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who has the Happy Herbivore cookbook by Lindsay Nixon?

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I've made three things since I bought it yesterday: the chocolate chip cookies last night, and the kale and yam soup (I used sweet potatoes and frozen collard greens) This is an excellent soup! And then the apple crisp muffins.....also very good!

what have you made so far?

I like that she uses low/no fat recipes, and whole wheat pastry flour in her baked goods, which I do anyway.

as I just finished up a bowl of that soup....I realize I put tooo many pepper flakes in. I didn't measure them. My hubby will like it alot, but that was a little warm! oh, and I ate 3 muffins! She has the nutritional values for each recipe, which is nice.
 
Discussion starter · #6 ·
I love the kale and yam soup *collards and sweet potatoes for me though*, the choc chip cookies were really soft, because she uses almost or no oil in all of her recipes, adn uses applesauce. I really like the apple crisp muffins- they're really good. Going to try some more tomorrow.
 
Discussion starter · #8 ·
Score! try the dijon herb green beans on pg 197! I doubled the recipe to use a whole frozen package of whole green beans, and I added my frozen equiv of a can of white beans in for some protein, all over mashed potatoes! yummy. ( she had a recommendation of topping with chickpeas on top of and around the green beans.
 
Discussion starter · #10 ·
thanks for your recommendations. I'm def making the pumpkin bread today, and maybe I'll make the indian dish you recommended. You'll prob definately like the yam and kale soup and the apple crisp muffins (I got 16 out of the recipe though, not 12)
 
Discussion starter · #11 ·
just made the yellow Dal, with yellow split peas, and put it over rice....that was really good too, although mine needed about 40 minutes cooking time, the 30 wasn't enough for the split peas to get soft. The hubbs will like that when he gets home tonight.
 
Discussion starter · #13 ·
very good!
 
Discussion starter · #15 ·
have fun!
 
Discussion starter · #18 ·
tom- no way! She uses ingredients that are easily found in the avg kitchen. for her baked goods, she uses applesauce. Actually I haven't found a recipe yet that uses oil in it. She sautes onions and/or veggies in water, instead. She does use spray oil for oiling pans, but that's it. also she doesn't recommend a specific amt of salt in any recipe, just states "to taste", so you're totally in control.

I just made the pumpkin bread, and that's really good when it was still warm, and she says it tastes even better the next day. We didn't wait that long!
Also made the chili sans carne, which uses TVP. Hubby liked it alot- ate it with the bread.......very good lunch.

So far, I've made like 7-8 things, and I'd make them all again.
 
Discussion starter · #20 ·
i have to be honest and say I'll probably NEVER make black bean brownies again after my one and only attempt with an internet recipe that was BAD! Sorry you haven't been thrilled with them.

This cookbook is definately low fat, but not necessarily low sugar- by far! I'm kind of surprised too, but the sweets are an only occasional thing anyway. Keep posting what you make too!
 
Discussion starter · #25 ·
where, and in what context?
I'll have to look for it......ok, she uses the word meat as in "meat substitutes (also called meat analogues, meat replacements, or mock meats, See Vegan Meats in glossery), and in the definition of a typical omelet., and the phrase vegetarian meats later in the same paragraph. Then I found a description of "meaty burger" and a list of ingredients in a non-veg chimichanga.....

IDK....I don't take issue with it. She's not glorifying the word or using it excessively. She's writing the cookbook as if it were being used by a brand new veg person. I can totally see the why's behind comparing omni foods and how the veg foods are different.
 
Discussion starter · #27 ·
sensitive....that's all.....


funny how some things can bother one person, and not another....I wouldn't have even taken a second look at those words, and at 1 am, grab the cookbook to see what you were talking about, because I didn't remember reading it. Oh well!
 
Discussion starter · #30 ·
you're going to love the soup! Just know ahead of time, that the choc chip cookies are more cake like, becuase they're made of applesauce. These are no way like Toll House cookies, but at least they're fat free! They're very soft
 
Discussion starter · #32 ·
I don't think I baked mine long enough either. Next time will be on a Silpat too. they all scrunched up using a spatula to move them off the baking stones. Still tasted good though!

I just made the baked falafel for my dinner at wk. They taste really good too!
 
Discussion starter · #34 ·
what else did you make?
 
Discussion starter · #36 ·
hmmm....I found a perfect cinnamon roll recipe on line so probably wouldn't make a different recipe, and you're right, it has to raise. havne't tried the black bean wraps or cabbage.
 
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