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Summary: sequel-style book
Comment: We loved the original moosewood cook book: it had great basic veggie recipes and our book had fallen apart from use. So we got this one in the hopes of finding new staples for our palette and now those of our kids (i.e., we are looking beyond the chicken nugget).
Unfortunately, we have tried quite a number of recipes from this book and have found all of them essentially duds - not a single one has joined our favorite list. They seem esoteric and contrived to us, kind of thrown together rather than the excellent ones that were really used in the original restaurant. (The latter includes a great spinach lasagna, the former such oddly bland things as "hot marinated cauliflower".)
While it could be that these recipes are subtle variations for some hard-core vegetarians, my wife - who was a strict vegetarian for years, pre-me - finds nothing to recommend this book. In our view, the book really doesn't have anything genuinely new and good to add, but is a simple commercial knock-off.
Not recommended. We believe it is better to find vegetarian recipes that are found in ethnic cookbooks, in context, rather than slapped together make-shift books like this.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Recipes
Comment: A co-worker brought this cookbook to work oneday and I fell in love with it. She told me that I could hold onto it as long as I like. When I realized that I did not want to give it back I bought a copy for myself. I love the recipes in this cookbook. They are healthy, very good, easy to use and simple to modify if want to. Sometimes I reduce the fat content by using less oil or low fat and/or fat free ingredients.
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Summary: Best cookbook ever!
Comment: Every recipe in this book is healthy (with lost of flavor), and tastes amazing. First cookbook I've ever bought where I would serve everything for company--no duds.
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Summary: Buy this book! Cook from this book! Be happy!
Comment: Mollie Katzen's Moosewood Cookbook has been my Bible for tasty, healthful recipes--even when I'm not eating vegetarian. Lots of good-for-you things like vegetables and nuts and cottage cheese, and the recipes' results always taste good---I prefer them to going out to eat. Lots of chopping and sauteeing, but then it always turns out tasty, and I'm not a very meticulous cook. Only problem: I get tired of the same things, and Enchanted Broccoli significantly expands my repertoire---A+
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Summary: the Enchanted Broccoli Forest is well worth exploring :)
Comment: I found the original version of this book in a used bookstore and bought it for the whimsical title and the illustrations on bread baking. I didn't try it out immediately because several recipes do have ingredients that I don't typically have on-hand (although I haven't had any trouble finding them when I've looked). My boyfriend and I have recently gone through several of the recipes, though, and they've all come out beautifully, with no tinkering necessary :) We're both scientists, so we tend to experiment when we cook, and conclude "this was a good recipe after we substituted this, and reduced that, and added this", but all of the recipes we've tried so far have been delicious as-is. The flavors have been subtle and well-balanced, so you can find something interesting to taste in every bite. That said, tastes vary, and we'd actually thought before that many people might think the flavors in the dishes aren't strong enough (hence "not tasty"). In addition, I agree that "vegetarian" does not necessarily mean "healthy" anymore than "fat-free" means "calorie-free"--there is a lot of cheese, cream, and butter in many of the dishes, so if you want something low-cholesterol, try out your favorite substitutions and see if they'll work. Many of the recipes also do involve a little advance planning and work--making sure you have all of the ingredients, peeling and cutting up vegetables, etc., but if you enjoy cooking, that should be part of the fun :) They also make for good team-cooking--there's usually enough for two people to do so that you can enjoy making something together.
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