Quick-Fix Vegetarian: Healthy Home-Cooked Meals in 30 Minutes or Less
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"Many studies have shown that vegetarians seem to have a lower risk of obesity, coronary heart disease (which causes heart attack), high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, and some forms of cancer." --The American Heart Association
Quick-Fix Vegetarian by Robin Robertson recently was named Best New Cookbook by PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The international organization's Proggy Award (short for "progress") recognizes animal-friendly achievement in 21st century culture and commerce. No longer considered a "hippie fad," the vegan lifestyle is becoming going mainstream. In her latest book vegetarian expert Robin Robertson creates recipes such as Spinach and Sun-Dried Tomato Quesadillas, Chipotle-Kissed Black Bean Soup, Mediterranean Orzo Salad, Beat-the-Clock Lasagna, Five-Minute Slow-Cooker Chili, and No-Bake Oatmeal Almond Cookies for this growing consumer base. In addition, Quick-Fix Vegetarian shows how to use many of the new commercial vegetarian products and includes recipe variations and tips for speedy, stress-free entertaining without sacrificing flavor or mainstream appeal.
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| 11-17-08 | 4 | (NA) |
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I'm a college student, so I thrive on easy recipes that are easy, fairly cheap, and smell good enough perhaps to tempt my omnivorous roommates. Quick-Fix Vegetarian isn't necessarily life changing, but I enjoy it nonetheless. I also love how she only puts "vegetarian" in the title, but all of the recipes happen to be vegan. I think this simple replacement does a phenomenal job of NOT scaring away ovo-lacto vegetarians. I definitely recommend this cookbook for anyone who doesn't have the time/resources to cook a mind-blowingly complex meal every night, but likes eating home cooked meals.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-11-19 07:33:27 EST)
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| 10-07-08 | 5 | (NA) |
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I'm a horrible cook and a new vegetarian, but this book has really helped me create healthy meals!
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-11-18 10:33:18 EST)
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| 08-19-08 | 5 | (NA) |
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This is a brilliant book perfect for a family with kids! At the end of a long day these meals are prepped quickly and easily with the added bonus of being tasty as well. So far all the meals in this book have been winners. Quick fix & delicious, is what you want in a recipe book.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-10-09 08:03:09 EST)
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| 07-17-08 | 4 | 1\1 |
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I am a new vegetarian and just needed some ideas of what I could make quickly and easily. This book has been very helpful. I have made about 5 things out of it so far and they have all been very fast and have tasted good, not great, but most of them have been things I will make again. The curried "egg salad" is delicious! As others have stated this is a vegan cookbook.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-08-30 07:14:23 EST)
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| 05-05-08 | 4 | 1\1 |
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I bought this book to help me to make healthy, quick meals on very busy days while I transition my family into a new style of eating.
I had not realized when I bought this book that it was Vegan, I wish that had been made more clear in the title. I am not interested in adopting a Vegan diet, I am interested in replacing our traditional meals with healthier, meatless alternatives. Luckily I have found that the recipes offered here are indeed easy to make and good tasting, and thus still useful toward my ends. The kids do like the food (no small thing!) and and I am getting use out of the book, just perhaps not as often as I had hoped as I prefer to include dairy and eggs in my children's diets. I recommend the book if you are looking for quick Vegan meals, or for good tasting, healthy dishes to 'fill around the edges' of lacto-ovo or omnivorous diets. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-07-27 07:08:53 EST)
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| 04-01-08 | 5 | 1\1 |
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Often when someone learns I eat a Vegan diet they will say "you don't eat meat and milk and eggs, what do you eat." And I'll respond "everything else." I'm posting this one comment in the review section for seven Vegan cookbooks because these seven cover a lot of "everything else." For several weeks I have been rotating these cookbooks-cooking a new recipe from that day's cookbook each time. And my biggest difficulty in doing this is that I now have favorites from each book that I must bypass, for now, to try a new recipe. If you think about what you eat you may find, like me, that you repeat the same dozen or so meals each week. This method of cookbook/recipe rotation has helped me break out of my menu rut. I've had a few meals flop, but the good to excellent meals have far exceeded the flops. Here's the list-all purchased from Amazon.
