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More Vegetables, Please: Delicious Vegetable Side Dishes for Everyday Meals

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One of the few books I've been able to find on vegetable (not vegetarian) cooking. The author explains in detail how to select, store and cook a variety of vegetables, organized by season. Her recipes are somewhat out of the ordinary, but most don't take a lot of extra effort, allowing you to add variety to otherwise dull vegetable side dishes without straining your allotted budgets of time and cash. She also offers guidelines and suggestions for other sauce and garnish options aside from her recipes, as well as suggestions for matching the vegetable side dish with a main dish that will complement its flavors and textures. All in all it is an excellent cookbook, standing out particularly among the (very few) cookbooks on similar subject matter. This is not a cookbook for vegetarians, but rather one for those of us who want to add more vegetables to our diet to compliment the main dishes we love.

My mother gave me this cookbook 15 years ago and it is probably my #1 cooking reference, the one I would keep if I were moving to France and had to eliminate everything in my life. It is about vegetables but not about being vegetarian and it is incredibly detailed and creative. Plus, I have *never* in 15 years made something from it and not adored it. Tonight was sweet and sour leeks and a broccoli-potato mash with sour cream and dill. Previous highlights include carrots cooked with cumin, swiss chard with feta, and baked leeks in mustard cream. Superb book for the novice and expert cook alike.