Can anyone suggest a good vegetarian cook book?

Question

I've got several but most of the recipes contain ingredients that are not easily available. I need one that can gives recipes for good nutritious everyday meals, not based solely upon pasta.

Answer 1

Rose Elliot is very good - she has plenty of books onthe market. Another veggie author I like is Gail Duff. You could also try a huge book called The Vegetarian Kitchen (edited by Linda Fraser) which has hundreds of delicious recipes in it.

Answer 2

My favourites:

1. The Good Housekeeping Vegetarian Cook Book

2. Real Fast Vegetarian Food - Ursula Ferrigno

3. Sainsbury's Cookery series - we have about 6 of the veggie ones by various authors, all really good.

Answer 3

Vegetarian Cooking Without by Barbara Cousins (actually a bit more than that no dairy or wheat as well)
The Raw Energy Bible by Leslie Kenton. Beautiful food, great recipes and teaches you a whole new way of eating.
The Internet is a good source of getting ingredients not normally available, but both of these books can be sourced from supermarkets and health food shops

Answer 4

The Complete Vegan Cookbook: Over 200 Tantalizing Recipes, Plus Plenty of Kitchen Wisdom for Beginners and Experienced Cooks by Susann Geiskopf-Hadler (Author), Mindy Toomay (Author)

Answer 5

My much-used favorite is the original Moosewood Cookbook.

I've picked up a couple of cheapies at the grocery store checkout, though, that have each been good for at least a couple of recipes. A couple of the major food companies publish them kind of like a monthly magazine. Every so often I find a vegetarian one and pick it up. All the ingredients are readily available and the recipes are usually quick and easy. At like $3 or $4 a pop it doesn't matter to me whether there's a bunch of recipes I won't use... as long as there's a few inspirations in there, it's worth it.

Answer 6

I have two really old Vegetarian cookbooks that I still use regularly
Linda McCartney (bless her)
The Cranks book (from the restaurants that used to be in London)
both offer down to earth family food.

They are probably out of print now but worth finding second hand.

Answer 7

Ditto on any of the Moosewood Cookbooks. You might also like Jane Brody's Good Food Gourmet, which is mostly vegetarian.

Answer 8

In the Garden of Vegan, How it all Vegan, and La Dolce Vegan are all pretty mainstream in ingredients. The only odd bits might be Bragg Aminos and nutritional yeast. I also like The Accidental Vegan.

Answer 9

I second (or third) Moosewood cookbooks, and also look up Deborah Madison's cookbooks. I have one, and I gave one to my hard-core vegetarian friend and he loved it!

Answer 10

Nadine Abensur's booka are really good. She uses the unusual ingredients, but also uses more readily available stuff in nice ways (e.g. the Sudanese potatoes recipe in "Cranks Bible")