(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best vegetable cooking books

One of the first veg. cookbooks I got when I was just starting out was Linda McCartney's World of Vegetarian Cooking (also known as "On Tour"): https://www.amazon.com/Linda-McCartney-Tour-Meat-Free-Dishes/dp/0821224875/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1482386369&sr=1-5&keywords=linda+mccartney

It has recipes from all over the world, from North Africa to Asia, Europe to North America and everywhere in between. They're great starter recipes in that the ingredients are simple (and easy to substitute if necessary), and the instructions are clear. They're great to build on - I've adapted quite a few recipes to my own tastes over the years.

A much more recent couple of books are Ottolenghi's Plenty and Plenty More:

https://www.amazon.com/Plenty-Vibrant-Vegetable-Recipes-Ottolenghi/dp/1452101248/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1482386476&sr=1-1&keywords=ottolenghi+plenty

https://www.amazon.com/Plenty-More-Vibrant-Vegetable-Ottolenghi/dp/1607746212/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=3YR260YE36YRJAQVCP9G

These are books that celebrate plant-based cooking which is of course inspired by many cuisines, but is itself a wholly original cuisine. Many of the recipes are not knock-offs of popular meat dishes (e.g. lentil bolognese) or existing dishes that happen to be vegetarian (caprese salad) but rather truly original compositions. It's really refreshing for simple but beautiful meals made of creative (but not pretentious) dishes.

I bought Martha Stewart's "Meatless" cookbook last year and it has great recipes too. https://www.amazon.com/Meatless-More-Than-Vegetarian-Recipes/dp/0307954560/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1482386647&sr=1-6&keywords=vegetarian+cookbook

It's Martha Stewart, so it's not going to blow your socks off with complex spices and heat, but the recipes are again a wonderful place to start. Well-balanced, visually appealing and reasonably priced to make, you can always jazz them up yourself.

Finally, one of my favourite cookbooks, vegetarian or otherwise, is Anna Thomas' Love Soup: https://www.amazon.com/Love-Soup-All-New-Vegetarian-Recipes/dp/0393332578/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1482386804&sr=1-1&keywords=Love+SOup

The recipes are heavenly (and as they're soup, you can always tweak to your taste - it's the ideas that are important). But what's really special is the narrative. She really engages you with lots of personal anecdotes and context for the ingredients, recipes and meals in general. I sat down and read it like a novel when I was given it for Christmas one year! It's really lovely.

Fonge du Quebec is the best app you can get for mushroom species of Northeastern NA but it is in French and is not for beginners. But to be perfectly honest if this is your first time looking for edible mushroom species learn a couple easily Identifiable ones by heart. Morels and Dryad's saddle will be up now, they are easy to look up in the app. This is the best beginner book you can get for the area it's fairly small and not hard to lug around (it's far more up to date and easy to use than the Audubon).

• Substitute veggies for pasta and rice as much as possible, even if you can only stand half veggie half regular pasta/rice at first. Veggies won't substitute 100% perfectly for all recipes but you can experiment with different sauces and dishes. A great place to start is recipes for spaghetti squash and cauliflower rice.
  
• Continuing last tip, you can also get a cheap spiralizer and make noodles and rice with veggies like sweet potatoes, beets, carrots, zucchini. I have this spiralizer cookbook and I love it!
  
• Finally, research and find some veggie recipes that go with the main dishes you like to cook! Steamed, boiled, and canned veggies can have a taste and texture that discourages eating vegetables. Buy fresh veggies and sauté or bake them with "unheathy" ingredients like bacon, prosciutto, oil, or butter in moderation.
  
  Hope that helps!

In my opinion I think that as a beginner, looking online for recipes can be so overwhelming and it's hard to find what's good and what's garbage without an established sense of taste/cooking. Sure, you can look at the comments, but it takes a lot of time and without knowing how to cook it's hard to know what you're even looking for.

I would highly recommend trying out a beginner's cookbook (Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything: The Basics or How to Cook Everything Vegetarian are great ones). Look through it, read up on techniques/skills, and pick something you think you'll like and cook it.

