David's Vegan Home Cooking: Over 250 delicious, easy, low-fat, gluten-free, & cholesterol-free recipes - Softcover

David A. Gabbe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971805229 ISBN 13: 9780971805224

Publisher: Evergreen Northwest, 2011

Synopsis

David's Vegan Home Cooking is jam-packed with over 250 quick and easy, plant-based recipes that not only taste good, but that are good for you, too. Containing no gluten, cholesterol, saturated animal fat, white sugar, or white flour, these vegan recipes are rich in wholesome nutrients and burst with the flavors, colors, and textures found in a wide variety of beans, grains, fruits, and vegetables.

Also found within these pages are sections that include: Daily Healthy Eating Guide
Sample Menus and Transitioning Tips
Stocking & Equipping the Vegan Kitchen
Protein, Calcium, & Iron Review
Glossary of Ingredients

Recipes include delicious nut and grain milks, hearty salads and tangy dressings, gluten-free quick breads, remarkable hard cheeses made with beans and cashews, a dazzling cheddar melt, sensational sour cream and mayonnaise made with tofu, savory meatloaf made with tempeh and lasagna made with navy beans, ambrosial soups, mouth-watering wraps, scrumptious "egg", dishes made with tofu, and finally, over 50 divine, guilt-free desserts.

About this title

About the Author

David Gabbe is the author of a number of previous books, including From David s Pure Vegetarian Kitchen, The Going Vegetarian Cookbook, and Why Do Vegetarians Eat Like That? He teaches plant-based cooking and nutrition in Oregon and Washington and has been a speaker at numerous seminars and conferences on the West Coast. His class schedule is available at DavidsVeganKitchen.com

Review

Professional cooking instructor Gabbe teaches a variety of vegan cooking classes throughout the Northwest (you can see the impressive schedule at DavidsVeganKitchen.com). Last year I took one of his classes, with the dubious-sounding title "Adventures With Tofu," an ingredient I had never had much use for.

To my surprise, Gabbe turned the bland blocks of bean curd into tasty, low-fat creations, and his cider vinegar and soy sauce "cutlets" have become regular additions to my salads.

One of the best recipes he shared in the class is in his most-recent collection: Tofu "Egg" Salad. This is a homemade version of the tofu sandwich spreads you find in the health food section of most grocery stores. If you buy those spreads, you've probably noticed how the price has creeped up to almost $5 a tub. Gabbe's tofu spread makes almost twice as much as you get from the commercial brands, and it runs a fraction of the cost. What's more, because it uses a tofu mayonnaise in place of one made out of vegetable oil, it's more forgiving to the waistline.

David's Vegan Home Cooking; has 250 recipes, and they're all low-fat, gluten- and cholesterol-free, proof that vegan food can be delicious and healthy. Grant Butler, The Oregonian --The Oregonian, 4/26/11

Instructor s vegan cookbook nets a believer with tried-and-true recipes

You know who I don t trust? Vegans. I respect their wishes to abstain from all animal and dairy products. (More power to y all.) And I say more power to y all because I don t want to possess that power myself. I could do without the meat, but cheese? That s the Holy Grail of food, and I ll be damned if someone steps between me and my gouda.

But then David Gabbe ruined everything. You might recognize the name: Gabbe s taught vegan cooking classes for Corvallis Parks & Rec and elsewhere in Oregon for umpteen years, and he just released a new book: David s Vegan Home Cooking.

The book .... is chock-full of more than 250 recipes, a how-to-be-a-vegan guide and a highly informative glossary.

When someone steps to the plate with as much knowledge as Gabbe does in his book, they deserve a fair shake, so I gave a couple of his recipes a try. You d be wise to do the same:

Enchiladas: Making enchiladas without cheese is like taking a shower without water: You just don t do it. But Gabbe managed to concoct a tasty dish that substitutes any meat and cheese with a spicy three-bean chili that is baked inside and poured over whole-grain corn tortillas.

Socca: I d have gone my whole life never knowing what socca is (other than a sport the British call football) were it not for Gabbe s recipe. This French pancake-like flatbread mixes garbanzo bean flour, flax seed meal, lemon juice and a few other items for a crispy-on-the-outside, soft-on-the-inside taste that s good with an olive oil drizzle. --Tyler Hansen, Corvallis Gazette Times 5/5/11

Edition details

• Publisher: Evergreen Northwest
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0971805229
• ISBN 13: 9780971805224
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192