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The Colorful Family Table: Seasonal Plant-Based Recipes for the Whole Family

Ilene Godofsky Moreno

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Delight your family's palate with a rainbow of delicious, plant-based dishes!

Have an array of mouths to feed? Stubborn preteen, picky toddler, or a spouse skeptical of anything labeled “vegan”? The Colorful Family Table is here to help.

Certified health coach, plant-based food blogger and author of The Colorful Kitchen Ilene Godofsky returns with more than 90 all-new

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Sep 30, 2019 Janet rated it it was amazing

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When a super-speed reader doesn't have a car for a month due to a predatory car insurance industry, you can get a LOT of reading done!!

I received a temporary digital Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

From the publisher, as I do not repeat the contents or story of books in reviews, I let them do it as they do it better than I do .

Delight your family's palate with a rainbow of delicious, plant-based dishes!

Have an array of mouths to feed? When a super-speed reader doesn't have a car for a month due to a predatory car insurance industry, you can get a LOT of reading done!!

I received a temporary digital Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

From the publisher, as I do not repeat the contents or story of books in reviews, I let them do it as they do it better than I do 😸.

Delight your family's palate with a rainbow of delicious, plant-based dishes!

Have an array of mouths to feed? Stubborn preteen, picky toddler, or a spouse who is skeptical of anything labelled “vegan”? The Colorful Family Table is here to help.

Certified health coach, plant-based food blogger and author of The Colorful Kitchen Ilene Godofsky returns with more than 90 all-new plant-based recipes perfect for your family’s table. Created from simple, familiar ingredients, Ilene’s recipes are reader-tested to please even the most finicky family members.

Inside, discover healthy, seasonal recipes, including:

Watermelon and Tofu Feta Salad, Zucchini Corn Fritters with Basil, Aioli Bacon, Kale & Apple Sammie Pumpkin-Stuffed Pumpkin Mac n Cheese, Everything Bagel Pancakes & Spring Veggies with Hollandaise Sauce, Blueberry Quinoa Cornbread Muffins, Tempeh Tacos with Peach Salsa, and Ross's Rainbow Veggie Kabobs.

With easy-to-follow instructions (even for the kitchen novice!) and prep times designed for busy families, making meals as nutritious and delicious as they are eye-catching has never been easier. Make your family table a colourful family table, and spend more time enjoying the people who matter the most.

This is a great book for plant-based diets and for those wanting to incorporate more "colurs" into their meals for themselves and their children. The recipes use the best of the season produce around and the excellent photos make everything look yummy. If you are not a vegan or a flexitarian/felxivegan you would find it easy to add proteins or dairy (etc.) to these meals to make everyone at the table happy.

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Oct 23, 2019 Alicia Bayer rated it really liked it

I enjoyed the seasonal aspect of this plant-based cookbook, and loved the fact that a professional photo accompanied every recipe (other than the staples at the end). The author is likeable and chatty, and she gives a little blurb about each recipe.

As a mother of young kids, Moreno focuses on healthy but approachable foods that kids are likely to enjoy. That said, these are definitely better suited to young kids who have grown up eating this way or who are too young to know better. That I enjoyed the seasonal aspect of this plant-based cookbook, and loved the fact that a professional photo accompanied every recipe (other than the staples at the end). The author is likeable and chatty, and she gives a little blurb about each recipe.

As a mother of young kids, Moreno focuses on healthy but approachable foods that kids are likely to enjoy. That said, these are definitely better suited to young kids who have grown up eating this way or who are too young to know better. That "grilled cheese" with tofu and colorful sweet potatoes is going to look fantastic to a young vegan child who's never known different but is going to total disappoint some kid who's grown up on grilled cheese and suddenly gets them switched with this. That said, most of the recipes are really attractive and many are likely to be enjoyed by kids of all ages. Most of the recipes are adult-friendly too, and they're relatively simple to make.

The recipes are not designed gluten free and no substitutions are provided, though many are naturally GF. Moreno uses spelt flour (which contains gluten) and occasionally oat flour (which is technically GF if you buy certified GF but still causes harm to a great number of folks with Celiac and gluten intolerance) or chickpea flour for most flours. No nutritional information is provided.

Heads up to pumpkin spice lovers and haters... the whole fall menu is pretty much pumpkin spice and sweet potato (which is pretty similar to pumpkin). I happen to like those but if you don't, you may hate fall with her cookbook. :)

While I cook by the seasons, I cook mostly around what we grow in our garden and forage, meaning that her seasonal foods are different than mine. She's heavy on store-bought (or farmer's market bought) seasonal foods like figs and some of her seasons are off from mine because she relies on stores (for instance, she has pears in her winter menu when pears ripen on our trees in early fall). As an example of eating with the seasons here, spring in our house means we eat tons of wild asparagus, greens (especially nettles, which are utterly delicious and crazy healthy), ramps, morels, etc. I would not expect a mainstream cookbook to feature wild foods, but it's less useful for those of us who work to produce much of our own foods.

