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Vegan with a Vengeance : Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free Recipes That Rock By Isa Chandra MoskowitzIsa Moskowitz ( Da Capo Press )
Release Date: 2005-10-27
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Product Description
In Vegan with a Vengeance, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, host of the community access vegan cooking show The Post Punk Kitchen, brings the do-it-yourself, community-driven ethos of punk rock into the kitchen. Her cooking philosophy embraces being kind to animals (all recipes are completely animal-product free) and your wallet—while being creative and having fun in the process. She emphasizes staying clear of corporate brand-name foods, and says that cooking should be an innovative, experimental, and completely real experience. This one-of-a-kind cookbook offers 125 recipes for all meals of the day, from stuffed mushrooms to tofu pizza, gingerbread cupcakes to pasta with "alfreda sauce," and is full of tips and tricks on how to keep your diet vegan, inexpensive, and liberated.
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 not as advertised
I was SOOO looking forward to this cookbook-after all the good reviews. My youngest daughter is allergic to milk products-and I am vegetarian... so, I am in search of good non-milk, vegetarian dishes that my meat-eating, more traditional meals, husband would enjoy so that I don't have to make 2 or 3 different meals for every dinner. Admittedly, I only made one recipe-a desert-which came out ok-although the rum SURE was the MAIN ingredient, taste-wise-not really a family desert. Then, I started looking through the book-and couldn't find any entrees that I thought he'd enjoy-I thought I'd really like them, but the recipes are not for the unadventurous.
The OTHER thing I realized, which is why the title of my review, is that she periodically uses profanity. It is not on ALL of the pages and is only in some of the descriptions. However, I was not expecting a cookbook to include such words-and I am not comfortable having a book like that in the house as my children are beginning to learn how to read-and enjoy reading my cookbooks. That is NOT where I want them to hear those words. What a shame. I would have kept the book around, if it hadn't been for that. At least I would have had some variety for my husband to eat-even if they weren't his favorite dishes. So... I am still looking for a good vegan cookbook for the whole family. This was NOT it.
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 great vegan cookbook ( lrk219 )
This was a gift for someone, but the recipes looked great and it came really fast. Thanks!
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 One of my top three vegan cookbooks
(And one of the other top ones is her newer book, The Veganomicon)
I found Vegan with a Vengeance at my local Waldenbooks in podunk town, Okla. I was so shocked that they had it, I bought it (trying to create demand here, you know?) It's one of the best purchases I've made in my young vegan life.
I found the recipes wonderfully easy to make, and easy to find the ingredients for, even in a small Oklahoma town (with occasional trips for specialty items to the health food store about an hour away, but only if I was going in that direction anyway). I love her pancake recipe ... it's one of the easiest vegan pancake recipes I've ever found. Her scrambled tofu recipe is also great ... I was loathe to abandon my own tried and true scrambled tofu, but I decided to give hers a try and haven't looked back. The pumpkin-chocolate chip cookies are also awesome. I was skeptical about the "fronch" toast, because I loved me some french toast back in the (nonvegan) day. I was pleasantly surprised. It's not totally like the real thing, but it looks convincing and it tastes pretty awesome in its own right.
All in all, I liked that these were actual real recipes of actual real food that actual real people eat. Five stars!
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Not delicious, fast, or cheap! ( blueshell2003 )
I purchased this book for my 4 y.o. who is allergic to dairy and eggs. I've made the "fronch" toast (that's what the author calls it), pancakes, muffins, cookies, and he hasn't liked anything I've made from this book so far. Both of the gravy recipes weren't even edible; the "punk rock" chickpea gravy was sour and all I could taste in the miso gravy was the cooking wine. Every recipe I've tried took me at least an hour and a half to prepare (and that's not including all the shopping). Most of the recipes call for at least 10 ingredients, many of which are not available in my neighborhood grocery store in Philadelphia. In order to make several dishes from this book I had to make separate trips around the city. I purchased at least 11 spices from an Indian market (~$30) and specialty foods from the Asian market and health food store that I'll probably never use again (eg. nutritional yeast and hijiki). There are no pictures for these uncommon ingredients and there are only 10 pictures of the finished dishes. What there is a lot of in this book is personal anecdotes and jokes which were more annoying than amusing because it seems more time was spent on trying to be witty rather than providing decent recipes. I've had more luck with vegan recipes I found off the internet or by just using the vegan alternative in tried and true recipes.
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Good cookbook ( angmat7 )
Really interesting recipes....her Isa pizza (best pesto and marinara sauce i have ever had) and mango rolls are delish. However, the recipes are all fairly time consuming and i did sometimes wish she used more nutritious ingredients (whole wheat flour vs. white, etc). However, she is very entertaining and the cookbook is a testimony to her amazing journey as a vegan...
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