Also, you can probably check out cookbooks from your library if you want to try them out before investing money on them.

Remember that we all started somewhere. Nobody is born a good cook, it's a learned skill that you have to practice. Same with taste - if you're used to tasting the same types of foods, you're going to have to adjust to trying new foods. I didn't eat any vegetables at all growing up and now I love them! I just realized you need to put salt and cheese on them, lol. But really I also just needed to get used to the taste, which took some time.

I'm seeing Suillus here, but I'm not so sure- that looks for all the world like a cortina connecting the stipe to the edge of the cap. An easy test if you have the fruit bodies in front of you would be to simply check whether the underside of the cap has gills or tubes- if tubes then S. pictus is probably correct. If gills, I would guess something in Cortinarius. That being said, I don't have a good suggestion for which Cort it might be- I can't find anything that seems like a good match in this guide, so I don't know where to go to help you. Gorgeous pic of pretty mushrooms, regardless.

Honestly, my advice might not align with everyone else's. You're both adults, so you probably know what kind of flavors and textures you like. While you're getting used to time management and honing your knife skills(beautiful pun), focus on that. Make burritos. Make pasta, and don't be afraid to use the sauce in a jar if you don't feel comfortable making your own, at least until you're ready.

It's all about repetition. As you continue to cook, your dishes will continue to get better, whether it's more uniform knife cuts, proper timing so that each part of your meal is done at the same time, or even improvements in how fast you get it all done.

Like I said though, you should start with the things you're comfortable with. If you start experimenting with "healthy" foods like quinoa salad, if you try a new type of meat, or if you try something you saw on Hell's Kitchen, you might not be ready. You might not understand the flavors or techniques in the recipe you're recreating, and so you won't know where you went wrong, and you'll probably have a bad experience with whatever new thing you tried. It's just going to discourage you.

So, focus on flavor. Make your favorite dishes, regardless of the caloric weight. At some point, start looking up more recipes of the same thing. See what they did differently. Maybe look up recipes that use a lot of the same ingredients but in a different way. Experiment there, by adding something new or by spinning your favorite a few degrees one way or the other. If you like creamy pasta, try adding peas, or spinach, artichoke, whatever it is. You'll figure out what flavors pair well together and which ones don't.

Once you understand the food you're making at that kind of fundamental level, go to the produce section and get a vegetable you haven't had before or didn't like when you were a kid. Try it raw. Try it with salt and pepper. Find a simple recipe and make it as a snack. Then you can work on incorporating it.

I can't stress this enough, you need to be comfortable with the periphery -- cooking temps and times, prep and knife work, time management. You need to develop these skills before you try taking on new, complicated techniques.

My last suggestion is to read. Don't read recipes, because they're essentially useless for learning. Read books about cooking. Read books about food, about different kinds of knives. Read books about flavor. This book can be found as an ebook elsewhere, and it's the kind of thing that will be useful to you for your entire culinary life.

It's all about the ingredients, the chef's thoughts on how they taste, and there are listings of all of the other ingredients that have similar/complimentary flavor profiles. This one book might be the best thing I've ever read about cooking.

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Baking vegan and raw is my favorite hobby and new acquired skill. I, too, have come across some snags with price and ingredients, but I try to find equivalents to an ingredient and look for sales. Amazon.com is my go-to headquarters for hard-to-find items at a decent price.

My first cookbook was Vegan Comfort Food by Alicia C. Simpson. Her Oatmeal Cookies have been a hit at every party I have brought them to and I keep her Sweet Potato Waffles in the freezer when I don't have time for a sit-down breakfast. The ingredients are not costly; my only gripe is the amount of sugar she uses.

I adore Judita Wignall's Going Raw. Although she uses ingredients like cashews to make flour (as an example) the cost/availability in very few of the recipes is similar to what you encountered with Isa Chandra.

Out of the two, I prefer Going Raw because natural ingredients replaces what would have been a copious amount of sugar in Alicia Simpson's book.

