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The 100 Best Gluten-Free Recipes for Your Vegan Kitchen: Delicious Smoothies, Soups, Salads, Entrees, and Desserts

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This book is an easy guide to gluten free and vegan eating...

I have always been weary of trying new recipes because I usually stick to what I know..

This book has introduced me to new foods that I normally avoid at the super market!

I absolutely loved the Beet greens and Leeks dish! Who knew to use your beet greens?

I made this for family & friends & they LOVED it!!

Quinoa? My new favorite grain...I love Kelly's introductions to each recipe...

this book was easy to follow & I liked how I could fix them ahead of time & they would still be as delicious the next day...

I highly recommend this book for those trying to elevate their vegan cooking to a new level...

You won't be disappointed!

I really love Kelly Keough's recipes. They are so healthy, but my kids (2, 5, 7) and husband will actually eat them. She has found terrific substitutes for people with food allergies. Who knew coconut liquid amino acid existed? I love the combination of raw and cooked vegan recipes. I too have become bored with my gluten-free diet and longed for more flavorful and healthier recipes. Well, here they are- simple and elegant. There is a lot of variety- hummus and raw hummus, lots of salad ideas and cooked veggies, pizza, soups, smoothies, breakfast foods, desserts and much more. With Amazon's price, it is a steal. I am buying a second book for a relative.

You have to be highly experienced to be able to adapt these recipes into a workable, eatable outcome. Each recipe consists of several hard-to-find and expensive items. She does not offer substitutions very much. Her go-to sweetener is "Z-Sweet" which is highly refined and hard to find. Substitutions anyone?!! It also bothered me that she would call for a general gluten free mix and then call for additional gluten free flours all in one recipe. If you are going to use pre-mixed gluten free flour as well as your own mixture then you are neither getting the benefit of saving from using only your own bulk mixes or the convenience of only having to use a quick pre-made mix. Plus each recipe calling for a mix is not a true recipe since the outcomes can vary greatly after you play a guessing game as to which mix to use. These recipes are for those who can afford very expensive health food items and who have a lot of time to dedicate in the kitchen. I give her three stars because many of her recipes tasted quite good after I made several improvisions. She did well considering that it takes a real artist to exclude sugar, wheat, rye, oats, barley, gluten, dairy, meat (any animal product for that matter)etc from baked goods. Kudos to you Kelly Keough. Loved the homemade Pizza Sauce and I want to try the lemmon chiffon pie (however I will have to make several substituions to be able to do it). When I first approached books like these it was because I was slowly eliminating one food group at a time that I noticed was not good for me such as gluten, dairy and sugar. Eventually I came to find the "raw food" and "eat clean" diets as a more ideal solution vrs. makeshift cooking with strange ingredients (Zanthan gum anyone? Ehwww...) Search online and look into the raw food community for alternative eating. Raw food diets also exclude things like zanthan gum and it is mostly vegan raw. Natalia Rose wrote "Raw Food Detox Diet" this is my favorite so far since it dosn't demand the use of dehydrators and crazy gadgets. I also like the sunny raw kitchen blog and "delightfully raw" by Carmella. Anything by Diana Stobo is yummy (her recipe for red velvit smoothie is SO GOOD)! I also like "the gluten free vegan" (anything by Susan O' Brian is great). The whole life nutrition cookbook is good to supplement raw food diets when warm food is wanted. Anything by Madjur Jaffery can be easily adapted to vegan and the use of spices is just wonderful. Elanaspantry.com is great for gluten free. Greensmoothiegirl.com is a good resource to a plant based diet (she has the book "the green smoothie diet"). "Raw Food Real World" is good. My biggest advice is don't allow yourself to go "broke" on specialty items that are often suggested in books like this one. Find recipes that are based on ingredients that can be found more universally, especially if you are not exclusively vegan or gluten-free vegan. The internet is one of the biggest free resources out there, experiment with those free recipes before committing to any one given lifestyle.

I am having a blast cooking my way through THE 100 BEST GLUTEN-FREE RECIPES for YOUR VEGAN KITCHEN. Kelly Keough is a treasure trove of information and I feel blessed to have found out about her and this book. Vegans and non-vegans like me can both benefit greatly from it. I had a good chuckle to myself as I served up one of the dishes up with a side of steak!

