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Kristen Suzanne's EASY Raw Vegan Holidays: Delicious & Easy Raw Food Recipes for Parties & Fun at Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the Holiday Season

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Kristen's Easy Raw Vegan Holiday's is a must have. She offers great information about raw foods and tips on how to make it through the Holiday's. Her recipes are amazing and are very easy to make. They don't require a lot of equipment; most can be prepared with a food processor or blender. She has an amazing way of making everything taste terrific that you could easily pass her recipes off without telling anyone they're raw. Her Pumpkin Pie is amazing. I also love her Harvest Soup and Bell Pepper Spinach salad with Rosemary Ranch Dressing. Oh, and did I mention the Rudolph Cherry Cobbler, Pecan Spice Delight cookies and Creamy Dreamy Eggless Nog? The book is worth purchasing for these recipes alone.

Also, check out her other books. They offer such an awesome variety of dishes that are fun to try and easy to prepare that sometimes I forget their raw! What I love most about Kristen's recipes are the use of spices, her variety of soups, dressings and the different ways to dress up veggies. Most of her recipes don't require a dehydrator and she uses more seeds than nuts (or a combination of both). I have quite a few raw cook books and find they use more nuts, require a lot of dehydrating and the recipes take far longer to prepare. I really believe you will love her books as much as I do. Enjoy!

Kristens recipe books are amazing. I have made so many dishes and they always come out great. I have made many cheesecakes and her lasagna and they are always the rave even with non-raw people. I also like the way she sets up her recipes step by step as well as in the intro to raw foods she also ahs a scale to show how much a tablespoon is...like 3 teaspoons and so forth. We love everything we have made so far!

Kristen Suzanne's Raw Vegan Holiday's is loaded with the most fabulous recipes. Her pumpkin pie is out of this world. I am eating the last piece as I am writing this review. Oh excuse me for a minute while I wipe my fingers. YUM!!! I say last piece because my husband and I were eating this last night and watching an old movie. It is a recipe you do not want to share but know that people are going to find out anyway. So I might as well be the HERO. Her recipes are to die for and easy to make. My kids love everything I have made so far. I made the "BOO" Halloween Hummus for the kids at school and they loved it. Then her Oktoberfest Raw German Chocolate Brownines went to my husbands work. The empty plate came back with a note saying, whats for tomorrow? Because it is all so nutritious I don't care if my family eats her stuff all day long. When you go to the store to get the ingredients just take the book with you. You get inspired. Plus the book is beautiful. Its a good feeling to buy a recipe book and love it all.

I definitely agree about the Pumpkin Pie - it really is out of this world. I have to say, though, that this recipe is best with a high powered professional blender to really get the right creamy and whipped texture. It's still delicious, though. I've had it made both ways-with and without a high-speed blender. And the Pecan Spice cookies are really, really good. You don't have to wait for the holidays for these recipes, but it would make a nice gift for that time of year especially when people are looking for healthier alternatives.

This book was ok. However most recipes in it can be found online and there are not all that many. For the normal price not worth it but if you can buy a used for cheep go ahead.

This book will truly help you have "Happy Holidays". I love Kristen's extra eco-ideas for the holidays, like gift giving and wrapping paper, etc. There are great recipes that will take you through Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Holiday entrees, cookies, pies - oh my!

I have visited Kristen's blog for a few years now - I really appreciate her reviews, videos and information. Kristen's recipes are creative - I love that the results look just like mainstream meals. Best of all - recipes are EASY!! Ingredients are simple and easy to find.

I love that Kristen has placed an abundance of food photos on her website - I can easily print one color page (screen shot) and have photos! I have folded the one page in half and keep it in my book. I know she is trying to keep the cost of the book down. She even mentions in the recipe book that the picture is available online. What a great idea.

This recipe book is awesome!! The food during the holiday season is my favorite. I love anything with pumpkin, and warm spices like cinnamon and nutmeg. I love that with these recipes, I can enjoy my favorite seasonal treats all year round, but in a much healthier and "raw" form. Raw Pumpkin Pie..yes please!!! The Holiday Morning Porridge is one of my favorite recipes from the book. It is so filling, flavorful, and delicious any time of the year! I look forward to making the Creamy Dreamy Eggless Nog, "I Can't Believe It's Raw" Pumpkin Pie, Oktoberfest Raw German Chocolate Brownies, Comfort Time Sweet-Brose, and Hazelnut Chocolate Snowballs.

Obviously the holidays are over, but I got this book anyway because I like all of the other books I've gotten from Kristen and I figured the tips for surviving the holidays would be good for any time of year - and they are! Kristen has lots of great tips about setting goals and expectations, planning ahead, how to handle parties, and gift-giving. These tips are definitely useful all the time. Of course, there's some fabulous recipes in here, too. The German Chocolate are so darn good - I think I need to make a double recipe next time!

For sure! There is one recipe (among many) that comes to mind when I think of Kristen's Holiday Recipes... RAW German Chocolate Brownies!!!!!!!! OOHHH man!!! I'm a HUGE German Chocolate lover, so when I came across this recipe, I had to make it. It turned out so incredibly delicious and tasted just like the German Chocolate that I remembered (cooked version). I could not believe it! So during the holidays, I was asked to bring the dessert... guess what I brought? YEP!! RAW German Chocolate Brownies! A HUGE hit! The family LOVED them :) all 48 of them!
Simplest and most fun recipes. Kristen knows how to make the most out of the Holidays!! I count on her to have the best RAW/Vegan recipes and she has NEVER let me down :))

I took the festive vegetable mix to my work holiday party...such a hit! Lots of great recipes for holiday treats & drinks and as with all of her books, very easy to read and follow.