Recipe credit: https://www.amazon.com/How-Cook-Everything-Vegetarian-Anniversary/dp/1118455649

This book is amazing, and it has really changed my perspective on eating a vegetarian diet. It's not as hard as I thought, but there are still some challenges.

Over the last couple weeks I've decided to reduce my meat consumption, beginning with replacing about 3-5 meals per week with something vegetarian. Some of the local restaurants are tricky because I'm not much of a salad person (I like salads, I just hate ordering them out), and outside of salads in the southern US vegetarian options are limited in a lot of spots.

Recipe summarized:

2Tbsp olive oil

1.5 lbs of your favorite vegetables (in this pic I used zucchini, yellow squash, broccoli, and carrots)

3/4C heavy cream

fresh grated parmesan

1 lb. of your favorite pasta (cooked) (we like the mini penne)

S/P to taste

Red chili flakes (if desired) - my wife doesn't like spicy, so I omit)

my modifications:
fresh garlic to the mix after the cream and parmesan is added
I also add dried oregano and fresh chopped basil

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Oil in skillet

Sizzle the red chili flakes until fragrant

Add any root veggies if you're using them (you want them in there first to soften up) 5 minutes before your other veggies

Add other veggies

Cook and stir for 5 minutes - salt and pepper

Add in 3/4c heavy cream, 1c fresh grated parmesan, and however much fresh minced garlic you want (I use 3-4 cloves)

Cook until thickened

Add in 1 lb. of your preferred pasta (save 1 cup of the pasta water)

Stir it in, and add pasta water as needed to loosen the sauce

Garnish with parsley, or whatever you want (I use basil because I'm obsessed with it).

The best pepper book out there right now is Peppers of the Americas. It's seriously amazing. Recipes, extensive history, gallery of different peppers, some growing stuff. It's incredible and the photos are stunning.

I also read Amal Naj's book "Peppers," which was really good, and "Along the Pepper Trails" or something like that. Just starting that one now and it's pretty good so far.

The other book you can get is the Pepper Encyclopedia by Dave DeWitt

There are good answers people are posting here, but I'd also recommend checking out the resources in the sidebar that are made for your very question!

A good cookbook (with good pictures) is also helpful. Here's one that I like that had some kid-friendly recipes: The Meat Lover's Meatless Cookbook.

Happy to help.


If you're starting to get into plating and presentation, Relæ: A Book of Ideas has a lot of really awesome ideas and pictures, as do a vast majority of the books like it. Checking out varying restaurants/chefs Instagrams is another great place to swipe ideas and concepts from. There's also loads of videos on Youtube that will help you get a handle on the various techniques and the effects they generate.

Some of my best sources are cookbooks that are not exclusively vegetarian, like Fuchsia Dunlop's Every Grain of Rice and Land of Plenty. Both do contain a large number of vegetable and tofu recipes, plus meat recipes that can be easily veganized (e.g., Gong Bao chicken which I replaced with eggplant, and Dan Dan noodles with minced mushroom.)

I love Ottolenghi's Plenty for his vibrant take on vegetarian Middle Eastern cuisine. He also has a long-running series on the Guardian .

Serious Eats has a great compendium of vegan recipes. His vegan baos are to-die-for.

Thug Kitchen
Oh She Glows
Forks Over Knives Cookbook
Minimalist Baker's Everyday Cooking

Also, Pinterest is an awesome place to find vegan recipes. My pinner name is Uma Vida Boa if you want to dig through what I've amassed.

Good on you for being such a cool roommate!

I forgot to mention... YouTube is also a great source for vegan recipes. Hot For Food, Peaceful Cuisine, Edgy Veg, Vegan Zombie... to name a few.

Get yourself a spiraliser and inspiralised cook book. Great rice alternative recipes. I love to use jicama. Inspiralized: Turn Vegetables into Healthy, Creative, Satisfying Meals https://www.amazon.com/dp/0804186839/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_RGZQybA60MVEH

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It sounds like your argument is that your rights should supercede the rights of content creators do what they want with their creations. That's rather silly.

That said - there are stores where you can go to buy books that will let you look through them beforehand. I also just went through and picked some of the more obscure or generic names from the torrent and they all had a bunch of reviews and "Look Inside" on Amazon.

