vegetarian cookbooks

blueberrypie

The Cranks books are great - Cranks Fast Food in particular is full of delicious but not at all complicated recipes, but the Cranks Bible is also good.

jayss

Hated Rose Elliott in minutes one, loved Rimmers accidental vegitarian one.

I'm having far more luck using the links from here and searching online for veg versions of meals I liked.

kamperkat

Hi Claire
We've done a similar thing - we don't eat meat or cheese during the week and only allow oursleves alcohol friday and saturday nights - its a real money saver!!
My favourite vegetarian cookbook was bought for me years and years ago by a veggie friend and I didn't appreciate it fully until now.
It's Margi Clarkes "better than s*x" cookbook - it's a really chatty book and contains lots of interesting facts that you never new you wanted to know - but the most important part it has some lovely recipes!
Kkxx

Teria

I'd second the "cranks" books too, although I rarely use them!
The best source of recipes for me is the BBC website, they've got loads of veggie and vegan recipes on there. The "Animal Aid" site also has some very tasty recipes too.

Dr_DiNg_DoNg

I got Cranks bible last time there was a thread like this, and its very good

kunekune

We're similar (well, except for the not drinking bit, LOL). We eat meat maybe once a week and fish once, and veg the rest. I try to keep cheesy meals to less than 3 (including ones where there's just a wee bit of cheese). Rose Elliott's Bean Book is a real classic. If you can get Margaret Fulton's Vegetarian Cooking (an Aussie one), it's got some great stuff - I often use the broccoli & cheese flan and the hazelnut and vegetable loaf. Madhur Jaffrey's Eastern Vegetarian Cooking is presumably the earlier version of one mentioned here - I use that quite a lot. The vegbox site is good. I don't rate many of the others, the recipes just aren't very good, they tend to have far too much cheese and the pulses/egg/nuts recipes are rubbish..

Gingernutmeg

I like the Moosewood books - some of the later ones aren't strictly veggie (they've got fish recipes in) but the earlier ones in particular have some great recipes. They can be pricey second-hand (Amazon seems much, much cheaper than ebay) but they're worth a look.

recovering_spendaholic

I love the Mossewood ones too - I have another one called The Enchanted Brocolli Forest by Mollie Katzen which is lovely. I also like Ursula Ferrigno's books as they always seem to turn out well and are not too complicated. I also have a very old Sarah Brown one which is lovely - you can get it on Amazon quite cheaply - it explains all the different veggie staples with instructions on how to cook them, portion size, nutrients etc.

catkins

Hi, I am vegetarian and must have just about every veggie coookbook going!! My favourite is the Good Housekeeping Step by Step Vegetarian Cookbook. It has pictures of all the dishes at the front which I like, the recipes are easy to follow and are not too fancy. I like the Delia Smith book but I feel quite a few of the recipes are not for every day meals but more for entertaining.

The Linda McCartney ones are ok but they tend to us a lot of quorn etc which I don't really use.

NoahsPennilessMummy

Thanks everyone....I don`t think I would like the Linda Mccartney ones then as not a Quorn fan:rolleyes:......I am after using veg and pulses etc to replace a few meat based meals.....not looking at meat substitutes.

The enchanted broccoli forest looks a gorgeous book but am supposed to be reducing my cookery book spend:think:

Hopefully will get to pick them up next week sometime:jfrom library and do some photocopying:shhh: