Hearty Vegan Meals for Monster Appetites

579 Pages·2011·48.3 MB·English

by  Quayside

“Hearty Vegan Meals for Monster Appetites is the ultimate cookbook for
dispelling forever the myth that vegan cuisine is nothing more than ‘bird
food.’ The industrial-strength recipes here will satisfy the biggest, most
demanding appetites, and do it with plenty of popping flavors and rich
textures. Highly recommended!”
—DR. WILL TUTTLE, pianist, composer, former Zen monk, co-founder
of the Prayer Circle for Animals, and award-winning author of the
acclaimed bestseller The World Peace Diet
“Move over brown rice and tofu, there’s a new cookbook in town! Hearty
Vegan Meals for Monster Appetites will make a believer out of anyone who
is skeptical about vegan food—and that includes your stubborn uncle Rick,
who still pronounces vegan ‘vay-gun.’ I guarantee it’ll shut him up right
quick.”
—LAURA BECK, www.Vegansaurus.com
“Most of us have been there. A meat eater gleefully waves a burger in our
faces, confident that we as vegans are missing out. Not so. The tables have
turned and it’s time for us to wave some ‘hearty vegan’ fare in their faces.
The difference? They’re going to like it.”
—TAMASIN NOYES, author of American Vegan Kitchen
“This is the cookbook to consult when you absolutely must impress the
guests at your table—be they dedicated herbivores or doubtful omnivores.
Nobody can discriminate against delicious!”
—MICHELLE SCHWEGMANN, co-owner of The Herbivore Clothing
Company, www.herbivoreclothing.com
“Celine and Joni prove, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that vegan eats are
not only delicious, they are hearty! Be warned, this cookbook is not for the
weak of appetite!”
—CAROLYN SCOTT-HAMILTON, www.healthyvoyager.com
“I challenge you to look through Hearty Vegan Meals for Monster Appetites
without marking at least ten recipes to make this week. In typical Celine
and Joni fashion, the photos reel you in, the recipe titles glue you to the
pages, the ingredients are within pantry’s reach, and there is no doubt that
once you finally set the book down, your belly will be fully satisfied.”
—ALISA FLEMING, founder of GoDairyFree.org and author of Go Dairy
Free: The Guide and Cookbook
“Celine and Joni have done it again—anyone who enjoys good food will
appreciate this cookbook!”
—HANNAH KAMINSKY, author of My Sweet Vegan
“Hearty Vegan Meals for Monster Appetites is an adventurous exploration
of food. As easy as it may be to overlook the exploitation and waste of
animal-based meals, Joni and Celine make it even easier to empower your
food choices—allowing you to indulge and eat with compassion, respect,
and responsibility for your health, for the environment, and for all living
things.”
—KURT HALSEY, vegan artist, www.KurtHalsey.com
“Celine and Joni dish up some of the best down-home, mouthwatering,
over-the-top comfort food you’ve ever had! The recipes will have you
screaming for more!”
—JULIE HASSON, author of Vegan Diner
“Need some honest-to-goodness comfort food? This book has your fix!
Loosen your belts, it’s time to dig in!”
—DREENA BURTON, author of The Everyday Vegan, Vive le Vegan! and
Eat, Drink & Be Vegan
HEARTY
VEGAN
MEALS FOR
MONSTER
APPETITES
LIP-SMACKING, BELLY-FILLING, HOME-
STYLE RECIPES
GUARANTEED TO KEEP EVERYONE—EVEN
THE MEAT
EATERS—FANTASTICALLY FULL
CELINE STEEN AND JONI MARIE NEWMAN
AUTHORS OF 500 VEGAN RECIPES AND THE
COMPLETE GUIDE
TO VEGAN FOOD SUBSTITUTIONS
This book is dedicated to our mothers, for being the most rocking role models we’ll ever know and for
putting so much heart into the “heart”-y foods we grew up on.

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Make Room for Fantastically Full
CHAPTER 1
Your Complete Prep Guide to Wicked Good Meals
CHAPTER 2
Down-Home Breakfasts
CHAPTER 3
Mean and Mouthwatering Mains
CHAPTER 4
Over-the-Top, Totally Tantalizing Sides
CHAPTER 5
The Bottomless Bread Basket
CHAPTER 6
Condiments, Sauces, and Other Staples
CHAPTER 7
Ooey, Gooey, and Downright Sinful Sweets
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Index

INTRODUCTION
Make Room For Fantastically Full
We believe that the most convincing argument for going vegan is the food. If
you can serve up a delicious, hearty, filling meal to a die-hard meat eater only
to hear, “Man, that was so good! I’m so full, I couldn’t eat another bite,” then
you know just what we mean.
People go vegan for a multitude of reasons, and this book wasn’t written to wax
philosophical. Rather, it was written so that you can create magnificent vegan
meals that will have your dinner guests wondering why they ever “needed”
meat in the first place.
Eating vegan doesn’t mean sacrificing flavor. Quite the opposite: Eliminating
the flavors that come along with animal products means using the natural
flavors in fruits, vegetables, grains, spices, herbs, and more to create enticing
and familiar flavors.
We must admit that when we each decided to go vegan, our first thoughts were,
“Boring food, here we come—at least the animals will be safe and we’ll be
healthier,” followed immediately by, “How will we ever survive without cakes
and other sweet treats?”
But the good news is that we’ve never had as much fun eating as we do now—
and our family members agree! In fact, we’re happy to report that our
significant others and even some family members have either switched from
consuming an omnivorous diet to eating solely vegan foods when at home, or
have at least made great steps toward including more vegan foods in their diet,
which, to us, is as great an endorsement as any!
We think you can convince your family to do the same, which is why we’ve
written this book. Inside you’ll find a vast collection of our “secret” recipes, the
ones we keep in our back pockets when we know a nonvegan is coming over
(or living among us) and needs to be wow-ed with straight-up great food. All
said and done, this is a book full of hearty, flavorful recipes written by a couple
of gals who find feeding friends and loved ones to be one of the best (and
tastiest) pleasures in the world.
To anyone who’s ever thought, “a meal without meat is a terrible thing to eat,”
we’ve got news for you: You’re about to sink your teeth into some of the best
food you’ve ever eaten. Food that happens to be vegan but is always definitively
delicious.