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Customers find the recipes delicious and easy to follow. They appreciate the simple ingredients and nutritional facts. The book provides great pictures for each recipe, making it easy to understand the dish. Many customers find the recipes healthy and suitable for weeknight meals. The book offers a variety of recipes for different occasions and is informative with helpful hints.
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The highly anticipated cookbook from the immensely popular food blog Minimalist Baker, featuring 101 all-new simple, vegan recipes that all require 10 ingredients or less, 1 bowl or 1 pot, or 30 minutes or less to prepare
Dana Shultz founded the Minimalist Baker blog in 2012 to share her passion for simple cooking and quickly gained a devoted worldwide following. Now, in this long-awaited debut cookbook, Dana shares 101 vibrant, simple recipes that are entirely plant-based, mostly gluten-free, and 100% delicious. Packed with gorgeous photography, this practical but inspiring cookbook includes:
• Recipes that each require 10 ingredients or less, can be made in one bowl, or require 30 minutes or less to prepare.
• Delicious options for hearty entrées, easy sides, nourishing breakfasts, and decadent desserts—all on the table in a snap
• Essential plant-based pantry and equipment tips
• Easy-to-follow, step-by-step recipes with standard and metric ingredient measurements
Minimalist Baker’s Everyday Cooking is a totally no-fuss approach to cooking for anyone who loves delicious food that happens to be healthy too.
Publisher : Avery; Illustrated edition (April 26, 2016)
Language : English
Hardcover : 304 pages
ISBN-10 : 0735210969
ISBN-13 : 978-0735210967
Item Weight : 2.6 pounds
Dimensions : 8.4 x 0.99 x 10.3 inches
Kat L –
Fantastic, accessible food presented in a beautiful package.
Dana Shultz has written an absolutely gorgeous cookbook and packed it full of recipes that are diverse and interesting. I’m always delighted to find a cookbook like this one, where I can plan an entire menu that includes and satisfies everyone around the table, even diners not on a specific diet.I really like the layout, with basic recipes and methods at the beginning (for things like a flax egg and the 1-bowl approach (which appears a lot)). The recipes then follow along a familiar and easy-to-follow progression from breakfast – apps & sides – mains – desserts – drinks. Following the recipes, there is a basic pantry list and even a nutritional index(!) that lists every dish and its calories | fat | saturated fat | carbs | sodium | fiber | sugar | protein content. I am going to ignore that info for the amazingly delicious double-chocolate gluten-free waffles, but since they are meant to be a special occasion dessert/”breakfast”, it’s totally fine.At the top of each recipe page is a convenient notice about the advantages of that recipe. Some are 30 minutes or less, some require only one pot, some are gluten-free, some are 10 ingredients or less, others are all of the above, etc. Combined with a brief description, info on prep and cook time for each recipe, and a photo – usually on the same page – Dana’s recipes are thoughtfully presented and easy to follow. The spine does enable the book to stay open easily and most recipes plus their photo are all on the same page as the ingredients list (which I love).Dana writes that her Spiced Buckwheat Pancakes are her favorite vegan pancakes to date, so I easily made a batch tonight and froze them individually for my breakfast all week. They are very good (assuming you like spices & buckwheat, both of which I adore). I’m really excited to try her Chickpea Fesenjan for dinner tomorrow night (yum walnuts, pomegranate, chickpeas and cauliflower rice (my choice)). With a prep time of only 10 minutes and a total cook time of 45 minutes, it’s a perfect example of most of her main dishes: full of flavor but short on time-commitment and actual prep time. These recipes also scale really well – down to a single serving or up for a larger crowd. I can tell I’ll be cooking a lot from the Minimalist Baker’s Everyday Cooking; it’s perfect for any audience – those eating plant-based all the time, only on Mondays, expanding your gluten-free horizons, and everyone in between.
