150 Vegan Favorites: Fresh, Easy, and Incredibly Delicious Recipes You Can Enjoy Every Day [Paperback]

Jay Solomon (Author)

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Publication Date: March 25, 1998

Gourmet Vegan Fare Prepared with Culinary Flair!
Jay Solomon knows how to make vegan food taste good. It just takes a bit of creativity — something Jay has in spades. Here one of the most renowned vegetarian cooks offers recipes that make food achingly good. His secret? The incredibly subtle effect of fresh herbs, spicy chilies, and fragrant spices. In 150 Vegan Favorites, you'll explore the exciting possibilities of cooking with these flavorful yet easy-to-find ingredients. In addition, you will begin to use marvelous ingredients such as colorful leafy vegetables, couscous, red lentils, wild rice, butternut squash, and West Indian pumpkin.
You'll find such tantalizingly delicious recipes as:
·Curried Squash with Winter Greens
·Tangy Couscous with Black Beans and Corn
·Lemony Artichoke Pilaf
·Yellow Rice and Avocado Burritos
·Rosemary-Roasted Jerusalem Artichokes
·Mango-Banana Flambe
Also included are helpful shopping tips and glossaries of rices, grains, legumes, and squash.
You don't have to be vegan or even vegetarian to enjoy these zesty recipes. With 150 Vegan Favorites, meat-free, dairy-free cooking has never been easier or more delicious!

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Gourmet Vegan Fare Prepared with Culinary Flair!
Jay Solomon knows how to make vegan food taste good. It just takes a bit of creativity ? something Jay has in spades. Here one of the most renowned vegetarian cooks offers recipes that make food achingly good. His secret? The incredibly subtle effect of fresh herbs, spicy chilies, and fragrant spices. In 150 Vegan Favorites, you'll explore the exciting possibilities of cooking with these flavorful yet easy-to-find ingredients. In addition, you will begin to use marvelous ingredients such as colorful leafy vegetables, couscous, red lentils, wild rice, butternut squash, and West Indian pumpkin.
You'll find such tantalizingly delicious recipes as:
·Curried Squash with Winter Greens
·Tangy Couscous with Black Beans and Corn
·Lemony Artichoke Pilaf
·Yellow Rice and Avocado Burritos
·Rosemary-Roasted Jerusalem Artichokes
·Mango-Banana Flambe
Also included are helpful shopping tips and glossaries of rices, grains, legumes, and squash.
You don't have to be vegan or even vegetarian to enjoy these zesty recipes. With 150 Vegan Favorites, meat-free, dairy-free cooking has never been easier or more delicious!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Clarkson Potter (March 25, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761512438
• ISBN-13: 978-0761512431
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #405,238 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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129 of 129 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Nutritional Powerhouse!, February 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: 150 Vegan Favorites: Fresh, Easy, and Incredibly Delicious Recipes You Can Enjoy Every Day (Paperback)

This is one of my favorite cookbooks, and I own several hundred, including 40-50 vegetarian cookbooks and over a dozen vegan cookbooks.

The recipes are full of the most nutritious vegetables, greens, and grains, combined with great spices. You'll find many recipes for a variety of greens, not just spinach, and for a variety of grains, not just pasta. And the finished recipes are a pleasure for the eyes as well as the taste buds -- bursting with color.

Many of the foods recent studies have found to be extremely nutritious are included -- high antioxidant sweet potatoes and squashes and red peppers -- high fiber beans and whole grains.

For those who eat a low to very low fat diet, oil is used moderately in the recipes and in ways that aren't integral to the recipes; the recipes can be easily adapted to be even lower in fat if desired.

As an added bonus, many recipes will take well to freezing, so you can cook in volume and freeze for workday lunches.

All in all, an impressive, extremely nutritious and delicious cookbook. You won't be disappointed with this one.

113 of 115 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solomon makes eating vegan easy, accessible, enjoyable!, June 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: 150 Vegan Favorites: Fresh, Easy, and Incredibly Delicious Recipes You Can Enjoy Every Day (Paperback)

Solomon's recipes do not require expensive, hard to find ingredients usually only found at high-priced whole-foods stores. I was terrified to start cooking vegan because of the inaccessibility of some of the ingredients called for in many veggie/vegan cookbooks. Fear not--98% of the recipes in Solomon's book require only a trip to your local grocery. Ex: One medium onion, one carrot, 2 c. brown rice... I thought, "I can do this!" No miso, no "dew concentrate from the char-char plant, found only in the East Indian highlands". This is Veganism for Dummies--no offense, Jay!

Oh yeah--the recipes are yummy, too. We're carnivores at heart, and we love them.

I found veganism after a religious conversion to Coptic Orthodoxy which requires its faithful to not eat animal products for about 2/3 of the year. I thought I'd starve to death! Whether you're Vegan for health or spiritual reasons, Jay Solomon's book is a MUST HAVE, especially for beginners! I am happy to report that 150 Vegan Favorites is for EVERYONE. Hat's off to Jay Solomon!

91 of 92 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best vegan cookbook available, October 31, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: 150 Vegan Favorites: Fresh, Easy, and Incredibly Delicious Recipes You Can Enjoy Every Day (Paperback)

I bought a lot of vegan cookbooks when I first became vegan, and this is definitely the best. I have liked pretty much every recipe I tried, and there are still many post-its flagging promising recipes that I haven't got around to yet. You will see similar recipes in other books and magazines, but for easy preparation, good instructions, and taste, this is the best one-stop source book. I have just bought two extra copies to send to family members whom I will be visiting over the holidays.