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Learn to COOK - 150 Vegan Favorites: Fresh, Easy, and Incredibly Delicious Recipes You Can Enjoy Every Day
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List Price: $14.95
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Manufacturer: Prima Lifestyles
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5636
EAN: 9780761512431
ISBN: 0761512438
Label: Prima Lifestyles
Manufacturer: Prima Lifestyles
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 1998-03-25
Publisher: Prima Lifestyles
Release Date: 1998-03-25
Studio: Prima Lifestyles
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Editorial Reviews:
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Gourmet Vegan Fare Prepared with Culinary Flair!
Jay Solomon knows how to make vegan food taste good. It just takes a bit of creativity — something Jay has in spades. Here one of the most renowned vegetarian cooks offers recipes that make food achingly good. His secret? The incredibly subtle effect of fresh herbs, spicy chilies, and fragrant spices. In 150 Vegan Favorites, you'll explore the exciting possibilities of cooking with these flavorful yet easy-to-find ingredients. In addition, you will begin to use marvelous ingredients such as colorful leafy vegetables, couscous, red lentils, wild rice, butternut squash, and West Indian pumpkin.
You'll find such tantalizingly delicious recipes as:
·Curried Squash with Winter Greens
·Tangy Couscous with Black Beans and Corn
·Lemony Artichoke Pilaf
·Yellow Rice and Avocado Burritos
·Rosemary-Roasted Jerusalem Artichokes
·Mango-Banana Flambe
Also included are helpful shopping tips and glossaries of rices, grains, legumes, and squash.
You don't have to be vegan or even vegetarian to enjoy these zesty recipes. With 150 Vegan Favorites, meat-free, dairy-free cooking has never been easier or more delicious!
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Summary: Vegan cooking for everyone
Comment: This is the perfect cookbook for anyone who has limited time to cook and wants to cut back on the meat in their diet. The recipes have enough ingredients to be interesting--most taste really good--but are simple enough to make in a short time from start to finish. The cooking time for almost all the recipes is just a few minutes, so they are perfect for weekday evenings. For those who still want meat, these dishes make great, filling, and nutritious side dishes. With only two people, we always have enough leftovers for another meal.
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Summary: Bland and Boring
Comment: If you like your food bland and boring this is the book for you! Seriously, it might be of value to someone who is a beginning cook and wants very simple recipes. I don't want to be harsh but I'd call this cafeteria vegan cooking.
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Summary: Also good for allergies
Comment: I am not a vegan, but I am nursing my 7-month-old who is allergic to dairy, soy, eggs and nuts. This cookbook is full of nutricious, tasty and exciting meals I can actually eat. I would recommend this book to anyone--independent of their dietary needs.
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Summary: Great cookbook
Comment: Lots of interesting recipes, and they are not too intimidating for beginners like myself.
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Summary: I feel bad not jumping on the bandwagon here...
Comment: For the price, this book isn't bad. It uses a ton of very natural and healthy ingredients and the recipes themselves are all very tasty. They are all very "light" which makes them great diet food or summer fare.
My problem is that there is very little variation. There are soups... and pasta / rice /starch... and beans. And that's about it. Of course then there are beans with pasta... pasta with soup... soup with beans... and so on. But after awhile there's only so much you can do with these categories of food before you get really bored. The flavor variations in this book didn't strike me as very unique, and it's easy to get tired of making the same recipes over and over, even though they're very tasty. The ones that are unique and original -- where the author tries to combine flavors from different ethnic cuisines into one meal -- weren't quite as good as the rest of the recipes. And none of the meals kept me full for very long -- I was hungry within an hour or two of eating. Of course this isn't a problem if you're able to eat frequently, but for someone who works, goes to school, and generally isn't home often and only stops for food two or three times a day, being hungry constantly gets annoying fast.
These are also really not kid-friendly recipes (not that it was advertised as such; just a warning).
I still keep this book around for the few recipes that are winter favorites, like the mushroom barley soup, but I don't think I'd recommend it.
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