Best of
Vegetarian

2015

The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook


America's Test Kitchen - 2015
    Everyone knows they should eat more vegetables and grains, but that prospect can be intimidating with recipes that are often too complicated for everyday meals or lacking in fresh appeal or flavor. For the first time ever, the test kitchen has devoted its considerable resources to creating a vegetarian cookbook for the way we want to eat today. The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook is a wide-ranging collection of boldly flavorful vegetarian recipes covering hearty vegetable mains, rice and grains, beans and soy as well as soups, appetizers, snacks, and salads. More than 300 recipes are fast (start to finish in 45 minutes or less), 500 are gluten-free, and 250 are vegan and are all highlighted with icons on the pages. The book contains stunning color photography throughout that shows the appeal of these veggie-packed dishes. In addition, almost 500 color photos illustrate vegetable prep and tricky techniques as well as key steps within recipes.

Teff Love: Adventures in Vegan Ethiopian Cooking


Kittee Berns - 2015
    Discover how to source and use the tantalizing seasonings and savory ingredients that are the foundation of these unique dishes. Kittee introduces the holy trinity of Ethiopian cooking: a berbere spice blend, injera (the fermented sourdough staple), and ye qimem zeyet, a veganized clarified butter. Armed with these basics, you'll be ready to dazzle your family and friends with many of the popular dishes found on veggie combo platters in restaurants all over North America. From saucy wots, spicy stews, and succulent stir-fries to traditional injera-based dishes and fusion foods that blend these unique seasonings into a range of family favorites, fans of this cuisine will be thrilled. Recipes are almost entirely gluten- and soy-free, or can be made so with easy adaptions. You'll also find tips on tools and equipment to time-saving techniques and menu suggestions. Just pull up a mesob (a traditional woven stand or basket), perch your platter on top, and get ready to party Ethiopian style!

Mindful Eating with delicious raw vegan recipes (AoL Mindfulness, #3)


Nataša Pantović - 2015
    Our experienced and well-known vegan chef Olivera Rosic adores experimenting and creating the most appetizing vegan dishes, delicious freshly squeezed juices and rich chocolate creams with raw coco. Her mind is always full of little cooking secrets of how to create a dish that is truly unique. Olivera Rosic loves raw food and truly believes in its health benefits. Olivera is also passionate about good tasting food. Olivera engineered a wonderful concept of connoisseur of raw food. She is a joyful host of numerous vegan retreats and raw food for health workshops. Olivera is a regular columnist of a raw food recipe section of the magazine Live Health. Nataša Pantović Nuit is a yogi, a writer, and a spiritual researcher in mindfulness, meditation, alchemy, and the art of conscious living. 'The Mindful Eating Book is designed to raise awareness around food. The food quality can replaces the quantity, and the mindfulness can become our guide and protector. With mindful eating, the self-respect will follow.' Nuit About the Publisher: Exploring the Alchemy of Human Being Art of 4 Elements examines Human Brain and Mind Powers, tools to increase Creative Thinking, and ways to achieve Mindfulness and Free Mind. Alchemy of Love Courses specialize in the Mindfulness Training: How to be Mindful, How to eat Mindfully, How to be a Conscious Parent.

DIY Vegan: More Than 100 Easy Recipes to Create an Awesome Plant-Based Pantry


Nicole Axworthy - 2015
    When you're in the supermarket, it's almost impossible to avoid buying a prepared item that doesn't contain animal-based by-products. In their new book, DIY Vegan: More Than 100 Easy Recipes to Create an Awesome Plant-Based Pantry, Lisa and Nicole show readers how easy it is to make their own vegan pantry staples at home. Using easy-to-find, whole food ingredients that amp up flavors and nutrition, they've created over one hundred recipes that will stock pantry shelves, refrigerators and freezers: vegan milks, ice creams and butters made from a variety of nuts and seeds, home-ground flours, yummy sauces and spreads, snack foods (including a recipe for incredibly delicious vegan Pop Tarts) and an array of artisanal make-them-yourself cheeses. There's even a recipe for that beloved orange cheese sauce that coats everyone's favorite boxed mac and cheese! All of the recipes are vegan and have gluten-free options and some are from their list of raw food favorites. Whether you are vegan, vegetarian or someone just wanting to kick the packaged-food habit, DIY Vegan by Nicole Axworthy and Lisa Pitman will show you how to create an awesome, more compassionate kitchen powered by a pantry filled with healthy, homemade, plant-based staples.

