Vegan with a Vengeance : Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free Recipes That Rock

Vegan with a Vengeance : Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free Recipes That Rock | Isa Chandra Moskowitz | This book rocks!

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	Vegan with a Vengeance : Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free Recipes That Rock Isa Chandra Moskowitz Da Capo Press, 2005 - 280 pages average customer review:based on 259 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

THIS IS THE ONLY COOKBOOK I COULDN'T LIVE WITHOUT

I don't use cookbooks much, but this is the only cookbook I couldn't live without. Every recipe I have tried in this book has been fantastic. My favorite part is that the ingredients can be found in most grocery stores and the recipes are easy to make. Don't miss the scone recipe. I had veganized my shortcake recipe that I grew up the, but the scone recipe in this cookbook blew that one out of the water. My family would rather eat the vegan scones with strawberries than go back to my regular shortcake recipe. We also love the Banana pancakes, the Fronch toast (absolutely yummy) and the Ginger Roasted Winter Vegetables. Even my meat eating/dairy loving husband liked Isa's Pizza. We did a full vegan brunch for my daughter's birthday using recipes out of this book and most of the people there were not even vegetarian. They couldn't get enough of it. Buy it!!!!

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This book rocks!

I seriously refer to this book daily. I've been veggie (now vegan for about a year) for 18 years and was getting a little bored with my old recipes and needed help "veganizing" things. Chandra has opened my mind to a whole new world! I can have french toast again! Can't wait to buy the Veganomicon book. You will not be dissappointed.

One of my favorite cookbooks that I own!!

This is a great cookbook and a definite must have! I have been vegetarian for 16 years and vegan for 3. Cookbooks for me are important and I read them like a real book- envisioning the finished dish! This book reads well and made my mouth water the whole way through before I even made anything!! Some of my favorite recipes from this book are: Lemon Corn Wafles with Blueberry sauce, White Bean and Roasted Garlic soup, Olive Tomato and Millet stuffed Zucchini, Chickpea and Spinach Curry and the Chocolate Chip Cookies- which no one would EVER KNOW were vegan! If you don't have this book, you are missing out!

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Not sure what all the fuss is about!

This book has had a kind of cult following from the start, but as a sturdy, everyday kind of vegan cookbook, it falls short. I've made several of the recipes with really mixed results: the basic pancakes are fabulous, the jerk seitan was so-so for all the effort it took, and the matzo balls made a horrible slurry at the bottom of the pot. I agree with the other reviewers that the desserts are too sugary; and why use all-purpose flour when you can use whole wheat pastry or spelt with the same or better results? Still, there are a lot of inventive ideas in the book, so I haven't totally given up. The black-and-white design is pretty boring, though the photos are good. The authors are funny, but I don't necessarily need comedy when I'm trying to get dinner on the table.

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a bit disapointed

i really wanted to like this book. I like the author's newer book, veganomicon, which has many excellent recipes as well as information on how to cook vegetables so they come out just right. This book, unfortunately, has disappointed me numerous times, with many of the recipes just not tasting so good, if you know what i mean. I'm a health nut and former macrobiotic, so i'm open to tastes outside the mainstream. I've prepared a lot of my own vegan food, and enjoyed a great deal of vegan food in some pretty amazing restaurants that range from the informal to the fancy-schmancy. The dishes i've made out of this book are complex and time-consuming, but just not so great. (i've made about six or seven of them). I kind of wonder whether these recipes were thoroughly tested, like those in the later book were said to be. In addition, this book is vegan but not so concerned with health, and in fact it is possible to make AMAZING vegan food without the use of white flour and sugar, which the author uses rather too liberally.

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