Last year my fave vegan cookbook author, Dreena Burton published her fourth cookbook: Let Them Eat Vegan!.
(Check out my interview with her last year, right before it was released.)
She sent me a review copy & I was thrilled to be able to try out some recipes & post them to the blog. But, as we were living in my parent’s basement at the time & I didn’t have my own kitchen & many of my stand-by ingredients, I didn’t feel like I could really do the review justice until I was in my own space.
We moved to San Antonio in mid-December but it took a few months to resurface to normalcy. At that point, I figured it was too late for a review.
But. I love Dreena’s work. I own all of her cookbooks–her first cookbook is The Everyday Vegan, followed by Vive le Vegan! Her 3rd cookbook is, Eat, Drink, & Be Vegan.
ALL of her recipes are fantastic.
My copy of Eat, Drink, & Be Vegan is dog-eared & splattered with sauce, flour, & other by-products of my cooking (a sign of a really good cookbook). I make at least a few recipes from Eat, Drink, & Be Vegan on a regular basis. In the past week I’ve made her “kid’s dynamo” hummus, Thai “chick-un” pizza (one of my all-time favorite comfort foods), & her “celestial” cream (awesome on crepes & pancakes).
As my family & I were eating her gluten-free version of raspberry cornmeal pancakes (I used wild blueberries instead of raspberries) last night (Thursday is our “breakfast-for-dinner” night) I thought, I really need to let bring joy readers know how awesome her recipes are.
I love her taste. Her combination of spices, the balance of sweet & savory, the addition of some healthy fat (but not too much), she strikes the perfect harmony of wholesome & tasty.
Despite there being hundreds & hundreds of vegan cookbooks on the market now, in my mind, she reigns queen in terms of accessible & quality recipes that adults, & kids will not only eat but love.
A lot of vegan recipe developers & cookbook authors develop recipes for adults &/or don’t have children of their own. While that’s fine, I appreciate the fact that Dreena knows firsthhand (she has 3 daughters) what it’s like to cook for kids, who are often finicky & picky eaters.
So buy her book(s).
If you don’t own any of hers already, I recommend starting with either Eat, Drink, & Be Vegan or Let Them Eat Vegan!
Or better, both of them.
They are totally affordable on Amazon. The links above will take you to my affiliate store–if you make a purchase through those links I make a few cents (literally), so thanks.
I have one more cookbook to recommend: Ricki Heller’s Naturally Sweet & Gluten-Free, which was just released in bookstores & Amazon. All of the recipes were tried & tested over a period of a year from readers (awesome, right?!).
Ricki is personal friend (although we have never actually met in person!) & she is one of the most generous bloggers I know (check out her weekly Wellness Weekend for lots of recipe ideas from other bloggers).
She is real, kind, approachable, just a fantastic human being (if I were Jewish I’d call her a mensch). I haven’t got my hot little hands on her book yet, but it is on my “want-want-want” list.
Check out this review from Go Dairy Free or this one from ABCnews.com, & drool over all the photos (that autumn bake & cheesecake look divine). And here‘s an interview on Vegan Mainstream, of the lovely lady herself.
That’s all for now. See you on Monday for some {MM} goodness.
And thanks for all the excitement regarding our soon-to-be newest addition.
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