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Quick and Easy Vegan Comfort Food: 65 Everyday Meal Ideas for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner with Over 150 Great-Tasting, Down-Home Recipes
A born food-lover, raised in California on the best Mexican food in the country and her father 's traditional Southern soul food, Alicia C. Simpson couldn t imagine giving up her favorite dishes to become vegan. Animal-free food might be healthier, but could it match the tastes of home like fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, or a bowl of chili? Three years after Alicia to...more
Paperback, 228 pages
Published
October 6th 2009
by Experiment
(first published September 1st 2009)
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As someone who has been cooking far less time than I’d like to admit, I should explain that I’ve gotten quite skilled in the arts of chopping, mincing, and sautéing in a very short time, and I enjoy my kitchen prep time far more than I ever expected. I’m a vegan in a decidedly un-vegan land, so I had little choice when it came to learning to cook. After going vegan, the options were eat junk or go hungry.
Alicia C. Simpson, known to some as Vegan Guinea Pig, a writer for the Vegans of Color blog,...more
Alicia C. Simpson, known to some as Vegan Guinea Pig, a writer for the Vegans of Color blog,...more
Alicia C. Simpson's cookbook is easy and fun, and is sure to please new vegans and those who miss the comfort food of their meat-eating days. I like her basic approach to cooking; it makes remembering the recipes and recreating them (sans cookbook) easy. Still, many of the dishes in her cookbook are so basic that they were already in my repertoire. (I've been vegan for nearly 15 years.)
I love cookbooks with photos and this one has just a few, tucked into the center of the book. My only other com...more
I love cookbooks with photos and this one has just a few, tucked into the center of the book. My only other com...more
I have made these recipes countless times and have always enjoyed a hearty meal.
This was really the first book I really started cooking with. Each recipe is very simple with simple ingredients that don't intimidate a newbie to cooking or vegan cuisine.
But-
Most of the recipes at this stage in my development I still use but make a lot of improvisations for more flavor and originality. Vegan Comfort Food is very much a stepping stone for foundational meal basics. In a scenario where I would buy t...more
This was really the first book I really started cooking with. Each recipe is very simple with simple ingredients that don't intimidate a newbie to cooking or vegan cuisine.
But-
Most of the recipes at this stage in my development I still use but make a lot of improvisations for more flavor and originality. Vegan Comfort Food is very much a stepping stone for foundational meal basics. In a scenario where I would buy t...more
I enjoyed Simpson's friendly writing style throughout. The brief intros to the recipes kept me paging through sometimes very basic ideas to find the really interesting recipes.
I found a couple of ideas that I want to pursue. Simpson devotes a chapter to green smoothies, which basically encourages us to add greens to fruit smoothies. I'm willing to try it.
Also, she uses a lot of "raw" cashews (raw in quotes because all edible cashews are somewhat cooked) in ways that I am unfamiliar with, being...more
I found a couple of ideas that I want to pursue. Simpson devotes a chapter to green smoothies, which basically encourages us to add greens to fruit smoothies. I'm willing to try it.
Also, she uses a lot of "raw" cashews (raw in quotes because all edible cashews are somewhat cooked) in ways that I am unfamiliar with, being...more
Let’s face it, on a cold, rainy day or after a tough day there are times the only thing you want to do is snuggle up on the couch and feel the comfort of some warm stick-to-your ribs food or a sweet, sticky treat. Before you reach for the takeaway menu, try making something at home that will be even more delicious.
Alicia C. Simpson has compiled a collection of recipes in “Quick and Easy Vegan Comfort Food” that allowed her to continue enjoy food that was as tasty as the Southern Soul food with...more
Alicia C. Simpson has compiled a collection of recipes in “Quick and Easy Vegan Comfort Food” that allowed her to continue enjoy food that was as tasty as the Southern Soul food with...more
I have made approximately 8-10 recipes out of this so far and love it. I have not had a bad meal yet and the recipes are simple. On top of that, there are TONS of things to try in here. There isn't a pic for every recipe, but some. Unfortunately there is a cluster of pictures in the middle of the mac & cheese recipe (NOOK) which made that recipe a tad bit frustrating. That would be my only complaint so far.
I got this book from the library and figured that if there were enough recipes in here that I would like to try, I'd buy a copy for myself. There are a few, mostly soups and appetizer type things, that I'll try. But the section with the main courses failed to excite me. There is also a section near the beginning about green juicing, but they didn't seem all that green to me- most contained only one vegetable!
The recipes seem fine for the most part, but very very simple. TOO simple for anyone with much experience in the kitchen or with vegetarian food. Just reading the recipes I could see that they were nothing to make my mouth water - but it it may be good for someone trying to get into cooking for the first time.
The enchilada recipe is to die for! All of the recipes I have made in this book have been big hits with my family and that includes the non vegans who now request the vegan versions of meals!
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Mac and cheese recipe was a hit! Not especially diet friendly recipes, but definitely a must have book to get you over the hump of switching over to vegan if that's what you've decided.
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There just isn't enough original material here to justify the $18 price tag. Too many cheese and meat substitutes, too...
A mixture of basic and more elaborate recipes, for a variety of cooking levels. Almost no photos- a real drawback.
So far, the recipes look really good.
Satisfies cravings, quick and tasty. Notables so far: mac and cheeze; spicy pumpkin soup; red beans with quinoa; alphabet soup. Will be cooking from this for years!
Lots of great info in the first 30 pages... needs more pictures of the food though!
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