Cookin' Up a Storm: Sea Stories and Vegan Recipes from Sea Shepherd's Anti-Whaling Campaigns


Laura Dakin - 2015
    Their official cookbook,Cookin' Up A Storm, serves up a combo of delicious food and modern day heroes.Written by Laura Dakin, chief cook on Sea Shepherd's flagship the Steve Irwin, you'll share Laura's adventures in feeding a hungry crew of 50 morning to night. Featured are 80 of the crew's favorite vegan recipes-deliciously eclectic and modified for the family kitchen. Throughout are beautiful recipe photos along with action shots of the crew at work. Interspersed are crew members' stories that illustrate the danger these ocean warriors face stalking whaling vessels on the high seas.The galleys of Sea Shepherd's fleet maintain a plant-based diet. Learn how a vegan diet can play a significant role in saving the biodiversity of our oceans.

A Guide to Mindful Eating (AoL Mindfulness, #2)


Nataša Pantović - 2015
    We have also prepared for you 45 delicious and healthy veggie recipes to help you build a healthy and nutritious diet.

Special Delivery: Favourite Recipes to Make and Take


Annabel Crabb - 2015
    To friends and family, food can say everything from ‘I’m sorry you had a bad day’ to ‘Congratulations, you clever thing’. And it means still more when brought to the door.Now, in Special Delivery, Annabel has teamed up with her best friend from childhood, fellow food tragic and Kitchen Cabinet recipe consultant Wendy Sharpe, to bring you recipes for those knockout desserts as well as tons more ideas for soups, salads, pastries, breads and other treats ideally suited to make and take to those you love. Each recipe is offered up with transport instructions or an implicit promise to look the other way if you just want to eat it straight from the tin.

The Community Table: Recipes Stories from the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Beyond


Katja Goldman - 2015
    The buildings are hives of activity; at any given moment, hundreds of people of all ages, backgrounds, interests, and opinions gather to engage in a myriad of activities. And nothing says community more than food.While sitting down to enjoy a meal together is undeniably bonding, working together to prepare it is even more so. Now, three chefs who are longstanding members of the JCC Manhattan share classic recipes such as Weekly Challah, Latkes Four Ways, and Pumpkin Rugelach, plus an inspiring selection of contemporary dishes with a farm-to-table emphasis and international flavors: Fig and Fennel Bread, Iraqi Lamb Burgers, Brussels Sprouts with Pomegranate and Citrus Glaze, and much more. Holiday menu suggestions and a complete chart grouping recipes by dietary restriction (meat, pareve, dairy) are included as well.With anecdotal contributions from JCCs all around the country, this cookbook highlights the JCC's vibrant, eclectic community-and celebrates all of its many flavors.

The China Study Quick & Easy Cookbook: Cook Once, Eat All Week with Whole Food, Plant-Based Recipes


Del Sroufe - 2015
    Nobody knows this better than Chef Del Sroufe, author of the New York Times bestseller Forks Over Knives—The Cookbook and Better Than Vegan. In The China Study Quick & Easy Cookbook, Sroufe provides menu plans, pantry lists, and more than 100 delicious plant-based recipes that are quick, easy, and multipurpose.Edited by LeAnne Campbell, author of The China Study Cookbook, this book guides you to spend a couple of hours one day a week preparing meals ahead of time. Every dish follows the nutrition standards set forth by The China Study, ensuring optimal healthful and quality eating with whole food recipes such as:Fruit and Vegetable Curry • Mushrooms Barbacoa • Cauliflower Parmesan • Sweet Potato Pie Muffins • Banana-Coconut MacaroonsWith a foreword by The China Study coauthor Thomas Campbell, The China Study Quick & Easy Cookbook is the next step in transforming your kitchen, your time, and your life.

