Cook without a Book: Meatless Meals: Recipes and Techniques for Part-Time and Full-Time Vegetarians: A Cookbook

Haven’t cooked anything from the book but it looks like there are some recipes I would like to try

As a devout carnivore, I ordered this book because I have all six of Pam Anderson's cookbooks including one personally autographed by the author at a cooking class I attended. Seeing many sneak previews of the book via USA Weekend and ThreeManyCooks, I knew the book would be great. I will never be a vegan (having grown up in the dairy industry), but I would like to reduce the amount of meat I eat. This book will make it easy.There is a multitude of "MASTER" recipes, each followed by a list of variations for one or more of the ingredients. This way, if you like the recipe, but don't like a specific ingredient, there is a list of "alternatives". Also, you may not have to run out and buy a specific item just to make the recipe. As with the author's previous book on how to "cook without a book", you probably will need to refer to the book to refresh your memory when making anything.The book is divided into two sections (1) Not Strickly for Breakfast, and (2) Fun Food for the Rest of the Day. The "breakfast" section contains wrap-and-runs, breakfast pizza, pancakes, scones, muffins, etc. The "rest of the day" has sections on salads, soups and stews, sandwiches, eggs and potatoes, pies for dinner (including quiche and veggie pizzas), etc. The last section has Italian, Asian and Mexican meals (pasta, risotto, stir-fries, and even a "taco bar").The recipes are loaded with vegetables and you may be able to convince a vegetable-hater to actually enjoy vegetables for once. Many of the recipes call for vegetable stock and I was surprised that there was not a recipe for a home-made vegetable stock. The author does, however, recommend some brands. (Don't tell anybody, but I bet you could substitute Ch@#%en stock.)And yes, there are a very few recipes that include tofu, if you might want to try that item, (or skip over to another recipe that doesn't). The recipes lack nutritional data, but this would almost be impossible due to the variations presented for the recipes. Most vegetables (except the starchy ones) are low in calories and the grains and legumes provide protein and essential amino acids. Although some of the recipes are vegan, I would not recommend this book to a vegan since many of the recipes call for dairy products or eggs.I definately will be making some of these recipes soon.

I have been following Pam Anderson and her two daughters for about a year now. I admit I am a bit of a groupie. But I have two of her cookbooks," Perfect One Dish Dinners", which I have made several things out of successfully. Now this new cookbook comes out and I have paged through the entire book several times and read most of the book. I have fallen in love with the way she sets up a process more than recipe. My husband and I are talking about going meatless at least once a week. This is a big deal to a man who was raised with beef on the hoof.The only complaint I have about the book is she does not talk about how to make a complete protein using grains, cereals, dairy and beans. Example, cereal with milk makes a complete protein with all seven amino acids. I wish Ms. Anderson had touched on this a bit more so that those who are trying to move from meat can feel comfortable about getting their protein.But that aside, a great cookbook, it deals with the process more than just set recipes. Hats off to you Ms. Anderson and company, great job.

I just got this cookbook. The paper cover is dated. The pages close book I can see dirt spots. With this said, I like the color pictures showing what the food looks like. I look forward to making some of the recipes.

I have owned this book since last summer when I was overwhelmed by our CSA box and trying to figure out how we could possibly eat so many produce items. We are not vegetarian but I strive for about half of our meals to be meatless, for our own health and the health of the environment. I love this cookbook! I disagree with the reviewer who said it is "not for the experienced cook." I have been cooking for about 25 years and I found lots of great recipes and ideas. No, it is not fancy frou-frou stuff, but I love the flexibility of being able to swap out this for that and make adaptations based upon what I have on hand. I have not yet made a recipe that we did not like. I also like that there are only a few recipes with tofu/tempeh/etc. My son can't have soy and I don't like it anyway. I found almost all the recipes to be kid-friendly for my 7 and 3 year old.

Easy to use, very adaptable recipes for every season. This book gives you a "base recipe" for a meal, then offers different combinations and diversions to make depending on your taste or what you have in stock. The directions are EASY to read and understand, and there hasn't been a recipe that I've (completely) failed at making. A lot of them can be adapted to be made with meat, as well, but all taste fantastic as they are. This book is loved by my food scientist mother, my dietician sister, and myself, a CSA farmer. We all have a copy and have fallen in love with these recipes! Our favorites are the vegetable galette, potato feta gyros, weeknight quiche, and big bran muffins. Cheers!

I'm a long time fan of Pam's original Cook without a Book, so I was very excited to see her get back to this format. It proves that Pam really is a recipe writing genius. What others do with physics and calculus, she does with food.I've made two recipes just this week out of the book - skillet eggs and potatoes, and the sweet breakfast pizza. Both have been phenomenal, and it's easy to put my own spin on the recipe with Pam's formulas.What I *really* love is that Pam's formulas sort of point out to me that I was already at this point - eating a lot of meatless meals. I just wasn't taking it to the next level and making it something I would *choose* over a meal that included meat. With her help, we're doing that a lot more.Thank you, Pam, for another wonderful book.

Good for a person just learning to cook

Makes cooking fun again.

This book is excellent! It's one of our favourites!

Perfect book ! I like it a lot !