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The Green Kitchen: Delicious and Healthy Vegetarian Recipes for Every Day
A collection of delicious, healthy, vegetarian family recipes from the Green Kitchen Stories blog. David Frenkiel and Luise Vindahl Andersen are the new faces of exciting vegetarian food. Their Green Kitchen Stories blog has a cult following and inspires people around the world to cook super-tasty, healthy vegetarian recipes using only natural ingredients. In The Green Kitchen they will delight meat-eaters and non meat-eaters alike by sharing over 80 of their favourite recipes, which can be enjoyed by the whole family. Using everyday staples from their pantry and combining them with in-season produce, David and Luise tell the stories from their kitchen, and show how easy it is to create nourishing, well-balanced dishes on a daily basis. Whip up some Spinach muffins for breakfast, Warm faro salad for lunch, and Vegetable lasagne with lemon ricotta for a supper to share with friends. Have your cake and eat it too with Frozen pink cheesecake, Cherry and blueberry crumble, Licorice ice cream and more. As well as large dishes, they have an array of soups, salads, juices, small bites and picnic food that are uncomplicated to make but are bold in flavour and will have you wanting more. Start your love-affair with vegetables today with The Green Kitchen. Featuring stylish photographs throughout, this stunning book will show you how easy it is to cook delicious, sumptuous foods that taste great and are good for the body and the soul.
256 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 2013
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David Frenkiel
17 books26 followersFood writer and co-founder of healthy vegetarian recipes website Green Kitchen Stories.
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May 18, 2013
This book is based on a blog, thegreenkitchenstories. This blog won the 2013 Best Special Diet Saveur award, so it is clearly popular. If you like it, you'll probably like this book. However, before borrowing this book I hadn't read their blog and this type of cooking is just Not. For. Me.
For starters, the list of pantry essentials is *seven pages long* and includes annoying categories like 'superfoods' and 'fermented essentials'. If you're going to have a category for nuts and seeds, put *all* of the nuts and seeds in that category, not eighteen (eighteen!! And that's counting red, white and black quinoa as one item) in the nut section and another four in the superfood section. That's not how grouping works.
Secondly, the tone of this book is incredibly patronising. The first chapter gives some advice to parents. Please note the two authors do not have any qualifications in nutrition and childcare, this is just what they've learned from raising their one child. Based on this advice, their child is going to be obnoxious and, if possible, I would recommend avoiding eating with them and their one child, because item number 8 is don't worry about table manners. Awesome advice.
The breakfast section includes recipes for things like flourless pancakes made from banana and eggs (why?), flowered granola which features nordic super berries and dried flowers (of course. pantry staples in my household!). These ridiculous recipes are immediately followed by pictures of a hand holding asparagus and a tree framed against a blue sky (both super-relevant to both breakfast and nordic super berries). The light meal section has a recipe for a raw broccoli salad where the yoghurt dressing is, actually, just yoghurt. Like you cut up broccoli, add yoghurt, salt and pepper and there's lunch (followed by a photograph of the sun setting on a closed, curtained window). This section includes a recipe for wild nettle pesto that specifies that the pesto must be freshly picked but not picked in a city. ARGH!!
The smugness of The Green Kitchen bleeds off the page. I had absolutely no idea how much this cookbook irritated me until I began to write this review, but seriously, any recipe book that tries to tell me that wrapping mango, beans and corn in raw cabbage leaves and topping them with a 'raw sour cream' made of apple cider vingegar and raw cashew nuts is a taco must be mocked. I wish these smug, annoying bloggers would just stick to their smug annoying blogs which I can easily ignore and stop clogging up my library's bookshelves with their indulgent, impractical and ridiculously irritating vanity projects.
For starters, the list of pantry essentials is *seven pages long* and includes annoying categories like 'superfoods' and 'fermented essentials'. If you're going to have a category for nuts and seeds, put *all* of the nuts and seeds in that category, not eighteen (eighteen!! And that's counting red, white and black quinoa as one item) in the nut section and another four in the superfood section. That's not how grouping works.