For example:

500 Vegen Reciples

Gluten-Free and Vegan Holidays: Celebrating the Year with Simple, Satisfying Recipes and Menus

Vegan Diner

Fast, Fresh, Green

Those are literally the first four I chose and I explicitly avoided the authors I recognized. The lowest one still had over 20 reviews! You've got so many resources available at your finger tips to prove the books worth in a way the author is OK with. Let's not pretend otherwise.

When you say "no time", what does that mean? If you have no time to cook, it doesn't matter what diet you follow you'll likely be eating a lot of frozen/convenience food. There's plenty of vegetarian options for that. If you mean that 6 days a week you're busy, but one day a week you have a block of time, you might want to look into meal prepping. r/MeatlessMealPrep may help with this. You'll eat a lot of the same things during the week, but that can actually save money and be quite healthy if you're using whole foods (minimally processed things, not the grocery chain).

If you don't know how to cook, that's the most important step. You'll never last if you are eating pizza, bean burritos, and veggie chinese food all the time. Buy a cookbook or two and practice before you move out. Here's a good start.

I just bought Vegan with a Vengeance, Isa Chandra Moskowitz's first cookbook, and I love it. I've already tried a few recipes, and the pancake mix recipe is perfect.

Other than that, my standbys are anything Moosewood, like Moosewood Restaurant Celebrates or Moosewood Restaurant Low-Fat Favorites. I also like Toni Fiore's Totally Vegetarian, especially for the Italian recipes.

My boyfriend and I are mainly Vegetarian. I never thought I would be able to do it, but some of the meals I have made have been so delicious that I don't really miss meat at all. My favorite resources for meals are the following:
Minimalist Baker
Cookie & Kate
Meatless
The Complete Vegetarian

Hopefully that helps some, and I will say I haven't much I disliked from those books/blogs.

Here's the full recipe I use, I just linked to a similar one earlier because I was on my phone. This makes about 6 meal-sized bowls. Delicious, low calorie, highly nutritious. And about $0.75 a bowl. Oh it's sooooo hard to make cheap, healthy food. ;)


Syrian red lentil soup

• 2 1/2 cups red lentils
  
• 10 cups water
  
• 2 1/2 tsp salt
  
  
• 1 onion, finely chopped
  
• 6 cloves garlic, pressed
  
• 1 Tbsp coriander
  
• 1 Tbsp cumin
  
  
• 1 small handful fresh cilantro, chopped
  
• 1 large handful fresh parsley, chopped
  
  
• Lemon wedges
  
  

1. Wash lentils thoroughly. Boil for 45 minutes with 10 cups water and salt.
   
   
2. Fry onion in nonstick pan until soft (don't brown). Add garlic and spices and fry until fragrant. Add spice mixture to lentils, deglaze pan with 1/2 cup water and add to lentils.
   
   
3. Simmer 15 minutes, then add fresh herbs. Simmer another 5 minutes and then serve with lemon wedge on side.
   
   Source: http://www.amazon.ca/Bean-By-Cookbook-Recipes-Savory/dp/0761132414
   
   This book is unreal if you like beans.

Books :

The Kind Diet

Quick and Easy Vegan Comfort Food

The Conscious Cook

Sites:

