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'Damn, Saiphin can cook - the perfect ambassador for this glorious food and country' - Tom Parker Bowles 'One of London's coolest female chefs' - Time Out Finding strictly vegetarian food in Thailand can be tricky, where fish sauce is the king of the kitchen. In the follow-up to her debut, Rosa's Thai Cafe: The Cookbook, Saiphin Moore embraces this challenge, creating over 100 delicious and simple recipes for Thai-loving vegans and vegetarians. Featuring authentic dishes such as Tom yum noodle soup, Congee with shiitake mushrooms, Stir-fried aubergine with roasted chilli paste and Butternut red curry, this brilliant sequel adds an exciting new strand to Rosa's repetoire.
The New Vegan is an exciting new Vegan cookbook. It provides a comprehensive guide to creating everything from starters to main courses to deserts and includes information on the nutritional principles of the vegan diet. Veganism is an increasingly popular dietary choice - as more people recognise the now widely accepted health benefits of foregoing meat and dairy products at least some of the time. This book covers everything from starters to main courses to desserts and includes: Polenta Square with Seared Portobello Mushrooms; Pizza, Quesadilla; Lasagna; Pumpkin Ravioli with nut sauce; Shepherd's pie; Apple Turnover, vegetable drinks, and plenty more! The author also discusses the nutritional concerns for both children and adults and shows that vegan cooking is super-healthy and is: - very low cholesterol - low fat - high in antioxidants (anti-ageing) - high in vitamins & minerals - low in toxins - the basis of any 'detox'
'Harris's strength is in providing recipes to feed a crowd, from shareable salads to loaded, sticky-fingered flat-breads. This is vegetarian food but not as we know it' - the Daily Telegraph In this exciting book they take centre stage as Rich Harris explores the many ways of using them, including pickling, smoking and fermenting, alongside the more traditional roasting and braising. As a chef and committed carnivore, Rich's use of vegetables focuses on flavour, bringing out the natural tastes of vegetables and playing with complementary textures and qualities. His creative and delicious recipes include Miso Glazed Pumpkin, Gnocchi with Caponata and Burrata Cream, as well as Celeriac Rice Pudding with Bramble Compote. Perfect served alone, as a side dish or part of a collection of vegetarian small plates, Rich's recipes show you how to celebrate vegetables in their delicious and varied glory.
Cutting out animal products has never been easier! From eco to ethical, there are plenty of sound reasons to eat less meat. It's possible to make positive changes to your diet without radically altering your lifestyle - and you can still eat tasty, nutritious food without feeling like you're missing out. This practical book is full of nutritional tips, lifestyle hacks and delicious meat-free recipes, so that you'll find it easy to take the first step and make a difference.
In Provisions, sisters Michelle and Suzanne Rousseau share 150 recipes that pay homage to the meals and market produce that have been farmed, sold, and prepared by Caribbean people--particularly Caribbean women--for centuries. Caribbean food is often thought of as rustic and unrefined, but these vibrant vegetarian dishes will change the way we think about this diverse, exciting, and nourishing cuisine. The pages are spiced with the sisters' fond food memories and fascinating glimpses of the islands' histories, bringing the region's culinary past together with creative recipes that represent the best of Caribbean food today. With a modern twist on traditional island ingredients and flavors, Provisions reinvents classic dishes and presents innovative new favorites, like Ripe Plantain Gratin, Ackee Tacos with Island Guacamole, Haitian Riz Djon Djon Risotto, Oven-Roasted Pumpkin Flatbread, and Caramelized Fennel and Grilled Green Guava with Mint. Stunning full-color photographs showcase the variety of these dishes: hearty stews, easy one-pot meals, crunchy salads, flavorful pickles, preserves, and hot sauces, sumptuous desserts, cocktails, and more. At once elegant, authoritative, and accessible, Suzanne and Michelle's recipes and stories invite you to bring fresh Caribbean flavors to your table.
*Pre-order Ella Mills' new book, How to Go Plant-Based: A Definitive Guide for You and Your Family - out in August!* The second book by the record-breaking bestselling author of Deliciously Ella! The Deliciously Ella way of eating isn't about following a diet, it's about enjoying delicious, natural food to help you look and feel your best. Luckily, Ella understands that nourishing your body with wholesome ingredients needs to fit in with your existing lifestyle and not feel like something difficult, which is why she has written this book - to help you make the right choice every time and start to glow from the inside out. With Deliciously Ella Every Day, her easy-to-make food will become a natural part of your life. Ella's much-awaited second book is packed with 100 more of her trademark simple yet tempting plant-based, dairy-free and gluten-free recipes. Be inspired by her quick weekday dinners, slow-cook comfort food designed to be shared, amazing colourful salads and incredible food to take with you when you're on the go. Add to these a selection of easy yet delicious breakfast options and smoothies, an array of sweet treats and a variety of soothing drinks - and this may just be Ella's best collection yet. Featuring the top ten rules for living the Deliciously Ella way, lists to help you get organised, plus tips and tricks to help you get ahead, this is the cook book you've been waiting for to help you get your life and your health on track - with zero hassle.