Secondly, the tone of this book is incredibly patronising. The first chapter gives some advice to parents. Please note the two authors do not have any qualifications in nutrition and childcare, this is just what they've learned from raising their one child. Based on this advice, their child is going to be obnoxious and, if possible, I would recommend avoiding eating with them and their one child, because item number 8 is don't worry about table manners. Awesome advice.
The breakfast section includes recipes for things like flourless pancakes made from banana and eggs (why?), flowered granola which features nordic super berries and dried flowers (of course. pantry staples in my household!). These ridiculous recipes are immediately followed by pictures of a hand holding asparagus and a tree framed against a blue sky (both super-relevant to both breakfast and nordic super berries). The light meal section has a recipe for a raw broccoli salad where the yoghurt dressing is, actually, just yoghurt. Like you cut up broccoli, add yoghurt, salt and pepper and there's lunch (followed by a photograph of the sun setting on a closed, curtained window). This section includes a recipe for wild nettle pesto that specifies that the pesto must be freshly picked but not picked in a city. ARGH!!
The smugness of The Green Kitchen bleeds off the page. I had absolutely no idea how much this cookbook irritated me until I began to write this review, but seriously, any recipe book that tries to tell me that wrapping mango, beans and corn in raw cabbage leaves and topping them with a 'raw sour cream' made of apple cider vingegar and raw cashew nuts is a taco must be mocked. I wish these smug, annoying bloggers would just stick to their smug annoying blogs which I can easily ignore and stop clogging up my library's bookshelves with their indulgent, impractical and ridiculously irritating vanity projects.
July 28, 2015
The collaboration of a former junk-food loving vegetarian and an omnivore health-foodist results, happily, in a vegetarian cookbook with a nutrition focus. As well as some lovely original combinations (I love their take on chorizo), there are some great ideas for making lighter versions of classics like 'beanotto' instead of risotto and wrapping falafel in cabbage leaves instead of bread (and baking instead of frying). The store cupboard section will be helpful for folks looking to get into a wider range of healthy food. Not all the recipes appealed to me of course (I hate raw broccoli) and there was a surprising quantity of dairy. The food is imaginative throughout, including in the breakfasts, drinks and desserts sections, and the photography is very nicely done. I do wish they had been a bit more thorough in offering vegan options - a recipe for savoury corn and millet muffins (mmm!) which calls for 3 eggs, yogurt and feta cheese is introduced with 'we often make a vegan version of these for our daughter's packed lunch'. Great, can I have that version please?!
November 18, 2020
Literally every recipe in the book comes with a forenote of hippy parenting advice, which I found extremely irritating!
Also you must buy shitloads of ingredients to get started, the pictures look cute but i dont find the recipes very practical at all !
Also you must buy shitloads of ingredients to get started, the pictures look cute but i dont find the recipes very practical at all !
October 24, 2017
I love David & Luisa's blog, app & both books! I've been following them ever since I've decided to treat my body to some healthy food and implements some important changes in my life! Although I try to be 70% of the time vegan, I do love eggs & cheese from time to time. And THE GREEN KITCHEN STORIES & their app, books and blog is my place to go. Packed with healthy, nutritious and absolutely delicious, you can help but fall with vegetables all over again and again. Every recipe is accompanied by wonderful, mouthwatering photographs which just wanna make you cook and try every recipe. David & Luisa are my biggest inspiration in the industry and I hope I can follow their footsteps in the right direction.
After re-reading the book second time and discovering GK Travels, I must say this book is a little bland compare to the GKT ! That one just speaks to my heart more !
After re-reading the book second time and discovering GK Travels, I must say this book is a little bland compare to the GKT ! That one just speaks to my heart more !
August 23, 2014
Ignoring the hippy overtones and parenting advice, few things in a cookbook annoy me more than pictures accompanying recipes that are not actually cooked.
This book has them in spades - the rhubarb, apple and yellow split pea stew a case in point. The pictured dish has obviously never experienced the heat of a flame - when cooked according to instructions the resultant meal looks brown and unappetising.
This book has them in spades - the rhubarb, apple and yellow split pea stew a case in point. The pictured dish has obviously never experienced the heat of a flame - when cooked according to instructions the resultant meal looks brown and unappetising.
