Vegetarian and More: Versatile Vegetarian Recipes with Optional Meat Add-Ins [Hardcover]

Linda Rosenweig (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 19, 2000

According to a recent survey, 14 million Americans call themselves vegetarians. Of that, only 2 million eat no animal meat whatsoever. The remaining 12 million are "part-time vegetarians" who eat fish, poultry, or red meat on occasion. For this large and growing group, Linda Rosenweig offers a cookbook to satisfy vegetarians and nonvegetarians alike.

Rosenweig's experience stems from years developing recipes for Weight Watchers, Prevention, and Good Housekeeping magazines. Her 225 vegetarian recipes in Vegetarian and More! include "Quick Conversions," allowing readers to easily add meat, poultry, or fish to some or all of the recipe. These are especially convenient for "split houseolds," where only a few members are vegetarians. The focus is on simplicity: only common, store-bought ingredients are used, and most of the recipes are ready in less than 45 minutes. The book also features the new Vegetarian Diet Pyramid from the American Dietetic Association. Vegetarian and More! allows those eating less meat, vegetarians, and meat lovers total satisfaction.

Editorial Reviews

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Rosensweig is a vegetarian; her husband and two daughters are not. She wrote her cookbook for other "split households" like hers, so that the family cook would be able to make one basic dish to satisfy everyone, adding meat or fish or poultry as appropriate for the non-vegetarians. It's a good idea, but the recipes aren't always particularly wonderful (e.g., for Linguine with Lemon Cream Sauce, the sauce made from low-fat lemon yogurt and cornstarch), and some of the "Quick Conversions" consist of nothing more than adding cubed cooked chicken or canned tuna to the basic recipe. For larger vegetarian collections.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Vegetarian & More!: Versatile Vegetarian Recipes with Optional Meat Add-Ins

Linda Rosensweig, author of the highly successful New Vegetarian Cuisine, has created Vegetarian and More! to solve the dilemma of satisfying everyone at the table--vegetarians, semi-vegetarians, and meat lovers--without cooking separate meals. As a vegetarian in a family of meat lovers, Rosensweig has developed 225 simple vegetarian recipes that include "Quick Conversions" so you can easily adapt the recipes for meat lovers just by adding beef, pork, poultry, or fish. Her recipes let you make a vegetarian and nonvegetarian dish at the same time--fast--from just one recipe. Tortellini Lasagna becomes Tortellini Lasagna with Sausage. Sweet-and-Sour Soup becomes Sweet-and-Sour Soup with Pork. Want to add meat to all of the recipe? You can do it! Want it completely vegetarian? Go ahead--leave the meat out. Vegetarian and More! is the ultimate in vegetarian/nonvegetarian flexibility.

Vegetarian and More! is for busy people who want great-tasting, healthy food without a lot of fuss. The recipes use only easy-to-find store-bought ingredients and simple, timesaving cooking methods. Special icons show you which recipes can be frozen or microwaved. Rosensweig also includes kid-friendly vegetarian foods and recipes that have passed the taste tests of her young, finicky daughters and their neighborhood friends.

Other features include: The new Vegetarian Food Guide Pyramid, a visual guide to balanced meatless eating Recipes that kids can make Mix-and-match chart of vegetarian sandwiches Fast five-ingredient main dishes New products that cut prep time in the kitchen How to use meatless sausages, burgers, and "crumbles" 23 menus for mixed-crowd occasions Bread machine recipes Complete nutrition information with every recipe

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books; 1 edition (May 19, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1579541127
• ISBN-13: 978-1579541125
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,694,120 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Surprised there wasn't a book like this sooner!, October 14, 2000

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Marie "mom of three" (Akron OH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vegetarian and More: Versatile Vegetarian Recipes with Optional Meat Add-Ins (Hardcover)

This book is absolutely perfect for my family. My family is one of those where only half the members don't eat meat. When I come home from work, sometimes I just can't get myself psyched up to cook one meal, let alone two! This book helps me cook for the whole family with minimum fuss. All of the meals are rather quick, and there aren't really any ingredients that would be hard to find in your local grocery store. You just begin cooking up one of the meals for your family and then split it into two pots or pans, just adding the meat to one. In many of the recipes, the meat isn't added until toward the end of the cooking process. The only thing this book is missing are pictures--color pictures in a cookbook are always appreciated.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars aims to please everyone but in the end pleases no one, November 23, 2003

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This is a great concept, and appeared to be perfect for my family, which includes both vegetarians and non-vegetarians. In practice, however, I could hardly find any recipes that were appealing. Lots of convenience-food style cooking and inauthentic ethnic recipes calling for unlikely combinations of ingredients, such as a lo mein recipe made from spaghetti, peanut butter, yoghurt and soy sauce. The meat versions are mostly derived by throwing in a bit of pre-cooked meat to the finished recipe. This is not likely to satisfy anyone, really - and I could have done as much on my own without a recipe.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, Excellent book, YUMMY recipes!, October 5, 2005

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Claire Reardon "Eclectic, Book Crazy Everywoman" (CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vegetarian and More: Versatile Vegetarian Recipes with Optional Meat Add-Ins (Hardcover)

FanTAStic book - I'd recommend it to anyone, and even buy it & give it as a gift! I got it from my library several times, and ended up copying out some recipes. My family loves them, and they're nice additions to our menu. A very worthwhile book!