The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook: A Fresh Guide to Eating Well With 700 Foolproof Recipes

Good range of vegetarian recipes

This book is amazing. Every recipe that I have tried is delicious and worked perfectly. I am NOT a master chef, so the clear directions and the guaranteed results are important to me. The book has thousands of recipes. Generally for each recipe there are a few more "variations" that you can try if you like different "ingredients". I love this book! My kids also like the foods I prepare with it. It's a winner! I highly recommend it.

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Excellent book. Bought another one for a friend. Its just all recipes in one book. Tried and tested. And notes on why recipe works.Its hard enough to be a vegatarian. With just a nod in normal books. So to get this bible on vegatarian food is a marvel and thefact that it comes from the USA means there are recipes from every culture.

I have many vegetarian cookbooks, but I had to get this one because I trust Cooks Illustrated and America's Test Kitchen (ATK is the tv program/CI is the magazine from same company) to get delicious and successful recipes. Everything I have prepared so far for my family has been great. I made a quinoa salad with black beans (and remade for company), quinoa patties/cakes (fyi: I did make them a bit smaller than they suggested), snow peas with lemon zest and garlic (snap peas worked well too), and Thai Style Tofu and Basil Lettuce Cups. All received high praise from the vegetarian (me and older teen daughter) and non vegetarian (teen son and husband) members of my family. I stuck with my usual Moosewood Cookbook gazpacho, but I incorporated some ideas for preparation and ingredients from this book that were helpful. I cannot wait to make more. This will be my new "go-to" cookbook and I am giving it as a gift to two friends.There are many vegan (250) and gluten free (500) recipes. The ones that I have made that are gluten free or vegan were worth the price of the book. The only drawback, as another reviewer noted, is the lack of nutritional info. I wish they would do this with all their cookbooks (and TV show and their website!), but especially in a vegetarian cookbook which would attract some health focused cooks. I do think if they make another edition of this book in the future, that they should include this. That said, the ingredients for the recipes I have made so far were healthful. Perusing the book, I see some recipes that use butter, 1 soup that has butter (creamy cauliflower) and 1 that has cream and butter (creamy butternut squash-I think it would be good without the cream though), pie dough with butter, but I would estimate that there are enough recipes in the book that do not use cream or butter and a small percentage call for eggs to make it valuable for the low fat cook. I see recipes using cheese-some just with parmesan which is lower fat, and then some cheese and egg recipes like soufflé, pizza, and quiche. Again, there are many without cheese as well. It is a big book with a total of 700 recipes!I have the Mark Bittman Everything Vegetarian, which I found helpful as a basic resource for cooking various vegetables (example: the best/recommended way to cook a list of vegetables, with details on timing, etc) and fruits (I always use his plantain recipe), as well as some good recipes. This one has some educational points too-info with photographs of how to shop for and prep various vegetables and fruits for example. I do like the photographs in this one. What I like the best is that every recipe I made so far has been healthful, vegetarian, delicious and successful and my family (and I!) love them and even eat the leftovers.