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June 21st 2006 09:38
This is another exploration into the world of vegetarian cooking by my sister in her search for new and exciting non-meat flavours. Which is a challenge to say the very least. Many people would not notice, but if you actually scroll down the menu in many prominent restaurants, there are often only a very small number of vegetarian dishes, sometimes as few as one or two. I believe that it certainly wouldn’t hurt to reduce our consumption of meat, particularly red meat. There are many delicious vegetarians options out there, they just generally get a bad wrap. Its all about finding strong, distinct flavours for a dish, but using alternative sources to meat, such as nuts or cheeses.
One good thing about the author of Green, is her name, ‘Flip Shelton’. Now your book is bound to be a winner with a good name like that printed on the front. She has been featured on the TV cooking shows the Surprise Chef and Huey’s Cooking Adventures.
A bad thing about the author is that she is not really a writer, nor a chef. Actually, she’s a tri-athlete, and I feel that this is reflected in her recipes. This may be a bit of unfair criticism, but the food is all sort of like ‘power food’ packed with protein and energy that you might not usually consume if you weren’t undergoing rigorous physical activity on a regular basis. For the same reason she also reduces the use of dairy products, one of my all time favourite food groups!
Nevertheless, there are a lot of tempting dishes amongst the 160 recipes included in this book. Some of my favourites at a glance are the ‘pumpkin and pecan salad’, ‘cauliflower and tofu soup’, ‘ginger and lemon grass risotto’ and ‘apricots baked with orange and ginger'.The photography by Greg Elms is bright, clear and tantalising.
She does also include my favourite section, ‘fast food’. These are meals for those of us too busy to spend lots of time preparing every night, and I have often harped on about the merits of this kind of dish. To be a bit mean though, her section on quick dinners is pretty ordinary, I’d even go so far as to say it's on the dodgy side. For example the ‘Chinese Bread and Butter’, though humorously titled, involves micro-waving a cup of cooked rice and adding a knob of butter. In all honesty, I don’t think that’s worth printing.
“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.”
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One good thing about the author of Green, is her name, ‘Flip Shelton’. Now your book is bound to be a winner with a good name like that printed on the front. She has been featured on the TV cooking shows the Surprise Chef and Huey’s Cooking Adventures.
A bad thing about the author is that she is not really a writer, nor a chef. Actually, she’s a tri-athlete, and I feel that this is reflected in her recipes. This may be a bit of unfair criticism, but the food is all sort of like ‘power food’ packed with protein and energy that you might not usually consume if you weren’t undergoing rigorous physical activity on a regular basis. For the same reason she also reduces the use of dairy products, one of my all time favourite food groups!
Nevertheless, there are a lot of tempting dishes amongst the 160 recipes included in this book. Some of my favourites at a glance are the ‘pumpkin and pecan salad’, ‘cauliflower and tofu soup’, ‘ginger and lemon grass risotto’ and ‘apricots baked with orange and ginger'.The photography by Greg Elms is bright, clear and tantalising.
She does also include my favourite section, ‘fast food’. These are meals for those of us too busy to spend lots of time preparing every night, and I have often harped on about the merits of this kind of dish. To be a bit mean though, her section on quick dinners is pretty ordinary, I’d even go so far as to say it's on the dodgy side. For example the ‘Chinese Bread and Butter’, though humorously titled, involves micro-waving a cup of cooked rice and adding a knob of butter. In all honesty, I don’t think that’s worth printing.
“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.”
It is believed that the use of low-resolution images in this context
• to illustrate the book in question,
• with the book name either visible on the image itself or written in the image description above,
on the www.foodherald.com hosted on a server in Australia by www.orble.com , qualifies as fair use under Australian copyright law.
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