The Oh She Glows Cookbook: Over 100 Vegan Recipes to Glow from the Inside Out Author: Visit Amazon's Angela Liddon Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1583335277 | Format: EPUB
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Advance Praise for The Oh She Glows Cookbook
“Angela Liddon knows that great cooks depend on fresh ingredients. You’ll crave each and every recipe in this awesome cookbook!”
—Isa Chandra Moskowitz, author of Isa Does It
“Angela has taken her vegan cookbook and shown us how truly delicious, colorful and versatile the recipes can be. So many things I want to make! This is a book you'll want on the shelf.”
—Sara Forte, author of The Sprouted Kitchen
“The Oh She Glows Cookbook proves that vegan is not a four-letter word! Angela’s imaginative, mouth-watering, and totally approachable recipes will motivate everyone to cook healthy, vibrant foods for their whole family.”
—Sarah Britton, creator of the blog My New Roots
“If you can choose only one cookbook this year - Oh She Glows is it! Angela's approach to vegan recipes is fresh, vibrant, and simple... and her connection to her readers honest and real.”
—Dreena Burton, author of Let Them Eat Vegan!
“The Oh She Glows Cookbook is nothing short of a revelation. A brilliant collection of accessible and vibrant vegan recipes—it’s hard to decide which recipe to cook first.”
—Kathryne Taylor, creator of the blog Cookie + Kate
“An amazing thing about Angela’s recipes is that you completely forget that they are vegan. The Oh She Glows Cookbook is filled with indulgent nacho dips, doughnuts and veggie loaves – food we never imagined a healthy, vegan version of. It’s an inspiring reminder that there are no limits to vegan cooking.”
—David Frenkiel and Luise Vindahl, authors of Vegetarian Everyday: Healthy Recipes from Our Green Kitchen and creators of the blog Green Kitchen Stories
Oh She Glows is:
“Best Vegan Blog”
—VegNews
“Best Overall Blog” and “Best Veg Blog”
—Foodbuzz
About the Author
Angela Liddon is the founder, writer, photographer, and recipe developer for Oh She Glows. She and her husband, Eric, live in Ontario, Canada.
- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Avery Trade (March 4, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1583335277
- ISBN-13: 978-1583335277
- Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.9 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
(Full disclosure: I received a free copy of this book for review at the publisher’s behest.)
Let me begin by thanking Penguin Books for sending me a copy of this cookbook for review about a month prior to its publication date. (Before it was even on my radar, actually.) As an avowed junk food vegan, it’s probably not something I would have picked up on my own – but I’ve discovered more than one new favorite dish in THE OH SHE GLOWS COOKBOOK!
As fans of the Oh She Glows website and blog already know, Angela Liddon focuses her culinary efforts on plant-based, healthy whole foods, free of chemicals and additives. Continuing this tradition, THE OH SHE GLOWS COOKBOOK includes 75 new recipes, as well as more than 25 fan favorites from her blog. Recipes run the gamut, from “power snacks” to smoothies, juices, and teas, as well as breakfast foods, appetizers, salads, soups, entrees, sides, and desserts. There’s a fairly wide variety of dishes to be found, from vegan versions of American favorites (Lentil Walnut Loaf, Grilled Portobello Burger, Lightened-Up Crispy Baked Fries) to more international meals (Creamy Vegetable Curry, Crowd-Pleasing Tex-Mex Casserole, Quick & Easy Chana Masala). Many of the recipes are gluten-free, or include gluten-free substitutions; and Liddon sometimes offers soy-free alternatives, too.
I tried just over a dozen recipes in preparation for this review (and, let’s be honest, because my stomach compelled me to!), including the following:
- Classic Hummus (page 89)
Never before have I been able to get my homemade hummus as smooth and creamy as the store-bought versions…that is, until now! The secret’s in the chickpea skins – or rather, the lack of them.
Bloggers have changed how we find recipes and cookbooks. "Oh She Glows" became popular with people who were searching out ways to cook and eat healthy foods vegan-style, with no animal products. The author told her dramatic story of going from junk food addict to a healthy, fit young woman eating delicious foods from her own recipes for vegan fare. The blog was a mega-hit and this is the cookbook garnered from the blog.
The recipes are unique--they are not the usual "boil up some lentils and strew them on lettuce." The author really seeks out the deep flavors in vegetables and tries to bring out their best flavor with methods you might not have tried. For example, her potato salad uses avocado for the creaminess--that makes sense. But she roasts the potatoes instead of boiling them and this serves to caramelize the sugars and make the flavor very rich. She includes asparagus rather than the traditional celery--so you can see how the flavors already have been built from the ground up, in a way, and not dependent on a highly seasoned and creamy dressing alone. That's the kind of brilliance that makes "Oh She Glows" such a valuable addition to any kitchen, even if you are not a strict vegetarian or vegan.
Liddon also changes traditional Caesar salad, which uses a semi-cooked egg and anchovy traditionally as the base of the creamy dressing. Instead of egg or Parmesan cheese, she purees raw almonds to make a milky, protein-filled dressing. This is right out of the vegan playbook, where raw cashews and other nuts are used to make "cream"--the protein and fat of nuts working well to create the taste and feel of dairy cream.
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