I Love to Eat Vegetarian Review

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(More customer reviews)Day by day and step by step, we are learning to eat healthier. Sheri and Brian Fisher have worked with our health for the last three years. We are learning to cook, prepare, and enjoy nutritious and delicious food without using milk products, white flour, white sugar, or meat. After being diagnosed with arthritis, and severe asthma, I am now symptom free and taking no medications (after being on 17 different types of allergy and asthma meds). I eat Sheri's granola every morning. I use her whole wheat bread recipe to make our bread. We use black beans and brown rice to top our salads. We feel better, sllep better, and enjoy much better health. Thank you, Fishers, for introducing such a new and rewarding way of living to us. After being married for 45 years, it has taken a lot of dedication and change to bring us to this point, but we are enjoying a healthier, happier, way of life.
Mike and Joyce
My wife uses 3 of Sheri Fisher's vegie books and we are enjoying more fruits and vegetables that ever before. Truly books worthy of investing in.
Growing up in suburban America, we always had meat and potatoes on the table. I can't say I didn't like Mom's cooking, because she was a wonderful cook. Our table was always set with what's refered to today as "comfort food". However, I now believe a healthier balance of foods is truly more "comfort".
We are grateful that Mrs. Fisher has taken the time, and energy, to create her books, and in turn helped us create our own better style of dinning. We highly recommend her books to all.
Mike in Arizona.


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Radiant Health, Inner Wealth Review

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(More customer reviews)I have tried several different vegetarian/vegan cookbooks and most of them are very bland. This cookbook offers many different flavorful and colorful recipes! I have enjoyed not only eating these creations but looking at them. The recipes are from a wide variety of cultures and it is great to be able to make accessible, affordable food from around the globe. This cookbook is definitely for anyone who wants to eat healthy food and not sacrifice taste! BRAVA!!!!!!

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Radiant Health, Inner Wealth is a fun, comprehensive toolkit for ultimate wellness, including over 240 delicious vegan recipes. In short, it has everything you need to create both inner and outer wellness for yourself! The recipes are color-coded to assist you in making healthy, balanced choices. Many recipes are also gluten-free and soy-free (and those are coded for your convenience). Every recipe has also been perfected and is guaranteed to turn out wonderfully! It also contains many kid-friendly recipes and tips. You'll enjoy reading the section on nutrition and holistic health, which includes a unique take on allergies and organic foods. Chapter 3 includes the Two-Week Ultimate Radiant Health Plan--perfect for weight loss, healing, and/or cleansing. Chapter 4 contains a complete guide for setting up your kitchen, menu planning, a natural foods glossary, and much more. There is also a complete section on creating inner wellness, including a holistic journal planner. This second edition also features layflat binding and over 60 beautiful color photos. It is also packed with humor and is a joy to read!

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Vegetarian Times Everything Vegan Review

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(More customer reviews)I love Vegetarian Times. I assumed I'd love this book. I wanted to love this book. But I just don't. I didn't even notice the mistake with the eggs yet (as I've learned from other reviews), so it has nothing to do with that. I think that if your main focus in eating vegan is simply to avoid animal products, you might be OK with this. But part of why I eat vegan is for the health benefits, and for me that includes reducing my dependence on processed or prepared foods -- even vegan processed or prepared foods. There was just too much of that in here. I can figure out on my own how to substitute veggie crumbles for ground beef. I can grasp how to substitute vegan mozzarella shreds or vegan Parmesan for real mozzarella or real Parmesan. I don't need a cookbook for that. I felt very much like some of these recipes were simply pulled from the VT archives and converted. They're not vegan, they're veganized. Big difference. I'm not saying that every recipe includes processed stuff, but a lot of them do.
Many also rely on frozen veggies. I'm sure the intention there is to speed things up. But the fact is, I personally dislike the taste and texture of most frozen vegetables (except peas and edamame) so I prefer to cook with fresh.
Overall - apart from the issues I've already mentioned - I was surprised that very little in this collection excited me or fired up my imagination or made say "Wow! I can't wait to try that!" It just wasn't there for me. Even the pictures, which are nice, didn't help me shake my overall lack of enthusiasm for the recipes. I own dozens of veg and vegan cookbooks. And it's never even crossed my mind to return one before. But I see very little point in keeping this one. (Although that Morning Glory loaf does look pretty decent.)
Interestingly, I bought another newly released vegan cookbook at the same time, and my reaction has been the complete opposite - I can barely put the darn thing down before I wind up picking it up again and daydreaming about what to try next. Appetite for Reduction: 125 Fast and Filling Low-Fat Vegan Recipes, has really knocked my socks off, and my 3-week-old copy is already covered in cooking spatters. I've made at least 15 of the recipes, every one good. They aren't fancy-schmantzy for the most part. Just good, easy, straightforward, super-tasty stuff that you could actually make on a Wednesday night after work with the stuff you already have on hand (assuming that stuff like quinoa and nutritional yeast are things you typically have on hand). To my amazement, even my omnivore spouse and my uber-picky omnivore mother have given the thumbs up to the recipes I've made from it. I can't recommend it enough.
But I'm sad that I didn't have that kind of chemistry with VT's Everything Vegan.

