Vegetarian cookbooks and a new recipe......

[Guest guest]

Does anyone have a copy of a cookbook titled, " Fields of Greens " by

Annie Sommerville, 1993. I am looking at a copy on ebay...thinking of

bidding on it but thought if anyone had a copy, I could find out how

they like it.

 

Another thing I would like to know is if anyone HAS a favorite

vegetarian cookbook, what the title is and why you like it. I have

a number of vegetarian cookbooks....my favorite is NIkki & David

Goldbeck's, " American WholeFoods Cuisine " ...Over 1300 Meatless

Wholesome Recipes From Short Order to Gourmet....Low Fat - High

Fiber - No Refined Ingredients - Naturally Sweetened and Seasoned,

1983. I bought it right after it came out and my copy IS getting the

worse for wear but I love it.

 

This is one of my family (meaning kid friendly) recipes from it.

 

Sloppy Beans

 

2 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil

 

1/2 cup chopped onion

1/2 cup chopped green pepper (I alway left these out as my kids didn't like

them in it)

4 cups cooked black, brown or red beans, drained

4 Tbsp. catsup

1 tsp. prepared yellow mustard

1 1/2 cups creamed cottage cheese

1/2 cup sour cream

4 to 6 whole wheat hamburger buns or slices of whole grain bread, toasted

 

Heat oil in large skillet and saute onion & green pepper in olive oil for 5 to

10 minutes until

browned. Add beans and cook, mashing gently, for 2 to 3 minutes. Add

remaining ingredients

and stir over low heat for 5 to 10 minutes. (Depending on cottage cheese,

sauce will

turn completely smooth or some curds will remain.) Serve hot over bread base

with oven

fries and catsup. I like to put a bunch of dill pickle slices on mine! I

also add a dash of

worcheshire sauce while it is cooking.

 

My husband is not vegetarian but he will pretty much eat whatever I put on the

table and doesn't complain if I don't make him eat vegetarian every night. He

doesn't really know how often he IS eating vegetarian!! Thank God I married

a man the second time around who is completely UN-PICKY as long as it tastes

good.....yea!! After 25 years, I have stopped trying to convert the man.....I

figure I love him and he loves me so why should I force my tastes on him. He

has NO health problems at all and ate horribly before I met him.....here I am

with high blood pressure, high cholesterol (if I didn't take Lipitor...with

Lipitor it is 158 and my " bad " cholesterol is 84...my Dr. is happy), and a Type

II diabetic and I have eaten SO RIGHT for all but a few years of my early adult

life....go figure...that is why I say heredity plays a lot larger part in

people's over-all health than we realize.

Ya'll have a super good day....and let me know about the cookbook I am looking

at and what your favorite cookbook is.

Nancy C.

East Texas

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi Nancy,

I have a copy of " Fields of Greens. " It's a pretty good book. It's

vegetarian but not strictly vegan, uses some cheese and eggs in

recipes. Goes into complex restaurant style entrees and menus. It has

breads with sourdough, covers alot of ground, from soups and starters

to grilling and desserts, more than 400 pages. What do you want to

know about it? I think I paid $5 for my copy also on Ebay. It was

listed as a hardcopy, but when a paperback arrived the seller wanted

to refund all my money!?! I told him it was well worth the price.

 

Another good one I recommend is " Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow

Cooker " by Robin Robertson. Also I've got " The Ultimate Rice Cooker

Cookbook " by Beth Hensperger " -- fantastic for making set and forget

meals with the " fuzzy-logic " rice cooker.

 

Slim

 

 

, " nancihank " <nancihank

wrote:

>

>

> Does anyone have a copy of a cookbook titled, " Fields of Greens " by

> Annie Sommerville, 1993. I am looking at a copy on

ebay...thinking of

> bidding on it...

>

> Another thing I would like to know is if anyone HAS a favorite

> vegetarian cookbook...

 

> Ya'll have a super good day....

> Nancy C.

> East Texas

>

[Guest guest]

I have both of these. They are very good.

Donna

--- slim_langer <slim_langer wrote:

 

I recommend is " Fresh from the

> Vegetarian Slow

> Cooker " by Robin Robertson. Also I've got " The

> Ultimate Rice Cooker

> Cookbook " by Beth Hensperger " -- fantastic for

> making set and forget

> meals with the " fuzzy-logic " rice cooker.

