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Nice vegetarian cookbook | How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food (How to Cook Everything) | Mark Bittman

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	• How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food (How to Cook Everything) Mark Bittman Wiley, 2007 - 1008 pages average customer review:based on 91 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Vegetarian ecstacy

Oh the beets of it all. Bittman covers almost everything one could ask in his book including those mysterious tofu questions. A superb guide if a bit large to keep on the kitchen counter while chopping those parsnips.

Instant favorite

My wife is the cook, not me, but after I heard Mr. Bittman discussing this book and his philosophy on NPR, I went out on a limb and bought this for her. I have to say her initial reaction was less than enthusiastic. The sheer size of the thing is intimidating. But over the next few days she started looking thru it, and started flagging recipes to try, and bought all the essential ingredients to have on hand that Bittman lists, and she's been cooking from it every day since. The food made from these recipes is good, and even if one isn't quite to your taste, Bittman offers numerous suggestions for variations with each recipe. You are bound to find one to your liking. So if you want to expand your vegetarian cooking horizons, and enjoy cooking while you're doing it, this book will suit you well.

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Nice vegetarian cookbook

This is an interesting cookbook. Mark Bittman, who has created other cookbooks, takes a shot at a vegetarian cookbook. One nice wrinkle--he shows Vegans how they can adapt some of these recipes to their needs. He begins by noting that (Page ix) "Increasingly, Americans are becoming `flexitarians,' a recently invented word that describes both vegetarians who aren't that strict and meat-eaters who are striving for a more health conscious, planet friendly diet." He follows up by noting, simply, that (Page x): "A diet that is high in vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and legumes is a healthier diet than one that isn't."

Some nice features aside from the recipes: a section on key ingredients that one needs in the kitchen, required equipment for cooking, various kitchen techniques (how to sharpen knives, different ways of "cutting" with knives, measuring, different methods of cooking (e.g., steaming, sautéing, braising, etc.). Then, on to recipes.

Recipes are grouped in the following categories: salads; soups; eggs, dairy, and cheese; produce (vegetables and fruits); pasta, noodles, and dumplings; grains; legumes; tofu, veggie burgers, and other high-protein food; breads, pizzas, sandwiches, and wraps; sauces, condiments, herbs, and spices; desserts. Obviously, there are too many different categories to go into great detail in each. Following, a set of recopies that look interesting (and doable) to me. I hope to try some of these out in the near future (confession: I am not a vegetarian, but I am a "flexitarian").

Salads: Carrot salad with cumin. Nice look to it--carrots, orange juice, lemon juice, olive oil, pepper, and--most interesting to me--cumin. Pretty simple to make and it looks tasty. Soup: I recently made potato and leek soup using another cookbook. This one has a somewhat different recipe that looks worth trying out. One nice aspect of this cookbook well exemplified by this dish: Bittman provides alternatives variations. In this case, that includes how to make this into Vichyssoise, Vegan Vichyssoise, and Korean style potato and leek soup.

Produce: Roasted or grilled asparagus. Very simple recipe, but I love asparagus, so any recipes are welcome at my home! Asparagus, olive oil (extra virgin), salt, and lemon wedges. What could be easier? Broccoli Roman style: Unlike George H. W. Bush, I love broccoli! Whether raw or cooked or done any other way! Pasta: Pasta with broccoli (my bias shows again, regarding broccoli). Legumes: Vegetarian chili con carne (depending for its power on hot chili). Burger: Spicy autumn vegetable burger. Key ingredients: Kale, cannellini, extra virgin olive oil, sweet potato, bread crumbs, cinnamon, nutmeg, pinch of cayenne). Sounds yummy to me!

So, bottom line, a nice cookbook. The recipes tend to be pretty straightforward. If interested in more vegetarian eating, this would be one nice volume to explore.

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One of the best cook books period

This is a great cook book and even the most carnivorous omnivore would find it indispensable.

the best vegetarian cookbook i own...

...and perhaps the best cookbook i own! i received this book as a christmas gift and haven't stopped reading it since. i own TONS of vegetarian cookbooks and this is by far the most user friendly. you do find some of the "harder to find" ingredients that sneak their way into every vegetarian cook book, but for the most part, these are simple recipes with simple components that i usually buy every week anyway or always have in my pantry. i am always searching for new ways that are simple and quick to use the same old vegetables. and there are PLENTY in this book, with its variations on most every recipe that involve only changing one ingredient or adding a different fresh herb, etc. it has even inspired me, a complete non-baker, to start baking bread WEEKLY! the recipes are just so easy and there are great illustrations too. it has totally de-mystified things for me and i would recommend it to ANYONE, vegetarian or not. my mother swears by the original "how to cook everything", so in my opinion, mark bittman has just hit the nail on the head!

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