Anyway

I don’t usu­ally wax lyr­ic­al about recipe books, although I do have a few, but I was brows­ing through my favour­ite the oth­er day look­ing for some­thing to make and figured it’s well worth a recommendation.

Deborah Madis­on’s Veget­ari­an Cook­ing for Every­one fea­tures this quote on the front cover: 

The 1,400 recipes in this book are those that I like to cook. If you’re a com­mit­ted veget­ari­an, you can pre­pare every recipe in this book. If you are a vegan, you can cook most of them. If you don’t attach a title to your eat­ing style, you can cook everything in this book and serve it with meat, fish, or fowl.

The focus of this book is enjoy­ing cook­ing and enjoy­ing the food that is pro­duced. There are no lec­tures on being a veget­ari­an; there is inform­a­tion on basic cook­ing tech­niques and what vari­ous ingredi­ents are and how they work. The wide range of recipes cov­ers almost everything I’ve ever wanted to cook (except for meat-based meals, of course). And the recipes work. They’re not neces­sar­ily quick, but the clear explan­a­tions ensure that the res­ults are worth eat­ing. I was look­ing through the book while writ­ing this review, and found myself temp­ted to make things on every page (cot­tage cheese and nut­meg pan­cakes, any­one?). Hmmm, I think it’s time for lunch.