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Share your favourite Vegan/Vegetarian Cookbooks/Blogs/Websites.

TheFortField · 2018-09-03 15:54:22

I adore cookbooks! I love discovering new recipes, it’s fun experimenting, tweaking them and making them my own. I have about 70 cookbooks, all of them were purchased during my meat/fish eating phase. I’ve cleared out the bookshelf in my kitchen to make way for new (Whole Food Plant Based) cookbooks. Here are my first two…

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I adore cookbooks! I love discovering new recipes, it’s fun experimenting, tweaking them and making them my own. I have about 70 cookbooks, all of them were purchased during my meat/fish eating phase.

I’ve cleared out the bookshelf in my kitchen to make way for new (Whole Food Plant Based) cookbooks. Here are my first two purchases:

BOSH!: Simple Recipes. Amazing Food. All Plants. The Fastest-Selling Vegan Cookbook Ever https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/000826290X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_SjvJBb752DSSR

The How Not To Die Cookbook: Over 100 Recipes to Help Prevent and Reverse Disease https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509844333/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_ElvJBb65XCPT5

I would really like to hear about your favourite cookbooks, blogs, recipe websites

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#2 03-09-2018 5:32pm
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I want to get Greger's book - I saw it in Bláth na Gréine yesterday, it looked interesting.

I like So What Do You Eat by Liz Cook

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Vegan Indian Cooking by Anupy Singla

This last one packs a powerful punch, I usually quarter her recommendations for spices. But it's taught me a lot about creating authentic dishes.

Everyone should get/read Skinny Bitch and Skinny Bitch in the Kitch by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin. They're desperately American but a hoot all the same.

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Vegan Richa’s - Indian cooking

A fantastic book if you like Indian food. I’ve cooked up some amazing food from this book.

Minimalist Baker’s - Everyday cooking

Ingredients kept to a minimum but not lacking flavour or style for it.

I’ll also link a recipe for scones later. The simplest but nicest scones I’ve ever had.

Thug Kitchen - eat like you give a ****

Has some really simple but powerfully flavoursome food. There’s a South American (Brazilian I think) bean stew in that book that is simply stunning.

There’s a lassie on instagram too that I’ve used for the sweeter things. She is fantastically dedicated to replace some favourites with vegan alternatives. I’ve read some of her stuff and she has done some simple recipes 20-30 times with minimal changes to perfect a recipe. She usually only uses 8 ingredients

Brandi Doming - thevegan8

Edit - sorry but I don’t know how to embed any link to those books.

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#4 04-09-2018 11:36am
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Vegan Stoner Cookbook, great art and easy recipes: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vegan-Stoner-Cookbook-Recipes-Munch/dp/1607744643/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1536056969&sr=8-1&keywords=vegan+stoner

The vegan Zombie, great cookbook that is done like an apocalyptic graphic novel
https://www.amazon.co.uk/VEGAN-ZOMBIE-COOK-SUR/dp/3955750132/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536057000&sr=1-1&keywords=vegan+zombie

Two of Mary Mattern's books, she's Blink 182's chef that travels and cooks vegan for them and is really good:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nom-Yourself-Simple-Vegan-Cooking/dp/1583335854/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1536057102&sr=1-1&keywords=mary+mattern

I'd like to get the thug kitchen books, bosh and also Gaz Oakley's book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vegan-100-incredible-recipes-avantgardevegan/dp/1787131246/ref=pd_sim_14_4?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1787131246&pd_rd_r=7c6fab61-b02d-11e8-b0cd-5590e01106d2&pd_rd_w=t8Q3P&pd_rd_wg=IDpVx&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_p=84a780ce-12ed-4544-a9d7-b922bd82349c&pf_rd_r=M8070ZVT0V91GNGX8VGC&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=M8070ZVT0V91GNGX8VGC

He has a great youtube channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_wD2zydD_g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad4kA8e51g4

A few of my friends had the Cornucopia and Happy Pear books to bring this a little closer to home and they love them.

Happy Pear also have a 5 minute dinner series on youtube which is awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP6eXpwIths

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#5 04-09-2018 10:05pm
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Thanks for all the book recommendations guys

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As promised in my above post.

The best scones I’ve ever had. And possibly the simplest to make.

http://wallflowerkitchen.com/vegan-scones-clotted-cream/

Please give it a try if you like scones.

I didn’t make the clotted cream beacuse I never liked my scones with cream.

Also fire in some fruit. I’ve made these with raisins or with dates.

Enjoy.

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#7 06-09-2018 11:38am
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Thanks klopparama, it almost makes me want to make scones.

Can I tell you though, we never buy white flour or sugar, so that recipe might be a bit awkward. :D

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davidjtaylor wrote: »

Thanks klopparama, it almost makes me want to make scones.

Can I tell you though, we never buy white flour or sugar, so that recipe might be a bit awkward. :D

No doubt white flour and sugar are a poor mans food but those scones are so fluffy and lovely.

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#9 06-09-2018 11:48am
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No doubt white flour and sugar are a poor mans food but those scones are so fluffy and lovely.

Which is odd, isn't it - white flour is industrially processed so should be dearer! Mad world.

As for sugar, living without it for decades has shown me it's unnecessary. It's one of the SOS foods, sugar, oil and salt. I have to admit to loving black salt...:rolleyes:

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#10 22-10-2018 9:08pm
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Deliciously Ella The Plant-Based Cookbook: The fastest selling vegan cookbook of all time https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473639212/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_YXIZBbCKAD396

I picked up this for £7.99 on Amazon last week, it retails for €25 in Easons. There are some nice recipes in the book, it might make a nice gift for someone.

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#11 06-11-2018 2:46pm
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Peace-Parsnips-Vegan-Cooking-Everyone/dp/071817951X So many delicious recipes that really work. Great book

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#12 26-11-2018 9:59pm
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Fresh India: 130 Quick, Easy and Delicious Vegetarian Recipes for Every Day

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0241200423/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i5f.BbQV84QWV

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#13 03-12-2018 3:09am
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I picked up Forks Over Knives - The Cookbook for £8.85 on Amazon.

It’s a lovely book, very informative and has lots of tasty recipes. However, if you’re the sort of person who likes colour pictures alongside every recipe, this book is not for you.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1615190619/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_G5ibCbHV85X9H

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#14 09-12-2018 12:39pm
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Loving all of these ideas thanks as im a cookbook fiend also.

Have just ordered the deliciously Ellla and bosh books from Amazon.

At the moment, I'm eating fish and dairy it no meat. I'm now dropping milk for soya and oat milk and using vegan spreads and next steps will be cheese(which will price much more difficult as I love cheese) I'm eating too much cheese and it's not good for you!

I'm a very good cook so hoping these books will broaden my choices and give me inspiration.

I'm not going to beat myself up as I'm taking this one step at a time and know where my end game is.

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#15 09-12-2018 2:45pm
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Good on you, anewme. Remember, it's a learning curve, don't worry about things - you'll get there in the end, just enjoy the journey. Nothing to do with veganism is 'too hard', it's simply a matter of having the right knowledge, which takes time and patience.

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