Vegetarian & vegan cook books recommendations

recovering_spendaholic

My very very favourite cookbook of any kind is "The Enchanted Broccolli Forest" by Mollie Katzen. You can get it used for cheap on Amazon. It is beautifully illustrated and the recipes are just wonderful and different. The Enchanted Brocolli Forest of the title is a risotto casserole thing with brocolli stalks standing up in it for "trees" - I love to just read it for ideas.

Callie22

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

My very very favourite cookbook of any kind is "The Enchanted Broccolli Forest" by Mollie Katzen. You can get it used for cheap on Amazon. It is beautifully illustrated and the recipes are just wonderful and different. The Enchanted Brocolli Forest of the title is a risotto casserole thing with brocolli stalks standing up in it for "trees" - I love to just read it for ideas.

I like that too and I'd highly recommend all of the other Moosewood restaurant cookbooks, they're really good. You can pick them up quite cheaply from Amazon and ebay and they're really good value, thick cookbooks with loads of vegetarian recipes (although some of the do have fish recipes in them too). They are American but they don't generally use many ingredients that you can't get over here.

I'd also recommend having a look at Isa Chandra Moskowitz' website, the Post Punk Kitchen. If you like that then she's written loads of vegan cookbooks which I really recommend - the baking ones are especially good. Terry Hope Romero is another vegan cookbook author I'd recommend. Dreena Burton has also written some great books, although again they are American so sometimes it can be hard to find the ingredients.

Another author I really like is Heidi Swanson. Her blog is 101 cookbooks and there are some really lovely recipes on there. She's written two cookbooks which are also lovely. Other vegan blogs I like are Oh She Glows and The Sprouted Kitchen.

I also love Ottolenghi's books, they have some really nice recipes in them. And it's not veggie but for cheap meals that do use quite a lot of pulses then I'd recommend Budget Bytes - it's kind of like an American version of a Girl called Jack.

hoglet121

I'm another fan of Hugh F-W's veg everyday. I've found the recipes tasty and filling, and have fed them to meat-loving men without anyone feeling the absence of meat. I'm not veggie but I follow the principle that a couple of meat and fish free nights during the week is good for the budget, and Hugh hasn't let me down. Also good for soup inspiration for using up the odd bit of this and that lurking in the bottom of the fridge.

sillyme673

I like Rose Elliott. Classic.

OurLass

BrassicWoman wrote: »

I love the Jack Munroe book.

I love it too!

OurLass

Vegetarian Grub On a Grant,by Cas Clarke.

kacie

I'm looking for a vegan cook book that I used to have but don't recall the title,, can anyone help me out?

The cover was orange/red I bought it somewhere around 2010-12ish

The only recipe I remember well is a lemon courgette risotto, but I think it might have been an american one.

I know not a lot to go on!

Matron_Midge

Bosh and Bush, Bash, Bosh are both excellent and plant based. Although we eat eggs, dairy and meat, are lovely recipes and when I cook them, no one seems to a) notice or b) comment.

mrsjanebanbury2009

Ottolenghi's Plenty and Plenty More are both brilliant. Also, for a more retro feel, try the original Cranks book Entertaining with Cranks which has loads of classics like nut roast etc

dreaming

The Happy Pear website is very good - haven't ever read the books but used their on-line recipes - https://thehappypear.ie/

I did have to look up and substitute some of the ingredients but that's true of many recipes.