vegetarian cookbooks

NoahsPennilessMummy

hi
I am now buying meat from a farm shop once a month and to cover this cost we are having fewer meat based meals.
I am looking at doing a couple of vegetarian meals a week and am starting to run out of ideas:rolleyes:
Can anyone recommend a good vegetarian cookbook....have been on Amazon but there are hundreds and its hard to know what to go for.

many thanks
claire

Beebop

I have Delia's Vegetarian collection which is good (but then again I'm not a vegetarian!!!!)
When I was looking it was the one that seemed to have the nicest selection of tasty dishes.

Pink.

I'll second Delia's vegetarian collection. The recipes are easy to follow and have been enjoyed by my carniverous family.

These threads might give you some inspiration too:

Easy, cheap Vegetarian recipes?

Gingham's Vegetarian Meal Planner

Gingham's vegetarian meal planner - SUMMER

Gingham's vegetarian menu planner SPRING

Vegan and vegetarian food on the cheap

A vegetarian meal planner, please

Vegetarian OSers

Cooking for the freezer - vegetarian

Pink

rockie4

Rose Elliot does some good ones but I've compiled my own over the years just by printing nice sounding ones off and putting them in a file, there are loads of veggie websites and a lot of the vegbox sites - Riverford etc have recipe ideas.

Simon Rimmer's are good as well but a bit more complicated!


There's some really nice ones in the indexed threads on here (sorry don't know how to do a link)

Pink beat me to it!!

LameWolf

I use "Linda's Kitchen" and "Linda McCartney On Tour" a lot.

Another useful book is "Vegetarian Cooking In The Microwave" by Sonia Allison & Victoria Lloyd-Davies, which, as its name suggests, is all microwave recipes. There's even a microwave Xmas cake and Xmas pud in there, both of which I've done successfully!

I also adapt meat recipes, just using a meat substitute instead of the meat - I'm getting good at experimenting! I haven't yet had any complaints from my meat-eater DH.

I'd also second rockie4's idea of having a poke about on the online recipe sites.

Good luck!

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LIBRARY!!

get there, get some of their books, write down the recipes you wanna try and the the cost is £0.00

NoahsPennilessMummy

thanks all......think I will go onto my library site and see what they have in

thriftmonster

I use Rose Elliotts "Pasta" book a lot - Madhur Jaffrey has a huge one called World Vegetarian that is good - but it wsn't cheap

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

I've been a vegetarian all my life and to be honest the only recipe books that impressed me were Linda McCartneys.I have come across some realy horrible recipe books out there for us non meat eaters.
Do as someone has already said and don't waste money,go to the library.When you find some recipes you like you can always adapt them to your taste.I do this with ordinary recipe books substituting quorn,tofu or soya products instead of the meat.I find these are usually the tastiest recipes of all.
Good luck experimenting.

clutterydrawer

I like leah Lenemans vegan cooking for one - there are some dodgy recipes in there but thats true of al recipe books and i've found some of it really useful. if you're not up for eating vegan meals, just use normal milk when it says soya milk and butter when it says vegan marge.a lot of them are supe cheap to make too.

NoahsPennilessMummy

Have reserved Simon Rimmer book, a few Rose Elliots, a Linda McCartney one and Madhur Jafferey World vegetarian.......this was one I was interested in on Amazon but it was expensive and had a couple of dodgy reviews:rolleyes:

thank you for all suggestions so far:D