Some of my favorite cookbooks
Flavors of Greece
Healthful, authentic, flavorful, and fresh, Rosemary Barron's ode to Greek food embodies everything great about Greek cuisine. As someone who's been lucky enough to eat the real deal, these recipes recreate it! Her stuffed vegetables are TDF.
Madhur Jaffrey's World-of-the-East Vegetarian Cooking
I don't eat meat much. Buy any vegetable, and look it up in this. You'll find something fantastic to make with it. I just read this book for fun- she is incredibly well informed about ingredients and international cuisine, and she is a fascinating human being! Try her tofu and cabbage stew with shiitake mushrooms.
Tapas
So simple, so luscious. Tapas are my favorite way to eat! Her shrimp in garlic and tomato sauce rocks my life.
Fast Food My Way
I love Jacques Pepin. I think he is presh. This cookbook is SO EASY and yet so delicious! The broccoli stem relish is intensely amazing, as is the salmon with mirin.
Lord Krishna's Cuisine
In India, they are mostly vegetarians. So obviously, OBVIOUSLY they know how to make intensely awesome vegetarian food.
Student's Vegetarian Cookbook
I don't own this cookbook but my boyfriend does and I have thoroughly benefited. The falafel and the rice/black bean/orange salad are both to DIE for!
Some of my favorite online recipes
Obviously, my favorite meal is brunch. So let's start with those!
Brunch
Favorite pancakes: Carrot Cake Pancakes
I top them with my own maple cream cheese- 1.5 T light cream cheese plus 1 t. maple syrup.
Favorite fancy sweet brunch: Cinnamon Fruit Rolls
Favorite fancy savory brunch: Asparagus Tart
Favorite vegan brunch: Tofu Scramble
Breads
Favorite English muffins
(I reverse the ratio of whole wheat to white flour)
Favorite pita
Favorite loaf bread
Favorite focaccia
Favorite Greek bread
Favorite biscuits
(I don't bother with the seeds)
Favorite empanada dough
Dips
Favorite baba ghanoush
Favorite hummus
Favorite red pepper dip (muhammara!)
Soups
Favorite winter soup: Acorn Squash Soup with Miso
(I half the miso)
Favorite summer soup: Chilled beet and fennel soup
(try it topped with hardboiled egg)
Meats and Seafood
Favorite pork: Fennel-brined pork chops
Favorite grilled seafood: Thai-style grilled mussels
Veggies
Favorite taste of summer: corn and basil cakes
Favorite vegetarian comfort food: lentil cottage pie
Favorite "fries": butternut fries
Favorite sweet potatoes: miso-glazed sweet potatoes and barley sweet potato hash
Holidays:
Favorite turkey
Favorite ham
(skip the cherries!)
Favorite holiday side: butternut and leek gratin
Favorite semi-healthy holiday pie: rustic apple crostada
Favorite crazy indulgent holiday pie: crunchy caramel apple pie
Desserts
Lemon bon bons
Macadamia ginger crunch drops (vegan)
Oatmeal, chocolate chip and pecan cookies
Mocha bars
(I use 3/4 cup chocolate chips and put them on top, not in with coffee layer)
Macadamia butter cookies with dried cranberries