21 day vegan kickstart free 21 day meal plan

chooseVeg.com

vegcooking.com

suprememastertv.com Lots of vegan cooking shows

Also in Germany: https://www.amazon.de/gp/aw/d/B014YWZ892/

Thank you, perfect Timing 😊

These three books are from incredibly talented chefs in the US and London and are truly outstanding: [Plenty] (https://www.amazon.com/Plenty-Vibrant-Vegetable-Recipes-Ottolenghi/dp/1452101248/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1452101248&pd_rd_r=QS2966PJKEEF0GRXT77M&pd_rd_w=AGutm&pd_rd_wg=8W62G&psc=1&refRID=QS2966PJKEEF0GRXT77M), [On Vegetables] (https://www.amazon.com/Vegetables-Modern-Recipes-Home-Kitchen/dp/071487390X/ref=pd_sim_14_23?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=071487390X&pd_rd_r=QS2966PJKEEF0GRXT77M&pd_rd_w=AGutm&pd_rd_wg=8W62G&psc=1&refRID=QS2966PJKEEF0GRXT77M), and [Six Seasons] (https://www.amazon.com/Six-Seasons-New-Way-Vegetables/dp/1579656315/ref=pd_sim_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1579656315&pd_rd_r=K5GB31833Y91YN058FX5&pd_rd_w=mrmpX&pd_rd_wg=A77Ay&psc=1&refRID=K5GB31833Y91YN058FX5).

I call it "goat cheese walnut pasta" but that's only because I've forgotten the name. It's from an obscure vegetarian cookbook I bought years ago, something like 30 minute vegetarian meals or something? I memorized it plus one other recipe (for an awesome Middle Eastern flavored lentil-artichoke bowtie pasta) and can't find the book anymore...but they're all different kinds of recipes, not just Middle Eastern. Sorry I can't help with the name of the book!!

ETA: Oops, the lentil-artichoke bowtie pasta is from the Moosewood Low-Fat cookbook. The other one I've memorized from the long-forgotten vegetarian cookbook is a chickpea, zucchini, cumin and tomato pasta sauce. Just to be clear!

What kinds of cooking methods do you have access to? Slow cooker? Oven?

Overall, I cannot recommend this book enough, to vegetarians and meat eaters alike. There are a few recipes in there that are naturally lower calorie - the rest are very easy to make low-cal (by swapping ingredients, bulking up with veg, or cutting portion size) For example, there are Corn and Poblano Hand pies in there that I have made in the past week - its a homemade pastry filled with corn, poblano peppers, pinto beans, and cheese. Following the recipe with my ingredients- each hand pie (about 6inch across) is about 315 calories, though this could easily be lessened by using less oil, more veg, less or no cheese, etc.

Without a microwave, there are many recipes (in this book and online) for quinoa salads and rice salads that have cooked veg, beans, and even dried fruit in them that are served cold and delicious!

No idea if it's the best, but I just purchased this last weekend after seeing a few recommendations for it in my internet travels.

Peppers of the Americas: The Remarkable Capsicums That Forever Changed Flavor: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399578927

Are there any you own that you would recommend?

Not a blog, but I was gifted this Salad Love book and so far they’ve all been really good. They’re separated into salads for each season, and none are super fancy so they make great lunches.

I've made a number of Kathy Hester's recipes. She has a ton of them available for free on her web site, Healthy Slow Cooking. Don't let the name fool you, she has all sorts of recipes, not just for slow cookers (the last one I made was this soup). In fact, she just wrote a new book about vegan air frying.

If YouTube isn't your thing, check out her books (I found a number at my library):

• OATrageous Oatmeals
  
• Vegan Slow Cooking for Two or Just for You
  
• The Easy Vegan Cookbook
  
• The Vegan Slowcooker
  
• The Great Vegan Bean Book
  
• Vegan Cooking in your Air Fryer
  
• The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook for your Instant Pot

It sounds like it might be fun to explore recipes from Middle Eastern/Mediterranean cookbooks and Asian cookbooks. I think you might really like the recipes from the Ottolenghi books: Ottolenghi: The Cookbook, Jerusalem, Plenty, and Plenty More.

Maybe check out your local library. I love scoping out cookbooks and seeing if there really are recipes I would make before committing. Some of my favorites:
-Thug Kitchen is one of my favs. I love how they combine different food cuisines but there is a heavy texmex influence which works for me because tacos.
-The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook from America's Test Kitchen. This book does use a little bit more meat substitutes (beefless grounds and such) than other books I own but I like what i've made so far. There is a whole section called "hearty vegetable mains."

>we've tried every different kind in every different way

Somehow I doubt this? Not to be catty, but usually when I hear this it's just because people have kind of given up on vegetables/think vegetables are all brussel sprouts and steamed broccoli.

