Love Soup: 160 All-New Vegetarian Recipes from the Author of The Vegetarian Epicure

Love Soup: 160 All-New Vegetarian Recipes from the Author of The Vegetarian Epicure | Anna Thomas | Purely Delicious!

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	Love Soup: 160 All-New Vegetarian Recipes from the Author of The Vegetarian Epicure Anna Thomas W.W. Norton & Co., 2009 - 528 pages average customer review:based on 24 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Delicious recipes for vegetarian soups from the author of ?the most influential cookbooks in the history of modern vegetarian cuisine? (Chicago Sun-Times). Anna Thomas?s Vegetarian Epicure cookbooks have sold millions of copies and inspired generations. Now she describes her love affair with the ultimate comfort food. ?From my kitchen to yours,? Thomas says, ?here are the best soups I?ve ever made.? Her wonderfully creative recipes make use of fresh, seasonal produce?try black bean and squash soup in the fall, smoky eggplant soup in midsummer, or seductively perfumed wild mushroom soup for Christmas. Silky puree or rib-sticking chowder?each recipe has room for variation, and nearly all are vegan-friendly.

Love Soup also provides recipes for breads, hummus, pesto, salads, and homey desserts?and simple menus that put soup at the heart of the meal. Throughout, Thomas offers expert advice on shopping, seasoning, tasting, becoming a cook. With soups that delight and nourish, Thomas invites us all into the kitchen, to the most old-fashioned food and the newest, to the joy and good sense of home cooking. line art.

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Full of Endless Soup Ideas -- Love Soup Earns an A+

Anna Thomas' previous vegetarian cookbooks are staples in my kitchen and have been since they were originally published so I fully expected to find her new creation -- Love Soup 160 All New Vegetarian Recipes - up to her previous efforts. I wasn't disappointed.

A simmering pot of soup on the stove may be the culinary definition of home, and this book is filled with imaginative combinations that will satisfy everyone in the family, vegetarian or not. I am particularly impressed that each vegan recipe is noted with a V in the table of contents so anyone interested may easily identify those recipes instead of paging through the book, reading each recipe in search of those without eggs and dairy.

The book is well organized and divided into chapters largely based on when key ingredients are readily available at market -- Broths, Beautiful Fall Soups, Green Soups, Winter Squash Soups, Bean Soups, The Comfort of Soup in Deep Winter, Big Soups and Stews, Holiday Soups, First Taste of Spring, Green and Greener, Sweet Summer, Hearty Soups of Summer and Cold Soups. The final four chapters include accompaniments to make the soups a complete meal - A Few Good Breads (the Fresh Corn and Cheddar Cheese Cornbread is delicious), Hummus and Company, Salads for Summer and Winter, and finally A Few Easy Sweets (the Bittersweet Chocolate Brownies are perfect.)

This is a cookbook so overflowing with ideas that I will be testing recipes the entire year. I have tried three soup recipes from the book and loved them all. Fennel and Onion Soup is a vegetable broth based soup, flavorful and light. Old-Fashioned cream of Mushroom Soup is decadent and complex with light cream, a little butter, dry Marsala and surprisingly - Arborio rice. And finally, the Spicy Indonesian Yam and Peanut Soup is hardy and absolutely delectable.

The paper is the same simple plain stock used in her previous cookbooks and care should be taken not to splash onto the pages while cooking, making the use of a cookbook holder smart. Other than the recipe name, the ink color for the text is black which makes reading the book easy. As with her previous cookbooks, there are no photographs of the recipes. But since the majority of the recipes are for soup, photographs would add more to the book price than enlightenment. I do wish nutritional information was included but that isn't yet standard in most cookbooks. This substantial 500 page cookbook is one I will turn to again and again and I recommend to all.

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Purely Delicious!

These soups are packed with layered flavor--luxury for the mouth. I've given several copies of Love Soup as gifts and always hear back that the recipes turn out wonderfully.

GREAT!

I made the pickle soup with the light vegetable broth as a base, and I made the walnut bread. I doubled the walnut bread recipe with no problems. Very soft and tasty bread, not at all like the rustic and crackly-crusted breads I usually make. I approached the soup with trepidation. There were so many ingredients that I was a little skeptical. But it turned out great. REALLY great. I made it for a vegan friend, so I did not serve it with the dairy accompaniments she suggested and it was still awesome. It is time-consuming chopping all of the veggies. But if you have the time, it is definitely worth it.

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Get a bigger freezer

Can hardly wait for the Farmer's Market to begin. Although most of the recipes are easy and quick enough to make for "right then" serving, I double or triple the recipes and freeze. All I have tried freeze easily and my friends bless the day I bought this book!

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