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How to Cook Everything Vegetarian
Have you read Mark Bittman’s cookbook, How to Cook Everything Vegetarian? No, of course, how could you? I mean, the thing is huge. So what I do is I use it like an encyclopedia. Want some tofu ideas? Head over to the tofu section and flip. Interested in asparagus? More flipping. Mushrooms? Flip, flip. And [...]
Jamie’s Food Revolution and a vegetarian Jamie Oliver recipe
Given my recent rant about cookbooks with crappy recipes, you might wonder why I am reviewing another cookbook. Even more, you might be wondering why I am giving you a recipe from it. A vegetarian recipe. A vegetarian recipe from Jamie Oliver, no less! Well, you can’t paint all cookbooks bad because of one bad [...]
Cookbooks are letting me down
I love cookbooks. And I’m so excited about this cookbook. Sure, a lot of the recipes are meat-based, but a lot are not. And it is loaded, just loaded, with fast and easy weekday meals. So how perfect is that? But then I made one of the recipes.
Should vegetarians eat fake meat?
I review lot of non-vegetarian cookbooks because they tend to be better than vegetarian cookbooks. They tend to use better techniques, more innovative ingredients, and most important of all, deliver better flavor. But I keep my eye out for vegetarian cookbooks because, let’s face it, there are so many meat-based recipes in non-vegetarian cookbooks I [...]
The best and newest vegetarian, vegan, and vegetable cookbooks and recipes
Welcome to the last of my three-part segment on great summer cookbook reads. In the first part (two posts back), I covered some really interesting books and I included two great, brand new, vegetarian recipes, so if you are looking for new inspiration, go take a look (of course, there are more vegetarian recipes, below, [...]
Delicious cookbook reading and a gorgeous French vegetarian recipe to to prove it!
In my last post, I looked at all sorts of wonderful new cookbooks worthy of reading this spring, from a cookbook by a Hawaiian chef to a book by an amazing pastry chef to a book from the oldest restaurant in the country (so old, they served George Washington!) to a book with recipes from [...]
The best cookbooks for the summer and two new vegetarian recipes
Summer is coming which means summer reading which, of course, means cookbooks and food books enough to tempt any appetite. So, this week, I am going to look at three types of books: Darn interesting cookbooks Cooking not from these shores Vegetarian or vegan or just great vegetables cookbooks So go find your Amazon password [...]
An amazing variety of cookbooks to choose from and a vegetarian recipe you can whip up in minutes
Welcome to the last day of our two week look at some of the amazing cookbooks and food books out this season. Last week, I looked at French cookbooks, including a very unique and somewhat controversial book from a Québécois chef, and included two decadent (would you expect anything less from the French, I ask [...]
Wonderful cookbooks and the best vegetarian salad recipe you have ever seen
Last week, I started a two week look at cookbooks. My theme last week was French: From a French cookbook that was written as a week-long cooking school to a book that specialized in one pot French recipes to some truly gorgeous French coffee table cookbooks to an exuberant, but controversial, cookbook from a Montreal [...]
French cookbooks and a Canadian vegetarian recipe for a Québécois tart
Just in case you missed my last post, this week and last I have decided to review some of the amazing cookbooks hitting stores these days and posting unique vegetarian recipes I find along the way. Last time, I looked at two surprisingly easy French cookbooks. I also posted a gorgeous recipe for a totally [...]
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