I got my sister this book for her birthday and it had LOTS of crazy fun looking recipes in it. My advice is just add in a few veggies at a time, and see if you can.

Also, try a search on the history of r/Frugal, or look at the sidebar and hop over to r/Budgetfood. Hope that helps.

I am a lover of the America's Test Kitchen Vegetarian Cook Book. There are a ton of options without citrus or nuts. This book helped me to be a better cook and a healthier vegetarian.
Link to Book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UGBBWFK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

I recently donated away about 100 cookbooks I had collected over the years (I organize virtually everything digitally now) but I kept these 5:

Child et al, Mastering the Art of French Cooking (well-used, next to the stove)

Hazan, Essentials of Italian Cooking (carried to Italy and used there twice)

Lewis, The Taste of Country Cooking (such a good read)

Rombauer. An older than I am edition (with how-to-skin-a-squirrel recipes) of the Joy of Cooking (falling apart, kept for sentimental reasons)

Fox, On Vegetables: Modern Recipes for the Home Kitchen (for the porn)

I just picked up this earlier today actually. It's free until 1/12! Plus the others mentioned here are great too. /r/FreeEBOOKS occasionally will have a vegan cookbook displayed, I've gotten a few kindle recipe books that way.

Fast, Fresh, and Green is not a website, but it is my new favorite cookbook for vegetable dishes (it's a vegetable cookbook that's not vegetarian, so take that for what it's worth). It's available as a Kindle e-book, and it's worth the money.

Yes! When we get the chance, I'd like to suggest:

• Fran Costigan's Vegan Chocolate
  
  
• The Oh She Glows Cookbook

Here's some amazon links for some that I own:

• Keep it Vegan (there is a new edition but this is the one I have) - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Keep-Vegan-simple-healthy-delicious/dp/0857832522/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465990745&sr=1-1&keywords=keep+in+vegan
  
  
• Plant pure nation - https://www.amazon.co.uk/PlantPure-Nation-Cookbook-Breakthrough-Plant-Based-ebook/dp/B00THMM9QU/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465990771&sr=1-1&keywords=plant+pure+nation
  
  
• The China Study Cookbook - https://www.amazon.co.uk/China-Study-Quick-Easy-Cookbook-ebook/dp/B00U27BMT4/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465990779&sr=1-2&keywords=the+china+study+cookbook
  
  
• Forks Over Knives - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Forks-Over-Knives--Cookbook-Plant-Based-ebook/dp/B007JN6UOG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465990810&sr=1-1&keywords=forks+over+knives+cookbook
  
  
• The Non-Dairy Evolution - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Non-Dairy-Evolution-Cookbook-Modernist-Plant-Based/dp/1499590423/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465990798&sr=1-2&keywords=the+gentle+chef
  
  
• Seitan and Beyond - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seitan-Beyond-Soy-Based-Analogues-Ethical/dp/1516860888/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465990798&sr=1-3&keywords=the+gentle+chef
  
  The last two are particularly gourmet, but interesting reads if you want to attempt some mind-blowing meals. I wouldn't list them as beginner though.

Just a suggestion.

Because you said you loved meat. Vegetarian cookbooks have saved me.

I'm surprised no one's posted this yet:

Vegan Comfort Food by Alicia Simpson

Got it for Christmas from my Dad last year and I love it!

You could be interested in this book then, very good imo

Check out my blogpost on this subject. You need to gradually reduce the amount of refined fats and sugar and gradually increase the amount of vegetables. Reducing the amount of fat in our diet will make you hungry as fat has a huge calorie density. If you are hungry, your sense of taste changes. Your brain gets the signal that it hasn't eaten enough so it will try to eat more, therefore everything will taste better.

If this effect alone isn't strong enough to make vegetables tasty for you, you should consult books such as the Forks over Knives Cookbook to get to tasty meals.

Reusable tote bags and veggie bags for the farmers market.

I've found some really great recipes in this cookbook, if he cooks: http://www.amazon.com/The-Great-Vegan-Bean-Book/dp/1592335497

For coffee, if he doesn't already have any of these: a French press, a pour-over (http://www.amazon.com/Hario-VDC-02W-Ceramic-Coffee-Dripper/dp/B000P4D5HG), or an insulated coffee mug. I think stumptown coffee does a coffee club subscription thing.

