Very Vegetarian Review

Posted by Juanita Avenue on Friday, October 15, 2010 · Leave a Comment

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(More customer reviews)No doubt about it, this cookbook has some fantastic, delicious recipes that are great for adding some excitement to your daily vegan food rut.
The author puts forth an effort to incorporate both simple comfort dishes (seitan sausage and macaroni and "cheeze", for example) and complicated, fancy works of meatless art (chilled soba noodles on painted plates...), perfect for presenting as an elegant entree.The dishes are all very flavorful and are ideal for entertaining non-vegan guests.Rest assured, they will be very impressed!
However, be warned... many of the recipes have lengthy ingredient lists that may require a quick trip to the store to pick up a few things, including a wide variety of vegetables that you might not have at the time.But don't let that stop you, because once you get a feel for the dishes, you realize that they are very versatile and you can "play" with the ingredients, switching a vegetable here and there, using a different oil than is called for, or adding whatever you have leftover from the night before.
One of my favorite dishes has become the curried cous-cous, whichis easy to make, low in fat, and it tastes amazing with the addition of apples and/or raisins!Also, I recently made the Everyday Chocolate Cake, paring it with a layer of raspberry preserves, the thick chocolate ganache to hold the layers together, and the chocolate glaze to top it, and it was absolutely the BEST chocolate cake I (or any of my guests) have EVER tasted. It was gone in about 15 minutes, and no one knew that there wasn't a single dairy product in the entire cake (which really cuts down on the saturated fat level)!The pear betty is another fabulous dessert... super easy to make, and really delicious in the summer (or any time for that matter).
In any case, this is a great cookbook with quite a few dinner ideas to set off that lightbulb in your head and get you cooking really delicious meatless, dairyless, meals.

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