Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #78609 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

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.

About the Author
Rose Elliot is Britain's foremost vegetarian cookery writer -- she has helped revolutionise Britain's eating habits.

Customer Reviews

A gorgeous Vegan cookbook
VEGAN FEASTS is a gorgeous book that will soon convince you that vegans don't just eat brown rice and lentils. The book is full of numerous recipes for soup, dips/dressings, snacks, main meals, desserts, cakes and biscuits. The recipes are easy to follow and the ingredients are relatively easy to find. The only drawback is that there are no photos, but there are so many recipes in this book that it is excellent value for money. This is the ideal book for a new vegan or anyone who has to cook for a vegan. Anyone who has had to cut dairy products out of their diet will also find this book useful as it teaches you about dairy-free alternatives that you can use in your cooking.

absolutely essential vegan cook book
this book is essential to all vegans, and anyone who might ever want to cook vegan food. all the recipes are simple, ingredients can be found in any supermarket, and they're foolproof! lots of old veggie faves such as lasagne, hummus and various salad. also many more interesting recipes. also has some great recipes for vegan cakes that don't taste as if they're vegan!

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