Random, but a bento lunch jar could be cool if he has to take lunch to work. Reduces packaging, plastic sandwich bag use: http://www.amazon.com/Zojirushi-SL-JAE14SA-Bento-Stainless-Silver/dp/B000246GSE

Was flipping through this cookbook and thought this looked amazing. Tweaked some of the amounts so it would feed my whole family and also leave some leftovers for lunch. I also toasted the walnuts for a few minutes on the stove. Below is the recipe with amounts I ended up using, the cookbook recipe I believe makes 2 servings.

Recipe:

• 6 cups red cabbage, shredded
  
• 2 medium zucchini, chopped
  
• 2 avocados, cubed
  
• 3/4 cup walnuts, chopped and toasted
  
• 1/2 cup chives, chopped
  
• 1 lb shrimp
  
  Dressing:
  
• 6 TBS olive oil
  
• 2-3 TBS lemon juice (I went closer to 3 since I like a little more tang)
  
• Salt and pepper to taste
  
  Macros:
  Makes 6 generous servings
  Per serving:
  389 cal
  23g protein
  8 net carbs
  29g fat
  
  Edit: formatting and added macros

Meatless: More Than 200 of the Very Best Vegetarian Recipes

Page link

I'd like to propose Bean by bean. With Fall coming, soups and bean based dishes may be an interesting choice. A lot of the recipes are visible via Google Books.

I'm a meat lover, and I've been presented with this book. I think I'm cooking from it tomorrow - every recipe looks really tasty!

I just got a book from the library called The Chinese Vegan Kitchen, and it has some Szechuan stuff. Lots of other good stuff too, I just made Moo Shu Vegetables tonight.

This is the amazon page: https://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Vegan-Kitchen-Meat-free-Dairy-free/dp/0399537708/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1505904065&sr=8-1&keywords=chinese+vegan

omg so many great veggies available to use. i just looooooove gai lan. whenever i go to dim sum, i find plenty of dishes for me. radish cakes, fried taro, veggies and noodles, shitaki dumplings - there's just so many good options. just have veggie stuff, there's tons of incredible options and that's not even discussing tofu.

i could eat vegan cheong fun all day. maybe this is a a helpful book? the chinese vegan kitchen.

Nice! Also in UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B014YWZ892/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UGBBWFK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

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I love Bean by Bean. It's not as all encompassing as some other suggestions, but it has basically infinite bean/chili/lentil recipes with a ton of flavor.

Try getting a vegetarian cookbook and exploring. I'm fond of this one, but there are others.

Link for the lazy

some other books:

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Chile-Pepper-Book-Preserving/dp/1604695803

https://www.amazon.com/Peppers-Americas-Remarkable-Capsicums-Forever/dp/0399578927

The Flavor Bible

The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook (by America's Test Kitchen)

How to Cook Everything Vegetarian

This has been my go to cookbook for vegetable side dishes: https://www.amazon.com/Fast-Fresh-Green-Susie-Middleton/dp/0811865665/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524202187&sr=8-1&keywords=fast+fresh+and+green+cookbook

The Meat Lover's Meatless Cookbook has some very hearty dishes. Unfortunately, it's a bit lacking in photos.

Zo te zien is De Dikke Vegetariër de vertaling van het boek How to Cook Everything Vegatarian. DDV is wel nog de eerste druk, het gelinkte boek (ook op Bol te koop) is de nieuwe versie. Als je kijkt naar de "100 Essential Recipes" achterin bij de index lijkt 50%+ ook wel vegan, en de reviews laten het klinken alsof bij de gene die niet vegan zijn er staat hoe je ze makkelijk vegan kan maken.

Mocht de andere commenter niet meer reageren over DDV, dit is de productpagina van de 1e druk op Amazon (en dus het origineel van de DDV). Helaas geen inkijkexamplaar, maar misschien heb je wat aan de recensies.