A Modern Way to Cook: Over 150 quick, smart and flavour-packed recipes for every day

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My husband and I have decided to go veggie but we both love food so wanted some ideas as not to get board with the same old thing and resorting to quorn mince or veggie sausages - this book is an inspiration with amazing quick fixes and tasty meals. And with all the talk of health and wellness in the food industry, I think this sweet spot is becoming ever more important. Jones uses the same type of presentation for her 20-minute stir-fries: A main veggie, a secondary veggie, some protein (tofu, tempeh, seitan, egg, paneer), some aromatics, a rice or noodle, dressing, and a crunchy topping.

Looking at this picture reminds me again why I loved this salad: Isn’t just a gorgeous collection of colourful virtuousness?These recipes were all vegetarian but she does such a great job with flavor profiles and textures, you don’t miss the meat. The bread, which I had to cook individually, got better each time as I got more skilled at figuring out what was needed.

In the meantime, her relaxed outlook is reflected in her debut cookbook, A Modern Way to Eat, with recipes that emphasise delicious over self-denial. We attach guild and a “forbidden” label to food, increasing our anxiety around it and causing us to crave it even more. Even tonight’s dish, when I took the shortcut of using the curry paste rather than making my own, took about an hour and 15 minutes to finish (30 minutes more than the estimate). A Modern Way to Cook is so full of fresh ideas that I stopped turning down the corners of the recipes I wanted to make when I realized it was pretty much the whole book.More and more people are looking to include vegetarian recipes in their life beyond a mushroom risotto or yet another red onion and goat’s cheese tart. I made something very similar to this from Jamie’s Comfort book and while I am aware it’s not vegetarian of me I think I might add the odd prawn for variety here. This is a complete, all around manual for making interesting, original, delicious and nutritious vegetarian meals every day of the year.

It's an easy one for family cooking during the week, but I would recommend her first book over this one! She probably wanted to show that vegetarian cooking can be done in a reasonable amount of time, despite all of the prep a typical vegetarian recipe takes. Practical" and "inspiring" are words used on this product page and I can't think of any more appropriate, and I eagerly shout, "I second the motion! Another personal favorite is the way she gives lists of suggestions of fillings in things like omelets and grain bowls; that way you can quickly and easily adapt to whatever you have in the house.I’m tempted to, if only to see how much longer I really should have baked them (I’m guessing another 10 minutes). A Modern Way to Cook cements Anna’s status as one of the most important cookbook authors focusing on vegetable-centered food. For the first time in two generations, home cooking is firmly back in fashion, and an ever-increasing number of people are actively choosing to eat a diet centered around vegetables on at least a few days of the week.

Good brownies should wobble a bit when you take them out of the oven, then they’ll continue to set while they cool on the counter. Her "Goodness Bowls" will have you hurrying to the kitchen to get creative: Using a grain, bean or legume as a base, you add 2 to 4 different veggies, plus something sauteed, roasted or pickled as a flavor booster, a dressing, fresh herbs, and a sprinkling of something crunchy or cheesy. With a sumptuous collection of over 150 recipes, you'll be cooking veggie-packed meals on weeknights in no time.Cooking a homemade meal is the single most important thing we can do for our well-being, because then we know exactly what is going into our bodies. Kirstin: I think it’s great that we both bought a julienne peeler to make courgette spaghetti following her advice.