Vegan Mock Meat Revolution: Delicious Plant-based Recipes

It’s most unfortunate that we can’t preview a book before purchasing because I was disappointed with this book. It had ingredients I couldn’t access locally. The recipes just weren’t my thing. I have seen recipes that are available easily, either locally or online.When I returned it, I had to pay POSTAGE. Bummer! I am going to make it a point to purchase fewer books online. It’s not worth having buying a book online, then turn around and pay for postage to return it!!! What a crock! I am starting to hate ordering books online!

Plenty of inspiration here, all the mock meat the you desire. Colored photos, clear instructions, hardcover some ingredients take you on a special trip to the store. Good add to the library.

Great book

This cookbook is awesome, the recipes are fun and lots of base recipes so that you can make several of the recipesIts story that Jackie wrote about each recipe draws you in and make you salivate, I was lucky to get to one of the launches and taste the food from this book cooked by Jackie herself and genuinely I am a meat lover and I was stunned by the gorgeousness, the taste and overall how you don't even need to focus on its not meat its GREAT food with GREAT recipes- so no mock required as this fast becoming one of my faves ( that a vegan street too another Jackie Kearney book of awesomeness- BUY IT

I was really looking forward to receiving this book and to some extent I am not disappointed....there are certainly some interesting recipes to try, with what about to be well thought out ingredients. However, I am disappointed that there are quite a lot of recipes which use bought tinned faux meats, e.g. sweet & sour mock pork, uses 2 cans of fried gluten mock pork, the Pham see eew jay recipe calls for a can of fried. Gluten mock chicken, and other recipes for bought vegan shrimps. It would be preferable for recipes to makes these ingredients first... other recipes do suggest canned or homemade mock meats for which a recipe is given.

Good book, lots of good ideas. My only issue is with some of the recipes you are being told to use store bought ‘fake meat’ which I was trying to avoid by buying this book, so I’d say that’s a bit cheeky and not quite how the book makes itself out to look. When buying a book souly about ‘Mock meat’ I would never expect to see ‘1 can of Mock Meat Pork’ as one of the ingredients. I want to know how to make that stuff, anyone can buy it from a shop. But other than that the book is great, there are some recipes showing how to make some mock meats which is what I was expecting. Just a shame not all of them are from scratch.

not a straightforward book with difficulty for some people to get the ingredients, only found one receipe I would use

Alas, this pleased and inspired me less than I'd hoped. Some of the recipes involve buying already processed 'plant-meats' and the focus on making things like 'pretend meat' seemed in some ways a bit pointless, when there are so many dishes which are unashamedly vegan without trying to create vegan alternatives to pretend-as-if-meaty-and-fishyNow, I'm not vegan but have been vegetarian for decades, and I AM someone who did like the taste and texture of meat, but didn't like the fact that it had caused animals to be slaughtered, so I'm actually very happy to eat 'ersatz meat like things which are plants' , from time to time, but I don't crave/need the pretend meat experience, and most of the dishes which I cook or drool over are not in any way seeking to pretend to be meaty. This book would be fine for those who are perhaps still at the stage of craving the meat like , or fish like, experience.The problem is also that unless you buy the ersatz product the making of something like it, from scratch, as is the case with some of the recipes, is incredibly time consuming and labour intensive. This might be something to look at when I have an entire day to spend in the kitchen, trying to find something to feed a resentful meat deprived guest. But I'm unlikely to relish having invited the resentful one anyway!

I was a bit apprehensive in owning a Jackie Kearney book as, when she was on Masterchef, I was disappointed to see her taste sauces etc in meat dishes while claiming to be a vegetarian. All a bit confusing. However, hats off to her as this is an excellent book and she’s won me over. I love the fact it focuses on meaty and cheesy vegan foods. She’s got me converted to her cookbooks right at the beginning with her seitan chicken recipe. I’ve picked up some Vital wheat gluten from our local health food shop (although I see you also can order some on Amazon too) to try that recipe and it’s a revelation. The occasional recipe is a bit hit or miss at times - some are amazing while others require quite a long list of ingredients and some have store made fake meats but I’m fine with that because at the same time she is taking you through how to make things like seitan. Most of the ingredients are relatively easy to find - it’s not one of those cookbooks with lots of weird and obscure ingredients and most are easily made at home after a quick supermarket shop. The colour photos throughout are lovely and bring the book alive. She may have mildly irritated me at times on Masterchef but I’m now a convert. Recommended.