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| Vegan with a Vengeance : Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free Recipes That Rock | 
 enlarge | Author: Isa Chandra Moskowitz
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  259 reviews
Sales Rank: 953
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 280
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7 x 0.8
ISBN: 1569243581
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5636
EAN: 9781569243589
ASIN: 1569243581
Publication Date: October 27, 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
 Real World Recipes May 16, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm a new vegan - for health reasons. I like to cook but cooking without meat and animal products has been a steep learning curve for me. This book has been a great resource for me.
These recipes are good because they taste good. I think they work because Isa comes at them from someone who likes food and is just sharing what she likes and works for her. They are not driven by a production schedule of a TV show.
The recipes are straightforward, simple, easy and cheap to make, and taste good. I recommend this as a great cook book for anyone - especially vegans.
 vegan cooking May 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
pretty good recipes and it is easy to get the ingredients in Oklahoma. Some things in other cook books are not easy to find here. I love the ideas it also gives me tweak other recipes to make them vegan..they give a great list of ingredient substitutions.
Isa is Awesome May 5, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Isa Moskowitz is a fabulous vegan chef and these recipes are a testament to her awesomeness. Every recipe I've cooked has turned out great on the first try and there are lots of recipes I still want to test. There are lots of great recipes on Isa's website as well [...]. I only wish I lived in Brooklyn so I could watch her local access cable show.
There are two negatives to this cookbook, though. The first is that the prep time and cook time are not listed at the top of each recipe-- you have to read through the text to find that information. If you're looking for something to throw together in a hurry, this can be a problem.
The second negative is the same negative I've found in other vegan/vegetarian cookbooks: some of the recipes have lots of ingredients and spices that your average grad student either doesn't have or can't afford. But that's only a problem if you're strapped for cash like me!
You will love this book! May 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love this book! Great recipes, great information and written in a fun, easy to read style.
Everything I have tried from this book has been great and that's hard to say about a lot of cookbooks.
No weird ingredients to find, no strange procedures to follow, just great tasting food.
Even meat eaters like these recipes!
This girl does great things with seitan... May 2, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm a huge fan of all the recipe books that Isa Chandra Moskowitz has put out. Her cookbooks are the inspiration for me to return to being vegan after a few sad years of being just vegetarian. All the recipes are delicious, all of the recipes are creative, and all of the recipes have appealed to even my non-vegan friends (which we all know it's not easy to please them when it comes to eating & actually enjoying vegan food!).
What I am most impressed with is her use of seitan in recipes. Before her recipes books, I used tofu, oh, about 100% of the time!! I never bought seitan because it was on the more expensive side, and I was too intimidated to think about MAKING my own to use in recipes. But alot of the recipes in Vegan with a Vengeance (VWAV) that looked so awesome were recipes that call for seitan & so I jumped right in, made my own seitan (well, Isa's recipe) & I will say I am now obsessed with all things seitan. Btw, I use the basic seitan recipe from her Veganomicon cookbook for any recipes in VWAV that call for seitan; I find it to be a slightly better taste than the recipe she uses in VWAV (and not as high sodium too).
The recipes from VWAV that blew me away are the Seitan-Portobello Stroganoff, the Ethiopian Seitan and Peppers with Savory Crepes, and Cold Udon Noodles with Peanut Sauce and Seitan. The other recipe that I am compelled to rave about is the Tofu Dill Salad. I cannot believe that I can now make a better Salad spread than what I used to pay lots of money for (for little quantity) at a health food store. The key to this recipe succeeding is that you HAVE to follow it exactly - don't skimp on draining the tofu for an hour, and don't skimp on refrigerating before eating. Isa has mastered her recipes - follow them & you'll be in vegan heaven!!!!!!!!
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