Bread & Butter: Gluten-Free Vegan Recipes to Fill Your Bread Basket: A Baking Book


Erin McKenna - 2015
    Brunch was even worse: flaky croissants, biscuits, bagels . . . As an act of self-preservation, she tried to pretend they didn't exist. After pioneering vegan and gluten-free dessert baking at her beloved bicoastal bakery, Erin set about righting this wrong, tackling the beautiful treats in those forbidden bread baskets. The result is all the savory bread a gluten-free vegan guy or gal could want and more, including English Muffins, Cinnamon Raisin Bread, Sweet Potato Sage Rolls, Pizza Dough, Corn Tortillas, Puff Pastry Dough, Pretzels, Scallion Pancakes, even a simple and perfect Sandwich Bread. And since you can't say "bread" without saying "butter," she created a rich and creamy vegan butter unlike anything else, too. The world's bread basket just got a whole lot fuller.

Letters to a New Vegan: Words to Inform, Inspire, and Support a Vegan Lifestyle


Lantern Books - 2015
    You've just started out on your vegan journey and you're feeling isolated and wondering how to deal with friends and family. You've been a vegan for so long that you've forgotten the original impetus for your making the change and want to feel renewed. This book is for you.In the spirit of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet and conceived of as a modern-day vade mecum, Letters to a New Vegan consists of 32 humorous, evocative, spirited, and even tender epistles offering advice, counsel, and inspiration from activists and leaders who’ve followed the vegan path for years. The aim is to ignite, sustain, and refresh the passion and commitment of those who want to live more consciously and compassionately on the planet, with other people, and with themselves.With contributions from:Demetrius BagleyRick BogleMaddie CartwrightAnne DinshahAshley CurtisTracy CurtisKara DavisKaren Davis, Ph.D.Jason DerryDaniel EarleJean ForstIselin GambertLara GoodmanRuby GoodmanJennifer GloodtJulie HananSangamithra IyerKare KapelnikovaShelly KaplanMadeleine LifseyAlexa McCormackJacqueline MorrVictoria MoranLinda NelsonIngrid E. NewkirkKeane SouthardLynn PaulyGretchen PrimackBeth Lily RedwoodDaniel RedwoodMartin RoweKurt SchwemmerAngela SeiwMark Turner

Mildreds: The Vegetarian Cookbook


Sarah Wasserman - 2015
    Whether you are a vegetarian, or are trying to cut down on your meat intake, the international influences in these recipes promise variety and flavour. There are also plenty of ideas for how to adapt the dishes quickly by adding meat, to cater for keen omnivores.With easy ingredients and smart, time-saving ideas, each recipe is easy to cook from the comfort of your own home. The dishes are flexible and include ingredients that can be easily sourced, allowing you to make hassle-free and delicious meals.

Gino's Veg Italia!: 100 quick and easy vegetarian recipes


Gino D'Acampo - 2015
    The Italian diet is one of the healthiest in the world. Based on simple fresh vegetables and crisp salads, and flavoured with herbs, oils and chilli, Italian food offers endless healthy recipes. From simple pasta and gnocchi, pizzas and breads, antipasti and salads, gratins and bakes, the possibilities are endless. And because the recipes use the freshest vegetables and salads, you can enjoy delicious Italian food without piling on the pounds.

