Food columnist, editor and feature writer for newspapers and magazines, Portia Little is an expert at food and fun.
Pursuing her passion for great food, Little decided to make a career of food writing. Her fervor brought her to deciding to pen her own cookbooks. Not wanting to be another Rachael Ray, Little decided to create her own niche by writing souvenir cookbooks. They are small spiral-bound cookbooks that are filled with delicious recipes, as well as other interests of the author. Deciding to self-publish, she claimed complete control over her cookbooks, and what a delight they are.
Some of my favorite recipes from this book are: Fresh Peach Crumble, Roasted Vegetables, and Tomato Bruschetta.
This cookbook is amazing! It has a wide selection of delicious recipes I'd never heard of before. They're pretty simple and quite impressive when served to a party. What looks like it took all day to make really only takes about 30 minutes! Each recipe also features nutritional value. This cookbook is a must have!
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As thanksgiving is only a few days away and I pulled out this cookbook once again to look for some ideas on what to take to my relatives (who are not vegetarians but are getting to like the ideas better) I thought I better write a review. This is a great cookbook and as I mentioned, I pull it out at certain holidays, either when I'm cooking a full vegetarian celebration dinner or when I'm just bringing a couple of dishes over to our relatives houses.
The chapters in the book are actually the celebratory event: New Years, Valentines Day, Easter & St. Patricks Day, Passover, Mothers day and Fathers day, memorial day, etc etc
Within each chpater there are a couple of different menus, usually 3 or 4 so you have some ... Read More:
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I normally love the cookbook offerings from the Vegetarian Resource Group and anxiously awaited the arrival of this one. However, many of the recipes are somewhat bland--I've remedied that by adding more flavorings as appropriate to the recipe. They are easy to make with clear instructions, but the flavor is somewhat lacking. (One example was the low-fat 'mock chopped liver,' which I made for my family and was roundly booed. Try the VRG regular high-fat version which uses walnuts--much better unless you are looking to cut fat!) But if you are looking for lowfat recipies, these are OK.
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I normally love the cookbook offerings from the Vegetarian Resource Group and anxiously awaited the arrival of this one. However, many of the recipes are somewhat bland--I've remedied that by adding more flavorings as appropriate to the recipe. They are easy to make with clear instructions, but the flavor is somewhat lacking. (One example was the low-fat 'mock chopped liver,' which I made for my family and was roundly booed. Try the VRG regular high-fat version which uses walnuts--much better unless you are looking to cut fat!) But if you are looking for lowfat recipies, these are OK.
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Joseph Campbell realizes that one has to eat to stay alive this means something has to die. He says it is monstrous. However we need to get over it and realize that is the nature of things.
For the rest of us there are other reasons for going vegetarian and cornering the poor carrot that can not run from us. This book is dedicated to the attitude that "you are what you eat."
It is not easy or wise to go cold turkey per-say. And this book helps both physically and psychologically to become the svelte vegetarian that we all long to be.
The process is divided into three stages including 15 steps. The book includes over 200 recipes.
So you do become a social outcast there are strategies for feeding the archaic ... Read More:
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I've used this book for three years and still refer to it often. When I bought this book, my cooking was just so-so. I would whip up a meal like it was a duty. Not much thought and love went into it.
This book shows me a whole new world in cooking. I learn to use different ingredients and understand how different vegetables go together. Before, my cooking style was strictly Chinese with lots of chopping. Through experimenting with numerous recipes from the book, I learn how to use spices such as rosemary, turmeric, coriander, and cumin, and have been including different kinds of cheese in my diet.
I'm not a vegetarian and have at times substituted certain vegetables with meat, for instance replacing button mushrooms with shrimps. I highly ... Read More:
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May need to be retitled "International Vegetarian Wok Cooking," as many of the recipes are not Chinese at all. Helpful suggestions, good photographs, but the layout is a bit crowded and hard to read.
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May need to be retitled "International Vegetarian Wok Cooking," as many of the recipes are not Chinese at all. Helpful suggestions, good photographs, but the layout is a bit crowded and hard to read.
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On our never ending search for new and delicious vegetarian recipes we came across this one at the library and instantly knew that we HAD to purchase it!
This book has simple and delicious recipes that even the kids love!
We could have a different soup each night of the week and when we get to the end of the book we could start over!
This is a MUST have in anyone's kitchen!
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