>

> Slim

>

 

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[Guest guest]

Hey Slim.....

Just wondered if it was a good one. I like to get a review if possible

before

buying. The " Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker " sounds good. I try

to stay away from dishes that are mostly rice although I love rice and always

have. That is one of the foods, even brown rice, that can really make a

diabetic's

blood glucose rise. I could eat rice every single meal.....breakfast with

milk,

butter and sugar, lunch with gravy....dinner with gravy....rice pudding with

raisins,

rice muffins, rice callas, rice pancakes, rice dumplings......oh the list is

endless....

but, I can mostly only dream of all of those now-a-days.

 

I use eggs, milk, and cheeses.....it is too hard to get enough protein when

you also

have to watch the carbs so strickly. Ah, well.......I do the best I can and

that is

all I can do.

 

Thanks for the reviews and I will see if I can find the slow cooker one.

Nancy

 

 

Hi Nancy,

I have a copy of " Fields of Greens. " It's a pretty good book. It's

vegetarian but not strictly vegan, uses some cheese and eggs in

recipes. Goes into complex restaurant style entrees and menus. It has

breads with sourdough, covers alot of ground, from soups and starters

to grilling and desserts, more than 400 pages. What do you want to

know about it? I think I paid $5 for my copy also on Ebay. It was

listed as a hardcopy, but when a paperback arrived the seller wanted

to refund all my money!?! I told him it was well worth the price.

 

Another good one I recommend is " Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow

Cooker " by Robin Robertson. Also I've got " The Ultimate Rice Cooker

Cookbook " by Beth Hensperger " -- fantastic for making set and forget

meals with the " fuzzy-logic " rice cooker.

 

Slim

 

, " nancihank " <nancihank

wrote:

>

>

> Does anyone have a copy of a cookbook titled, " Fields of Greens " by

> Annie Sommerville, 1993. I am looking at a copy on

ebay...thinking of

> bidding on it...

>

> Another thing I would like to know is if anyone HAS a favorite

> vegetarian cookbook...

 

> Ya'll have a super good day....

> Nancy C.

> East Texas

>

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker is great for those crock pot

nights when you need to have some flexibility as to when dinner is

served, or when you're busy and need to throw the ingredients in and

let dinner cook itself.

 

For easy dinners that don't take a lot of work, there's a couple of

Moosewood books I've come to really appreciate:

Moosewood Restaurant Simple Suppers (hardcover, 2005)

Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home (paperback, 1994)

 

I recently got Classic Vegetarian Cooking from the Middle East &

North Africa and am looking forward to doing a lot of cooking from

this one. Tonight I'm going to give the Chickpea and Bulghur Patties a try.

 

Mike

 

At 03:29 PM 3/19/2008, Slim wrote:

Another good one I recommend is " Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow

Cooker " by Robin Robertson.

[Guest guest]

..Ok.....found a copy and have put a bid on it. Now we wait. If you see one

called " The Diabetic Vegetarian " be sure to let me know.

Thanks for the reviews, Donna and Slim.

Nancy C.

 

 

I have both of these. They are very good.

Donna

--- slim_langer <slim_langer wrote:

 

I recommend is " Fresh from the

> Vegetarian Slow

> Cooker " by Robin Robertson. Also I've got " The

> Ultimate Rice Cooker

> Cookbook " by Beth Hensperger " -- fantastic for

> making set and forget

> meals with the " fuzzy-logic " rice cooker.

>

> Slim

[Guest guest]

> Does anyone have a copy of a cookbook titled, " Fields of Greens " by

> Annie Sommerville, 1993.

 

I have it, and have used it quite a bit. The recipes, as written, do

not fit into the " quick and easy " category, but many of them can be

adapted to do so. I also have and use the Greens cookbook by Deborah

Madison.

 

My absolute favorite vegetarian cookbook is Cooking From an Italian

Garden by Paola Scaravelli and Jon Cohen. It is definitely NOT vegan:

cheese and eggs both figure prominently in many of the recipes. I have

never made anything from this cookbook that did not turn out well.

 

Alex