Great Chefs Cook Vegan Beautiful Healthy Special Vegan Inspired Recipes – Glenda the Good – Portland, OR
I found approximately a dozen recipes that are inspirational to add to other vegetarian menus. Mostly, the book focuses on plates that are overly architectural in their presentation. Beautiful coffee table book. If I find one or two great ideas in a cookbook, I consider the purchase worth it. So “Great Chefs Cook Vegan” meets that criterion.
Great to Look At – L. Ingalls – Vermont
Last night after weeks of debating what I would make I finally cooked up a recipe from Great Chefs Cook Vegan. This cookbook is filled with great recipes from some of the top chefs such as Thomas Keller, Daniel Boulud, Eric Ripert and Jose Andres, among many others. It was great to see what these amazing chefs had come up with for their vegan dishes.
All of the dishes were really intriguing however definitely not for the amateur cook. Most of the recipes were for dishes containing expensive ingredients or ingredients that are not readily available at your local supermarket, co-op or famers market. This was one of the biggest challenges I came across when trying to decide which dish I would try out. I would have loved to have made Potato Leek “Risotto” with Chanterelles and Spinach, but Chanterelles are not easy to come buy and cost more than my budget would allow.
I settled on making the Grilled Polenta with Fresh Shell Bean Ragout by Suzanne Goin. I had to adapt it a bit for what I could find, such as using frozen beans for the fresh and green beans for haricots vert. I also didn’t grill my polenta since the foot of snow outside did not make easy access to our grill so I popped it under the broiler instead. This dish turned out great and the flavor was amazing! It was light, fresh and the polenta was nice and creamy- a great contrast to the crisp green beans.
Overall this is an interesting cookbook and a great resource for making more sophisticated vegan dishes, however it is definitely not one I will be using regularly. The dishes are more complex and expensive to make than what I do in my everyday life but I will be sure to pick it up to make great “WOW” dishes for friends and family.
Great Chefs Cook Vegan – Maree Ball – Australia
I am totally loving this book … have so far done four of the four course menus and they have turned out really well … I live in Australia so some of the ingredients I could not source but was able to “google” and find a suitable replacement. I am now planning a dinner party to blow away my non-vegan friends! Definitely recommend this one.
Beautiful photography, nice recipes – KGA128 – nj
I really like this book. A nice variety of recipes. Unfortunately some of the ingredients are unique and hard to find. It is very gourmet and guaranteed to impress.
: Unlike any other cookbook, Great Chefs Cook Vegan includes recipes from 25 of today’s greatest chefs, including Thomas Keller, Jean-George Vongerichten, Eric Ripert, Charlie Trotter, and many other James Beard award-winning chefs. Each chef section includes a three or four-course vegan meal, complete with mouth-watering photographs of each recipe and much more.
Great Chefs Cook Vegan
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