As good as it sounds
I loved the name, and had to check out the cookbook. It is a great vegetarian cookbook. Even when we don't cook some the recipes in it, we find ourselves using the little bits of advice (such as how to cook all different types of beans.) The recipes tend to be true "vegetable" dishes, as opposed to "dishes made to look like meat for people who don't eat meat." Some can get a little odd, but in general, there are lots of good ways to use vegetables. We love the garbanzo bean soup and White bean + greens soup [often made with kale instead.]
Good Vegetarian Cook Book
Second favorite of Mollie Katzen's cookbooks (but I only have three). Written with the same unmistakable style of The Moosewood Cookbook (my favorite) it has many good recipes and cooking techniques. This one is worth the price.
sequel-style book
We loved the original moosewood cook book: it had great basic veggie recipes and our book had fallen apart from use. So we got this one in the hopes of finding new staples for our palette and now those of our kids (i.e., we are looking beyond the chicken nugget).
Unfortunately, we have tried quite a number of recipes from this book and have found all of them essentially duds - not a single one has joined our favorite list. They seem esoteric and contrived to us, kind of thrown together rather than the excellent ones that were really used in the original restaurant. (The latter includes a great spinach lasagna, the former such oddly bland things as "hot marinated cauliflower".)
While it could be that these recipes are subtle variations for some hard-core vegetarians, my wife - who was a strict vegetarian for years, pre-me - finds nothing to recommend this book. In our view, the book really doesn't have anything genuinely new and good to add, but is a simple commercial knock-off.
Not recommended. We believe it is better to find vegetarian recipes that are found in ethnic cookbooks, in context, rather than slapped together make-shift books like this.
Great Recipes
A co-worker brought this cookbook to work oneday and I fell in love with it. She told me that I could hold onto it as long as I like. When I realized that I did not want to give it back I bought a copy for myself. I love the recipes in this cookbook. They are healthy, very good, easy to use and simple to modify if want to. Sometimes I reduce the fat content by using less oil or low fat and/or fat free ingredients.
Best cookbook ever!
Every recipe in this book is healthy (with lost of flavor), and tastes amazing. First cookbook I've ever bought where I would serve everything for company--no duds.
