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Cranks Fast Food: For Vitality And Health: For Vitality and Health
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Product Description
o Over 100 delicious, original, easy recipes from everyone's favourite vegetarian chef, Nadine Abensur. o Most of the recipes can be put together in 15-20 minutes. o Lavish photographs and contemporary design make this a must-have for every kitchen library. o Cranks titles have a consistently strong trade sale record
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #420943 in Books
- Published on: 2000-11-02
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- 192 pages
Editorial Reviews
Synopsis
o Over 100 delicious, original, easy recipes from everyone's favourite vegetarian chef, Nadine Abensur. o Most of the recipes can be put together in 15-20 minutes. o Lavish photographs and contemporary design make this a must-have for every kitchen library. o Cranks titles have a consistently strong trade sale record
About the Author
One of the UK's top vegetarian chefs, Nadine Abensur was born in Morocco of French-Jewish parents. She draws on this heritage of culinary richness and her own imagination for creating recipes. She began her career by working in restaurants around the world. Nadine then set up her own vegetarian catering company, which she still manages, alongside her duties as Food Development Director for the prominent UK vegetarian restaurant group, Cranks.
Customer Reviews
I love this book!
I can't say enough good things about this book. I was surprised by the comment about pasta dishes as only 1 out of the 10 chapters in this relates to pasta. For the tofu fans I would highly recommend the mushroom and tofu stroganoff which has a lovely strong rich flavor. There is a great variety in this book and I have yet to become bored of it, in fact when I recently moved house I was in a blind panic when I thought I'd lost it! There are a couple of recipes that will take you longer when you make them this first couple of times, but in general they live up to the promise of being easy to throw together in 30 mins. I often delve into this during the week after being at work all day and this is the only one of my recipe books I would dare to do this with.
If you are looking at his book as a Christmas present then that gives just enough time to try the wonderful seasonal delight of Jerusalem artichokes with red wine and Gruyere. The best place to find these is always small fruit and veg shops as you don't really see them in the supermarket other than Sainsbury's.
Enjoy!
Good if you like middle eastern flavours
Easy to use recipes and great if you like spicier, middle eastern flavours and colourful food (not bland, mushy stuff!). I don't find the ingredients unusual or hard to source, unlike other reviewers, but then I do live in London! One of the few recipe books where I've made more than 2 or 3 recipes.
Fast and delicious
When people talk about 'fast food' and 'easy vegetarian recipes', my heart sinks. So often this means bland and joyless food. Not so with Nadine Abensur! This book is definitely easy, yet never bland, and often exotic.
I was given this book for Christmas, and am really enjoying it. I already have the Cranks Bible, and was relieved to find that none of the recipes are duplicated here.
The recipes really are very quick and easy to make. Many of them use things that you would already have in your kitchen - for example there is a surprisingly tasty soup made from frozen peas, a very easy recipe for spanakopita, etc. For a novice cook (like me!) it is very encouraging to have such delicious results from so little effort. The recipes are much more simple than those in the Cranks Bible, and Abensur doesn't expect me to make pastry from scratch - the book is very accepting of the fact that ready-made pastry or pasta is the more realistic option.
My only complaint would be that although the recipes are quick to make, some of them call for a range of ingredients that would take hours to shop for. Unless you live in a big metropolitan city like London, this really slows things down. That said, this is only the case with a few of the recipes in the book, and they do look awfully good and are probably worth it.
Abensur's style is very readable - often she give hints in the recipe which would give you ideas for adapting it in new ways. This is really a cook's book - but for people who are just starting. I love it.
