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Quick & Easy Vegan Comfort Food: 65 Everyday Meal Ideas for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner with Over 150 Great-Tasting, Down-Home Recipes

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This is one of the top five cookbooks I plan on rescuing in case of house fire. Just kidding, but I would immediately go out and get it again! Buy this book -- it's worth it just for the mac and cheeze, orange chick'n, and buffalo bites recipes. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. Did I mention the mac and cheeze? It's not a nutritional yeast sauce! It's incredible!

This book has a good range of simple idea-type recipes -- as in, recipes you can really put together quickly and throw in your own substitutions -- plus more still-easy-but-complex-in-flavor recipes for the scratch cook. Oh and I can't say enough about the barbecue sauce, too. I'm picky picky picky about BBQ sauce and the one in this book plus the one in Veganomicon are to live for.

This is my first attempt to start reviewing some of the zillions of cookbooks I own. Happy cooking!

I was really disappointed by this book! I read a lot of great reviews, but when I got around to cooking with it myself, I found most of the recipes to be overly simplistic. There are some gems in here, to be sure, but I don't think the author really had enough recipes to justify a whole cookbook, so she started throwing in some real no brainers. There's a recipe for "dinner salad" that just lists 5 or 6 basic salad ingredients (seriously?). "Mini Pizza's" are just english muffins, pizza sauce, fake meat & fake cheese. There are probably 15 recipes like that... super duper basic things that anyone can think up on their own.

Another concern was the use of processed food items. Far too many recipes relied on expensive substitutes like fake meat and cheese. She even calls for specific brands at times, one of which she recommends ordering from the internet. I'm more interested in cooking with ingredients I can easily access for a reasonable price.

If you are JUST STARTING OUT as a vegan and cook, this book might be helpful for you. If you are a seasoned vegan, pass this one by. Veganomicon is far superior!

With some books you have to buy special food items to make anything. This book makes it possible to find the ingredients in your pantry. Very easy!

I've been using this cookbook for the last few weeks and continue to be delighted by the high-quality meals, the easily accessible ingredients, and the simplicity of the instructions. The "Red Beans with Quinoa" and the "Fried Chik'n Seitan" rock my world. Buy this book and you won't be disappointed!

I bought the book because it had a lot of positive reviews. Was I confident it was going to rock? eh no... I wanted to make mac n cheese that didn't use dreadful cheese substitutes; and I did. She is my hero! While I think the book is great... I'm particularly in love with the mac n cheese sauce.

I feed this recipe to meat and potato ONLY carnivores all the time and they look at me with their mouth hanging open because they cannot believe, at all; that that sauce is completely animal free.

Some notes about it: So generally for me, the sauce is a "double" batch because I will do the sauce once, and mix half into the noodles and bake, the remainder I put in a container in the fridge. YES YOU HEARD ME.
First traditional mac n cheese from craft to home baked is a "one use only" kind of dish, reheating it makes it taste dreadful because the fat and protein separate in the cheese and often the noodles absorb the water making it grainy tasteless and often greasy. You don't have this problem at all with this Sauce!!! First you can bake a full pan and eat it piping out of the oven the first time, and you can then store it in the fridge and reheat it in the microwave later without destroying the integrity of the sauce at all. (I was able to take it to work for lunches, my daughter her school lunch). But that's not all the magic...

The cheese sauce not ONLY hangs out in the fridge for quite a while (without having to worry about it spoiling in a day or two) but, it's fantastic COLD TOO... We were dipping taco chips in it... and sometimes I will warm it in the microwave and add salsa for a warm queso dip for our nachos! I've also made saucy baked burritos and put the queso in with the beans and then covered it with sauce and poured this cheese sauce over the top.

It holds up to substitution as well, as I've used corn and rice noodles instead of wheat for friends, also I cut the canola with flax seed oil for better nutrition and the latest?...

I remove the mustard and add more garlic and fresh cracked pepper, and swap the orange carrot for white/yellow (turnip will work too)... and it's now an fantastic moc alfredo sauce!!! I love adding chives or sundried tomatoes to that for additional variations.

This is the first time I am being serious about going vegan and their are a few things I was worried about: Where am I going to get my protein and calcium from? What is seitan? What can I use to substitute ingredients like egg and butter? I don't need any added stress, how inconvenient is this going to be? This book has a section dedicated to answering these questions and more and has recipes that don't look intimidating or time consuming (vegan tacos, vegan "tuna sandwiches, vegan "meatloaf", even "buffalo wings"!). The book also addresses the issue that you don't have to use meat substitutes all of the time to have a complete meal and there are products that can be used in place of a protein besides tofu. I recommend this book for someone who is a beginner or someone who wants to eat vegan foods without missing out on foods they may be accustomed to.
I tried the quick and easy vegetable casserole recipe on my meat-eating fiancée right after I got the book, using some basic ingredients I already had in my house (except for the couscous that I sub-ed with brown rice), paired it with a side salad and he ate half the casserole (aka he really liked it)! I have a feeling this book is going to be a tremendous aid in becoming a vegan.

This was an impulse purchase. I have made about half a dozen recipes from this book. My stew wasn't spectacular but I will blame that more on my unwillingness to leave a crock pot alone. The mac and cheese is brilliant. So much so I have made it twice. I try to not eat too much soy, and the fact that this recipe has no "milks" or cheeses" in it and is still creamy and rich is fabulous.

I will definitely be exploring this book further.

I love this book. I have consistently cooked from it for a couple months now and haven't come across a bad recipe yet. I was skeptical about some of them and they passed the test. My family has enjoyed everything, too. That's a hard sell when you've got ages 49-4 all around the same table. The mac & cheeze is terrific. I loved the wraps, too. The mushroom gravy & alfredo sauce recipies are worth the price of the book alone! If you're on the road to being vegan but don't want to be hungry or deprived, this is a winner. It's also good for feeding non-vegans because they simply will enjoy the food w/o noticing it's animal-free. I appreciate that the recipes are reasonable in the prep time, especially when cooking day after day for a family. This is not a fat-free vegan book, beware.

As my son and I are newbie vegans, I have searched high and low for GOOD FOOD recipes. This has been the easiest to use with the most delicious recipes for true comfort food.

Everytime I make something from the book, we both laugh and say, boy, it really is sweet to be vegan.

I use the book almost daily - always with great results :) I have yet to have a flop. Thanks to the author for doing such a terrific job. Whatever she writes, I will look forward to purchasing

This is a good book. Can't wait to try some, if not, all of the recipes. I love the veganized dishes, which are typical of southern fare. Recipes include: spicy buffalo bites, ultimate nachos, baked ziti, A-1 burgers, sweet potato pie, orange chik'n, potato salad, mac and cheeze, candid yams,
baked beans, sloppy josephs, spinach lasagna, etc. These are simple recipes with easy to find ingredients. There are very few pictures and the book does include menus. Descriptions of all ingredients are included with substitutions and alternative ways to make your own ingredients, i.e. nut milks, egg replacers, etc.