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Title: Mollie Katzen's Vegetable Heaven: Over 200 Recipes Uncommon Soups, Tasty Bites.. by Mollie Katzen ISBN: 0-7868-8409-6 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (28 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Inventive and Delicious!
Comment: My husband and I are not vegetarian but enjoy vegetarian cooking. We get a box of organic produce from a local farm every two weeks and look for novel dishes in which to use them. Roasted Eggplant Strata is out of this world. I've made Bitter Greens with Sweet Onions and Tart Cheese over pasta more times than I can count. The Coconut-Lime Rice is ravishing. The roasted red pepper and walnut paste is as good as aioli. The Stovetop Cassoulet could have had more depth of flavor for the amount of work. I had trouble today with Mollie's coconut macaroon recipe. Luckily she makes herself available for questions on molliekatzen.com via a bulletin board.* I highly recommend this book for those who want to eat well and healthfully. *She did indeed reply; the trouble was my oven!
Rating: 1
Summary: Don't do it! Order something by Deborah Madison instead!!
Comment: I've never been as disgusted by a cookbook as I have been with "Vegetable Heaven". I am a fairly experienced with respect to vegetarian cookery, yet every recipe I tried from of this cookbook was an unmitigated disappointment. Usually I ended up with bland semi-liquid muck. The "Black Beans in Mango Sauce" recipe was appallingly bland and grainy. The butterscotch pudding had absolutely NO flavor. And the mashed pea guacamole substitute, or "Guaca-Mollie", was so pasty and nasty that eating it gave me the dry heaves.
Get the original Moosewood. Or Moosewood Low Fat Favorites. Or ANYTHING by Deborah Madison. Or try the vegetarian recipies from any of Madhur Jaffrey's cook books. But I beseech you to save your money and save yourself from this cook book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Quick, simple, satisfying recipes for meat-eaters, vegans.
Comment: I've never created such flavorful and satisfying dishes from such simple recipes as I have with this book. A good example is the roasted beans with garlic and olives: two or three ingredients to buy at the grocery store, ten minutes of work, two items to wash when you're done, and a rich, tasty dish that I was proud to present to dinner guests.
The introduction, which unfortunately is not included in the preview pages, gives a good idea of what to expect: food "prepared in sumptuous, yet uncomplicated ways.... opulent, yet clean and simple". _Vegetable Heaven_ isn't a vegan cookbook, but most of the recipes are vegan or adaptable. It stands out among such cookbooks for its simple, flavorful, *filling* dishes. The Achille's heel of most vegan cooking is the inability to combine flavor with the heaviness that creates a satisfied feeling after a meal. In recipe after recipe, _Vegetable Heaven_ shows how this difficulty can be overcome. Since the recipes are filling and don't use as many exotic ingredients as some vegetarian cookbooks, they're useful when cooking for unadventurous eaters, such as parents, children, and meat-eaters. Some of the recipes are quite spicy, but a few are bland children's food or comfort food. The descriptions are clear, so you won't be unpleasantly surprised.
Besides being full of great recipes, the book is durable, exceptionally well laid out, and mostly a pleasure to use. However, it doesn't lie open unless you're using a recipe from the middle third of the book.
Of course, _Vegetable Heaven_ doesn't try to be all things to all people. It's not a report of gastronomical research and innovation, so if you're an experienced cook, don't expect to be provoked and stimulated on every page. It's also not a coffee-table cookbook -- the artwork is pleasant but not captivating, and there are no photographs of professional presentations of the dishes.
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Title: Mollie Katzen's Sunlight Cafe by Mollie Katzen ISBN: 0786862696 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The New Enchanted Broccoli Forest by Mollie Katzen ISBN: 1580081266 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The New Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen ISBN: 1580081304 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home: Fast and Easy Recipes for Any Day by Moosewood collective ISBN: 0671679929 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Still Life With Menu Cookbook by Mollie Katzen ISBN: 0898156696 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: November, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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