Mollie Katzen's Vegetable Heaven: Over 200 Recipes for Uncommon Soups, Tasty Bites, Side Dishes, and Too Many Desserts by Mollie Katzen

Mollie Katzen's Vegetable Heaven: Over 200 Recipes for Uncommon Soups, Tasty Bites, Side Dishes, and Too Many Desserts Reviews

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  Dayna Smith

  Easy recipes that taste good.
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  Carol

  This is my most referenced cook book.
  I am doing my top ten recipes from this book, otherwise I will probably list every other recipe in the book: roasted eggplant salad on page 8, gremolata-ricotta egg salad on page 10, roasted beans on page 68 (frequently requested for potlucks,) dreamy white beans on page 74 (mind boggling good, I'm growing sage next spring just for this recipe,) the whole section on roasted vegetables on pages 96- 99, sugar snap peas on page 108, whipped sweet potatoes on page 113, pasta shells on page 149, mustard vinaigrette on page 173, and blueberry-lemon mousse pie on page 193.
  Three part hominy, golden rice pie, and the pickled red onions were not so impressive.
  
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  P.

  I wish I liked Mollie Katzen's recipes more. They all seem kind of boring to me. Like going over to a friend's house to sleepover and their parents make a well-meaning meal that somehow just doesn't taste right and you can't tell if it's just because you're not eating at your home or what. But she's, like, a big Name in vegetarian cooking, right?
  
  I tried 2 from this book--the Avocado Pear Sorbet (awesome) and the Golden Rice Pie, I think it was called. It was a casserole, and it was okay. I have already thought of some ways in which I will move the spices around in the recipe to make it less bland. And I put a little cinnamon on the pears in the sorbet and swapped peach nectar for pear nectar in the recipe to avoid having it all taste like a fruit roll up. I do love fruit roll-ups, but I'm not into total pear-osity.
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  AJ LeBlanc

  I want my cookbooks to have pictures of the food. I get way too happy when every recipe gets a photo and I'm satisfied if there's just a centerfold spread of a choice few.
  
  There are zero photos in this book, but there are lovely watercolors of ingredients. Not very exciting.
  
  Katzen is the author of Moosewood and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest (I love that title) and I had high hopes for this.
  
  I saved *two* recipes.
  
  A lot of these call for lots of prep and ingredients. Maybe I'm only giving it two stars because I'm feeling lazy, but I'm not looking for a ton of work to make something pretty. I want food on my plate in a fairly short amount of time. If I was in a Super Cooking Mood then I might be more in love with this, but it's a bit too time consuming for me right now.
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  Dottie

  Happened to find this in Bookman today -- actually a hardcover not paperback -- it is the cookbook which went with the PBS programs and I believe the pub date is around 1997. It is gorgeous and I have a list of twelve things to try just in my first scan of it -- they seem relatively simple, fresh and the illustrations are wonderful -- plenty of Katzens lovely art works included. Just think of me experimenting and doing a little Snoopy dance at having found this one. ANyone for Raspberry-Rhubarb Packets -- done in phyllo dough -- the idea of raspberry and rhubarb together sets my mouth watering. Or Cherry -Upside-Down Gingerbread --- yum.
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  GoldenjoyBazyll

  Those of you who have been following me for awhile know I am a Moosewood FAN!!!!! The receipes are easy/ nutritious and VERY tasty (except for the vegan chocolate cake :P
  
  Anyhow.... saw this book on the bargain shelf at B&N and could not believe my eyes!
  
  Check out Sizzling Long Beans pg 102 (love these)
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  Nancy

  No pictures!!! ARRGGHHHH!!!! Just some hand drawn veggies from the author.
  
  The food in here seemed quite boring, and rather bland. Nothing that I want to cook. The dessert section was ok, but I have a million dessert recipes. Maybe one or two of the sauces looked passable as well. It mostly seemed like nursing home food to me. Blech.
  
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  G.G.

  The uncommon soups and too many desserts are all of them delicious. Some of the other recipes--like the Moroccan Roasted Vegetable Stew (pp. 100-1) and Scalloped Potatoes (pp. 130-31) take hours to prepare and are (frankly) not worth the effort--but don't let me put you off another wonderful collection of Mollie Katzen creations. Personal favourites: Chilled Honeydew Soup; Blackberry Buckle.
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  Cherie

  A Oh yum! I totally want this book. Another winner by Katzen -- lots of super yummy recipes on cooking veggies. So, so good. Full of Katzen's creative vegetable dishes. She is an amazing recipe-master!
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  Renee

  This is one of my favorite cookbooks ever! It is my go-to book when I want to try a new vegetable recipe. Mollie has a way of creating recipes that really let vegetables shine. (Although this ISBN is listed as paperback, it actually belongs to the hardback version, which I own.)
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  James

  Another library sale acquisition.
  
  Her newer books have many of these recipes and reduce the salt as well. Well the money goes to a good cause.
  
  My Standard Cookbook Rant
  
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  Oscar

  What a great idea book! I consulted this one for something to do with the more esoteric veggies that go for reduced sale at the grocery store I work at, and I was not disappointed. Plus, more soups and uses for beans are always a plus!
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  Meredith

  a good book for cooking basic vegetarian and whole grain fare.
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  Dane

  Good recipes and I like Mollie Katzen's writing. I just found surprisingly few recipes that made me want to try them. Gave it away.
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  Jessica

  My go-to. This is to me what Silver Palate was to my mother and what Joy of Cooking was to a generation of American cooks.
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  Belle Meade School

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  Bee

  Only Mollie Katzen can make veggie dishes this awesome.