My 2 cents –
If you like the author’s website I think you will love this cookbook
All of the recipes I’ve made so far have been excellent and as I paged through the book I found just about every recipe appealing. The one thing I have learned is that I prefer quite a bit more spice, so going forward will add at least 50% more to all recipes I make from the get go. I borrowed the book from my public library but have now purchased it – my only cookbook purchase of 2017 (so far)! This author (I love her website too) is now up there with Angela Liddon, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, and Dreena Burton for me. I try to eat a mostly plant based diet and I prefer recipes that use reasonable amounts of oil like this author (as opposed to none!). I personally love gluten (!) so although the author offers ways to make certain recipes gluten free (and marks the ones that are at the top of the recipe, along with whether it is 1 bowl or pot, 10 ingredients or less, or 30 minutes or less), I just used regular oats, etc.Although I’ve successfully made several dishes from her website, which brought me to this book, here’s what I’ve made so far from this cookbook (it’s been a bit too hot to cook so have been making a lot of smoothies and overnight oats lately):- Ginger Colada Green Smoothie (I can’t believe I’ve never added a piece of peeled ginger to a smoothie before – awesome! I did add the optional flax seeds and hemp hearts but sweetener wasn’t needed. Great tip on keeping prewashed bags of spinach/kale in the freezer!)- Mango Coconut Lassi (because I used frozen mango this was almost like soft serve – and a gorgeous yellow. I researched and found out you can freeze coconut milk in ice trays and then move the cubes to a freezer bag for a month because I really wanted to make this one but didn’t have a plan on what to do with the rest of that can of coconut milk! The frozen cubes should be thawed and blended before using. (per America’s Test Kitchen).- Spiced Buckwheat Pancakes (Used buckwheat, spelt, and rolled oats. Excellent but will add more spices next time. Made exactly 8 pancakes like the recipe said it would. Good tip to freeze any extra pancakes.)- Hearty Cocoa Black Bean Burgers (I used olive oil instead of the called for grape seed or avocado oil. The recipe makes 4 but those would have been too big so I made 8 and froze the extra per her instructions. I decided to follow her optional baking instructions after browning them “to dry/crisp them up a bit” – yum! Good easy sauce recommendation. Will add more spices next time – could hardly taste the chili powder.)- Peanut Butter Pad Thai (This is the best Pad Thai I have ever made – because of her sauce. I didn’t have “chili garlic sauce” so used Sriracha hot chili sauce instead and didn’t change any of the other spices and it was absolutely delicious. I happened to have tamarind concentrate – Swad brand I found at a Tony’s Finer Foods for another recipe that didn’t make it into my regular dinner rotation- so was especially happy to find a new recipe that uses it that WILL make it into my regular dinner rotation!)Absolutely gorgeous photographs accompany all of the recipes and the book is nicely bound with a hard cover. Truly a beautiful cookbook. Nutritional information is included in the back – a nice addition.
bridget –
Fabulous plant-based cookbook
This wonderful cookbook got me out of a cooking rut! A few months ago I went from vegetarian to plant-based/vegan. I was lacking cooking motivation and needing new dinner ideas. I LOVE the Minimalist Baker blog, so I decided to buy their cookbook. Two days later the book arrived, and for the past few weeks, I’ve made two dinner recipes a week from here. And, no joke, they’ve ALL been AMAZING. So far I’ve made the White Bean Posole Verde, Masala Chickpea Curry (possibly my favorite so far), Garlic Pineapple Stir-Fried Quinoa, Cashew Soba Noodle Salad, Spicy Braised Tofu Tostadas (another favorite), and Thai Baked Sweet Potatoes. Tonight I’m trying the Hearty Cocoa Black Bean Burgers. I love the burgers and falafels on their blog, and sure these will be amazing too.My one word of caution: I think the title of the blog and cookbook is a bit misleading. I don’t think the recipes are that “minimalistic,” and they go far beyond baking (a friend of mine assumed it was as baking book, and did not think it included entrees). I love to cook, and would consider myself a fairly strong cook, so I find these recipes easy to follow and fairly quick, but they are never as “quick and easy” as the prep and cook times claim. I also can’t stand when anyone calls their recipe “The Best…” and that seems to happen often…oh well! I still swear by these recipes (even if they take a little longer) and almost exclusively cook using this cookbook or the blog. Especially excellent if you love Mexican-style food and/or Indian curries.
Amazon Customer –
We literally cooked all the main courses one after the other and they were all really nice! The recipes are really easy to follow, steps are well-explained, there are conversion rates between imperial/metric systems, and it even gives you a rough estimate of what “3 medium carrots/zucchini” yields. which is great because where I shop that would be “3 extra small carrots/zucchini” 😀
Emma Adlam –
Brilliant book, easy to use and lots of amazing recipes. I’m eager for them to bring out another cook book. I will definitely be buying. Highly recommend.
donata deguidi –
I am very disappointed from this book! You can find many more interesting recipes on their website, and for free… I have spent money for nothing!
Giada –
Gosh I love this book! I use it on a constant basis, for dinners, breakfast and lunches ! The recipes are well described, easy to follow and with great pictures !I suggest it for people who love to cooks and try new things, with amazing flavors.
victoria –
El libro me encanta, recetas super sencillas realmente sin ningún ingrediente extravagante que a veces los veganos utilizan.De super buena calidad, excelente impresión. El libro se siente pesado y resistente.