After paging through the Cooking with Trader Joe’s Cookbook: Skinny Dish, I wanted to run back to California so I could cook recipe after recipe with ingredients from the iconic market that enjoys a cult-like following. Fortunately, Jennifer K. Reilly, author of this vegan cookbook, styles her recipes with ingredients that you can get at Trader Joe’s as well as other grocery stores. Reilly’s raw food mango pie is an easy five-ingredient recipe made with ingredients you may already have in your kitchen, whether or not you’re near a TJ location. Read More
Are you fortunate enough to have a Trader Joe’s within easy driving distance to do your weekly (daily?) grocery shopping? Do you often buy Trader Joe’s foods just because they sound and look good but then don’t have a clue what to do with them? If you’re nodding your head, then you’ve got to pick up Kris Holechek’s The I Love Trader Joe’s Vegetarian Cookbook: 150 Delicious and Healthy Recipes Using Foods from the World’s Greatest Grocery Store. Every recipe has tips to make it vegan. Read More
Considering that my family has grown grapes in California for the sole purpose of providing raisins to dried fruit lovers, I have a strong affinity for the dried gems of nutrition. Always on the lookout for new ways to cook with raisins, I was thrilled to find this raisin-based recipe in the raw food cookbook Gorilla Food: Living and Eating Organic, Vegan, and Raw by the charismatic chef Aaron Ash who has a raw vegan restaurant named Gorilla Food in Vancouver. If you can’t frequent the celebrity-sought eatery, get your hands on Ash’s cookbook. Read More
The perfect holiday dessert recipe, this raw pear tart with cashew cream will delight even the most adamant non-vegan. Read More
A popular between-meal elixir in Germany, this vegan drink recipe features a lovely combination of dried herbs, seeds, and flowers which are readily available in the bulk herb or tea section of your local natural foods store. You can find this European-inspired recipe along with many other ethnic vegan recipes in Mark Reinfeld’s vegan cookbook The 30 Minute Vegan’s Taste of Europe (De Capo Lifelong Books, September 2012), featuring amazing plant-based makeovers of classic European fare. Read More
Did you know there are more than 7 million vegetarians and 3 million vegans in the United States? No wonder there is a delicious — and growing — selection of vegan cookbooks to welcome into your kitchen. One of the latest and greatest vegan cookbooks we love is The Karma Chow Ultimate Cookbook by personal chef Melissa Costello, founder of Karma Chow and creator of The Vital Life Cleanse. In this tasty meat-free tome, you’ll find over 125 plant-based recipes that not only taste amazing but also boost your health and wellness. Our favorite vegan recipe is Costello’s Indian-inspired soup. Read More
New York Times columnist Mark Bittman, author of How To Cook Everything Vegetarian (Wiley, October 2007) and Food Matters (Simon & Schuster, December 2008) is turning his mostly vegan dietary approach into a book. Read More
Love the taste of pizza but not really into the doughy gluten-derived crust? Make these gluten-free pizza crackers from Great Gluten-Free Vegan Eats (Fair Winds Press, June 2012) by Allyson Kramer, founder of the blog ManifestVegan.com. Kramer launched her vegan blog in 2009 and found out shortly thereafter that she has celiac disease. Since then, she has been crafting gluten-free vegan recipes and is a respected authority on vegan and gluten-free cuisine. Read More
If your favorite part of summer is licking vegan “ice cream” from a spoon, then vegan Hannah Kaminsky is going to become your favorite cookbook author. Her debut book Vegan A La Mode: More Than 100 Frozen Treats for Every Day of the Year (Skyhorse, July 2012) is deliciously loaded with dairy-free, vegan-friendly frozen dessert recipes, including ice cream, frozen yogurt, and sorbet. Read More
Ulrika Davidsson’s book Raw Food Detox is a beautifully-illustrated collection of raw recipes, many of them vegan or easily turned vegan, that can be made with minimal time and effort. Davidsson is a nutritionist and busy mom of two who knows firsthand the health benefits of raw foods as well as how to conveniently fit them into a family’s lifestyle. One of our favorite recipes is the Tricolor Cauliflower Curry, but you’ll find over 100 other raw recipes for every meal of the day. From smoothies and detox juices to satisfying yet ultra-healthy breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert recipes, Davidsson gives us a delicious compendium of dishes to better our health and boost our vitality. Read More
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