Product Description

A new edition of the Single Vegan, which has sold over 60,000 copies, which contains 30% new recipes Often vegans, although they may be part of a large family, have to cook separate meals -- this cookbook offers over 200 diverse and seasonal recipes to tempt the tastebuds. The book is split into weeks -- and has essential shopping lists for all the ingredients you will need for that week and then delicious recipes to follow. There is also a Spring and Summer collection and an Autumn and Winter collection so that the availability and freshness of ingredients is assured. The recipes are both savoury and sweet, main meals and light snacks and have influences and flavours from around the world.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23703 in Books
• Published on: 2000-06-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Plastic Comb
• 224 pages

From the Back Cover
It is easy to get stuck in a cooking rut if you are preparing food just for yourself. If you live alone or are the only vegan in the family, help is at hand from top cookery writer Leah Leneman. In tune with the seasons, whether it is a cold winter's night or a hot summer's day, the recipes will always suit your needs. Leneman has also gone global, bringing in influences and seasonings from around the world o make this a diverse and delicious collection. With weekly shopping lists to help you plan ahead and simple recipes, Leneman takes the hard work out of cooking. Recognizing that vegans often have to cook for one, all recipe measurements are for a single portion but can easily be extended. Leah Leneman is a renowned vegan cookery writer and her books include Easy Vegan Cooking and The Tofu Cookbook, also published by Thorson's. Vegan Cooking for One is a new edition of The Single Vegan with over 70 new recipes.

About the Author
Leah Leneman is author of Easy Vegan Cooking, The Tofu Cookbook and Single Vegan. She is a well-known name in vegan cooking.

Customer Reviews

Easy recipes for days you don't want to think too hard
I'm puzzled by other reactions to this book.

I like it because if I come in from work and need something quick, easy and tasty, and don't necessarily have much in the fridge, I can always find something in here.

For me, the shopping lists aren't much use because I never use cookbooks in such an ordered way.

But the recipes that are here always turn out well and I've made many of them several times.

The thing I really like is that all the recipes are for one person which saves a lot of dividing, or making more than you need.

Ideal for the single person...
Overall, a really good book with loads of recipe choices... One of the best bits is that all ingredients are geared towards a meal for one, as opposed to the usual 'meal for 4' provisions that most cook-books make!

I think the only mildy annoying thing is that, whilst care has been taken to maximise the use of ingredients over an entire week (even a weekly shopping list is included!), some mistakes are made (it's worth checking the weekly shopping list against what's actually required - there are differences from time to time!).

Overall, a good book... shame I don't like dishes with nuts, which rules out a fair proportion!!!

Worth every penny - essential reading for beginner vegans!
I recently went vegan for health reasons. I live with my partner, who is a full-blooded omnivore who doesn't understand how a meal devoid of meat can possibly satisfy or provide the nutrients one needs, so my decision meant I would have to start shopping and cooking exclusively for myself. After a lot of careful deliberation before actually going vegan, I bought this book and one other for guidance.

Since the day I went vegan, I have used the recipes in this book every day, and at the end of each day I continue to find myself looking forward to trying the next day's recipe.

I have found this book extremely helpful because it is not simply a collection of recipes - it begins with a concise introduction explaining how to use the book with advice on the ingredients used in the recipes and what basic staple ingredients to keep a stock of in your pantry and thereafter is divided into two sections: Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter. Each section contains 9 week-by-week meal plans, each of which begins with a shopping list followed by a recipe for Sunday lunch, dinner and dessert, supper recipes for Monday-Friday and a lunch recipe for Saturday. The book excludes breakfast because of the wide variety of vegan friendly cereals available and assumes that lunch on weekdays and supper on Saturdays will be eaten out.

I have found all of the recipes in this book to be easy and quick to make and delicious, in spite of the fact that some of them contain vegetables I previously found distasteful.

In addition, the foods included in the shopping lists are, for the most part, items that are readily available from supermarkets and the few ingredients that you might have trouble finding at Tesco's or Sainsbury's are easily obtainable from health food stores and/or vegetarian shops. Once you have your food cupboard stocked up with all the staple ingredients, you'll find your weekly shopping to be very cheap - I managed to do mine for £6.01 this week!

This is not a glamorous cookbook. There are no glossy pages with colour photographs of how the meals should turn out - in fact, there are no photos in it at all, but trust me on this, the instructions are so clear and easy to follow that you won't need a pictoral example of what your meal should look like when it's done, and so tasty that by the time it's on your plate you won't care anyway. In any case, having used the book I actually prefer it without photographs because that way I am never disappointed when I serve up my meals that they don't look as pretty as the examples in the pictures.

Furthermore my partner is always saying how nice the meals look and smell (but is sadly too proud to ask to try some - never mind though, more for me!)