5 Responses to “1000 Vegetarian Recipes From Around the World”
Comment by Anonymous
This cookbook is poorly organized, and the recipes are unsatisfactory. The ones I have tried ranged from lacking in flavor to inedible. It has been a total disappointment.
Rating: 1 / 5
Comment by Conchita Adsuar
This is the best cookbook of all. I am NOT a vegetarian but often forget while browsing through this book. Every page hass pictures of the dishes AND of the preparation instructions so if there’s something you’ve never heard of or have no idea how it should be done, you’re can be safe from making big mistakes.
Rating: 5 / 5
Comment by Pam
Whether you are vegetarian or not, this is the best cookbook I have ever owned.
Rating: 5 / 5
Comment by A. Chandler
I’ve noted in my last few cookbook reviews that I’ve been spending some time lately going through my big bookshelf of cookbooks and giving kudos to the ones I love and giving away those I don’t.
I took this cookbook off the shelf last week wondering why I didn’t remember any dishes I’d made out of it…I’ve had it for years. (I got it at TJ Maxx for a couple bucks. Can’t beat that.) It’s gorgeous, it’s huge, it has a photo of every recipe, it even contains nutritional information.
In short, this cookbook is put together the way I want all my cookbooks to be. A world of selections and you know what you are getting…
So, I began flipping through the pages to decide what I’d be cooking from it this week. Oddly, although I enjoy reading a cookbook like some do a novel and taste the flavors in my head even before cooking…it was no easy task to find a recipe I wanted to cook.
While the build of the cookbook is wonderful, oddly, it’s the recipes that make it lacking for a better rating.
There are, for example, maybe 50 rice recipes alone. Not dishes with rice in them, mind you, but just flavored rice. Jasmine rice, cumin rice, coconut rice, pesto rice… fairly plain. There are a lot of dishes that just have “little” to them or seem to be “filler” recipes in order to get the book bigger, it seems. Which may be, perhaps, why it wound up being sold at a discount store.
Then you have the “wow” dishes that I wanted to cook until I read the nutritionals and found that many had around 800 calories for a small serving. So I passed on those. I’d normally set aside dishes like this for a dinner party but they weren’t THAT much of a “wow”. Such as Vegetable Ravioli at 822 calories, Spinach lasagna at 720 calories, Walnut and Olive Pasta at 823… Nothing special, just really fattening for small servings.
Then I found some really unusual dishes (scores of these) like Indonesian Onions, honey and nut nests (spaghetti with honey and nuts and lemon juice), olive cake, crisp pickled vegetables, etc…not my thing. And there were TONS of these.
But, sadly, most dishes were more like side dishes than vegetarian meals. Scores of fairly plain potato dishes and the barbecue section consisted primarily of just plain chopped vegetables on skewers. And, trust me, I love me some ‘taters…but not these.
Some dishes were very plain, or common like nachos (yes, really…a recipe for putting cheese on chips and maybe even gettin’ wicked with it and adding refried beans.)(grin). There were lots of salsa recipes and fairly drab salad recipes. And I’m in a salad phase right now so I was an easy sell on salad but found few that weren’t odd or bland ingredient-wise.
So, I’ll be totally honest. I tore out 9 recipes I wanted to keep and put them in my binder. I wanted to keep this one! I really did…but I only kept a little over a handful of its contents. Yeah, just nine. I’ll give away the rest of the cookbook…I cooked 6 dishes from this book this week and they won’t be repeats. But there are still some that do sound good that I am going to give a shot…and those are the 9. These include beautiful dishes that read well with full flavors like the Trio of Potato Purees, Mexican Potato Salad, tomato and pasta bake, pasta with nuts and cheese, and some soups.
That said, I don’t meet many cookbooks I don’t enjoy. I love to cook. I love to food…and this cookbook would be good if you are looking for simple ideas like Bell Peppers with Thyme, potatoes in olive oil, some flavors of rice, etc. That’s not a bad thing. It just, for me, tends to lean to being more of a side dish cookbook and not a very hearty one at that. However, there are lots of vegan recipes interspersed throughout the book so if you are a household including both a vegetarian or sometimes vegetarian and a vegan, this cookbook may be just the ticket for you.
It missed my own kitchen as its target audience…but I can’t help but say it was wonderfully organized. It’s dishes, for me, were bland or a little too exotic but, that said, if you never count calories there are some uber yummy sounding dishes at around 800 calories in here that I had to pass over. So I wouldn’t rule those out for others in making this a well-rounded successful cookbook addition…and I suspect they’ll be quite enjoyable.
And, after all, everything in balance makes eating rather grand.
Rating: 2 / 5
Comment by JamieM
I’m not vegetarian, but I love veggies, rice and pastas, and this cookbook has plenty to serve. Each page has great color photos (usually 4) showing the different steps to cooking the meal & the final product. Each recipe also has nutritional info as well as ETAs for cooking & prep time. There are also plenty of cooking tips. My favorite recipes are the soups. We esp LOVE rthe exotic mushroom soup.
Just to give you an idea of recipes: orange & pumpkin soup, zucchini & thyme fritters, eggplant timbale, white raddishh curry, walnut & olive pasta, spinich & ricotta gnocchi, bean curd w/bell peppers, cheese & potato strudel, turkish kabobs, coconut apples, special peach melba, cool cucumber salad, saffron-flavored potatoes, mango ice cream, and sweet fruit wontons. hungry yet?