Vegan Success-Daffron & Byrd Quick-fix Vegeatrian (actually vegan) Robertson Vegan Fire & Spice-Robertson Vega Vittles-Stepaniak The everyday Vega-Burton Veganomicon-Moskowitz & Romero Vegan with a Vengeance-Moskowwitz (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-04-09 18:45:04 EST)
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| 03-17-08 | 5 | 2\2 |
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I love this book because the author definitely has the time-strapped cook in mind. Although I've found that some of the recipes have taken me a little longer than 30 minutes, I appreciate that she gives lots of tips for how to cut down the prep time even further. As far as the recipes go, the peanut-coconut tempeh sauce is wonderful, but I'd cut down the olive oil by about 1/2 in the basic pesto recipe. Overall, though, I very highly recommend this book. It's actually my #1 favorite cookbook right now. Five stars.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-05-19 06:31:58 EST)
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| 02-03-08 | 5 | 1\1 |
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As a new vegetarian and a single person on the go I am in search of great cookbooks, I have purchased a few of Ms. Robertson's cookbooks and use the Quick Fix vegetarian book the most. My meat loving father loved the sloppy joes. On a recent cold night the pumpkin soup with the curried pecans warmed my stomache as well as my soul. For the past two weeks I have craved Indian food the tempeh with the coconut peanut sauce completely satified that craving. I have also made the udon noodles in the tahini sauce and the spaghtetti with the red lentil. I saved the leftover sauce and used to make a mini pizza and on french bread topped with soy cheese. I recently purchased Vegan Fire and Spice and I am looking forward to trying even more of Ms. Robertson's recipes.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-03-16 07:25:01 EST)
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| 02-02-08 | 5 | 2\2 |
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As a new vegetarian and a single person on the go I am in search of great cookbooks, I have purchased a few of Ms. Robertson's cookbooks and use the Quick Fix vegetarian book the most. My meat loving father loved the sloppy joes. On a recent cold night the pumpkin soup with the curried pecans warmed my stomache as well as my soul. For the past two weeks I have craved Indian food the tempeh with the coconut peanut sauce completely satified that craving. I have also made the udon noodles in the tahini sauce and the spaghtetti with the red lentil. I saved the leftover sauce and used to make a mini pizza and on french bread topped with soy cheese. I recently purchased Vegan Fire and Spice and I am looking forward to trying even more of Ms. Robertson's recipes.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-03-18 19:52:24 EST)
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| 11-23-07 | 5 | 5\5 |
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Though this book is all over the map (slow-cooker recipes, casseroles, etc.)--are these recipes that are on the table start to finish in 30 minutes, or is hands-on time 30 minutes? There are some in each category. Still, I give this book 5 stars because everything I've made is truly easy and absolutely delicious. The recipes work as stated; no guesswork or tweaking. Robin is friendly, helpful, and informative as an author and cook, and I look forward to making lots more of these tasty and healthy recipes.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-02-03 03:25:16 EST)
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| 10-01-07 | 2 | 5\9 |
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The name of this book is misleading, these receipes are not "quick-fix" at all. Also, very, very little photos of the finished meals, I want pictures!
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-12-15 00:43:22 EST)
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| 08-27-07 | 5 | 1\2 |
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this book has recipes in all categories of food: salads, soups, even deserts. recipe use a variety of ingredients which is essential for a vegetarian diet. the recipes can indeed be prepared very quickly
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-12-15 00:43:22 EST)
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| 08-21-07 | 5 | 7\8 |
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I'm a full time student as well as a full time worker, and after a long day I just don't feel like cooking. The back of this book reads, "vegetarian dishes that can be prepared in less time than it takes to have a pizza delivered," and it is not a lie. I've already made several recipes out of this book, including one for a Quinoa salad that converted me into a Quinoa lover. From Basic Recipes (mushroom gravy, pie crust, etc) to appetizers, entrees and desserts, Robin Robertson makes it easy to never order take-out again.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-12-15 00:43:22 EST)
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| 08-07-07 | 5 | 6\6 |
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I have tried several of the recipes so far and have loved each one of them. They are quick to put together, flavorful and most of the items are staples in your cupboard. Cookbooks don't need to have pictures. Pictures can be very deceiving. Your dish most likely won't look just like the picture b/c they have had artist arrange the food on a platter.
I highly recomend this book for everyone. (Review Data Last Updated: 2007-12-15 00:43:22 EST)
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| 07-24-07 | 5 | 6\6 |
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This book is a dream come true for people who want to prepare healthy meals without spending a lot of time in the kitchen. The recipes are easy to use and they taste great too. Best of all, they are designed for the way people really cook, making selective use of high-quality convenience products, such as canned beans and tomato products, to speed things along. I especially appreciate that the recipes are cholesterol-free and not all gunked up with cheese. So glad to finally have a recipe book with great veg food that is quick to fix. I highly recommend it!
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-12-15 00:43:22 EST)
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