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Learn to COOK - Quick-Fix Vegetarian: Healthy Home-Cooked Meals in 30 Minutes or Less
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List Price: $16.99
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Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5636
EAN: 9780740763748
ISBN: 0740763741
Label: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2007-03-01
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Studio: Andrews McMeel Publishing
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"Many studies have shown that vegetarians seem to have a lower risk of obesity, coronary heart disease (which causes heart attack), high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, and some forms of cancer." --The American Heart Association- * Featuring 150 delicious recipes, Quick-Fix Vegetarian provides both novice and longtime cooks with practical and robust vegetarian dishes that can be prepared in less time than it takes to have a pizza delivered.
- * Written by best-selling vegetarian chef Robin Robertson, Quick-Fix Vegetarian is the answer for busy families who are looking for healthy food, fast.
Quick-Fix Vegetarian by Robin Robertson recently was named Best New Cookbook by PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The international organization's Proggy Award (short for "progress") recognizes animal-friendly achievement in 21st century culture and commerce. No longer considered a "hippie fad," the vegan lifestyle is becoming going mainstream. In her latest book vegetarian expert Robin Robertson creates recipes such as Spinach and Sun-Dried Tomato Quesadillas, Chipotle-Kissed Black Bean Soup, Mediterranean Orzo Salad, Beat-the-Clock Lasagna, Five-Minute Slow-Cooker Chili, and No-Bake Oatmeal Almond Cookies for this growing consumer base. In addition, Quick-Fix Vegetarian shows how to use many of the new commercial vegetarian products and includes recipe variations and tips for speedy, stress-free entertaining without sacrificing flavor or mainstream appeal.
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Summary: My new old-reliable
Comment: This isn't a cookbook that I obsessively earmarked only to forget about it within weeks. Rather, I scanned all of the recipes to get a gist for the ingredients used, and neatly placed into my "regular-use" stash of books. No, I didn't cook from it right away, but I knew I would return. And return I did ... within a week in fact. It hit on a night (okay, these nights happen to me often) where we hardly had anything left in the fridge, I was void of ideas, and we had already eaten out far too much. I grabbed this cookbook, flipped through, and within seconds I had selected that night's dinner - Chipotle-Kissed Black Bean Soup.
Though it merely used pantry items, this soup was a fulfilling hit! It used those canned chipotle chiles in adobo sauce (I bought a small can almost a year ago without a clue as to what to use them in), which added an extra layer of flavor that we truly enjoyed. The recipe did call for carrots, which my husband is not a fan of, so I used some leftover roasted sweet potatoes for an even heartier, yet equally delicious meal.
A few days later, it hit again, but this time for a different reason. I had some leftover coconut milk in the fridge and no cravings for a curry. But there it was ... The Dark Chocolate Yum Sauce! My freezer was actually overflowing with dairy-free "ice cream," and what ice cream isn't improved even more by chocolate sauce?! Let's just say, the name of the recipe sums it up nicely ... rich, dark, and yummy.
In terms of the facts, "quick-fix" means you will spend 30 minutes or less on prep time and cook time together. There are some slow cooker recipes included, which do extend beyond the 30 minutes with the cook time, but the author felt that the incredible ease of throwing crock pot recipes together with no fuss warranted them some spots in this cookbook. A large percentage of the recipes are "from-scratch," but she doesn't hesitate to use shortcuts, including ingredients such as canned beans, jarred roasted red peppers, bottled barbecue sauce, and vegetarian sausage to keep all of the recipes as convenient as possible when "from-scratch" is just too time-consuming.
This cookbook hasn't been in my rotation for long, yet I expect it will be "well-loved" (read: marked up, spilled on, and wrinkled pages from hurried used) in no time!
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Summary: Easy, flavorful recipes
Comment: I'm a college student, so I thrive on easy recipes that are easy, fairly cheap, and smell good enough perhaps to tempt my omnivorous roommates. Quick-Fix Vegetarian isn't necessarily life changing, but I enjoy it nonetheless. I also love how she only puts "vegetarian" in the title, but all of the recipes happen to be vegan. I think this simple replacement does a phenomenal job of NOT scaring away ovo-lacto vegetarians. I definitely recommend this cookbook for anyone who doesn't have the time/resources to cook a mind-blowingly complex meal every night, but likes eating home cooked meals.
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Summary: Awesome
Comment: I'm a horrible cook and a new vegetarian, but this book has really helped me create healthy meals!
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Summary: Quick as a flash - dinner is done!
Comment: This is a brilliant book perfect for a family with kids! At the end of a long day these meals are prepped quickly and easily with the added bonus of being tasty as well. So far all the meals in this book have been winners. Quick fix & delicious, is what you want in a recipe book.
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Summary: Really is quick fix
Comment: I am a new vegetarian and just needed some ideas of what I could make quickly and easily. This book has been very helpful. I have made about 5 things out of it so far and they have all been very fast and have tasted good, not great, but most of them have been things I will make again. The curried "egg salad" is delicious! As others have stated this is a vegan cookbook.
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