Veggie-rific!
Friday 12.11.09Tonight a good friend and I were talking cookbooks, because we like to eat good food, and we like good books, and we like to read good cookbooks, and occasionally cook something from them. 
Tonight we were talking vegetarian cookbooks: we both tend to cook less on the meaty-death side. For me, it’s sheer lack of forethought: forgot to thaw the fryer chicken, don’t buy chicken breasts at the store cause they’re expensive, don’t have time to brown the ground turkey and drain it, etc. Plus, the mess: if a tomato explodes, it’s just messy; when chicken explodes in my kitchen, that could cause death (nope, not so melodramatic over here).
I do have a few vegetarian/not so meat heavy cookbooks I enjoy.
Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything Vegetarian
366 Delicious Ways to Cook Rice, Beans, and Grains
Jane Brody’s Good Food Cookbook
And when in doubt, I hit VegWeb or Kalyn’s Kitchen or Food Gawker. But with the later, I always get sidetracked with the pretty pictures, generally of the cookies (ooooh).
THANK YOU for the linky-love!! Here’s my fave:
http://www.amazon.com/Clueless-Vegetarian-Evelyn-Raab/dp/1552094979/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1260597275&sr=8-3
When your auntie first became a vegetarian almost 27 years ago now (and your father thought it would not last
Everyone gave me cookbooks, convinced I would starve. Carolyn gave me the Moosehead something or other. I don’t cook and I have not starved. I subsist on this and that and hope that my carbon footprint (large in other areas) is a bit offset by the vegetarian thing.
Hey, thanks for the mention. A couple of veggie-friendly books I like are Food to Live By from Earthbound Farms and Vegetables Every Day by Jack Bishop.