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Summary: Wow! Even my meat eating hubby loves this cookbok!
Review: All I can say is wow! The recipes for the most part use ingredients you can find at any larger supermarket. So far the prep has been comparable to most cookbooks, from start to actually eating it seems to be 30 - 60 minutes. The Italian Wedding Soup, Thyme Scented Wild Mushroom Bisque, Ultimate Shepards Pie, Cheesy Potato Chili Gratin, Maple Pecan French Toast and the Apple Cinnamon French Toast are all fabulous!!! The only recipe I didn't have turn out right was the Seitan Roast with Chestnut and Cranberry stuffing, the outside was cooked but the seitan inside was still gummy, but I have been known to have problems trying to make seitan in the past. The only thing I don't like about this book is the lack of a nutritional analysis for each recipe. This is definitely my most used vegan cookbook.
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Summary: vegan cooking
Review: Although I have only made three of the recipes in this cookbook but so far, so good. I made the 3-nut burgers, the brown gravy, and the pasta (macaroni) salad. My husband who is a vegetarian,(and adamantly not a vegan! He likes to slather everything with cheese, and generally hates vegan cooking) loved the burgers with the gravy. He said it reminded him of Thanksgiving. Indeed, it does taste a bit like stuffing with gravy, but is obviously more nutritous (cashews, walnuts, and almond butter). The macaroni salad he found a bit bland, and perhaps next time I make it, instead of a tofu-mustard, lemon juice mix, I'll experiment more with the ingredients.
Anyway, I have tried many cookbooks, and I hope that this one turns out to be a real winner. I like that on the bottom right hand of the page, it tells you what section you're in. That is very helpful when you're in the middle of cooking, and are flipping around in the book trying to make multiple recipes.
I have decided to try the other recipes that were recommended by the other customer reviews.
Cheerio!
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Summary: My favorite Vegan cookbook
Review: As a lover of food and cooking, when I became vegan nine months ago I began experimenting with a wide variety of new recipes and new ways to make old favorites. I bought several vegan cookbooks and scoured the web in search of ideas and advice. I made 3 or 4 new dishes every week. This was one of the first books I bought and despite later purchases and the wide variety of recipes available on the web, I come back to this book again and again. Many cookbooks, vegan and otherwise, contain a few gems, some recipes that are interesting looking but which I couldn't really see myself making, and quite a few that I'm simply not attracted to. This book is cover-to-cover great recipes (more than 400) that I could see myself making if I haven't already. As well as familiar items creatively done like sandwiches, salads, soups and various veggies, many recipes borrow from different ethnic cuisines (Thai drunken noodles, baked sweet potato and green pea samosas, etc.) but are accessable and easy enough to prepare that they're not daunting. There are recipes suitable for parties and entertaining, special occasions (including a chapter on desserts), and casual every day meals. Overall this is just a really fantastic cookbook. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Thank your Robin Robertson!
Review: Dear Robin Robertson,
Thank you for writing your wonderful cookbooks. I have both Vegetarian Meat and Potatoes and Vegan Planet. I have been a vegetarian for 11 years and a vegan for a year and a half. Your cookbooks have truely enhanced the quality of our meals! The Black Bean and Sweet Potatoe Enchiladas are the most amazing things I have ever eaten. Last night I made the Pizza Bandiera and it was so good we ate the entire thing! Thanks for making it a pleasure to be a vegan and cook healthy, quick and easy meals. I have made ten recipes from the book so far and all have been outstanding. I am looking forward to trying all the rest of the recipes. I am taking a weeks vacation soon to do spring cleaning and stay home and cook. Take care and keep up the good work. If I could only have one cookbook in my kitchen I would choose Vegan Planet.
Sincerely,
Christina Also recommended: Also recommend Vegetarian Meat and Potatoes Cookbook by Robin Robertson the Mexican Tortilla Bake alone is AMAZING!
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Summary: BEST Cookbook, vegan or not!
Review: I am not vegan, but this cookbook is the one I use most often. Every recipe has turned out great -- well seasoned and delicious. I especially appreciate how the book is organized. The chapters are broken down fairly narrowly, so if you know you want to cook with beans, for example, or pasta or rice, you can go right to that chapter. Very well done.
