Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28935 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09-18
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Synopsis
Another gorgeous new edition from the queen of healthy cooking! Whether it's to boost and maintain health with a very pure diet, or for reasons of conscience and personal choice, vegan food is ever popular. Vegan Feasts is full of innovative and exciting recipes, which cut out all animal products. Rose Elliot's inspiring recipe collection includes: * mushroom pate with porcini, * red pepper soup with basil * green lentil chilli burgers and creamy dill sauce * boozy vegan 'Christmas pudding' ice cream. For quick snacks, light lunches or party menus, this compilation of modern classics and old favourites will help you create your own vegan feasts! There is also essential information for the vegan beginner on balancing your meals to ensure you get enough protein and nutrients.

From the Back Cover
Rose Elliot is one of the world's most popular and versatile cookery writers. Her creative, easy style has inspired a generation to experiment with vegan and vegetarian food. Now a modern classic, Vegan Feasts is a foolproof introduction to a range of innovative recipes completely free from meat, eggs and dairy produce.

From quick snacks and light lunches to sophisticated dinner party menus and yummy puddings, Vegan Feasts will ensure your vegan cooking is both delicious and fully nutritionally balanced.

Customer Reviews

Generally a good book for beginners and more experienced Vegan cooks
This area is outside my remit, so I drafted in a Vegan friend for her comments on this book. She described it as the equivalent of `Nigella Express', i.e. fullest flavour without the effort!

Possibly not the best title for this book, as in the use of the word 'Feasts', and it is true to say that the recipes do use `Vegan' variations of ingredients, e.g.:- Vegan mayo/cheese slices/margarine, chocolate or soya milk/cream and some do advise checking the ingredients list of each product, e.g. gravy powder to check that it is meat-free.
So, perhaps, a bit of work to be done on the shopping side before commencing cooking, but worth it in the long run!
She felt that it is a good mix of recipes both for one starting out on this road, i.e. a book that includes basics to show the would-be Vegan that their diet need not consist solely of 'nut cutlets' and `lentils' and more ambitious dishes aimed at those who are well experienced and looking for a few new ideas.

Some ingredient lists are indeed `long-ish' but simply add to the overall flavour.

176 matt pages, split over 12 chapters:-

Soups
Dips
Sandwiches and Bread-based Snacks
Salads, Dressings and Appetizers
Sauces
Pastry Dishes
Pasta Dishes
Legume Dishes
Grain and Nut Dishes
Potato Dishes
Desserts
Scones, Cakes and Cookies

with an introduction, a section on `eating healthily and well', which includes notes on how to meet the daily nutritional requirements of a Vegan diet and an index.

Each chapter opens with relevant text.
Each recipe is well laid out with an opening note, the title, number of servings, list of ingredients and the method.

On the negative side there are line illustrations throughout but NO photographs which may prove slightly negative to those who enjoy that side of a cookery book.

Recipes include:-

Creamy Potato and Onion Soup
Tuscan Bean Soup
Crudités
Vegan Sandwich Filling ideas
Gomasio (includes a junior version)
Mushroom Pâté with Porcini
Coleslaw
Fresh Tomato Sauce
Béchamel Sauce
Flaky Potato Pie
Samosas
Piecrust
Quiches
Easy Pizza
Pasta Dishes
Dal
Lentil Dishes (!)
Wild Rice with Chestnuts
Tabbouleh
Creamy Nut Korma
Baked Potatoes with Vegan Toppings
Rosti with Spring Onions
Vegan Cream
Peaches in Wine
Instant Vegan Raspberry Ice
Chocolate Mousse
Rhubarb Crumble
Steamed Syrup Pudding
Christmas Pudding
Vegan Sponge Layer Cake
Classic FlapJacks

very disappointing - if you already cook
This is a very BASIC cookbook - eg. a whole section on pasta with basic tomato and veg style sauces. Most things - cakes, dips etc just substitute vegan margarine or rice/soy milk for the dairy alternative. I found it Really dull and have not cooked anything from it. I have to say though, that I am in my 40's and quite a keen cook - so if you are a teen or new to cooking it could be a good basic starter text to get you going . I bought the book to get new ideas for my vegan teen based on the amazon reviews and wished I had looked at it in a shop first.

Not so simple
I have not been enticed into actually cooking something from this book yet I'm afraid. As such I may not be the best reviewee. However, if you're looking for simplistic recipes this is not the book for you. The recipes include far too many ingredients in my opinion. An example of this is the "spring rolls with dipping sauce" it lists 20 ingredients. This book also has no pictures which may prove highly important to some.