366 Simply Delicious Dairy-Free Recipes [Paperback]

Robin Robertson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1997

This collection of spicy vegetarian recipes features great dishes from the world's cuisines, including the U.S., South America, Mexico, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, making it an exciting and flavorful journey for the palate. Each recipe is completely accessible and easily adapted to anyone's kitchen, containing only ingredients that are widely available. And dozens of these recipes can be made in a snap.

Organized by region, each chapter includes recipes for appetizers, soups and stews, salads, side dishes, main courses, and dressings and condiments. Robertson provides a basic introduction to the spices and techniques common to each cuisine, along with delicious classic vegetarian dishes, adaptations of meat-based dishes, and her own creative recipes, including:
-- Spicy Okra Gumbo
-- Mexican Rice and Bean Salad with Cumin Vinaigrette
-- Pasta alia Putanesca
-- Braised Cabbage with Cardamom
-- Spicy Ginger Dumplings

Using chilies as the main source of heat, these recipes range from mildly spicy to nearly incendiary, so there's something here for everyone! With creative yet simple recipes and nutritional analyses for each, "Some Like It Hot" is sure to inspire even the most devoted meat lover to eat vegetarian.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

For those with an aversion to dairy products in any of their forms, Robertson has developed an inventory of recipes that abstain from milk and milk products. She achieves her goal with a diverse group of substitutes, including rice milk, tofu, and milk alternative confected from pulverized nuts. How well diners take to these substitutions depends on their tolerance for the replacement. (Nuts are renowned allergens in their own right.) Robertson's definition of "dairy free" extends to eggs as well, so she offers alternatives to yolks, such as tofu in dishes that normally rely on mayonnaise. Dairy-free recipes are always in demand in homes with a lactose-intolerant family member, and strict vegetarians may also find inspiration here to help them pursue their ambition to eliminate all animal products from their diet. Mark Knoblauch

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Plume (March 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0452276233
• ISBN-13: 978-0452276239
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,058,418 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

A longtime vegan, Robin Robertson has written nearly twenty cookbooks, including 1,000 Vegan Recipes, Vegan Planet, Vegan Fire and Spice, Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker, and Quick-Fix Vegetarian. For more information about her books and for sample recipes, visit her website at www.globalvegankitchen.com and her blog at http://veganplanet.blogspot.com.

Before she began writing cookbooks, Robin was a restaurant chef and cooking teacher. When she left the restaurant business in the late 1980s, Robin became vegan for ethical reasons. Over the years, she has fine-tuned her plant-based diet into an eclectic and healthful cooking style which she thinks of as a creative adventure with an emphasis on the vibrant flavors of global cuisines and fresh ingredients. In addition to writing cookbooks, Robin writes 'The Global Vegan' column for VegNews Magazine.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great recipes and Vegetarian too!, December 28, 1999

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Amy J - See all my reviews

This review is from: 366 Simply Delicious Dairy-Free Recipes (Paperback)

This book is written from the point of view that after some people eliminate all meat from their diets, they might choose to eliminate dairy also. Since it is written from this strict vegetarian viewpoint, all of the recipes are fine for people who have dairy allergies as well. Many of the recipes include soy cheese products - if you are milk protein allergic you can eat some of these products, but not all of them, so be sure to read the ingredient lists carefully. Some soy cheeses are made with casein or sodium caseinate, which are milk derivatives. This book assumes that you already know what you are allergic to, if anything, and that you know how to avoid it. Other than the soy cheeses, all other dairy possibilites are eliminated and milk substitutes such as soy, rice and almond milk are used in their place. This book is full of wonderful recipes that make the most of non-animal proteins such as tofu, seitan, and tempeh. Although I'm not a vegetarian, I was excited to see so many great-sounding recipes that tempted me even though I've never eaten seitan and rarely liked tempeh. It includes delicious rich soup recipes and some noodle and pasta dishes containing a white sauce made with almond or soy milk, something I wasn't sure was possible until this book. It contains many spicy, creative dishes as well, something not always common to dairy-free or vegetarian cookbooks.

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great selection of easy to make, non-dairy recipes., October 27, 1998

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Brian DiCrocco ([e-mail]) (Columbus, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 366 Simply Delicious Dairy-Free Recipes (Paperback)

It's hard to find to a good non-dairy cookbook. I'm not a vegitarian, I just feel a lot better, and look a lot thinner, when I'm off the dairy. The recipies in this book are all vegan (no animal products of any kind). I haven't tried all of the recipies, but the ones I have, have been tasty, easy to prepare, and for the most part the indgredents are easy to find. Especially yummy is the Baked Spinach with Rasins. The book even includes a desert section, I personally tend to avoid these, not only for caloric reasons, but also because many of them call for margarine (made many from hydrogenated oils), and my nutritionist has convinced me that hydrogenated oils are on the same health level as crack. I would highly recomend this book, good for beginners thru experts. I find myself "spicing up" some of the recipes, but the the basic recipes are great.

33 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed, June 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: 366 Simply Delicious Dairy-Free Recipes (Paperback)

This was the first dairy-free cookbook I bought when I found out I was allergic to milk proteins. So far, every recipe (over 20) that I've made from this cookbook has been a poor comparison to its dairy equivalent. My own dairy-free creations were better and indistinguishable from their dairy equivalent.