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A diverse and delicious collection of vegan recipes from the experts at Vegetarian Times magazine
Whether they're vegan for a day, a week, a lifetime, or even just for lunch hour, the demand among vegans for deliciously satisfying animal-free recipes has never been greater. Vegetarian Times Everything Vegan is the something-for-everyone vegan cookbook with hundreds of tasty, healthful recipes that will woo omnivores to the possiblities of plant-based eating while wowing committed vegans and vegetarians.

Beautifully illustrated and accompanied by a thoughtful and informative Foreword by noted authority Neal D. Barnard, MD, Vegetarian Times Everything Vegan is a must-have resource for anyone who lives vegan, loves cooking, or is looking for healthy meal ideas with proven weight-loss benefits. Inside, you'll find:• 250+ easy, healthful recipes with nutrition information• 50+ beautiful full-color photos• Features, tips, and sidebars that provide helpful hints on food shopping, prepping ingredients, and speeding up cooking times
Sample Recipes Seitan Satay with Peanut Sauce

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Eating Raw Review

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(More customer reviews)I've got 3 other raw food books. I like this one the best. Not alot of hype. I appreciate that. It is written for idiots...begins by explaining the benefits of going raw. I'd been raw for a month prior to reading this book, but the motivation to continue was good.
Step by step instructions for soaking and sprouting methods (easy to follow chart included). I was too timid to attempt this process til I read this book. Way easy. My kitchen is sproutin' right now.

Recipes with easy to find ingredients is important. I've got to prepare food for 5 s.a.d. enthusiasts so I don't have alot of time or cash to fool around with. This book's got the recipes I can use. The live oatmeal recipe was easy to prepare and delish! It touches a couple of times on this or that being gluten free, which is vital for me. It clued me into nama shoyu...major gluten goin' on. Thanks, it sucks to have a recipe picked out and find out at the grocery store while reading a label that I can't have that specific thing. So, I run around putting the other ingredients back on the shelf coz that recipe's a wash! Another thing, Idiot's Guide tells you exactly what needs to be soaked for any given recipe. I ruined a recipe from another book because it didn't tell me to soak $12.00 worth of almonds. I had to go on you tube to watch other people explain it before one of them finally mentioned that they needed to be soaked. I was bummed. This book helps me not screw things up.

Idiot's Guide has great insider tips on kitchen appliances...wish I'd have read this before I bought my dehydrator, blender, food processor, and juicer. The dehydrator to buy is the Excalibur. The hours it saves in dehydrating time due to its design is crazy! Now I'm bummed with my cheapy Walmart one. There are alot of chip, cracker, and bread recipes I can't make very well without the good dehydrator. The recipes are found in other books not just this one, so it's not a negative against this book. The dehydrating chart is helpful, as well. I like how Idiot's Guide explains why you have increased temps at the beginning of some dehydrations and not others, and why it is still considered raw at these temps. Also, a Champion brand juicer is the one recommended by all raw foodists I've read from. This book explains very simply the differences in how they work and therefore why Champion is the brand recommended.

Basically, the book imparts alot of knowledge, little tips and info on nutition without being too sciencey. It defines some of the raw foodist lexicon. It's like having a friend explain lots of little facts as well as some biggies, in a fun to read manner. I'd buy it again if I didn't already own it!

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The Urban Vegan: 250 Simple, Sumptuous Recipes from Street Cart Favorites to Haute Cuisine Review

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(More customer reviews)I just happened upon The Urban Vegan at my local "booksellers" and did not realize it was so new, it is copyrighted for next year! Lucky me! I loved the tone of Dynise's voice in her introduction. It was if she was articulating my thoughts exactly but much more mellifluously. I do not have any vegan friends so to read her words was really cool.
I am sure this cookbook/lifestyle guide/armchair international adventure will do very well. I made the Cauliflower-Chickpea Tagine tonight (adding potatoes since I am wheat free at the moment) and It Was Amazing. Tomorrow I am cooking up the Pumpkin Risotto with Sage and Sundried Tomatoes and have my eyes on the Chickpea Paprikash for next week. Yum! I am sure I will not run out of "What's for dinner?" for a long time to come. Thanks Dynise!

