What's a good vegetarian cookbook?

[MaggieW]

I'm after a good vegetarian cookbook - reasonably easy and quick meals - can anyone recommend one please?

Delia has a good one.

Also Australian Womans Weekly (sold in Waterstones)

I use both regularly.

The Sarah Brown ones are good. Can't remember any titles off the top of my head, but there is a huge one with all sorts of recipes from posh to easy. Also, try the Vegetarian Society for some recommendations, maybe?

the Essential Vegetarian - I lived out of this book for years.

i like Madhur Jeffrey cookbooks.

not strictly veggie, but the many, many recipes in her books are veggie, can be made veggie and are gorgeous!

Good Housekeeping Step by Step Vegetarian Cookbook

as a long term foodie veggie, I'd say my favourites are "Greens" or any of the others by Annie Sommerville, any of the Moosewood series (both american) or any by Celia Brookes Brown, esp The new vegetarian.

I love veggie cookbooks!

so what do you eat is a very good family friendly book

That Good Housekeeping one is VG.

I love the Moosewood cookbooks.

There's no such thing

Great - I'm looking forward to some good ideas here.

I very much enjoyed the Gate brothers' Vegetarian Cookbook but understand they have a more 'accessible' second publication which makes sense.

I have to say, you can pick up most Rose Elliot publications and find a lot of decent recipes.

horsish:

(I shall enjoy my tofu stir fry very much tonight thank you!)

Rose Elliot is a good one. No glossy pictures, but just lots of good very easy to make not expensive meals.

Some veg books are full of soups. I'm not going to spend hours int he kitchen making a soup.

lol! you're obv not a proper wifey

Another vote for Rose Elliott

link to the book I was on about
very generous portions and very easy to make

I love Moosewood too - and Rose Elliot, and Sarah Brown. The Australian Women's Weekly veggie and almost veggie books are good too. The Good Housekeeping Vegetarian Cookery book is another of my well-thumbed ones. And Madhur Jaffrey's Eastern Vegetarian Cookery. And the Cranks books (old and new). Paul Gayler's vegetarian cookery book is quite interesting and different).

MadameCholet, you don't spend hours in the kitchen making soups. You just leave them to bubble away while you do something more interesting

lol madamecholet
yes ..soup cooks itself here, 20 mins prep and a stir here and there

dont follow recipes very well
always tinker and adjust..
it so bugs dh so of course i do it all the more

will look at links of these ta ladies

Best veggie cookbook by far (in my opinion) is Leith's Vegetarian Bible. There are literally hundreds of recipes and most use ingredients that you would normally have in your cupboard. I've cooked from it more than any other recipe book and almost all meals have been very successful. There are lots of recipes that include beans and pulses and they taste NICE. Amazing.

I'm going to look up Moosewood and Leith now.

Anyone mentioned Cranks'?

The best title of any of the vegi book I have is "The Enchanted Broccoli Forest" - unfortunately I don't really rate the receipes

Cranks. Definitely. Easy and gorgeous.

Which Cranks'? I've just added the restaurant one to my Amazon wish list - but there were several to choose from

I have the big orange book, "The Cranks Bible" by Nadine Abensur. Quite expensive at 16.99 but its nearly 400 pages and has tons of recipes, everything from veg to making bread.