From delicious dals to rich curries, flat breads, savoury breakfasts, snacks, and much more, this book brings you Richa Hingle's collection of plant-based Indian recipes inspired by regional cuisines, Indian culture, local foods, and proven methods. Whether you want to enjoy Indian cooking, try some new spices, or add more protein to your meals using legumes and lentils, this book has got it covered. You'll explore some well-known and new Indian flavours that are easy to make in your own kitchen. Learn the secrets of eclectic Indian taste and textures, and discover meals in which pulses and vegetables are the stars of the dish. And once you taste Richa's mouth-watering desserts, they will likely become your new favourites. The recipes have been designed to simplify complex procedures, and Richa's workflow tips incorporate modern appliances and techniques from other cuisines to reduce cooking times. Replacement spices are indicated wherever possible, and Richa also provides alternatives and variations that allow people to be playful and creative with the spices called for in the recipes. The restaurant-quality recipes are ideal to make for yourself, for family, and for entertaining guests.
In 7 Day Vegan Challenge, Bettina Campolucci Bordi shows that with a little bit of planning, following a vegan diet has never been so effortless, accessible and fun. Bettina uses easy-to-find, affordable ingredients to produce fast, tasty meals that won't leave you feeling hungry or like you're missing out. Kickstart your morning with Banoffee oats or Breakfast burritos, fill your lunchbox with a Tokyo hummus sandwich or a Quick laksa, and finish your day with Kimchi fried rice or Cauliflower steak, with a Key lime pie for dessert. Handy icons indicate if something can be batch-cooked, if it contains nuts, how long it will keep in the fridge and if it can be frozen. This is an inclusive book that embraces everyone, from full-on vegans to those who know it makes good sense to eat more veg. Inside you'll find:
A clear, approachable guide to the world of sesame, from halva and
tahini to togarashi, gomasio, and furikake, with 100 vegetarian-forward
recipes, from the co-founder of popular tahini outfit Seed+Mill, based
in New York City’s iconic Chelsea Market. With its delicious nutty
taste, nutritional density, and long shelf life, the sesame seed is a
tiny ingredient with an enormous cultural impact and a deeply rich
history. In Sesame, Rachel Simons, co-founder of Seed + Mill, a popular
tahini and halva spot in New York City's Chelsea Market, celebrates the
evolution, history, and diversity of this classic ingredient. Whether
it's in the form of a seed, tahini (a ground sesame paste), sesame oil,
or halva (a soft, fudge-like candy made from sesame paste), readers
will learn to incorporate sesame in 100 traditional and modern global
recipes, including:
For those who are committed to increasing self-reliance and supporting locally available food sources, pulses are an often-overlooked source of ethical protein. Dan Jason, owner of Salt Spring Seeds, is a long-time advocate of pulses as a healthy and environmentally responsible alternative to meat and tofu. In The Power of Pulses, Jason provides tips on how North American home gardeners can grow and save their own delicious, vividly hued heirloom beans, peas, chickpeas, lentils and favas. As well as being incredibly versatile in the kitchen, pulses are also rich in fiber, high in vitamin B, gluten-free and remarkably low on the glycemic index--contributing to good health and helping to reduce the risk of diabetes, heart disease and other chronic illnesses. In The Power of Pulses, talented foodie-sister team Hilary Malone and Alison Malone Eathorne collaborate with Jason to create 40+ vegetarian recipes featuring fresh and inventive uses for the garden's bounty, including Broad Bean Succotash with Fresh Ricotta and Poached Eggs on Toast, Crispy Chickpea Power Bowl with Kale, Quinoa and Dukkah Crunch and even Black Bean Brownies with Espresso Ganache. Vibrantly illustrated, this exciting garden-to-kitchen volume is sure to inspire readers to harness the power of pulses.
'A font of information for anyone wanting to live and eat more mindfully and sustainably' Anna Jones, Cook and Author Lindsey Harrad is the former editor of the UK's bestselling and award-winning vegetarian magazine. In Living Plantfully, she gathers together all the wellness wisdom she has acquired over 20 years of journalistic experience, as well as drawing on the advice and experience of trusted experts in food, health, gardening and sustainability to offer ideas, recipes and simple tips that anyone can do to help live a more plant-based, healthy and happy life. Broken into three sections; growing, cooking and living, Living Plantfully, is not only a useful guide but also an inspirational journey, combining accessible evidence-based facts with practical, step-by-step ideas that will empower anyone to make changes in their homes and lives. Weaving in colourful facts and figures with the voices of relevant experts - including chefs and nutritionists, wellness experts, bloggers and sustainability heroes - along with plenty of quick-read box outs, clever tips and little nuggets of plant-based wisdom, this will be an informed but accessible guide that explores both why and how to embrace a more sustainable, plant-centred way of eating and living. Living more plantfully will help you save money, be healthier, live longer, connect with nature, all while being more socially responsible.
