The Simple art of Vegetarian Cooking : : Templates and Lessons for Making Delicious Meatless Meals Every day

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Includes index.
"Martha Rose Shulman's The Simple Art of Vegetarian Cooking is an accessible, delicious-recipe-packed teaching book designed to give home cooks a plan ("templates") and a language for cooking mouthwatering plant-based meals every day. What is a template? It's a generic recipe for a basic dish--a risotto, a frittata, a rice bowl, a pasta bowl, a soup base--into which you put any suitable combination of vegetables and herbs based on seasonality and availability. By having these basic templates in hand, readers--wherever they live and whatever the season--will be able to prepare meatless dishes simply and easily, making this plan ideal for busy families, working moms, and anyone who wants to be able to put a mouthwatering vegetarian dish on the table, angst-free.Template cooking--providing a reliable, sensible framework for dishes that can change fluidly with seasonal availability--is enjoying rising popularity in the food world, and Shulman is a Rodale house author and legend. Whether the reader is a working parent trying to decipher the overflowing CSA box or a new vegetarian trying to navigate a world where meals can't be summed up as "steak," "chicken," or "pork chops," The Simple Art of Vegetarian Cooking, with 125 recipes, is the perfect tool"-- Provided by publisher.

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Not sure where to start? Start here! submitted by LibraryMaven on June 23, 2014, 7:28pm This is a wonderful cookbook for those interested in cooking vegetarian food for themselves or others, either as part of an all-vegetarian diet or simply to cut down on meat consumption, and demonstrates that vegetarian cooking does not need to be time-intensive or bland. Shulman teaches you basic building-block recipes (templates) and suggests variations on each theme. Her goal is to allow the reader to cook vegetarian meals as easily and as flexibly as one might cook a meat-based meal and in this she succeeds. While some of the recipes are more time consuming (pie dough for galettes, for example) many are quick pantry-based dinners with seasonal ingredients and wherever possible, she gives tips on how to streamline the cooking process and make parts of dinner ahead of time. An extremely good starting place for cooks of all stripes.