This week Carolin wants to see our favourite recipe books. Mine is the first completely vegetarian recipe book that I ever bought myself on becoming a fully fledged veggie, imaginatively entitled Vegetarian. It's a big, glossy, fully illustrated book which has over 300 recipes. It has a reference section at the front and I remember pouring over the facts and figures to be sure I wasn't in some way going to starve my family by deciding to go completely vegetarian. It has had such a positive influence on my vegetarianism. It made everything look so easy and so appetising. It gave me a lot of confidence at a time when being a veggie was not so mainstream...back in the pre-Quorn days! It inspired me to use different ingredients and get experimental in the kitchen, whilst at the same time holding my hand and guiding me through the transition into vegetarianism!
I love recipe books that have lots of photos and I can sit and flick through the pages for ages just looking at the pictures of the food and salivating slightly. (There are no calories in looking!)
My most used recipes are for the easily adaptable, to use up whatever veggies are left in the fridge, Veggie Hot Pot with Cheese Triangles (a version of which I made for Valentine's Day with heart shapes on top!) ...
...and the Spicy Bean and Lentil Loaf, which is fabulous and so easy. It's nice to find good, simple, hearty veggie recipes, so beautifully illustrated and so easy to follow.
