, I might as well change the rest of it.