Which vegetarian cookbook would you recommend?

[MaggieW]

I'm looking for a good cookbook (with pic's) to make simple, tasty dishes. Nothing too complicated or fancy, but something that will be a change from meat dishes.

I love Leith's Vegetarian Bible. No pictures, but I consider that to be a good thing so I don't get disappointed when my efforts turn out looking nothing like the picture!

any of rose elliots are good.
do NOT but dalia's - her regular food is good but the veggie stuff....

Madhur Jaffrey(sp?) World Vegetarian - obviously not Englishy type recipes, but hundreds of delicious ideas from all round the world. I'm currently enjoying Sri Lanka

Australian Women's Weekly is a good, colourful and cheap one. Quite often available in supermarkets as well.

Agree re Madhur Jaffrey's world vegetarian, but I also use Delia's vegetarian book a lot.

Anything by Rose Elliott- Cheap and Easy and The Bean Book are both great.

Sarah Brown's Vegetarian Kitchen.

Older ones like Farmhouse Kitchen aren't veggie books as such, but have lots of veggie dishes in them.

The Madhur Jaffry is wonderful - I've made a few things from there and they've all turned out really well. Rose Elliot is good and she's brought a few out in the last year or so which have more "modern-seeming" recipes than the traditional ones she usually does. I think one of them is caled "Supercook" or something like that.
The World Food Cafe books are brilliant too, although they are, like the Madhur Jaffrey, mostly spicy stuff.
I got the Delia out of the library but most of the recipes looked far too much fuss for normal after-work family cooking.

AIBU: I thought I was the only one with the Madhur Jaffrey book and no one else has it. Now what happens if I cook something from there that I think is really swanky and it turns out everyone makes it?

I love Maddhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian too, and Leith's. Sorry, neither of these has pictures, but they're a cut above the other books.

Rose Elliott is brilliant - complete vegetarian cookbook - full of good basic (and some not so basic) ideas. My copy is well thumbed and well stained - so it must have got some use!!