Vegetarian & More!: Versatile Vegetarian Recipes With Optional Meat Add-Ins

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Summary: aims to please everyone but in the end pleases no one
Review: This book is absolutely perfect for my family. My family is one of those where only half the members don't eat meat. When I come home from work, sometimes I just can't get myself psyched up to cook one meal, let alone two! This book helps me cook for the whole family with minimum fuss. All of the meals are rather quick, and there aren't really any ingredients that would be hard to find in your local grocery store. You just begin cooking up one of the meals for your family and then split it into two pots or pans, just adding the meat to one. In many of the recipes, the meat isn't added until toward the end of the cooking process. The only thing this book is missing are pictures--color pictures in a cookbook are always appreciated.

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Summary: Surprised there wasn't a book like this sooner!
Review: This book is absolutely perfect for my family. My family is one of those where only half the members don't eat meat. When I come home from work, sometimes I just can't get myself psyched up to cook one meal, let alone two! This book helps me cook for the whole family with minimum fuss. All of the meals are rather quick, and there aren't really any ingredients that would be hard to find in your local grocery store. You just begin cooking up one of the meals for your family and then split it into two pots or pans, just adding the meat to one. In many of the recipes, the meat isn't added until toward the end of the cooking process. The only thing this book is missing are pictures--color pictures in a cookbook are always appreciated.

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Summary: aims to please everyone but in the end pleases no one
Review: This is a great concept, and appeared to be perfect for my family, which includes both vegetarians and non-vegetarians. In practice, however, I could hardly find any recipes that were appealing. Lots of convenience-food style cooking and inauthentic ethnic recipes calling for unlikely combinations of ingredients, such as a lo mein recipe made from spaghetti, peanut butter, yoghurt and soy sauce. The meat versions are mostly derived by throwing in a bit of pre-cooked meat to the finished recipe. This is not likely to satisfy anyone, really - and I could have done as much on my own without a recipe.