The Vegetarian Meat and Potatoes Cookbook | 
 enlarge | Author: Robin Robertson
Publisher: Harvard Common Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  28 reviews
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Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 1558322051
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5636
EAN: 9781558322059
ASIN: 1558322051
Publication Date: March 2002
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Amazon.com Review
Anyone who thinks that they could never give up meat will find true enlightenment in The Vegetarian Meat and Potatoes Cookbook. Eating vegetarian does not mean giving up hearty, filling, and, most importantly, deliciously satisfying food. Vegetarian cuisine is not often associated with indulgence, but in this book food writer, chef, and cooking instructor Robin Robertson provides recipes for hearty, soul-satisfying--yet surprisingly elegant--dishes that will entice vegetarians and nonvegetarians alike. Hoisin Eggplant Balls are a rich and flavorful appetizer, replacing that old standby, the chafing dish of little meatballs. In Compari-Scented Vegetable Stew with Fennel and Orange Zest, cured olives and chickpeas provide a substantial backdrop for a heavenly mingling of the more delicate flavors, resulting in an intense and sophisticated entrée. Ginger-Sesame-Glazed Portobello Steaks over Wasabi Mashers relies on an aromatic marinade to add complexity to these "meaty" mushrooms. Familiar comfort foods are also well represented: Mushroom Barley Soup, Flaky Potpie, Layered Vegetable Lasagne, and more. Even the most elegant recipes in the book are surprisingly easy to prepare, and each offers the many advantages of a vegetarian diet without depriving anyone of their beloved indulgences. --Robin Donovan
Product Description
This book will change the way people think about vegetarian food, a cuisine not usually associated with indulgence. Robin Robertson has developed 275 recipes for mouthwatering, soul-satisfying dishes that feed the hunger without the meat.
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Great Meat-Alternative Recipes! November 30, 2008
Kathryn Vincent (NW Indiana, USA)
I loved my meat and potatoes before I became vegetarian and this is a great book to try and bring back all my original favorites in a more humane way. A lot of fun, really well written, a great addition to any chef's collection - meat eater and vegetarian alike!
By far my most used cookbook.... November 27, 2008
Vegan Symphony (Smithtown, NY)
I own a lot of vegan cookbooks and have owned this for quite a few years. This is the cookbook I use the most and the one I always refer to when trying to think up something new to cook. The recipes are very easy and always delicious....
Highly recommended....I wish there were a Meat and Potatoes II book--that is how much I like and I use this one.
Great Cookbook for Vegetarians and Vegans November 3, 2008
Andrea Whitaker
The Vegetarian Meat and Potatoes Cookbook is really versatile and has many tasty recipes. The cookbook covers appetizers, salads, soups, stews, sandwiches, entrees and desserts. Even though it has the word vegetarian in the title, vegans will find that the recipes include tips on using substitutions to make them vegan, such as using ground flax seeds instead of eggs. Another good aspect of the cookbook is that a lot of the recipes aren't extremely complicated and they don't require lots of exotic ingredients. Finally, the cookbook really covers a range of flavors and cuisines. Some of my favorites from the book right now are the Bronzed Tempeh with Broccoli and Spicy Peanut Sauce, the Soy Stroganoff, and the African Sweet Potato Stew. I'll definitely be trying more recipes from this cookbook.
Buy this book! October 11, 2008
Elisabeth Forrest (Seattle, WA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I own this book, Vegan Planet, Carb Conscious Vegetarian, and Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker. They are all worth every penny. I am an uninspired cook who has purchased many, many, many cookbooks over the years thinking with each purchase, that this will be the book that turns me into a real cook. It hasn't happened yet, but when I cook from any of Robin Robertson's cookbooks I would fool you. I have yet to make anything from any of her books that hasn't drawn praise. Meat & Potatoes and Vegan Planet are my hands-down favorite cookbooks. I turn to them first before Joy of Cooking or Cook's Illustrated or Julia Child (yes, even before Julia!) because I know whatever I make will be a success, and when I am the one wielding the spoon, that is no small feat.
The American cookbook of the future! April 11, 2008
Philip Anderson (Frederick Maryland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I began taking the vegetarian diet in 1970 after 22 years of the meat diet. I've been on all the health and taste adventures of this fun and benevolent cuisine and I grow ever more grateful as I grow older that I had the privilege and blessing of taking the natural diet of Mankind. "Vegetarian Meat and Potatoes" is the first cookbook I've found where every recipe is a tasty, and healthful success. And every recipe is familiar, like the non-vegetarian "comfort foods" of my youth, only better -time has proven those foods were an approximation of the vegetarian version, the real food. Robin has taken American Cuisine, which includes the cuisine of our European Heritage, and converted it to the enlightened diet that everyone in the future of Sustainable Living and Earth Stewardship will embrace and enjoy in the Age of Love. Food is the basis of the body and the mind, and affects our spiritual awareness, how we feel, our physical strength, how we think, and what we can envision. Meat-eaters, get this cookbook and prove these vegetarian benefits by firsthand experience! Vegetarians, get this cookbook and your meat-eating brothers and sisters will enjoy its recipes as much as you and it will ease their transition to right diet, good health and the spiritual blessings of benign, benevolent living as Stewards of the Earth. You have done a great service, Robin Robertson, thank you! (PS, I wish a hardcopy version were available)
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