My onlu issue is that the book’s binding is week and my book is starting to fall apart. I guess I use it too much.
Rating: 5 / 5
This cookbook is poorly organized, and the recipes are unsatisfactory. The ones I have tried ranged from lacking in flavor to inedible. It has been a total disappointment.
Rating: 1 / 5
This is the best cookbook of all. I am NOT a vegetarian but often forget while browsing through this book. Every page hass pictures of the dishes AND of the preparation instructions so if there’s something you’ve never heard of or have no idea how it should be done, you’re can be safe from making big mistakes.
Rating: 5 / 5
Whether you are vegetarian or not, this is the best cookbook I have ever owned.
Rating: 5 / 5
I’ve noted in my last few cookbook reviews that I’ve been spending some time lately going through my big bookshelf of cookbooks and giving kudos to the ones I love and giving away those I don’t.
I took this cookbook off the shelf last week wondering why I didn’t remember any dishes I’d made out of it…I’ve had it for years. (I got it at TJ Maxx for a couple bucks. Can’t beat that.) It’s gorgeous, it’s huge, it has a photo of every recipe, it even contains nutritional information.
In short, this cookbook is put together the way I want all my cookbooks to be. A world of selections and you know what you are getting…
So, I began flipping through the pages to decide what I’d be cooking from it this week. Oddly, although I enjoy reading a cookbook like some do a novel and taste the flavors in my head even before cooking…it was no easy task to find a recipe I wanted to cook.
While the build of the cookbook is wonderful, oddly, it’s the recipes that make it lacking for a better rating.
There are, for example, maybe 50 rice recipes alone. Not dishes with rice in them, mind you, but just flavored rice. Jasmine rice, cumin rice, coconut rice, pesto rice… fairly plain. There are a lot of dishes that just have “little” to them or seem to be “filler” recipes in order to get the book bigger, it seems. Which may be, perhaps, why it wound up being sold at a discount store.
Then you have the “wow” dishes that I wanted to cook until I read the nutritionals and found that many had around 800 calories for a small serving. So I passed on those. I’d normally set aside dishes like this for a dinner party but they weren’t THAT much of a “wow”. Such as Vegetable Ravioli at 822 calories, Spinach lasagna at 720 calories, Walnut and Olive Pasta at 823… Nothing special, just really fattening for small servings.
Then I found some really unusual dishes (scores of these) like Indonesian Onions, honey and nut nests (spaghetti with honey and nuts and lemon juice), olive cake, crisp pickled vegetables, etc…not my thing. And there were TONS of these.
But, sadly, most dishes were more like side dishes than vegetarian meals. Scores of fairly plain potato dishes and the barbecue section consisted primarily of just plain chopped vegetables on skewers. And, trust me, I love me some ‘taters…but not these.
Some dishes were very plain, or common like nachos (yes, really…a recipe for putting cheese on chips and maybe even gettin’ wicked with it and adding refried beans.)(grin). There were lots of salsa recipes and fairly drab salad recipes. And I’m in a salad phase right now so I was an easy sell on salad but found few that weren’t odd or bland ingredient-wise.
So, I’ll be totally honest. I tore out 9 recipes I wanted to keep and put them in my binder. I wanted to keep this one! I really did…but I only kept a little over a handful of its contents. Yeah, just nine. I’ll give away the rest of the cookbook…I cooked 6 dishes from this book this week and they won’t be repeats. But there are still some that do sound good that I am going to give a shot…and those are the 9. These include beautiful dishes that read well with full flavors like the Trio of Potato Purees, Mexican Potato Salad, tomato and pasta bake, pasta with nuts and cheese, and some soups.
That said, I don’t meet many cookbooks I don’t enjoy. I love to cook. I love to food…and this cookbook would be good if you are looking for simple ideas like Bell Peppers with Thyme, potatoes in olive oil, some flavors of rice, etc. That’s not a bad thing. It just, for me, tends to lean to being more of a side dish cookbook and not a very hearty one at that. However, there are lots of vegan recipes interspersed throughout the book so if you are a household including both a vegetarian or sometimes vegetarian and a vegan, this cookbook may be just the ticket for you.
It missed my own kitchen as its target audience…but I can’t help but say it was wonderfully organized. It’s dishes, for me, were bland or a little too exotic but, that said, if you never count calories there are some uber yummy sounding dishes at around 800 calories in here that I had to pass over. So I wouldn’t rule those out for others in making this a well-rounded successful cookbook addition…and I suspect they’ll be quite enjoyable.
And, after all, everything in balance makes eating rather grand.
Rating: 2 / 5
I’m not vegetarian, but I love veggies, rice and pastas, and this cookbook has plenty to serve. Each page has great color photos (usually 4) showing the different steps to cooking the meal & the final product. Each recipe also has nutritional info as well as ETAs for cooking & prep time. There are also plenty of cooking tips. My favorite recipes are the soups. We esp LOVE rthe exotic mushroom soup.
Just to give you an idea of recipes: orange & pumpkin soup, zucchini & thyme fritters, eggplant timbale, white raddishh curry, walnut & olive pasta, spinich & ricotta gnocchi, bean curd w/bell peppers, cheese & potato strudel, turkish kabobs, coconut apples, special peach melba, cool cucumber salad, saffron-flavored potatoes, mango ice cream, and sweet fruit wontons. hungry yet?
My onlu issue is that the book’s binding is week and my book is starting to fall apart. I guess I use it too much.
Rating: 5 / 5
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