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Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker: 200 Recipes for Healthy and Hearty One-Pot Meals That Are Ready When You Are [Paperback]

Robin Robertson (Author)
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Book Description

January 2004
If you’re a vegetarian who thought slow cookers were just for met-eaters, Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker will introduce you to the wonders of slow cooking. And if you’re already a slow cooker enthusiast, here’s a while new array of healthy, delicious recipes for a favorite appliance. Slow cookers can be used for a lot more than just tough, inexpensive cuts of meat. They’re perfect for vegetarian and healthy cooking because slow cooking is a foolproof way to make beans, grains, numerous vegetables, and much, much more.

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Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker: 200 Recipes for Healthy and Hearty One-Pot Meals That Are Ready When You Are + The Vegan Slow Cooker: Simply Set It and Go with 150 Recipes for Intensely Flavorful, Fuss-Free Fare Everyone (Vegan or Not!) Will Devour


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Vegetarian cooking instructor Robertson (Vegan Planet) turns her attention to the growing number of slow cooker owners. Starting with Slow Cooker Basics, she takes the user through the ins and outs of the appliance from the size of machine suitable for good results to cooking times and 10 quick tips for cooking success. She also devotes a small section to those vegetarian ingredients, such as seitan, that nonvegetarians may not be familiar with. Branching out from the traditional casseroles and stews so popular in the early days of the slow cooker, she tackles appetizers, soups and desserts as well, using the appliance with great effect to produce vegetable stocks as well as flavorful offerings like the Indian-inspired Curried Cauliflower Soup with Chutney and Cashews as well as Asian-influenced Hot and Sour Soup. The fundamental chilis and stews are not forgotten, but beans and grains so essential to the vegetarian diet put the slow cooker to best use. Pastas and vegetables nicely round out the book.
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Recipes are accessible to everyone including vegans . . . Flip through this cookbook and you will be inspired! -- American Vegan Winter

Will quickly prove to be a prized and appreciated addition to any dedicated vegetarian cookbook collection. -- Library Bookwatch

Product Details

  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard Common Press (January 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1558322566
  • ISBN-13: 978-1558322561
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.2 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (136 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,336 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

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348 of 358 people found the following review helpful
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Vegan Planet and The Vegetarian Meat and Potatoes Cookbook are two of my all time favorite cookbooks. I can always count on their easy to follow recipes to produce delicious results. Now, Robin Robertson does it again! I am enjoying my Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker cookbook very much. I just got it a week ago and I have already made Seitan Cacciatore, Spicy Black Bean Chili and Old Fashioned Vegetable Soup.
I went out and bought a lovely Rival Oval Programmable Stainless Steel 5.5 Quart Crock Pot. You can exactly set the cook time in half hour intervals up to 20 hours and you can set the temperature to high, low or warm. The crock-pot automatically switches to warm mode after cooking is complete so you don't have to worry about burning. The digital countdown shows you how much time is left. The lid fits perfectly on the crock-pot and doesn't let air seep out like some cheaper models. I highly recommend this sturdy and easy to use crock-pot.
Now back to the wonderful recipes! The Seitan Cacciatore was a very easy to make a hearty stew. We loved the subtle blend of flavors and the seitan was perfectly moist. I made the Spicy Black Bean Chili in less than ten minutes. The results were fabulous, dark rich spicy black bean chili with red peppers, sweet onion and diced green jalapenos, amazing for such a mind numbingly simple recipe. I am eating the Old Fashioned Vegetable Soup as I type. This soup is so wholesome and tender it simply melts in your mouth.
I am a busy vegan who absolutely loves to cook and this cookbook is a lifesaver. No longer will I have to rush home to cook, stopping at a busy grocery store on the way. Instead, I figure out what I want to make in the evening, go to the grocery store after dinner when it is not crowded at all and assemble the ingredients at my leisure. I pop the crock in the fridge until bedtime. I don't want to leave the cooker on when I am not at home, so I just turn it on before bed and when I wake up transfer the wonderful results to the fridge. They have all day to sit and get delicious (most stews are better if given time to rest) and then I reheat when I get home in the evening. It has worked out very easily and the recipes are mouthwatering. Now I can relax while cooking on busy weeknights and I look forward to going to the store rather then rushing. I think crock-pot cooking is miraculous.
This cookbook is a huge bargain with 200 recipes for everything from appetizers to desserts, soups, stews, vegetables and everything in between. All of the recipes have vegan alternatives for dairy products and most are naturally dairy free. You cannot get better results both in the minimal effort, easy ingredients and outstanding results then this. Every vegan and vegetarian should give Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker by Robin Robertson a try!
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238 of 245 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I'm not new to cooking by any means, but I am new to slow cooking. I was looking for a slow cooker cookbook that would contain vegetarian, Kosher and/or low-fat or low-salt recipes. The last thing I wanted was a dozen ways to make pork roast. This book fills the bill, in part, in that a lot of the recipes are healthy although no one seems to be watching their salt intake. I realize that this is not the purpose of this cookbook but it would be good if alternatives were available.