October 5, 2015
Totally what I needed, for more creative dishes! I liked the basic methods also (ghee, nut milk, nut butter, tomato sauce and more..)
January 19, 2023
I love this cookbook, unlike some reviewers. I didn’t find the authors preachy at all. The stories and photos are great. Only a few of the recipes don’t have photos. I have most of the ingredients listed for recipes, and the authors do list alternatives. Most of the recipes can easily changed to Vegan as well.
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April 9, 2021I'd like to include more grains etc in my diet, but this book is a bit extreme. My 6 kids aren't going to go for Beet Bourguignon or Wild Nettle pesto, even if topped off with Spirulina Chocolate truffles.
July 30, 2017
A lot of recipes with difficult ingredients
June 16, 2020
I love The Green Kitchen books, fabulous recipes than even meat eaters enjoy. I totally recommend all of them. The Banana and Cocoa granola is the best granola ever.
August 28, 2020
Un bellissimo volume, curato e pieno di ricette. Alcune molto laboriose, altre più veloci. Ho preferito la versione dei viaggi, con piatti di tutto il mondo, ma anche questo vale la pena.
August 30, 2022
Liian vähän oikeasti kasvisruokaa, useimmissa käytetty maitoa tai munia. Myös hiukan liikaa terveyspiperrystä ja raaka-ainekikkailua omaan makuun. Kauniit kuvat.
August 3, 2016
Ik moet om te beginnen eerlijk toegeven dat ik geen vegetariër ben. Gezonde recepten en variatie zijn voor mij echter wel belangrijke factoren bij het kiezen van een kookboek. Eigenlijk tracht ik zoveel mogelijk te koken volgens het principe 'TE is nooit goed'. Afwisseling moet er zijn, zeker wanneer je elke dag van de week een maaltijd op tafel tracht te toveren. Daardoor kook ik dus ook af en toe een vegetarisch gerecht en daar vind je er in dit boek een hele hoop van.
Mijn persoonlijke voorkeur gaat uit naar kookboeken met matte in plaats van glanzende pagina's. Het lijkt wel alsof de foto's en recepten daardoor nog meer tot hun recht komen en bovendien lijken ze een boek degelijkheid en authenticiteit te laten uitstralen. Die twee termen komen ook heel goed van pas wanneer je 'The Green Kitchen' probeert te omschrijven. Zelf storm ik niet meteen op de recepten af wanneer ik een kookboek voor het eerst bekijk.
Ik vind het leuk om in de inleiding de auteurs en hun idealen wat beter te leren kennen. De 'In onze voorraadkast'-rubriek is hier dan weer net iets interessanter dan bij een ander kookboek. Ik heb doorgaans wel twee soorten noten en gedroogd fruit in huis, maar die verdwijnen in het niets bij het lezen van deze ingrediënten. Gelukkig hoef je ze niet allemaal in één keer aan te schaffen en kan je soms een bepaald ingrediënt wel door iets anders vervangen.
Van een lekkere en gezonde start van je dag tot een zoete afsluiter om diezelfde dag af te sluiten. Maar evengoed lichte lunches, snacks die je mee kan nemen én er toch smakelijk blijven uitzien, kleine hapjes, lekkere drankjes en recepten die je kan gebruiken om een heuse feestmaal te bereiden voor je gasten. Zowel zoete als hartige gerechten komen aan bod in dit boek.
Inspiratie à volonté dus voor wie eens iets anders wil als een vegetarische burger met aardappels en groenten. Dat die gerechten niet enkel smakelijk klinken maar er ook lekker uitzien weten we dankzij de prachtige foto's die de recepten in dit boek aanvullen. Mede door deze knappe en kleurrijke foto's, maar ook door de persoonlijke introductie van elke nieuwe rubriek en de voorstelling van elk individueel gerecht zorgen er voor dat 'The Green Kitchen' een heerlijk boek is waar je met alle plezier in zal bladeren om ideetjes op te doen.
