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Simply Satisfying: Over 200 Vegetarian Recipes You’ll Want to Make Again and Again Paperback – November 6, 2012
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Over 200 vegetarian recipes you’ll want to make again and again–from James Beard Award–winning author Jeanne Lemlin
Jeanne Lemlin is familiar to a generation of home cooks as a pioneering vegetarian cookbook author whose books―including the James Beard Award-winning Quick Vegetarian Pleasures―present accessible, reliable, and flavorful vegetarian recipes. Now, Lemlin returns to the cookbook shelf for the first time in more than ten years with this dramatic reinvention of her first book―originally published twenty-five years ago as Vegetarian Pleasures: A Menu Cookbook.
Simply Satisfying’s more than 200 seasonal recipes showcase readily available ingredients― particularly fresh vegetables, fruits, grains, and beans―as well as straightforward techniques, global influences, and, most delectably and rewardingly, robust flavors. Here are Baked Macaroni and Cheese with Cauliflower and Jalapeños, Fragrant Vegetable Stew with Corn Dumplings, Leek Timbales with White Wine Sauce, Baked Eggplant Stuffed with Curried Vegetables . . . and for dessert, Raspberry Almond Torte, Rhubarb Cobbler, and Cowboy Cookies. Each inviting dish is simple enough to be part of a weeknight meal and certain to satisfy vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike.
Lemlin guides cooks through both everyday and special-occasion cooking by offering 50 menu suggestions, helping new vegetarians avoid the “plateful of sides” dilemma, and giving seasoned cooks new ideas for entertaining. And she includes personal tips and a chapter on making “the basics” from scratch.
Whether you are a committed vegetarian or an omnivore who enjoys hearty meatless meals, Simply Satisfying may well become your most reliable, trusted source of recipes to make again and again.
- Print length368 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherThe Experiment
- Publication dateNovember 6, 2012
- Dimensions7.63 x 1.3 x 9.63 inches
- ISBN-101615190627
- ISBN-13978-1615190621
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― Library Journal
"Jeanne Lemlin has always been one of my favorite vegetarian authors. There is so much variety and flavor in Jeanne’s simple seasonal preparations that I could cook a different vegetarian meal every night of the week."
― Sara Moulton, host of the PBS show Sara’s Weeknight Meals and author of Sara Moulton’s Everyday Family Dinners
"In a crowded field of vegetarian cookbooks, Lemlin’s stands out for straightforward good food."
― Newsweek
"Lemlin’s food is quick and comforting, the kind you’re always in the mood to eat."
― Washington Post
"This is a compendium of hearty vegetarian fare with a relaxed approach to cooking and a particularly noteworthy extended section on desserts."
― CSMonitor.com
"The easy recipes are alive with flavor and zest. Whether one is a vegetarian is incidental. This book inspires a new and fresh direction for home cooking."
― Marion Cunningham, author of The Fanny Farmer Cookbook
"It takes enormous culinary flair and expertise, good sense, and also courage to marry the tastes of different cultures in a way that really works. Jeanne Lemlin has achieved this brilliantly."
― Claudia Roden, author of The Food of Spain
"All the elements are intelligently related to one another to give an overall sense of focus and balance to the meal . . . and convey a sense of cooking which is flexible and relaxed."
― Deborah Madison, author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone and Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating from America’s Farmers’ Markets
"The recipes are light, flavorful, varied, and drawn from many international cuisines. I was especially happy to see desserts that no dessert lover could resist. Jeanne Lemlin really knows what tastes good."
― Richard Sax, author of From the Farmer’s Market
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- Publisher : The Experiment (November 6, 2012)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 368 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1615190627
- ISBN-13 : 978-1615190621
- Item Weight : 2.4 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.63 x 1.3 x 9.63 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #856,240 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #532 in Vegetarian Cooking
- #825 in Vegetable Cooking (Books)
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Jeanne's books are always reliable and her recipes often include personable hints for a successful outcome.
Some of the recipes do require butter, which I will start substituting, for health reasons, once I try the original recipe. Some desserts in the menus have too much sugar for my husband, and probably for me too, so, for some desserts, I use the same flavors and substitute those from No Salt, No Sugar, No Fat; Get the Sugar Out; Sweet and Natural; or if the dessert includes fruit, I use fresh fruit if it is available.
I have tried the tempeh recipes and cannot seem to cut it small enough to get my husband to say he likes it and once he knew it was a soy product, he proclaimed that soy is not good for him. So, although I like the dishes, I may have to stop using the tempeh recipes or I may substitute MEAT (Can that be healthier than tempeh?- I don't think so, but happiness is healthy!)
For me, following recipes is generally easy, but I find blending dishes a challenge so again, I really appreciate the menus in this book which build my confidence and give me certainty that the whole meal goes together well.
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The book itself (the Kindle edition) is laid out very nicely with the ingredients and cooking instructions on one page.
I also like that Ms Lemlin includes nutritional information for each recipe; calories per serving, carbohydrates, fats, etc.
Though I have a paperback version of "Simply Satisfying" by Ms Lemlin, I prefer using the Kindle edition because I can take the Kindle to the market with me and use the recipe(s) as a shopping list. (The paperback version doesn't travel well). And when I get home I simply stand the Kindle up and start cooking.
For the most part, Lemlin delivers on these promises. The recipes are basic, and most of the ones we've tried (with a couple of notable exceptions) have been pretty tasty. But healthful? We clearly have a different understanding of what that word means. Without fail, Lemlin's recipes rely on an absolutely inordinate amount of fat. Four out of five recipes will have you stir in 2 or 3 tablespoons of butter at the end, just for the hell of it! Who does that?! She will sauté an onion in ¼ cup of olive oil, when a tablespoon would do. It's mind-boggling, and it generates reactions of astonishment every time this book is used in our kitchen.
That said: the recipes are generally pretty good, even once we've omitted the fat. To give an idea, on a typical Lemlin recipe we will use half or less of the olive oil she calls for, and cut the butter completely, and the outcome will still be a delicious (and much more healthy) vegetarian dish. There have been a few bland-o-rama recipes we've stumbled upon, and in general we've been underwhelmed by her recipes for standard condiments (i.e. her pesto and her veggie broth), but in those cases when we've been let down, the lack has been in herbs and spices, not a need for more butter (seriously!). Overall, most of her recipes are decent, especially for busy worknights or new vegetarians who are still feeling their way around what you can do without meat.
So for flavor and ease, I'd give it 4 stars. For my need to alter, without fail, every single recipe because of her obsession with fat... it gets knocked back to a 3.


