Fresh from the Vegan Slow Cooker Author: Robin Robertson | Language: English | ISBN:
B00850ZQQA | Format: PDF
Fresh from the Vegan Slow Cooker Description
Robin Robertson has built a publishing record of successful books in the vegetarian/vegan category. Her earlier cookbook, Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow-Cooker, established her bona fides as an expert on the creative use of slow-cookers, and her entire body of work speaks to her ingenuity in the kitchen and the breadth of enticing ingredients and flavors with which she works. Fresh from the Vegan Slow-Cooker provides practical guidence on how to work with different models of slow-cookers, taking into account the sizes of various machines, the variety of settings they offer, and the quirks and personalities of each device. She addresses any lingering skepticism readers may have about whether slow-cookers can have delicious, meat-free applications, and she shows how to take into account the water content of vegetables and the absorptive qualities of grains when vegan slow-cooking.
Fresh from the Vegan Slow-Cooker includes eleven recipe chapters, four of which focus on main courses. There are homey and comforting foods in the American and European style, such as a Rustic Pot Pie Topped with Chive Biscuits and a Ziti with Mushroom and Bell Pepper Ragu, and there are lots of East Asian, South and Southeast Asian, and Mexican/Latin dishes, too. Beans, which cook slowly under any circumstance, are fabulously well-suited to the slow cooker, and Robertson includes such appealing recipes as a Crockery Cassoulet and a Greek-Style Beans with Tomatoes and Spinach. Eighteen robust chilis and stews—two more categories that do well in the slow-cooker—include a warming Chipotle Black Bean Chili with Winter Squash and a surprising but yummy Seitan Stroganoff. Beyond the mains, there are chapters devoted to snacks and appetizers, desserts, breads and breakfasts, and even one on drinks. The many soy-free and gluten-free recipes are clearly identified. Altogether, the collection offers readers loads of ways to expand their vegan repertoire and to get maximum value from their investment in a slow-cooker.
- File Size: 1591 KB
- Print Length: 337 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1558327908
- Publisher: Harvard Common Press (October 2, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00850ZQQA
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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While I am not committed to vegetarianism, much less veganism, I do prefer to eat less animal product than I used to, and to that end, I'm always interested in cookbooks that take a lot of the effort out of cooking tasty, animal-free meals. Robin Robertson has done a good job compiling 200 different recipes that run the gamut of vegan food options from appetizers through desserts, drinks and condiments. Even if you only go to animal-free sides and non-entree courses, this is a good resource.
She draws on a number of different ethic influences so you'll get recipes inspired by Italian, Mexican, Indian, and North African cuisine, among others. That means there's a lot of flavor here, and that's a good thing because one of the worst mistakes a vegetarian/vegan cook can make, particularly while attempting to transition away from meat-based meals, is cooking vegetables as if they were still just side dishes. Microwaving a box of frozen peas just doesn't cut it anymore.
Robertson provides a nice spectrum of possibilities with chapters on soups, stews and chilis, entrees, and side dishes which could serve as entrees in their own right. If you're an experienced vegan cook, then this book might help you cut your kitchen time. If you're new to the idea of vegan/vegetarian cooking, it provides a way to transition to a meatless way of life with recipes for things like onion soup, borscht, African peanut stew, bruschetta, vegan pates and more. With everything slow-cooker-based, this pretty much comes down to prep it and forget about it for a few hours.
If I have a quibble with this book, it's a personal one and nothing that affects the quality of the book or the recipes within.
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