natural foods

I've been cooking vegetarian for four years. This is the first book that is truly EASY and, so far, the recipes I made have been really tasty. This is great for families and people with small kids who want nutritious meals FAST. I have a two-year-old and I can prepare an entire dinner while she watches a 30 minute video. The recipes have even been "approved" and enjoyed by my non-vegetarian husband, which is more than I can say for any of the complicated ones I labored over from my Vegetarian Times magazine. Another plus of this book is that all of the ingredients are not obscure and can be readily found at mainstream grocery stores. The "Penne with Broccoli and Garlic" and the "Mexican Lasagne" are our favorites. Buy this book to please yourself, your kids and even some meat-eaters. Happy cooking.

This book is absolutely the best Vegitarian cookbook that my wife and I have encountered. Not because the recipes are the most elaborate and mind-blowing that we've encountered, but primarily because they're not. The meals are all tasty enough to please my "meat and fried food" parents, the ingredients are available at the local grocery store (no trips to Zimbabwe to get some obscure plant), and they all take a very short amount of time to prepare. These are the primary problems that we've encountered with books like Moosewood; the ingredients are exotic at best, they take hours to prepare, and they taste extremely bland. Every recipe that we've tried from this book during the year-and-a-half that we've had it has been very pleasing, very flavorful, and the standard ingredients are those that we can expect to have around at any given time.

My husband and I are long-time vegetarians and we both love this book! The text is well-organized and a pleasure to use when hurrying out to the grocery store. The recipes are generally quite easy to make and they really do keep to 28-minute meals! Almost all of the recipes we've tried have been delicious (some just weren't right for our particular tastes) and I feel like we've uncovered a treasure of beautiful and simple-to-make delights. I love making new recipes these days...and my husband loves eating them!!!