Zelf heb ik er alleszins al een aantal die ik heel graag een keer wil uittesten. De banaan-kokos pannenkoekjes zonder bloem, een broccoli-salade met granaatappel en rozijnen, de paté van salie en walnoot maar ook de knapperige kerrie-eiersalade … zijn hier nog maar enkele van.
Mijn persoonlijke voorkeur gaat uit naar kookboeken met matte in plaats van glanzende pagina's. Het lijkt wel alsof de foto's en recepten daardoor nog meer tot hun recht komen en bovendien lijken ze een boek degelijkheid en authenticiteit te laten uitstralen. Die twee termen komen ook heel goed van pas wanneer je 'The Green Kitchen' probeert te omschrijven. Zelf storm ik niet meteen op de recepten af wanneer ik een kookboek voor het eerst bekijk.
Ik vind het leuk om in de inleiding de auteurs en hun idealen wat beter te leren kennen. De 'In onze voorraadkast'-rubriek is hier dan weer net iets interessanter dan bij een ander kookboek. Ik heb doorgaans wel twee soorten noten en gedroogd fruit in huis, maar die verdwijnen in het niets bij het lezen van deze ingrediënten. Gelukkig hoef je ze niet allemaal in één keer aan te schaffen en kan je soms een bepaald ingrediënt wel door iets anders vervangen.
Van een lekkere en gezonde start van je dag tot een zoete afsluiter om diezelfde dag af te sluiten. Maar evengoed lichte lunches, snacks die je mee kan nemen én er toch smakelijk blijven uitzien, kleine hapjes, lekkere drankjes en recepten die je kan gebruiken om een heuse feestmaal te bereiden voor je gasten. Zowel zoete als hartige gerechten komen aan bod in dit boek.
Inspiratie à volonté dus voor wie eens iets anders wil als een vegetarische burger met aardappels en groenten. Dat die gerechten niet enkel smakelijk klinken maar er ook lekker uitzien weten we dankzij de prachtige foto's die de recepten in dit boek aanvullen. Mede door deze knappe en kleurrijke foto's, maar ook door de persoonlijke introductie van elke nieuwe rubriek en de voorstelling van elk individueel gerecht zorgen er voor dat 'The Green Kitchen' een heerlijk boek is waar je met alle plezier in zal bladeren om ideetjes op te doen.
Zelf heb ik er alleszins al een aantal die ik heel graag een keer wil uittesten. De banaan-kokos pannenkoekjes zonder bloem, een broccoli-salade met granaatappel en rozijnen, de paté van salie en walnoot maar ook de knapperige kerrie-eiersalade … zijn hier nog maar enkele van.
January 22, 2014
The content of this cookbook and its lovely matte photographs was impressive, but I certainly found these vegetarian recipes to be outside of my comfort zone from preparation to ingredients ... if you want to change things up a bit to be a little more kitchen adventurous, this cookbook might be just right for you.
September 29, 2013
This book has a beautifully fresh and original approach to vegetarian cooking. I particularly like the recipes that reflect the authors' Scandinavian heritage. Can't wait to try the rye and spelt crispbread!
November 4, 2013
One wonderful and beautiful cookbook about whole foods. I have a plant based diet and these two taught me so much. Little stories and amazing food photography and creative food creation make this book perfect and easy to understand.
October 8, 2013
recipes just aren't the the ones we make. Lots of tofu, almond milk, sugar substitutes, seeds, grains and nuts
February 18, 2014
I did not bookmark a single recipe (a first for me)...I'm all for "hippie food" but this was a bit out there even for me. Beautiful pictures though.
July 23, 2015
Another fantastic cookbook by David and Luise with stunning photographs and delicious vegetarian recipes!
April 9, 2016
Not really for me - not tempted by anything except... the cauliflower pizza base, Gave it the extra star and it remains on my book shelf!
July 13, 2016
Tosi kiva ruokakirja, ei edes huomaa, että se on vain kasviksista. Mukana myös aamupaloja ja piknikeväitä. Raikas ulkoasu ja houkuttelevat reseptit, pitänee hankkia itselleenkin.
March 11, 2014
Wow. Some of these recipes look awesome. Can't wait to try them out!
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