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Celebrate Vegan: 200 Life-Affirming Recipes for Occasions Big and Small

jill — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:28:56 +0000

Celebrate Vegan uses mainly pantry staples, although a few recipes call for more exotic ingredients. Seasoned chefs and cooking novices alike will find the chatty recipes easy to follow. Most recipes are simple, while more elaborate holiday treats invite readers to explore new techniques. Sidebars bring to light unfamiliar holidays, as well as interesting facts and cooking tips. This book covers the spectrum of holidays from across the globe—public, religious, and even quirky, lesser-known holidays. Celebrate Vegan also includes recipes for important milestones such as birthdays, weddings and anniversaries, as well as menus for everyday celebrations like “Girls’ Night In,” “Snow Day,” “Tailgate Party,” and “Slumber Party.” Dynise Balcavage is the author of Celebrate Vegan: 200 Life-Affirming Recipes for Occasions Big and Small, and The Urban Vegan: 250 Simple, Sumptuous Recipes, from Street-Cart Favorites to Haute Cuisine and eleven books for young readers.

The Allergy-Free Cook Bakes Bread: Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Egg-Free

jill — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:57:55 +0000

Dealing with any food allergy is a challenge, especially when you find yourself coping with more than one of the common food allergens: gluten, wheat, dairy, or eggs, as well as soy, corn, tree nuts, or peanuts. Food writer and critic Laura Sadowski delivers recipes that are gluten-free, vegan, and healthful with a few indulgences, classic essentials, and everything in between. In The Allergy-Free Cook Bakes Bread proves that restricted ingredients do not equal restricted diets. These recipes have universal appeal and are everyone’s favorites: rich sweet breads, muffins cinnamon rolls, and doughnuts, as well as tasty crackers, biscuits, tortillas, and soft, hearty yeast breads, rolls, pitas, bagels, and pizza crusts. Also provided is information on how to interpret ingredient labels, keep food allergens out of your environment, and get all the nutrients you need on a specialized diet along with essential information on gluten-free flours, stocking a gluten-free pantry, and how to make substitutions for milk, eggs, butter, and other problem ingredients.

The Inspired Vegan: Seasonal Ingredients, Creative Recipes, Mouthwatering Menus

jill — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:50:28 +0000

Bryant Terry offers more than just a collection of recipes, in the spirit of jazz jam sessions and hip hop ciphers, The Inspired Vegan presents a collage of food, storytelling, music, and art. Bryant shares his favorite preparation / cooking techniques and simple recipes—basics to help strengthen your foundation for home cooking and equip you with tools for culinary improvisation and kitchen creativity. He also invites you to his table to enjoy seasonal menus inspired by family memories, social movements, unsung radical heroes, and visions for the future. Ultimately, The Inspired Vegan will help you become proficient in creating satisfying meals that use whole, fresh, seasonal ingredients and are nutritionally balanced—and full of surprising, mouthwatering flavor combinations.

Rawesomely Vegan!: The Ultimate Raw Vegan Recipe Book

jill — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:43:15 +0000

Finally: raw vegan recipes that taste as good as they are good for you! You know that your raw vegan diet brings out the best in your food, and the recipes in this book will make your meals all the better. This collection packs a double-whammy punch of uber-nutrition and over-the-top flavor with every recipe, with dishes such as:

Myan Chocolate Shake-Down Shake
Oceanic Greens with Orange Sesame Dressing
Nut Crackers with Garlic Woah
Banana Vanilla Ice with Blueberry Drizzle
and many, many more!

Mike Snyder is the president of TheRawDiet.com and an expert on vegetarian and vegan raw foods nutrition. He has been active in the raw foods community for more than ten years. He has studied with Viktoras Kulvinskas, the founder of the modern raw foods movement, and with Gabriel Cousens, one of its best-known proponents.

The Healthy Voyager’s Global Kitchen:150 Plant-Based Recipes From Around the World

jill — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:37:57 +0000

Author Carolyn Scott-Hamilton, creator of the popular website www.healthyvoyager.com, shows you how to re-create the meals and tastes you’ve been dreaming of ever since that honeymoon trip to the Caribbean—or even just that last trip to your neighborhood Indian restaurant! And with gluten-free, low-glycemic, soy-free, low-fat, and raw-food notations on every recipe, everyone can join in the fun of global plant-based cuisine, no matter what special diet they’re on. If you’re looking to add some tasty international inspiration to your dining table, let The Healthy Voyager’s Global Kitchen be your guide. You’ll be treated to 150 of the best international recipes from across the globe—all veganized for your enjoyment. From Greece’s epic gyros, to hearty Colombian empanadas, to heavenly Japanese matcha green tea ice cream, you’ll globe-trot your way through the most flavorful plant-based fare this planet has to offer!

Raw and Beyond: How Omega-3 Nutrition Is Transforming the Raw Food Paradigm

jill — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:30:58 +0000

Victoria Boutenko, Elaina Love, and Chad Sarno have been leaders in the raw food movement since the 1990s. Each of them maintained and promoted the 100 percent raw diet for years. Since then, all three have independently arrived at the same conclusion: that a totally raw diet is not necessarily the best diet. One reason for their shift in thinking is the latest scientific research on the impact of omega essential fatty acids on human health. Studies show that if eaten in excess, omega-6s can cause inflammation and obesity. A typical raw food diet contains large quantities of nuts and seeds, most of which are extremely high in omega-6s and low in omega-3s.