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Summary: Great cookbook even for non-vegetarians!
Review: I am not vegetarian, let alone vegan, but I wanted a change from the meat-cheese-cream-laden dishes in the Midwest part of the US and in many cookbooks. Vegan Planet has provided an amazing array of easy-to-prepare and flavorful dishes ranging from traditional "meat and potato" kinds of vegetarian dishes to those with more adventurous palates. Each and every recipe has been easy to make and tastes WONDERFUL! If more people knew how to cook vegan food as Robin offers in her recipes here, there would likely be a lot more vegetarians!
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Summary: AWESOME-Vegans CAN eat tasty and elegant meals too!
Review: I am so glad I found this book. Robin Robertson proves that you CAN eat an elegant AND tasty vegan meal and still make it an easy meal to put together. This book is full of SO MANY recipes and every single one of them I have tried with HUGE success! I borrowed this cookbook from the library 6 times before I finally bought it - my husband told me just to spend the money and buy it for myself. Being vegan in a meat-eating, cream and cheese and fat-indulging country is not easy, so having this cookbook has been a huge lifesaver! So much useful information and tips are included. Did you know that red food coloring is mostly made from crushed beetles? I didn't until I read this book. How do you stock a vegan pantry? It's all in there. There are many global recipes in the book to help you expand your vegan horizon. Sauces, dressings, pasta, veggies, beans, grains, desserts (yes - VEGAN DESSERTS!!!!!!), grilling, saute'ing, stir frying, pizzas, sandwiches, wraps, burgers, breads, smoothies, and most importantly - THE BASICS - all included in this book! You can't go wrong. I live in a mixed household, myself being vegan, my husband a pescovegetarian, and my daughter who, unfortunately, enjoys the occassional chicken strip while dining out(most definitely NOT in the home). I have easily satisfied every one of us in the house using this cookbook. None of us ever feel as if we are missing anything at our meals. Our favorites: Maple-Pecan French Toast, Not-So-Dirty Rice, Strawberry-Topped "Cheesecake", Three-Nut Burgers and the Cajun Spice-Rubbed Tempeh. I could go on. Sorry, this book does not have pictures, but the recipes are all easy and the pictures just aren't so necessary in this book. You'll see for yourself after your first indulgence! There is just so much USEFUL INFORMATION you just can't find in most other vegan cookbooks. You can't go wrong with this cookbook.
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Summary: Good recipes - bit preachy
Review: I bought this book because I have a vegan friend and wanted to be able to cook things that she could eat and enjoy. There are plenty of recipes and plenty of good information on alternative proteins. HOWEVER, some of the reasons the book lists to become a vegan are a bit preachy and misleading. The author has definitely stated the truths that are convenient to promote veganism and not completed some of the phrases. For example, the book states that beef contains growth hormones. Period. While that is definitely a concern, beef without hormones does exist, you just need to search for it sometimes. That said, the rest of the information is good, especially if you are a meat loving person like myself but want to be able to make sure you treat your vegan friends with the respect and hospitality they deserve.
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Summary: Very good book for beginning vegans
Review: I bought this book because I was looking for yummy vegan recipes and flipping through it at the bookstore I was hooked. I haven't been disappointed. Granted, I'm a college student with a limited pantry (although we've got a great organic grocery nearby, thank goodness) but once you get a feeling for working with vegan ingredients it's not quite as scary, promise.
I really love this book because there is so much in it. I still haven't made it through the whole thing, but so far my favorite recipe is the "curried cauliflower pakoras" (p. 47). Anyone looking for a wide variety of tasty vegan recipes would love this book.
There's also lots of great nutrition information in the beginning. Plus explanations of some of the less common ingredients, which I found very helpful.
I also really liked the breakfast section in the back. I've never been a breakfast person, but there are some really diverse and cool recipes perfect for a lazy weekend morning. I especially liked the pancake recipes. YUM!
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Summary: my favorite cookbook
Review: I bought this book skeptically because I wanted to know what eggless and dairyless recipies would be like and if I could conceivably go "vegan" if only for a short time. Well I was pleasantly surprised. This is my favorite cookbook. I've liked almost every single recipie I've tried and that has never happened before. Well, I'm not vegan yet, but almost everything I cook for myself is.
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