The Plantiful Table


Andrea Duclos - 2015
    But when she sits down with her meat-and-potatoes husband and their young daughter, what goes on the table? The simple-to-make, universally pleasing meals in The Plantiful Table!--Easy one-pot dishes (Shepherd's Pie)--Comfort classics turned vegan (Butternut Squash Lasagna)--A world's tour of flavors (Garam Masala Pancakes)--The ever-popular “things on toast” (Pea Pesto)--Irresistible guilty pleasures (Chocolate Marshmallow Bars)Charming and approachable, The Plantiful Table bursts with proof that eating vegan doesn't mean taking options off the table. No matter how large (or small) your family—and whether they're vegans or omnivores, or some of each—hearty meals packed with from-the-earth ingredients can be part of your happy home, every day!

Eat Like You Give a Damn: Recipes for the New Ethical Vegan


Michelle Schwegmann - 2015
    Inspiring people to eat like they give a damn, Michelle and Josh share over 100 recipes for their favorite everyday vegan dishes, which they've tucked into an original book design that reflects their art and ethics. Their recipe list is anchored with a panoply of comfort foods, such as hot soups and chili, mac 'n'cheese, and sweet potato fries, all served up with a touch of whimsy. An Elvis Quesadilla with Maple-Yogurt Drizzle crosses paths with Praise Seitan Vegan Roast and Oma's Full of Beans. Roasted Beet Burgers sidle up to Only-Kale-Can-Save-Us-Now Salad and Pesto-Parmesan Corn on the Cob. With ample helpings of sass and heart, the authors intersperse their recipes with treatises on why vegan and how vegan. In addition, the authors provide support for vegan parents of vegan children and anyone who wants to indulge in the meat- and cheese-based foods they grew up loving, without sacrificing any animals to enjoy them.

Vegan Start Passover Cookbook: Eat Well on Pesach!


Rena Reich - 2015
    This book makes it easier. All recipes are without kitniyot – Ashkenazi friendly.What would Pesach be without Matzo Balls? You get the recipe for these bad boys as well as a whole bunch of other soup recipes to enjoy during the holiday.Make your own almond milk, mayonnaise, pesto and crackers (yes, I said crackers).Ever Try to Make Your Own Gnocchi? Give it a shot. Enjoy it and the many other main dishes, like portobello steaks and “spaghetti” with tomato sauce.Top it all off with amazing desserts. Turtle bars, apple cake, chocolate chip cookie, macadamia-banana cream, chocolate torte… Need I say more? Well there are more wonderful desserts in the book.Enjoy Passover in Vegan Style. This cookbook has Jewish soul food, like kneidlach, tzimmes, and kishke. Vegans and non-Vegans alike can enjoy them. I hope you have as much fun eating them as I had making them. Eat bubelah, eat.Chag Kasher v'Sameach!

The Art of the Animal: Fourteen Women Artists Explore "The Sexual Politics of Meat"


Kathryn Eddy - 2015
    The book was inspired by The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist Vegetarian Critical Theory by Carol J. Adams, who has written an afterword. The foreword is by Keri Cronin, Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department at Brock University, Canada. Carolyn Merino Mullin, director of the Museum of Animals and Society in Los Angeles, for which the book serves as a catalog for an exhibition of the artists’ work in Fall 2015, has also contributed an essay.

The Complete Guide to Even More Vegan Food Substitutions: The Latest and Greatest Methods for Veganizing Anything Using More Natural, Plant-Based Ingredients * Includes More Than 100 Recipes!


Celine Steen - 2015
    Did you know, for instance, that chia seeds can be used not only as an egg substitute and gelling agent, but in ice creams, baked goods, jams, and even cheese? Or that coconut oil can easily be substituted for commercial vegan butters? How about making some decadent whipped cream from coconut cream? Or subbing savory jackfruit for shredded meat and French lentils for burgers? Inside, you'll learn all these tricks and more, with foolproof substitutions for dairy, eggs, meat, and seafood made using natural ingredients and products wherever possible (including your own homemade versions!). While some of the basic ingredients and techniques discussed in the original book bear repeating, The Complete Guide to Even More Vegan Food Substitutions stands rightly on its own two feet with all new recipes and content. The amazing plant-based recipes include:Linguine in Tomato Garlic Cream SauceHerb-Crusted Cashew Cheese LogCreamy Deviled EggsBreakfast Sausage PattiesAsian-Flavored Nuggets​Flaky Fish-y Tacos with Radish RelishConfetti Cupcakes with SprinklesCherry Cheesecake Chocolate Chunk Ice CreamNo matter if you're a new vegan or an old pro, embracing the vegan lifestyle has never been easier!

