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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
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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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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

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: 7.5 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (152 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,746 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

A longtime vegan, Robin Robertson has more than twenty cookbooks, including Vegan on the Cheap, 1,000 Vegan Recipes, Vegan Planet, Vegan Fire and Spice, Quick-Fix Vegan, and Fresh from the Vegan Slow Cooker. For more information about her books and for sample recipes, visit her website at www.robinrobertson.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 vegan 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

I am far from having tried all of the recipes, but the ones I have made so far are very good. lindserina  |  29 reviewers made a similar statement
Highly, highly recommended book for all you vegan/vegetarian crock-pot lovers!!! Violet Riot  |  21 reviewers made a similar statement
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359 of 369 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Robin Robertson Does It Again! January 21, 2004
Format:Paperback
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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181 of 185 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Tasty Recipes That Need Adjusting April 25, 2004
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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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255 of 264 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars If only the cooking times were right! March 10, 2006
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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5.0 out of 5 stars tasty, easy recipes
Firstly, I love slow cookers. Secondly, I love vegetarian recipes. Thirdly, I love this cookbook. It is full of tasty, easy recipes that anyone would like, even those who are not... Read more
Published 19 days ago by the MasterMind
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Cookbook
Not always easy to find vegetarian slow cooker recipes - this is pretty good. Some of the recipes require lots of ingredients and things I don't have around, so they're more work. Read more
Published 1 month ago by D. A. Haugesag
5.0 out of 5 stars We all know we have to eat more veggies
The older we become, the more this fact becomes obvious. Start out by making one day a week a vegetarian one. Your digestive system will thank you. Read more
Published 1 month ago by S. Belson
5.0 out of 5 stars Good recipies
I have been enjoying making many of these recipes... lots of variety and great ideas. Would highly recommend whether you're a vegetarian or not:)
Published 2 months ago by Kristi Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars So easy and so delicious!
"Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker" is becoming one of my favorite cookbooks. It's a great vegetarian go-to guide for set-it and forget-it meals.
Published 2 months ago by Melilynn
4.0 out of 5 stars Vegan/Vegetarian Granddaughter
I bought this for my granddaughter to use in her dorm. She may actually learn to cook someday!!! The book is very helpful and a welcome to her kitchen. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Shanshondee
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Crock Pot Cook Book
I've used many of the recipes this winter and really love the ingredients and the ease of cooking them! Thanks!
Published 3 months ago by dmc
4.0 out of 5 stars Yumm
Great price! too early to recommend any of the meals. Looking forward to cooking from this book . . .
Published 3 months ago by Dwardo
4.0 out of 5 stars Depends on if you can use soy or tofu..
I use this quite abit and would recommend it to those who can use the tofu or soy. I can't so try other substitutions which is okay.
Published 3 months ago by Mary Barr
4.0 out of 5 stars Comfort Food for Vegetarians!
So many vegetarian cookbooks out there have page upon page of salads and vegetable side dishes. The one thing I found myself really craving once I stopped eating meat was warm,... Read more
Published 4 months ago by missyO
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