Category Archives: Cookbooks

Cookbook of the Month: Chloe’s Kitchen

Posted on March 28, 2016 by Jenny

In March I was cooking from Chloe’s Kitchen.  Chloe, as many of you probably know, is Chloe Coscarelli, who shot to fame with her vegan cupcakes on an American cooking programme.  This is the first of her three cookbooks, and … Continue reading →

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Cookbook of the Month: Thug Kitchen

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Jenny

Thug Kitchen started out as a blog of healthy vegan recipes written with a lot of curse words and in African American Vernacular English.  It garnered a lot of publicity, and I for one like the fact that it was … Continue reading →

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Cookbook of the Month: Vegan Bible

Posted on February 1, 2016 by Jenny

I have a duty to start the year by reviewing my Christmas present, Vegan Bible by Marie Laforet.  I love thumbing through a recipe book on Christmas Day, and a lot of the recipes I ear-marked made it onto the … Continue reading →

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Cookbook of the Month: Street Vegan

Posted on November 30, 2015 by Jenny

Street Vegan really reminded me of Vegan Secret Supper, in that it looked just a bit too fancy to be an everyday cookbook. But, like Vegan Secret Supper, it pleasantly surprised me.  Some of the recipes and ingredients lists are … Continue reading →

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Cookbook of the Month: Vegan Eats World

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Jenny

Terry Hope Romero and Isa Chandra Moskowitz get a lot of love on this blog, and with good reason:  they are the queens of the vegan cooking world.  Last month I cooked from Veganomicon, their first cookbook together, and concluded … Continue reading →

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Cookbook of the Month: Veganomicon

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Jenny

Veganomicon, by the two queens of the vegan cooking movement Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero, is probably the classic vegan cookbook.  When I first toyed with the idea of going vegan, by eating vegan one week per month … Continue reading →

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Vegan Mofo: Isa Does It (at Breakfast Time)

Posted on September 18, 2015 by Jenny

Day Eighteen:  Honour a Human who Inspires your Veganism It could only be Isa, couldn’t it?  Isa Chandra Moskowitz, along with Terry Hope Romero, has written some of the greatest vegan cookbooks in the world.  My favourite is Isa Does … Continue reading →

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Vegan Mofo: Pancakes Aplenty

Posted on September 15, 2015 by Jenny

Day Fifteen: OMG, Barack Obama is coming over because he knows you make awesome vegan food! What are you going to make? It’s a classic technique of students learning English as a foreign language:  tell them they’ve made a mistake, … Continue reading →

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Vegan Mofo: The Best Breakfast Cookbook

Posted on September 12, 2015 by Jenny

Day Twelve:  Tell us about your Favourite Cookbook It probably looks from my posts so far as if I only ever eat out at breakfast time.  Most of the time, of course, we have a normal, quiet breakfast at home, … Continue reading →

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Cookbook of the Month: Salad Samurai

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Jenny

This month I’m cheating a bit:  these are all recipes I’ve made, but I haven’t made them all in August.  Who has time to work through a cookbook when they’re moving to Prague?!  It’s been a very busy month, and … Continue reading →

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