Vanilla Black: Fresh Flavours for your Vegetarian Kitchen


Andrew Dargue - 2015
    We love to reinvent classic dishes, create new flavour combinations, source unusual ingredients and occasionally we use a microwave because well, why not?' From the start, Andrew and Donna's rule was, no pasta bake and no vegetable curry. They set up Vanilla Black as a restaurant with a mission - to reinvent expectations about what it means to eat vegetarian food. It's all about the flavour, the first bite that intrigues, the surprising, the unusual, the recipes your friends will want to steal. From Jerusalem artichoke, white wine and thyme pie to a reinvention of classic tomatoes on toast, from Savoy cabbage pudding to broad bean and lemon cheesecake, from smoky baked beans to Marmite new potatoes, and from parsnip cake with Horlicks frosting to cherry Bakewell tart with marzipan custard, this surprising and inventive cookbook will change the way you think about food - and leave you wanting more. Vanilla Black restaurant is co-owned by Andrew Dargue, head chef, and his partner Donna Conroy, who runs front of house. www.vanillablack.co.uk @vanillablack1

The Great Vegan Grains Book: Celebrate Whole Grains with More than 100 Delicious Plant-Based Recipes * Includes Soy-Free and Gluten-Free Recipes!


Celine Steen - 2015
    While naturally vegan by nature, grains are often paired with non-vegan ingredients, making many recipes off-limits to vegans.That's where The Great Vegan Grains Book comes the rescue, taking you step-by-step through the myriad grains available today, and providing you with more than 100 delicious and easy plant-based, whole-grain recipes (many of them low-fat, soy free, and even gluten-free!). Each recipe uses whole-food ingredients that can be easily found at most grocery stores, so you can say yes to grains and eating better too!Cook delicious meals with ancient grains like amaranth, farro, millet, quinoa, and more and try recipes that will quickly become favorites, such as:- Quinoa Breakfast Pilaf- Apple and Oats French Toast- Sausage Smash Potato Hash- Spelt and Bean Burritos- Tempeh Buckwheat Bowl- Teff and Pea Fritters- Cracked Wheat Koftas- Roasted Corn and Barley Chowder- Warm Farro and Sweet Potato SaladAlso enjoy gluten-free vegan recipes, such as:- Apricot Oats- Polenta Topped Mexi-Beans- Chickpea Millet Curry- Harissa Veggies and Rice Skillet- Spinach and Basil Quinoa- Sesame Purple Rice

The Good Karma Diet: Eat Gently, Feel Amazing, Age in Slow Motion


Victoria Moran - 2015
    But as The Good Karma Diet reveals, the secret to looking and feeling great is actually quite simple: Treat our planet and all its inhabitants well. In this revolutionary book, bestselling author Victoria Moran reveals that by doing what’s best for all creatures and the planet, you align your eating with your ethics—a powerful health and wellness tool if there ever was one!  The Good Karma Diet shows readers how favoring foods that are karmically good for you will help you:   - Sustain energy - Extend youthfulness - Take off those stubborn extra pounds - Reflect an enlightened outlook   This book also includes the inspiring stories of men and women across the country who have made this simple mealtime shift and reaped “good karma” in every aspect of their lives. Follow this wise diet and lifestyle program and you will find yourself waking up in a good mood more often and having a luminous look that bespeaks health and clean living.