The cooking times are way off. The book seems to have been written with much older or less powerful models in mind. The cooking time for dried black beans, for example, is 12 hours on high. This is anything but true -- at least with my model (Rival programmable) it took 4 hours on high. At 12 hours on high, I would have ruined the dish and possibly had a fire hazard.

So the times have got to be updated post-haste. The recipes are interesting and somewhat creative. Personally, I don't want to do too much outside of the slow cooker. I want to throw things in the pot, set it and go to work, and a great number of the recipes have requirements of satellite or preliminary cooking, such as some sautéeing. I don't mind a little of this but not at the beginning of the cooking time. Who wants to fry onions right before work?

A slow cooker is meant for people who are going off to work or elsewhere and want a meal ready when they come home. While some extra work is sometimes needed, it's needed with too many of these recipes. If the cooking times could be adjusted so as to better reflect reality, and the recipes adjusted so as to also better reflect users' needs, my rating would be higher.
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170 of 174 people found the following review helpful
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I've made three of the chili recipes from this book and, while all were tasty, two had too large a measure of hot pepper ingedients and the third came out too "raw" without much longer cooking. A four-ounce canned of diced hot chiles tastes mild out of the can, but turns combustible after 8 hours in a slow cooker ("Spicy Black Bean Chili"). In the "Chipotle-Kissed Red Bean and Sweet Potato Chili," the canned chipotles in adobo sauce were way too intense unless you used a fraction of what the reciped called for. I'm not talking just chili-lovin' hot here, I'm talking noxiously hot.

The "Sweet and Spicy Lentil Chili" recipe specified unsoaked lentils, but the lentils wouldn't soften adequately until the dish was cooked 16 hours or more (the recipe called for eight hours). Also, the Vegetarian Society not only recommends that dried beans and lentils be soaked, but that they be pre-boiled for 10 minutes before adding to the slow cooker, which was not mentioned in the recipes I used.

Based on my experience with this book, I wonder if the recipes, many of them close variations of each other, were all adequately tested. I still liked the dishes, however, after adjusting for the problems I mentioned.

Keep in mind that taste is subjective and what I think is too hot or too hard may not agree with your assessment. But I've never had this happen three out of three times with any other cookbook that I can remember.

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Most Recent Customer Reviews
A Huge Omission
I purchased this book on a whim because one recipe really sounded good. It was good. And so was the second and third I tried. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Kim in MD
All recipes tried came out poorly
This looked great in advance but my wife and I tried a number of recipes from this and mostly disliked them. The baked ziti was so-so; ditto tortilla soup. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Jesse Glick
Recipes OK but really bad presentation
I just was so looking forward to this e-book and I guess the recipes are OK but I hate though is the unthoughtout presentation of their product. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Ann Allen
A must-have for anyone...
As always, any book by Robin Robertson is worth buying! I never knew that a vegan could have such fabulous food from the lowly slow cooker. And even desserts! Read more
Published 3 months ago by knitsensei
Not if you're looking for slow cooker convenience
FRESH FROM THE VEGETARIAN SLOW COOKER works better as a vegetarian cookbook than a slow-cooker cookbook. Read more
Published 3 months ago by R. Walker
As a Gift to a Vegetarian - Awesome
I tried The Vegetarian Lifestyle until money became scarse. I purchased this item for a Newly Wed Cousin. She took a look at it and was thrilled. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Sean Michael Mahar
Vegetarian Slow Cooker
I have now been using this book for a few years now. I have tried numerous recipes, and they have all turned out well. Read more
Published 5 months ago by T. Presnell
great cookbook
This was my first vegetarian/vegan slow cooker book, and I have learned a lot from it! I am far from having tried all of the recipes, but the ones I have made so far are very good. Read more
Published 6 months ago by lindserina
Love this book!
This is a great book. I find myself consistently using it to find easy, tasty, and healthy vegetarian recipies. The recipies are a great balance of easy and unique. Read more
Published 7 months ago by L. Grimes
Nice recipes,
I have yet to cook anything from this book but the recipes do look nice. My only concern it the extra stove top cooking required for many of the recipes. Read more
Published 7 months ago by John Bravado
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Whoever said, "Everything old is new again" may well have had slow cookers in mind. Read the first page
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cook time, slow cooker size, low serves, electric punch bowl, cup nonhydrogenated margarine, enclose the spices, change the heat setting, turn the heat setting, other soy sauce, vegetarian burger crumbles, oval slow cooker, cooker insert, replacement mixture, vegetarian sausage links, making several holes, smaller cooker, ounces seitan, add the seitan, tofu cream cheese, other main dishes, other white beans, tomato paste mixture, ounces white mushrooms, soy parmesan, teaspoon peeled
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Note About Stock, Vegetarian Slow Cooker, Low Makes, Granny Smith, Yukon Gold, Liquid Smoke, Rome Beauty, Keep Warm, High Serves, Hot Drinks, Gravy Master, Great Northern, Vegetarian Style, Low One, Basic Beans
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