Vegetables Illustrated: 700+ Kitchen-Tested Recipes for Delicious Plant-Based Dishes

Guinette Marshall: What I like about the book: It has many vegetable recipes. I can switch up during the week. It has the Eggplant Parmesan recipe in it even for Fried Green Tomatoes recipe in it.
What I dislike about the book:
No romaine lettuce recipes.

United States on Oct 24, 2023

Irish513: A friend suggested this book (their family loves it!). It is better than anticipated! I’ve already bought another one for a birthday gift. We are looking forward to cooking our way through this one.

United States on Sep 15, 2023

Amazon Customer: I love vegetables and have made it a goal of mine to try new vegetables and new recipes with vegetables that I already know I like. This book is amazing. It is organized by vegetable in alphabetical order, it tells you how to store and prepare each vegetable followed by multiple recipes. Recipes vary from sauces, to breakfasts, to snacks, to sides, to full meals. Recipes also vary from simple to more complex, which is great as I am not a great cook and this book with definitely help me learn! This book contains recipes with meat which is also nice as I am not vegetarian. I do wish they had a system to organize the book by meal, but I still love this book and plan to make 95% of these recipes! There is also a section at the back that breaks the recipes down into calories and macros.

Canada on Aug 30, 2023

webvogue: I really want to like this book but i just can't.

First and foremost, the print is pretty small and i have to squint. A younger person with perfect eyes may not have this issue.

Second, not every recipe has a pic. About 1 in 4 or 5 recipes has a pic. That's a problem because we are sight dogs. Most of us need the aid of a pic to know if the recipe is appealing to us. In fact, there was ONE recipe that looked interesting but there was no picture and I wasn't motivated to go get all the ingredients without having the inspiration of the picture.

3rd, in order to keep up with the title of "700 + recipes", the recipes feel crammed together, (3 to 4 recipes on each page), and some recipes didn't need to have made the list.

For example, the sauteed sliced brussel sprouts on page 62... The recipe is simply brussel sprouts, vegetable oil, salt and pepper, fresh parsley, and lemon juice. That just seems a little too simplistic to waste ink on. I'm sure that simple recipe can be found online under "simple ways to flavor Brussels sprouts".

4thly, there's all these recipes crammed together to fit into the book, so it seems a little perverse that they'd waste...

United States on Sep 15, 2022

Louise M.: A little vegetable bible that I will cherish.

Canada on Aug 07, 2022

GSW: This is a big book (about 3in thick ) and I was sceptical at first. I quickly glanced through it and I thought it was composed of vegetable side dishes which is not what I wanted. I’m shifting to a more plant based diet now and need all the variety of recipes I can get.

I began reading it cover to cover ( I do that with cookbooks) and it is absolutely FULL of highly valuable information, side dishes AND veg based main dishes. It covers buying and storing each vegetable, best way to cook it and recipes that so far have been fantastic.

What is great about it is that each vegetable is listed alphabetically; no more going to the index to find a recipe with rutabaga; just find it alphabetically.

Not only veg recipes it has recipes with meat, pickling recipes, spice blends and so much more.

Definitely a book for anyone who loves cooking and is interested in healthy recipes.

Canada on Oct 28, 2020

Debbie: This book is fantastic. I highly recommend it. I recently started a plant-based diet and am looking for creative ways to cook vegetables. The recipes in this book are easy and delicious.

Canada on Dec 30, 2019

Norman E. Burgess: Information about vegetables is as important to me as vegetable recipes. This is an increasable volume of excellent information on purchasing, storing and using vegetables. The recipes are very good, but I have only received this book a short while ago and have not tried many. I am very satisfied with this book.

Canada on Mar 26, 2019

Food, Glorious Food!Food, Glorious Food!: When I saw this Cooks illustrated book pop up on my list I had to have it. I have a large collection of cookbooks and within that collection about 40 of them are vegetable cookbooks.

I was expecting that this book would have the usual Cooks Illustrated magazine style recipes, with a couple of pages devoted to each recipe with long explanations of how they came to the end result. I enjoy that but didn’t really want a whole book of it. I was extremely pleased when I received this book to find that each page is jam packed with recipes with only a short paragraph “Why this recipe works” heading up every recipe. I appreciate the brevity with the discussion because it resulted in a hefty book with over 700 recipes!

In all honesty I don’t find the “why this recipe works” paragraph to be particularly useful. It basically provides a verbal, “we did this to make it creamier and then we drizzled it with that to enhance the dish with some acidity” type notes. One can simply read the recipe to see what they did. Of much more use to me would have been a short paragraph at the end of each recipe saying how one might switch the recipe up a bit with different...

United States on Mar 07, 2019