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Summary: even better than grandma used to make
Review: cooking in a group home for adults with developmental disabilities, i had to create meals that satisfied a number of diet requirements (including my own vegetarianism), health issues, and of course tastes. i'll never forget when jodi started working there! she'd grown up raising & slaughtering her own meat & one look at me told her she might want to bring her own food to work. if she could grow to love these recipes & borrow my cookbook, anyone can! you don't have to be a vegetarian to enjoy these recipes (she accreditted some of her weight loss to the reduction in meats she'd been eating after discovering the joys of other foods)the recipes are one of the main reasons my poor cookbook is tattered & taped together & well-loved, but also the wonderful stories within & being able to in some small way support "the farm" itself (did you know they're one of the oldest intentional communities around today? they have quite a fascinating history well worth checking out. for a bit more info on them & the communities movement in general, check out the intentional communities directory) ~a tasty treat for all, regardless of diet preference~
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Summary: AWESOME BOOK!
Review: delicious recipes, great info on making your own soymilk and other soy products.
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Summary: Great veggie classic!
Review: Fist of all, skimming through this book is really a trip...I love the sort of "70's hippie layout" and hope they never change this!
As far as content, I have to echo others...a great book, chock full of great, simple recipes! My version is a little older, but I think that little has been changed over the years. It's a bit of a time capsule. It's just a wealth of great, basic vegetarian info. How to make your own tofu, tempeh, etc. In fact, you can still buy tempeh starter from the Mail Order Catalog (based at the Farm), follow the recipe here and you can't go wrong.
Most of the recipes are for family friendly, down home kinds of meals, just adapted to the veggie palate. One really gets the impression that many of the Farm folks, having presumably grown up on a sort of 50's homestyle cooking, reworked a lot of this into real family-type, comfort foods. My personal favorite recipe is the Soft Sandwich buns!
Speaking of family, there is a great deal of info here about vegetarian nutrition for pregnant and nursing women, and children.
The Farm has been around for decades, and is still going...they must be doing something right!
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Summary: Great veggie classic!
Review: Fist of all, skimming through this book is really a trip...I love the sort of "70's hippie layout" and hope they never change this!
As far as content, I have to echo others...a great book, chock full of great, simple recipes! My version is a little older, but I think that little has been changed over the years. It's a bit of a time capsule. It's just a wealth of great, basic vegetarian info. How to make your own tofu, tempeh, etc. In fact, you can still buy tempeh starter from the Mail Order Catalog (based at the Farm), follow the recipe here and you can't go wrong.
Most of the recipes are for family friendly, down home kinds of meals, just adapted to the veggie palate. One really gets the impression that many of the Farm folks, having presumably grown up on a sort of 50's homestyle cooking, reworked a lot of this into real family-type, comfort foods. My personal favorite recipe is the Soft Sandwich buns!
Speaking of family, there is a great deal of info here about vegetarian nutrition for pregnant and nursing women, and children.
The Farm has been around for decades, and is still going...they must be doing something right!
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Summary: Kid-tested recipes a mother can love
Review: I am ordering my second copy because my first one fell apart after many years of constant use. My children love the desserts. The muffin recipes are excellent - for your body as well as your taste buds. This book has the best recipe for soyburgers. It tells you how to make gluten, and has several recipes for what to do with it. This book tells you how to make soymilk and has recipes for what to do with the left-over soybean mash. If you want to incorporate more soy into your diet, this is the book for you. If you want to put more fiber into your diet, this book can help you. My kids have liked every recipe from this book that I have tried. This is high praise indeed.
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Summary: a kitchen staple
Review: I first discovered this book four years ago while cooking for a cafe in the back of a health-food store. The recipes are thorough, imaginative, and yet familiar. Even though its appearance is outdated (70s hippy-style), I had to buy my own copy when I left the cafe and no longer had it as a reference. I adore the detailed descriptions of making everything from scratch-- even tofu, tempeh, and soymilk, things that us urban folk take for granted in grocery stores today. I rely on the nutritional yeast melty "cheese" and the chocolate chip cookie recipes to this day, to please my not-at-all-vegetarian friends.
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Summary: BEST vegan cookbook ever
Review: I have a BIG collection of cookbooks, most of them vegan, and this is simply the BEST vegan cookbook I own! =) Every item I have made from it - was easy to make and tasted fantastic! Their "mock meat" recipes taste great to vegans and meateaters alike! The recipes are simple, usually with only a few ingredients (which you can easily change a little if you feel like it), the "steps" to make the recipes are so easy to follow I can easily let my husband cook every once in a while and most important the food always tastes great! (I have made about 20 of the recipes.) They even give you instructions on how to make your own soy milk, tofu, tempeh...!
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Summary: BEST vegan cookbook ever
Review: I have a BIG collection of cookbooks, most of them vegan, and this is simply the BEST vegan cookbook I own! =) Every item I have made from it - was easy to make and tasted fantastic! Their "mock meat" recipes taste great to vegans and meateaters alike! The recipes are simple, usually with only a few ingredients (which you can easily change a little if you feel like it), the "steps" to make the recipes are so easy to follow I can easily let my husband cook every once in a while and most important the food always tastes great! (I have made about 20 of the recipes.) They even give you instructions on how to make your own soy milk, tofu, tempeh...!
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Summary: Best basic vegan cookbook
Review: I have lots of vegan cookbooks, but this one's the best all around. It has easy, "normal" recipes, like pancakes, banana bread, and french toast. All the foods I thought I'd never be able to eat again.
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Summary: Best basic vegan cookbook
Review: I have lots of vegan cookbooks, but this one's the best all around. It has easy, "normal" recipes, like pancakes, banana bread, and french toast. All the foods I thought I'd never be able to eat again.
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