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Eat, Drink & Be Vegan: Everyday Vegan Recipes Worth Celebrating Review

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(More customer reviews)I should have written a review of this cookbook long ago, but I finally just put my fork down (literally) after eating another one of ED&BV's fabulous recipes and said, "People must know how great this cookbook is!" And here I am :)
What did I just finish? The White Bean, Walnut, and Spinach Phyllo Rolls with the Traditional Cranberry Sauce. This is the second time I have made it. It is unbelievable. So easy, but so elegant and delicious. That's how I characterize a lot of Dreena's recipes - easy, elegant, delicious. This book is full of uncomplicated recipes with easy to find ingredients (at least, for me - I have a decently stocked Stop & Shop, Shaw's Supermarket, Whole Foods, and health food store within a 15-mile radius). The results have all been spectacular. I've also made (and LOVED) the Olive Oyl Pasta, White Bean & Rosemary Soup with Jumbo Croutons (OMG amazing), Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto with Toasted Almonds and Pine Nuts, Sweet Potato Lentil Chili, Rosemary Cornmeal Polenta Fries, Lentil Veggie Chimichangas with Hide the Lentils Tomato Sauce, Coconut Lime Basmati Rice, Cashew-Ginger Tofu, Thai Chick-Un Pizza, Orange Sesame Tofu, Olive and Sun-Dried Tomato Hummus, Savory French Lentils, Cimmamon Lime Quinoa with Apricots and Almonds, One Wild Chick Soup (honestly, it is as savory and filling as the best chicken and rice soup you would have eaten in your "omni" days), Veggie Tempeh Muffaletta (I think I'm in love...probably the most time-consuming recipe in the book, but it is sooooooo worth it!), Beats a BLT Sandwich! (sure does!), Spicy Sweet Potato and Peanut Stew with Polenta Croutons, Cumin Lime Tofu, Autumn Puree, Smoky Split Pea Soup, Quinoa Chickpea Confetti Casserole, Moroccan-Infused Phyllo Rolls with Balsamic Maple Sauce (mmmmmmm so good!), and Monkey Minestrone. I literally cannot believe how many more of the recipes I want to try. I think I am going to try almost every single one in the book! Dreena makes everything seem so accessible. I'd never made anything with tempeh before (despite began a vegan for a while now!) but with her clear, step by step instructions and sidebars, Dreena makes vegan cooking approachable for everyone, vegans and omnis alike. I can tell you, I have not even come close to using as many recipes in my other vegan cookbooks as I have with ED&BV. Let me be frank... I own several vegan cookbooks...all the major titles by all the major vegan cookbook authors...and this is, by FAR, the best of the bunch. If you own one vegan cookbook, make it ED&BV. You won't regret it!

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In Dreena Burton's first two best-selling vegan cookbooks, The Everyday Vegan and Vive le Vegan!, she offered a dazzling array of healthy, animal-free recipes, many of which were based on her experience as a mother of two young girls she and her husband are raising as vegans. Dreena also maintains an active website (www.everydayvegan.com) and blog (www.vivelevegan.blogspot.com) and has cultivated an enthusiastic audience for her family-oriented, nutritious recipes. In this, her third cookbook, Dreena turns her attention to celebratory food—imaginative, colorful, and delectable vegan fare perfect for all kinds of events, from romantic meals for two to dinner parties to full-on galas. Many of the recipes are kid-friendly, and all are appropriate for everyday meals as well.

The book includes 125 recipes and sixteen full-color photographs, as well as meal plans, cooking notes, and advice on vegan wines and beers. Recipes include Lentil & Veggie Chimichangas, Thai Chick-Un Pizza, White Bean Soup with Basil & Croutons, Tomato Dill Lentil Soup, Olive & Sundried Tomato Hummus, "Creamy" Cashew Dip with Fruit, Crêpes with Maple Butter Cream, 5-Star Ice "Cream" Sandwiches, and Hemp-anola (Dreena's take on granola).

Come celebrate with Dreena and impress your guests with these tempting animal-free recipes.

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