'The case Phil makes for canned and frozen food is compelling.' - Waitrose Weekend Nutritious and convenient, canned and frozen food can be used for a wide range of value-for-money recipes. In The Canny Cook, Phil Vickery shows you not only how to spend and waste less, but also cook fast, fuss-free, good-for-you meals that are bursting with flavour. From vegan and vegetarian dishes, to pasta, meat and fish, desserts and healthy snacks, Phil's creative and inspiring recipes are perfect for anyone looking to feed a family using everyday supermarket ingredients.
Cofounders of MayIHaveThatRecipe.com share 101 inventive vegan Middle Eastern recipes. Add a dash of Spain, a chunk of Lebanon, a splash of Israel, and a hint of America. Blend until smooth and voila! You may end up with a well-mixed identity crisis, but happily you'll get Vicky Cohen and Ruth Fox, amazingly creative and food-mad sisters raised in Barcelona by Syrian-Lebanese Jewish parents. Since moving to the United States about twenty years ago, they have successfully married comforting Middle Eastern flavors with new healthy ingredients. Their site Mayihavethatrecipe.com features their award-winning recipes, and gorgeous food photography, and receives over 110,000 page views a month. In their debut cookbook, Cohen and Fox interpret 101 Middle Eastern dishes in an irresistible--and easy--collection of vegan recipes, creating tempting, healthy dishes that take readers and eaters beyond the conventional and recognizable Middle Eastern staples of baba ghanoush and baklava. Instead, they offer modern, lighter dishes bursting with flavor. Covering breakfast, lunch, dinner, and everything in between--and complete with tips for what cooking staples and an introduction to some newer ingredients to keep in your pantry--these recipes are perfect for the health-conscious cook who loves the flavors of the Middle East. Written by experienced recipe developers and bloggers, the recipes are free of time-consuming or complicated techniques and are meant to be served on busy weeknights and during casual gatherings with friends. With simple tricks, like substituting spring roll wrappers or pita bread for from-scratch dough, they've made it easy to prepare delicious, exotic food without an all-day affair in the kitchen.
New jacket for this classic vegan cookbook published in association with The Vegan Society. Eva Batt was a vegan cookery pioneer and her book is much revered by the Vegan Society. It's a classic introduction to vegan cooking, and is recommended for those who are new to meat and dairy free recipes. The book: *explains the sorts of staples you'll need in the kitchen. *provides recipes that are extremely straightforward to prepare. *offers a complete nutritional guide to vegan food so the reader can be assured that they understand their protein requirements, and do get the right mix of vitamins, minerals and food groups. *explains the different protein supplements - such as tofu, soya, t.v.p. Recipes cover a wide range of dishes and meal types from breakfasts to snacks, lunches, dinner and entertaining. The recipes themselves are excellent and very much from a British tradition of 'good old fashioned' cooking. As well as the basic cooking instructions, the text is full of Eva Batt's useful tips and asides for new cooks.
Sometimes it seems like too much of a chore to get our lunch prepped for the day ahead, especially when we're committed to (or experimenting with) a plant-based diet We can often run out of inspiration too, meaning we end up with the same dull lunch every day - a drudgery which makes healthy eating much harder than it should be. The 5-Minute Vegan Lunchbox aims to make prepping your lunch each day a breeze - ensuring your days are deliciously healthy and completely vegan, too. The 52 recipes cover a range of diverse salads, utilizing the power of grains, beans, veggies and more. There's also advice throughout on how to make bulk lunches for your week, if that's your style, and how you might be able to overhaul last night's leftovers into a great midday meal.
'A great way to eat more beautiful veg' – Jamie Oliver 'Healthy, simple plant-based recipes - we love this book!' – Bosh The ultimate all-you-need-to-know guide to going vegan in a month – including 100 recipes, shopping lists and much more. Food writer and blogger Kim-Julie Hansen presents a simple monthly plan that makes it easy to become a vegan. Laid out day by day with meal plans, advance prep, shopping lists, recipes and practical advice, this is the definitive guide for anyone interested in a plant-based lifestyle. If you want to go vegan but don’t know where to start, this includes everything you need. But it’s also invaluable for anyone looking to feel healthier, pack lots of veg into their diet and be more environmentally friendly. Thanks to incredible recipes such as Black Bean Tacos, Butternut Mac ‘n’ Cheese and Blueberry–Banana Ice Cream, The 28-Day Vegan Plan will get you craving plant-based meals long after the first month.