We could all stand to go a little easier on the animal products and this book is a wonderfully inventive primer. Rarely can you find such delicious recipes that are gluten-free AND sugar-free, not to mention vegan, too. Many of the recipes work lovely in tandem with one another. I used the leftover beats from the savory coconut-infused Beet Greens and Leaks dish (which was freaking awesome!) to make the Arise and Shine Juice. Rich in color (read vitamins) and super sweet, this juice would be great to serve to kids -- bet they'd never ask for soda again. The pancake recipes are a tasty godsend for which you absolutely could not find a healthier version. While it's true there is a bit of a learning curve to some of the dishes and it may seem daunting at first; there are plenty of recipes that are easy enough. And if it does take you a bit of time to get used to this new way of eating, that's part of the fun, isn't it? Try something new! This is the gluten-free, sugar-free, boring-free vegan cookbook.

This book is not just a compendium of recipes, but also contains priceless health and cooking information you can't find anywhere else all in one place (see the appendix). I would have enjoyed pictures; but my only real criticism is that I do not agree with the use of agave syrup as a healthy alternative to sugar. This problem is easily solved by swapping it out for coconut syrup. Happy Cooking!

I don't care that this cookbook is vegan and gluten-free, although I know thousands of vegans and gluten-freebies will love the book. While my family and I eat omnivorously and globally, I appreciate that Kelly's second winning cookbook has a wide range of tasty recipes and basic techniques for preparing REAL food that makes me feel balanced, energetic and good about what I serve at my table. Sometimes raw recipes can be confusing and she demystifies raw preparation to a great extent. The glossary is very helpful too. I found that a few of the traditional recipes had more steps than necessary and could have been simplified with similar or identical results. I would have liked a guide for ordering ingredients and kitchen tools as well. I find myself using this "healthy kitchen manual" many times a week and even keeping it as bedside reading which is not usual for me. Kelly and her book are an inspiration to cook, eat, and live vibrantly.

Kelly Keough is amazing. She's done all the work for you. This is the best gluten-free, sugar free, vegan cookbook in my pile of cookbooks. She covers the gamut from raw recipes and sprouting and dehydrating, to baked goods, smoothies and even pizza.

If you're vegan, gluten-free, or sugar free, this is the cookbook for you and your family.

Enjoy. Thanks Kelly.

Kelly goes through the basics in this book spelling all the dos and don'ts out clearly. Any cook at any level can give the gluten free a go. Simple things like Raw Greens Massage get you started with using the super green foods. I love avocado so the Mermaid Salad is a favorite. Green Goddess soup is a great staple and pairs well with many a raw favorite from salad to seed crackers. Vegan coconut chocloate ice cream is a much easier recipe than others offer. The appendix is great. Thanks Kelly! Keep up the good work!!!

Deborah

In Staten Island New York

This is truly an AMAZING cook book. I have stacks and stacks of Vegan books and I'm replacing them

with THIS ONE. The recipes are easy to follow, use great wholesome ingredients and are so delicious.

NON-VEGAN's will love this as well as Vegans. Something for everyone.

One of the best is the VEGAN TUNA FISH...amazing.

I have lost 7 lbs in three weeks by substituting Kelly's Banana Bread (made with sprouted buck wheat groats) for breads. I have omitted gluten, but have been totally satisfied with this bread ( I make them into muffins for convenience and portion control).I have one in the morning and then one as a snack when I am craving a carbohydrate!! It is packed with nutrients. The trick is to anticipate your need as the groats have to be soaked in water for a day and then sprouted on your counter for a day. It takes no effort on your part, just add water and leave them!! I am looking forward to making my next recipe which will be the Black Bean Boost...sounds delicious!!Kelly'a recipes are a must for a healthy weight loss process and life long nutrition!

One of my daughters recently announced that she was "going vegetarian...maybe vegan." For that reason, I gladly jumped at the chance to pick up a copy of this book. I must say that at first I was overwhelmed with all the unfamiliar ingredients and terminology. However, Kelly does a great job of educating a newbie to the vegan scene like me through the notes attached to several recipes and her very informative appendix! I'll be honest; it's been challenging for me to find some ingredients. And, many of them are pricey. But, the recipes that I've tried so far have been delicious. Among my family's favorites are the Almond Butter Waffles and the Banana Walnut Pancakes. Even my husband, who is not gluten-free or vegan, looks forward to such treats for breakfast!