Raw foodists are not the only ones lacking sufficient omega-3s in their diet. Because omega-3s are easily damaged by heat, anyone whose diet is high in processed foods and oils probably has an omega-3 deficiency. Many symptoms of this deficiency can be mistaken for other health problems or nutrient deficiencies, so few people realize the cause of their ailments. Boutenko’s chapters on omegas provide readers more in-depth nutritional information. One hundred recipes—from raw to steamed and lightly cooked dishes, from appetizers to desserts—offer readers the means to enjoy a more sustainable, healthy, and energetic lifestyle.

Raw Desserts: Mouthwatering Recipes for Cookies, Cakes, Pastries, Pies, and More

jill — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:42:17 +0000

Savor a rich, raw true as it melts in your mouth and knowyou’re doing your body a favor! This sequel to Raw Food showshow you can eat sweets every day while providing your body withplenty of nutrition and vitality. Here you’ll find recipes for lusciousdesserts, cakes, pastries, ice cream, cakes, cookies, and smoothiesand other beverages. Enjoy fruit, organic vanilla powder, cocoa, andother unique super-foods in their purest form. How wonderful tobe able to share a treat with family and friends that is delicious,healthy, and even good for the environment!All raw food goodies in this book are made with natural, authenticingredients that are not heated over 42ºC (108ºF), and all the recipesare naturally free of white sugar, gluten, eggs, and lactose. Startyour raw lifestyle with a dessert!

Vegan Junk Food: 225 Sinful Snacks that are Good for the Soul

jill — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:32:09 +0000

Did you know that Fruit Loops, Baked Lay’s Potato Chips, and Cracker Jacks are vegan? Going vegan doesn’t mean you have to only eat broccoli and tofu. It doesn’t mean you have to eat “healthy” all the time. Most importantly, it doesn’t mean you have to give up on eating just for fun. Everyone likes to pig out every now and then and vegans crave salt, sugar, and comfort food just like the rest of us. “Vegan Junk Food” provides 225 delicious recipes like: Barbecue “Chicken” Pizza; Chocolate Raspberry Muffins; Vegan Whoopie Pies; Hawaiian Rum Cake; “Bacon” Wrapped Water Chestnuts; and, Jalapeno Poppers. With 2 inserts of full-colour photos, “Vegan Junk Food” will have readers hungry for more!

Quick-Fix Vegan: Healthy, Homestyle Meals in 30 Minutes Or Less

jill — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:24:11 +0000

Robin Robertson’s Quick-Fix Vegan provides 150 vegan recipes ranging from starters, snacks, salads, sauces, and sandwiches to stovetop suppers, pastas, soups, and desserts that can all be prepared in 30 minutes or less. Quick-Fix Vegan also features “Make-Ahead Bakes,” convenient recipes that are assembled ahead of time (in less than 30 minutes) and then baked before serving.Quick-Fix Vegan draws upon a myriad of ethnic influences including French, Mexican, Moroccan, Mediterranean, Greek, Cajun, East Asian, Italian, and Middle Eastern, and features recipes such as Spicy Black Bean Hummus with Orange, Korean Hotpot, Rotini with Creamy Avocado-Herb Sauce, Moroccan-Spiced Pumpkin Soup, BBQ Pinto-Portobello Sandwiches, Burmese Ginger Salad, Autumn Harvest Gratin, and Catalan-Style Creme Brulee.An introductory chapter provides the reader with basic information on how to maintain a “quick-fix” vegan kitchen, a complete pantry list, and kitchen tips, while an appendix includes recipes for optional ingredients such as homemade vegetable stock and seitan. Cooks of all skill levels will find that the recipes inside Quick-Fix Vegan are just as delectable and adaptable to the omnivore, as they are essential to the vegan lifestyle

The Tipsy Vegan: 75 Boozy Recipes to Turn Every Bite into Happy Hour

jill — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:19:21 +0000

Award-winning author John Schlimm brings together everyone’s two favorite hangouts: the kitchen and the bar. A member of one of the oldest brewing families in the United States and author of the largest beer cookbook ever published, Schlimm knows a thing or two about boozing up his food. The Tipsy Vegan showcases plant-based recipes using favorites from the bar circuit—wine, beer, vodka—as key ingredients. From spiked appetizers, soups, and salads to blitzed main dishes, desserts, and, of course, cocktails, these buzz-worthy recipes make sure you have a blast, whether you’re preparing for a houseful of guests or a party for one. Recipes include: Carousing Cucumber Rounds with Rummy Hummus, Plastered Portobello Mushroom Satay, Wild Rice Under the Influence, The Hotta Frittata with Chopped Jalapeño Pepper, Slur-Baaaaked Peaches with Cointreau, Bottom’s Up VegeBean Stew, Bad-Ass Beer Cake with Bourbon Raisins and Amaretto Frosting, and more.