Veggie cook books

[LibrariesGaveUsP0wer]

Does anyone have any good recommendations for family, everyday veggie cook books. Much as I love a good blog, I'd like some books.

We aren't veggie, just want to reduce our meat a lot. Only limitation is not lots of quorn/tofu (got Mary McCartney's book from the library and didn't like it for that).

Thanks in advance!

[Sadik]

I'd say that River Cottage Veg Everyday is worth a look. I don't use it masses, mainly because I find it has a lot of what I'd consider veggie 'standards' which I already cook - but if you're looking to reduce your meat eating, it'd be a good place to start. Also, the library is bound to have it so easy to try out for free :)

[lastnightiwenttomanderley]

River cottage veg everyday

[lastnightiwenttomanderley]

Haha, cross post! The spouffle is great as is the north African stew.

[LordEmsworth]

Anna Jones. She is great, I have loved nearly everything I've cooked from hers.

[DeliveredByKiki]

Thirding River Cottage Every Day Veg

Adding Oh She Glows if you want a vegan cookbook with limited reliance on tofu/meat substitutes

[Greengager]

Another Rec for Ricer Cottage. Also bbc good food's 101 vegetarian recipes

[TelephoneIgnoringMachine]

Another vote for the HFW book. I also like the Cranks range of books.

[AlpacaLypse]

I'm building up a file of printouts, mostly BBC Good Food, with my own annotations.

I do like the River Cottage stuff though.

[AlpacaLypse]

We've got one veggie DD, the end result is that five nights out of seven everyone eats veggie, and the other two nights the rest of us can afford really good quality high welfare standard meat based meals. Works well.

[LibrariesGaveUsP0wer]

Thank you. Three good starting points!

www.amazon.co.uk/Modern-Way-Eat-Anna-Jones/dp/0007516703/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1456004574&sr=8-2&keywords=anna%20jones%20cookbook&tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-21 This is the Anna Jones one? And there is a sequel too. That the right one?

Vegan is good too.

[LibrariesGaveUsP0wer]

Thank you for the extra cross posts!

[Onykahonie]

I like The Vegetarian Pantry and Mildred's: The Cookbook.

[LordEmsworth]

Yes, Modern Way to Eat and Modern Way to Cook. I probably use the first one more...

[Cookingongas]

Modern way to eat is one of my favourite cookbooks. I really loved hfw veg, but once I'd bought modern way to eat it's not used half as much.

[BikeRunSki]

Cooking on a Bootstrap (formerly A Girl Called Jack) is not strictly veggie, but has a lot of veggie and vegan recipes. All very tasty, cheap, simple "knock it up after work" type recipes.

[magimedi]

Rose Eliot - The Bean Book is great for lots of easy ideas about every sort of bean & pulse.

[MrsRedFly]

Sam Stern's 'Eat Vegetarian' - loads of good recipes even though he looks v young!!

[fascicle]

TelephoneIgnoringMachine
I also like the Cranks range of books.

My most loved recipe book is the original Cranks one. Still use a number of tweaked recipes from it.

[HeadDreamer]

I cook a lot of veggies and I don't rate river cottage veg everyday at all. It feels like a book of veggie food by a meat eater. And I'm a meat eater!

I would second Anna Jones' books. I love her first a modern way to eat. Have got a modern way to cook but haven't cooked much from it.

I also like Madhur Jaffery.

[vladthedisorganised]

Lesley Waters Broader than Beans is really good. No quorn or obscure ingredients in sight, and no assumption that a square of polenta makes 'a satisfying meal in its own right!'

Linda Fraser's Vegetarian cook book is fantastic - have used it since student days and still get loads of use out of it. Again there's minimal faff and the recipes are really nice.

I do have Vegetarian With A Vengeance by Christine Bille Nielsen, but wouldn't really rate it (though many do) - it suffers from the polenta square problem IMO. Or maybe I'm just really greedy.

[busymum17]

River cottage veg, Ottolenghi's 'Plenty', Leiths vegetable bible...
We also use several which focus on one region or country, but I'm not sure if that's general enough for your family?

[TeenyfTroon]

Just reserved 'A Modern Way to Eat' at the library. Thanks for the recommendation. Can't wait to try something new!

[MrsHenryCrawford]

Rose Elliotts books are nice. Not too much quorn or tofu, straightforward recipes without 50 different ingredients.

[LibrariesGaveUsP0wer]

Sorry, I didn't realise I'd had more responses.

Thank you so much. Some great suggestions, and quite a few are on the list of our local libraries.

vlad- Totally with you on that. I saw a veggie meal (may even have been Hugh) that was a blob of polenta with some mushrooms on top. My first thought was "that would be really nice with a steak!".

busymum- yes, focus on regions or countries would be fun too. I'm not amazing with obscure ingredients (fine with spices I can have in the cupboard, not so good with suddenly needing fresh X and Y that I have no idea what else to use for), but we're fairly wide ranging in our eating and I genuinely want to reduce meat a lot, so want plenty of variety. Didn't know Leith's had a vegetable bible - I have their fish one and will check that out.

Thanks again everyone.

[PurpleDaisies]

Simon rimmer's accidental vegetarian book is really good too. Especially the white bean chili and field mushroom pies.