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Summary: Veggie cookbook? Could have fooled me...
Review: As a non-vegetarian who is allergic to a slew of common veggies and fruits (including apples, nuts, and carrots), I have also, over the years, become allergic to vegetarian cookbooks. This cookbook was loaned to me by a friend who knows about my allergies, and upon first inspection, I found 20 recipes I am not only interested in trying (although I haven't yet tried them), but that I can prepare without having to substitute anything. Lots of variety, lots of off-the-beaten-path ingredients. I didn't even notice it was a vegetarian cookbook until I got to Amazon to order it and read the reviews. I am truly looking forward to getting my own copy and trying out some of these recipes.
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Summary: this book is great!
Review: I bought this book a few months ago and use it at least three times a week. It includes everything from dips to desserts, to larger dinner dishes that can be made and refigerated and brought to work for a cheerful, filling break in the day!
I have even convinced my dad that you don't need to put meat in every meal to make things taste good. My personal favorites are the lasagna primavera, italian gratin, vegan chocolate cake, apple zuchini muffins...I guess I could go on and on!
good stuff here. I recommend it to anyone who likes to cook, eat, and feel healthy afterward.
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Summary: My favorite vegetarian cookbook!
Review: I bought this book only 2 weeks ago and have tried more than a dozen recipes. The recipes are innovative, eclectic, and very easy and delicious. I had recently become a vegetarian and the book has made it fun and exciting. The tofu salad is excellent, so are the roasted winter veggies, the sweet patato pancakes, oatmeal-banana pancakes, the Tilghman Island Stew, valle d'Aosta cabbage soups, etc. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in some new ways of making vegetarian cuisine that are inspired by a variety of ethnic traditions.
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Summary: Delicious vegetarian fare
Review: I bought this cookbook recently and have already tried about a dozen of the recipes. The strawberry salad dressing was excellent, even made with frozen berries. The Greek lasagna with eggplant and chocolate cherry biscotti also were quite good. I made the asparagus leek strudel for guests, and the entire panful was devoured in no time flat. The recipes that I've tried have been interesting and well-seasoned as written. I have even enjoyed just sitting at the kitchen table, reading this cookbook like it's a novel.
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Summary: Wow!
Review: I bought this volume, along with another Moosewood collection, a little over a month ago. To say that I'm totally hooked would be an understatement. I've done more than twenty five of their wonderful recipes. Most are SO good I can't wait to make them again, but I keep finding more and more new ones to do and never get back to them. The soups in here are simply extraordinary, wonderful bean soups, rich vegetable soups, and the many vegetable sides are their equal.I suspect that Jane Brody's excellent Good Food Book, my kitchen bible, has been displaced by the Gospel according to Moosewood.
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Summary: Great vegetarian cookbook
Review: I have made several dozen of the recipes contained in this book, and almost all have been something I would definitely make again! One feature I really enjoy is an estimated time required to both prepare and cook each dish, so you can easily thumb through, looking for something which fits your time schedule. One thing I did not appreciate was the excessive use of refined sugar in every single one of the dessert recipes. I assumed that Moosewood would be more concerned with making desserts and cookies with maple syrup, honey, etc., but unfortunately, I was wrong.
Overall, I think the book is great and am planning to buy it as a gift for several family members.
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Summary: Kind of like "Joy of Cooking--Veggie Style"
Review: Is this a "new classic" and what's in this book for the average cook who wants to cook vegetarian food? This heavy tome is packed with useful recipes and is all over the map, both ethnically and in types of recipes. As other Moosewood cookbooks, this is a vegetarian cookbook, but with asides into fish, which I don't mind--being one who limits meat but has not problem eating it. Some people do view fish as living creatures, which, of course, they certainly are. What's also new here compared to the dairy-laden earlier books is a venture into a few vegan recipes that leave out all milk, egg and other animal-source product, including a recipe for very useful mock sour cream. So there's a little something for everyone, vegetarian, limited vegetarian and even vegan. The recipes tend to the family-style rather than super-gourmet. One of the most useful recipes for me is a vegetable broth. This is a very good recipe base all kinds of soups. I despise the taste of canned broths and it's a nuisance to make chicken stock from scratch. Vegetable stock freezes well and this recipe makes a particularly flavorful version, using carrots, onions, celery, potatoes and garlic. The potatoes, in particular add consistency to the broth. The recipe offers either sweet potato or carrot for that sweet-spicy element and the sweet potato version also adds body to the broth. There is a version for mock-chicken broth, and an Asian ginger flavored broth base as well. Italian dishes dominate the recipes, lots of pasta sauces, including a vegetarian kind of Bolognese (meat gravy), a good basic tomato sauce, frittatas, risottos and cioppino fish stew. There are also plenty of diversions into novelties such as an interesting peach salsa. The breads lean more to biscuits and cornbread than to yeast breads and the dessert section is loaded with cookies. There are also sections on sandwiches, wraps and mock burgers. In summary, this is a very good vegetarian-based home cooking book, maybe something like Joy of Cooking - Veggie-Style. In that respect, this is a new classic, and certainly found a welcome home on my cooking bookshelf.
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Summary: My favorite vegetarian cookbook!
Review: Of the two Moosewoods cookbooks I own, this one just doesn't remotely compare to the other, Moosewood's Daily Specials. I feel like they made these recipes up. They are weird, the recipes don't seem like real recipes. The baked goods I've made haven't turned out well at all. Adding water to cookie dough really made the cookies bad-i got poor reviews from everyone who ate them-and I normally have rave reviews. I think that the only recipe I truly love is "Tofu Hijiki Burgers", which are AWESOME. The "tofu sloppy joes" however, were not great. It's really too bad but I have found much better versions of these same recipes in other cookbooks.
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Summary: good for the healthy vegetarian
Review: This book is a pretty versatile book with tons of recipes that has something for every occasion.
That being said, my favorite part of the recipes are something that's quite northeastern in taste, or what your local healthy vegetarian has. It definitely introduces hereto unfamiliar ingredients to me, such as quinoa and barley. In my opinions those and those that uses a substantiable farmer's market vegetables often comes out the best.
I have 2 quips about the book: one is their heavy reliance on soy, which a previous reviewer has already noted. My objection is that too often soy felt just throw-in for the meat substitute. As a Chinese I often feel soy is underappreciated as a culnary item but overused as a substitute, and this book unfortunately follows that trend. The soy recipes here certainly not only failed to highlight soy as its own and distinctive cooking category, but their ubiquitous presence take away from what could have been truly creative recipes using the best of the vegetable kingdom.
My second complaint is the recipes here tend to be fairly blend when they venture out into the world cuisine section. While that isn't a problem for most american recipes, the Thai and Southeast-inspired recipes taste rather limpid.
However, overall this is still a pretty good cookbook, with many good recipes. Overall, if you're not someone who adore their chilis or who are overly picky about soy, then this definitely has value.
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Summary: Lots of great creative recipes
Review: This has quickly become one of my favorite cookbooks. Almost all of the recipes we have made are wonderful- the squash and tomatillo soup, the Indian curried potato wrap, the mushroom pecan burgers- all are great and easy to prepare. Many of the recipes draw from world cuisine, some even combine ingredients from several cultures. Sure, some of the combinations sound strange, but they manage to come out wonderfully. This book is full of creative main and side dishes.
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