Put an end to dieting and replace weight loss struggles with this easy approach to a healthy, plant-based lifestyle, from the bestselling author of How Not to Die. Every month seems to bring a trendy new diet or weight-loss fad – but they aren't making us happier or healthier as obesity rates continue to rise alongside a number of diseases and health problems. It’s time for a different approach. How Not to Diet is a treasure trove of buried data and cutting-edge dietary research that Dr Michael Greger has translated into accessible, actionable advice with exciting tools and tricks that will help you to eliminate unwanted body fat – for good. Dr Greger, renowned nutrition expert and founder of NutritionFacts.org, explores the many causes of obesity – from our genes to the portions on our plate to other environmental factors – and the many consequences, from diabetes to cancer to mental health issues. From there, Dr Greger breaks down a variety of approaches to weight loss, honing in on the optimal criteria that enable success, including: a diet high in fibre and water, a diet low in fat, salt, and sugar, and diet full of anti-inflammatory foods. How Not to Diet goes beyond food to identify twenty-one weight loss accelerators available to us in our body’s systems, incorporating the latest discoveries in cutting-edge areas like chronobiology to reveal the factors that maximize our natural fat-burning capabilities. This is the ultimate weight-loss guide, taking a timeless, proactive approach that can stand up to any new trend.
Fire up your cooking with sizzling meat-free dishes, shown here in 175 tempting photographs. This is a wonderful collection of 175 fiery and spicy recipes from the world's spice-loving countries, with recipes from India, Thailand, Mexico, Africa and the Middle East. Recipes are based on favourite spices such as chillies, mustard, saffron and coriander, as well as some lesser-known flavours - wasabi, galangal and zereshk. Each recipe has clear step-by-step instructions, a photograph of the finished dish, and a full nutritional breakdown. This superb collection of recipes includes a selection of fiery traditional vegetarian favourites from India, Vietnam, and Mexico alongside milder, more subtly spiced dishes. Moving beyond the popular varieties of chilli, explore the aromatic delights of an exotic wealth of spices. Every aspect of cooking is covered, from warming soups and piquant appetizers and light meals to vegetarian main courses, and a range of side dishes and spicy desserts and bakes. Recipes are described in clear, step-by-step sequences and accompanied by photographs of the finished dishes, so you can easily achieve perfect results.
Bill Sewell's recipes are innovative, modern and written with great humour and verve. His first cookbook has a large number of supporters. Over 150 recipes have been created for entertaining and the witty asides and stylish veuve of Bill's genius will make this a vegetarian classic to remember . From the feasting of New Year's Eve to the rather guilty better-for-you food for New Year's Resolution dinner to a garlic-free (for obvious reasons!) Valentine's meal, Bill's entertaining book enthralls. Designed with green pantone headings and playful drawings inside...... very much Bill Sewell's tongue-in-cheek - nothing too 'worthily' vegetarian - style.
Just as Deborah Madison's "Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone" took meatless cooking mainstream, here's the complete guide to raw cuisine. Connoisseurs of raw cuisine know how hearty and flavorful it can be; what began as an underground movement for health enthusiasts has moved to the culinary forefront. Now Alissa Cohen, one of the nation's top raw experts, presents a lavish array of recipes, a primer of preparation methods, and a comprehensive ingredient guide in "Raw Food for Everyone." This all-inclusive book, with 300 unique recipes for meals and snacks-from nutritious smoothies and juices to you-won't-believe- they're-raw cheeses and ice creams to crackers and even pizza-proves that raw food is not just healthy and energizing, but also approachable, nourishing, and delicious. Writing for the beginner and the more seasoned raw food lover, Cohen takes raw food to the next level with her simple preparation techniques and inventive flavors. "Raw Food for Everyone" is the ultimate raw food resource and is destined to become a culinary classic.
When height-of-the-season farmers' market offerings are
irresistible; when backyard gardens are exploding with what appear
to be hundreds of perfect tomatoes; or when the same old methods
for cooking green beans or corn don't offer enough flavor, Andrea
Chesman is ready with a bounty of creative recipes that bring out
the best in fresh produce.
This delicious collection of over 225 traditional Mediterranean dishes from over 15 countries makes it easy to reap the benefits of eating a Mediterranean diet, which has been linked to good health and a longer life by lowering the risk of heart disease and cancer. The dishes range from appetisers, salads, main courses, soups, eggs, rice, pasta and vegetables to desserts. These recipes have been passed down through generations of simple peasant cooking and still retain their original flavour and appeal. Traditional favourites like Potato and Spinach Croquettes from Albania, avocado Hummus from Israel, Ravioli and Eggplant from Sardinia, Neapolitan Stuffed Tomatoes from Italy, Chocolate Mousse with Almonds from France are also included. The accompanying text provides profiles of each region, outlining the cultural and historical foundations of each country's culinary specialities. |
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