One of my favorite things to read are cookbooks! I’m fascinated. Especially when it comes to vegan and or vegetarian cooking- being a non-vegetarian- but, always looking for ways to decrease our household budget, I’m very interested in incorporating some vegetarian dishes into our weekly menu. {Would also like to design ways to have a weekly menu that includes daily lunches that are quick, easy and in my hand when I hit the grocery store, ha ha ha…in the works for me}.
Tal’s book makes vegan eating look glamorous and delicious! Each recipe had at least three things in the title alone!! Pine-nut and basil seared gardein “chicken” with lobster mushroom beurre blanc, braised kale, and roasted fingerling potatoes; Or free-form ravioli with tofu ricotta and arugula pesto; or tempeh creole over brown rice. Those are just one each (which seems complicated to me) and yet, each could be considered a whole meal.
Yes, he has put Gardein products on the map for those of us non-vegetarian! Anybody tried these products yet? They look great, but, how do they taste? Would a big meat eater like my husband like it?
The simpler recipes are the ones I’m more inclined to try- such as agave-lime grilled tofu with asian slaw and mashed sweet potatoes or the split pea soup with tempeh bacon crumbles or even the celery root soup with granny smith apples. Although, for me, most of these recipes require ingredients that I don’t have on hand normally- like different types of seaweed or whole black peppercorns or Earth Balance. Trying new recipes is about hunting for new ingredients though, isn’t it?
So, would I recommend it?
I bet these recipes and meals would taste awesome- but, the work involved will be lengthy. This is a gourmet cookbook for those of you with the time and patience to work on cooking vegan meals. I found this cookbook to be a “holy grail” of sorts for vegan cooking- not really for the work full time, mother who likes to whip dinner together in 30 minutes or less!
You can see him on Amazon preparing the “chicken” scallapini here. He makes it look really easy, but, this kind of work I’d save for really special guests!!!
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One of my favorite things to read are cookbooks! I’m fascinated. Especially when it comes to vegan and or vegetarian cooking- being a non-vegetarian- but, always looking for ways to decrease our household budget, I’m very interested in incorporating some vegetarian dishes into our weekly menu. {Would also like to design ways to have a weekly menu that includes daily lunches that are quick, easy and in my hand when I hit the grocery store, ha ha ha…in the works for me}.
Tal’s book makes vegan eating look glamorous and delicious! Each recipe had at least three things in the title alone!! Pine-nut and basil seared gardein “chicken” with lobster mushroom beurre blanc, braised kale, and roasted fingerling potatoes; Or free-form ravioli with tofu ricotta and arugula pesto; or tempeh creole over brown rice. Those are just one each (which seems complicated to me) and yet, each could be considered a whole meal.
Yes, he has put Gardein products on the map for those of us non-vegetarian! Anybody tried these products yet? They look great, but, how do they taste? Would a big meat eater like my husband like it?
The simpler recipes are the ones I’m more inclined to try- such as agave-lime grilled tofu with asian slaw and mashed sweet potatoes or the split pea soup with tempeh bacon crumbles or even the celery root soup with granny smith apples. Although, for me, most of these recipes require ingredients that I don’t have on hand normally- like different types of seaweed or whole black peppercorns or Earth Balance. Trying new recipes is about hunting for new ingredients though, isn’t it?
So, would I recommend it?
I bet these recipes and meals would taste awesome- but, the work involved will be lengthy. This is a gourmet cookbook for those of you with the time and patience to work on cooking vegan meals. I found this cookbook to be a “holy grail” of sorts for vegan cooking- not really for the work full time, mother who likes to whip dinner together in 30 minutes or less!
You can see him on Amazon preparing the “chicken” scallapini here. He makes it look really easy, but, this kind of work I’d save for really special guests!!!
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