This is by far the best cookbook i have and i am not a Hare Krishna. I found the book in a local book shop bought it on impulse. I have tried most of the Dal recepies and found them very good and also very quick. I look forward to trying the others when i get the time.
The pictures are fantastic and everything so well thought out that i can't think of any way to improve it. A friend has recently borrowed the book because the desert section looked so good.
If i could only have one cook book ever this would be the one.
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I have been using this cook book in conjuction wih Rose Elliot's Bean Book for at least 20 years now.I have not yet found a recipe which doesn't please. It is easy for the beginner and still satisfying after 2 decades. This should be in every vegetarian's cookery library. The carrot and orange soup is a firm favourite with my guests.
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No longer boring boiled veg for me! This cookbook dedicated entirely to the lovely vegetable opens up whole new avenues for cooking. In short - you will never find yourself sitting down to a boring meat-and-two-veg meal again - and perhaps even the kids might be persuaded to eat their greens! Top marks for some top vegetable recipies.
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Potatoes are not generally viewed by the masses as a delicacy and this staple of many households is given a makeover in this reference book. The photography by Grant Symon is breathtaking and the text leads the reader through the history, growing tips, varieties (potato portraits), and recipes (simple, classic and new).
Some of the recipes (again beautifully illustrated) are a little out of reach for even the most adventurous home cook and a little pretentious for my taste, but perhaps I have missed the point and this compilation of recipes, contributed by a selection of top chefs from around the world, was meant to be consumed by the eye alone?
Colourful and descriptive, this book takes you through every season of your vegetable garden- a must for those of us who think the season only runs from spring to autumn. It shows you have to utilise all 12 months. Unlike other gardening books, this also gives you interesting and different recipes to take your home grown produce from earth to the table. - A great buy!
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As a Jamaican-born person who became a vegetarian as an adult, I feared that I'd be giving up a lot of good, old fashioned "home food." But this book show that that need not be the case -- a lot of traditional dishes are already vegetarian, or easy to be vegetarian -- plus the book has a good number of creative dishes that are similar to traditional meat-based ones without being silly so-called "substitute" foods.
This really is a very good cookbook -- easy to follow and shop for recipes, vast majority with reasonable cooking times for working people.
I am always impressed by Leah Leneman's cookery books and this one is even more impressive.
Heard of Tofu? It's supposed to be bland and boring - but NOT if you buy this book! This book will help you spice up your cookery repertoire and you will impress your friends.!
I think it is worth buying just for the Tofu cheesecakes - absoultely amazing and a taste to die for!
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The 'Mediterranean meets Asia' tag had me hooked at once - I thought I'd found my ideal cookery book. However, I found I really could not get on with this one at all. I found the recipes fiddly [ and I do not think I am a lazy cook ] and they frequently did not live up to their promise. I actually culled the book in a couple of months- a first for me. I have since bought two excellent books by Claudia Roden: Arabesque and The Book of Jewish food. Although not vegetarian, I have got far more use out of them, and would recommend those to anyone with an interest in Middle Eastern cookery.
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