Peace and Parsnips The Vegan Cookbook For Everyone

512 Pages·2016·33.3 MB·English

by  Richardson

Lee Watson
PEACE & PARSNIPS
Vegan Cooking for Everyone
Photography by Alistair Richardson
Contents
Introduction
The Vegan Larder
Breakfast
Smoothies, Juices, Steamers & Hot Drinks
Soups
Salads
Sides
Nibbles, Dips & Little Plates
Big Plates
Curries
Burgers, Bakes & Get Stuffed
Sweet Treats
Sauces, Dressings, Toppers & Stories
Suppliers
Big Love!
Follow Penguin

Introduction
‘Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.’
H.H. The Dalai Lama
Vegan cooking is all about creativity; it’s full of surprises, new techniques and
ways of using ingredients. Anybody can have a go at being vegan. I know that
anybody can do it because I have – me, the mightiest nose-to-tail carnivore of
them all, and look at me now. After leaving meat off my plate for the last five
years, I’ve never felt more energetic, happy and healthy. Since then, I’ve made it
my mission to travel the globe looking for new dishes, scouring food markets
and hanging out with locals, and learning that vegan cooking is a global craze
and always has been. Many of the recipes that I’ve collected here have been
brought back to my home in Wales and served up at the Beach House Kitchen,
where I do most of my cooking and write a blog at
http://beachhousekitchen.com. The way we eat reflects so much about who we
are, and vegan food puts a huge emphasis on amazing fresh produce, food
bursting with vitality and a generally more peaceful approach to life.
There’s so much more to vegan cooking than tofu and rubber-like nut cutlets.
I’m going to show you, with minimal fuss, and plenty of accessible ingredients,
how to make food that would satisfy both a fully-fledged vegan and someone
new to the idea who is dipping their toe in the water. I’ll be bringing the wonders
of veganism into your kitchen, showing you new ways of preparing some of
your favourite dishes. It will teach you to be resourceful – stews can be stuffed
into roasted vegetables, soups can be made into sauces, smoothies can be
thickened up and eaten as desserts; this kind of flexibility is the hallmark of a
happy cook. There are recipes here designed to be rustled up in a hurry and
others for more fancy occasions. The truth is, making delicious, varied,
nourishing vegan food is easier than you thought.
More and more people are realizing that the way we are producing food,