Vegetarian Recipe Book Advice.

[Emagggie]

Daughter 1 will be moving into her own kitchen very soon. ;D
Her OH is a vegetarian and she aint no cook.....yet. What we need here is a good old basic veggie cook book. Can anyone recommend one please to add to the library I'm building for her?

[Emagggie]

[Tulipa]

Hi Emaggie,

I use a book called 'Vegetarian' published by Paragon which I think came from Sainsburys, I cant find it on Amazon, but it is the book I use the most and can persuade my meat eaters to eat recipes from.  But I just found this when looking and will buy it as it looks very useful:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Meat-Me-Please-Vegetarian/dp/0716021773/sr=1-82/qid=1167472945/ref=sr_1_82/202-6139320-3065402?ie=UTF8&s=books

It is a book of recipes for one vegetarian in the family and working round the meat eaters, sounds just what I need.

My most used recipe from the book I mentioned above is Vegetable Toad-in-the-hole, but I just use whatever veg I have to hand, just part cook and then stick them in with the batter, goes down well with the whole family.

I hadn't realised there were so many veggie books until I looked on Amazon, an amazing collection.  I particularly like the look of the slowcooker books, I might have to go and have a look at some I think.  I bought my daughter Delia Smith's vegetarian collection which looks wonderful but I haven't read much of it yet.  She says it looks good but not for use on her student budget - think I might get to use it though which will be good if she leaves it here!

I am not sure any of this is much use, hopefully someone else will come along with better sugestions....  T.

[Deb P]

I had the 'Paupers Cookbook' when I moved out of home many moons ago; not strictly veggy (but most of it is, and covers cheap meat based meals for friends) but brilliant for teaching thrift and basic cooking, making the most of leftovers etc.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Paupers-Cookbook-Jocasta-Innes/dp/0711222401/sr=11-1/qid=1167474585/ref=sr_11_1/202-6781039-3639025

Also recommended; 'The Vegetarian Student Cookbook'; again, good basic stuff, I bought this recently for a friend's daughter going to Uni last September.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vegetarian-Student-Cookbook-Hamlyn-Cookery/dp/0600612414/ref=pd_sim_b_2/202-6781039-3639025

I have to say, I have a couple of Delia's vegetarian books, and find the recipes too fussy and use a lot of 'poncy' ingredients I rarely use or like. Still consult her 'big' main cookbook though.

[Tulipa]

I am still waiting for daughter to wake up to ask about her veggie student cookbooks, she has three and I know that one in particular is good but I am not sure which.

[supersprout]

Francis Bissell, The Times Vegetarian Cookery Book - should be dirt cheap from resellers @ Amazon ::)

[Tulipa]

She hasn't only just woken up! :-[  But this is the best of my daughter's books, she thinks:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Student-Vegetarian-Cookbook-Beverly-LeBlanc/dp/0753510510/sr=1-9/qid=1167491850/ref=sr_1_9/202-6139320-3065402?ie=UTF8&s=books

SS's sounds good too, I might look out for that.  I am coming to really enjoy veggie food these days, there are so many tasty recipes.

[HappyCatz]

I am veggie and have been for over twenty years, after all that time I have got a collection of my own recipes but I do like delia's complete vegetarian cookbook, it has lots of basic recipes for tarts, cheesy scones, etc but nicer recipes for entertaining too.

[kitten]

I'm no cook either, but I have several Rose Elliot veggie recipe books and can usually find things that satisfy meat eaters as well as us veggies. She does a particularly good Christmas recipe book, called Vegetarian Christmas that i'd recommend. x

[Emagggie]

This is brilliant folks. Thank you so much for your help.It's good to have first hand knowledge rather than guessing.
Daughter says his Ma uses convenience food rather than a recipe book and she wants to cook healthy satisfying food for him. :o ( is this really the same child we despaired of from the age of 13 onwards?)
I say she's no cook, but she can read ;) therefore showing potential, plus the fact she now has a fab new kitchen.

[HappyCatz]

Also would recommend a good soup book such as Covent Garden's book of Soups, not all recipes are veggie but there are plenty of good recipes and it is so wonderful to have homemade soup.

[manicscousers]

my son bought me that one, covent garden, a couple of years ago, I'd heartily second the recommendation, got a few strange, sweet ones in for folks more adventurous than me  :)