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Fresh From The Vegan Slow Cooker: 200 Ultra-Convenient, Super-Tasty, Completely Animal-Free Recipes (2012)

by Robin G. Robertson(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1558327908 (ISBN13: 9781558327900)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Harvard Common Press

review 1: I haven't sampled a significant portion of the book yet but I have done a sampling of recipes. I think it is a great starting point: I have notes to modify the recipes I have tried (mostly stuff like "change ratio" and "I wonder if these too recipes would work together, because I want something in between") so I think it needs a few tweaks - that may be about personal preferences but I usually find it takes me a long time to figure out X should change, etc. I dislike cookbooks without pictures, but I am finding too many of the cookbooks are particular subjects without pictures lately; in particular, I find cookbooks appeal to niche markets tend to have less (or no pictures) and less editing. While troublesome at times (particularly when searching for what to cook next), so... moremetimes it can be nice having nothing to compare to your version.I feel the breakfast section could use some work: if the recipe is 2-3 hours, you cannot make it overnight for breakfast but is too late in the morning to eat.It is worth noting that I am NOT a vegan, but I have enjoyed these recipes (in particular, squash chili).
review 2: I love Robins other cook book, Fresh From The Vegetarian Slow Cooker, but her new book "Fresh from the Vegan Slow Cooker" is a little too recycled for it to be worth owning both. Yes, there are some new recipes in this, but there are also a bunch of reprinted ones. Also, a layout gripe--which is totally beyond the authors control, (it is instead a complaint to be lobbied at the publisher---is that each recipe is not given its own page as it is in her other book. It is designed such that wherever one recipe ends, another begins. This means that it's not as easy to browse and find the things you want to find, because the recipe titles are not all in the same place on the page, nor are all the ingredients on one page--they are sometimes split between the front and back sides of pages. I was a bit disappointed with both the format and content of this book, but I am still super excited about all the new recipes contained inside--Robin is a wonderful cook and I will use this book dozens or even hundreds of times over the coming years. I've owned Fresh From the Vegetarian Slow Cooker since 2005 or 2006 or so and I have done almost every recipe in it, many multiple times. less

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