All things considered, this is a great cookbook, though. I bookmarked a ton of recipes to try (I'll update this review as I do that) and I was pleased to note that a great many of them feature ingredients I already have in my cupboard. I love that she provides recipes for basic vegan staples at the end too, such as coconut whipped cream, bacon tempeh, pumpkin pie spice and cashew sour cream.

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Nov 17, 2019 Annie rated it really liked it

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Originally published on my blog Nonstop Reader.

The Colorful Family Table is a cookbook and plant-based tutorial with family friendly (and colorful) recipes by Ilene Godofsky Moreno. Due out 3rd Dec 2019 from BenBella books, it's 256 pages and will be available in ebook and paperback formats.

These recipes are arranged around (mostly) locally available seasonal ingredients. As such, with variations in growing and crop maturation differences, some adjustments for locally available produce will ...more

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Nov 23, 2019 Deanna Nowlin rated it it was amazing

I really liked this cookbook. I liked it enough that I ordered her cookbook The Colorful Kitchen.

I tried a variety of her recipes and was pleased.

1. Ingredients: Many of her recipes have a lot of ingredients, but she almost never includes anything that would not be in a well stocked vegan pantry or fridge. Basic grains, beans, nuts, fruits, and veggies are included in the recipes. Most of the time, I have the ingredients.

2. Ease of preparation. Really easy. A few minutes of prep time, and I am ...more

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Oct 27, 2019 Natalie Gardner rated it really liked it

Wow, I was so impressed with this cook book! I found it really easy to follow and loved the bright, vibrant food photographs. The ingredients used were readily available and easy to get hold of – which is often a problem with some recipe books I find, which include a variety of weird and wonderful ingredients.. I found the recipes were also really family friendly which was great to see. I found quite a few I know the boys will enjoy.

One of the other great features for me was the seasonal ...more

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Oct 08, 2019 Carro Herdegen rated it liked it

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Language: G (0 swears, 0 “f”); Mature Content: G; Violence: G
Moreno’s life has a lot to do with food as she is a health coach, recipe developer, food blogger, and food photographer. In this cookbook, she shares her ideas for healthy eating with each recipe -- recipes that are beautifully illustrated with her own photographs in such a way to make you race into the kitchen to try them yourself.
I like balance in my diet, and I often eat a little of everything. Moreno’s recipes are vegan friendly, ...more

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Dec 03, 2019 Alexandra rated it it was amazing

Happy pub day to this cookbook!

If anyone knows me, they know I hate vegetables. That being said - I know I need to start liking more vegetables. This book is the way to it!!

This book is organized by season and which recipes are great for that season. I love the classic recipes with a new take on them (like cauli-broc tater tots!)

I made the smoky Brussels chips (and I HATE Brussels sprouts) and they were delicious. The author claimed that she had her picky toddler chanting "more Brussels!" & ...more

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Oct 10, 2019 Ashley Hite rated it liked it

Blogger and healthy eating guru Ilene Godofsky Moreno returns with her new book The Colorful Family Table. This cookbook is full of healthy vegetarian/plant-based recipes for the whole family. She has some good options that will appeal to the young and old palates in the family. Since she is catering to a younger demographic the ingredients and spices are very basic. She says that she has left the recipes a lot more kid friendly when it comes to flavors and spices but I wish the recipes had ...more

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Nov 26, 2019 Paul McDaniel marked it as to-read

I loved reading The Colorful Family Table! Everyone, no matter their tastes or cooking style, will find lots of great recipes and advice within the book. I truly found it hard to quit reading despite having to go to sleep! The book's recipes are sorted out by seasons which is excellent in helping identify fresh in-season meal ingredients! The introduction section is a must-read providing a large amount of knowledge! The recipe photos are vivid and the recipes are perfectly explained! The ...more

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Oct 22, 2019 Natasha Brown rated it it was amazing

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I received a digital Advanced Reader Copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I loved this! I have an entire house full of picky and stubborn eaters, and being able to discover delicious foods that we all can enjoy was "perfect". I'm not a chef. As a matter of fact, I'm not even the cook in the family, so I appreciated that these were all simple recipes that I could cook, and spend a lot of time in the kitchen! If you are looking for kid-friendly recipes, and have ...more

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