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Moosewood Restaurant Daily Special: More Than 275 Recipes for Soups, Stews, Salads and Extras

Moosewood Collective

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Total reviews: 22 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Since 1973, The Moosewood Restaurant, well off the beaten path in Ithaca, NY, has been demonstrating how exciting vegetarian cooking can be. Their excellent use of seasonings and the variety of their multiethnic menus have influenced chefs all over the U.S. Customers come from all over the world to dine at this shrine to natural foods at their best. The collective running the restaurant, whose members put together The Moosewood Restaurant Daily Special--their eight cookbook--spread meatless inspiration to home cooks, too.

At the restaurant, everything on the menu changes every day, except the daily special, which consists of a bowl of soup, a salad, and a hearty slab of bread. Here, in more than 275 recipes, you can have comfortable, easily prepared ethnic adventures inspired by places in every corner of the globe, from Tibet to Cuba. Beginning in the east, there's Asian Bean Curd Soup, based on a rich broth, and fanciful Balinese Rice Salad, made with brown rice and a zippy, chutney-spiked dressing. Moving west, you find briskly chilled Golden Gazpacho, made using mid-summer's sunny, yellow tomatoes, and Alabama Hot Slaw, a classic cabbage salad doused in a warmed-up dressing. For accompaniments, there are cloud-light buttermilk biscuits, vibrant curried croutons for enlivening soups and salads, and nine of the restaurant's most popular salad dressings.

Every recipe is accompanied by information-packed notes about its ingredients, a nutritional analysis, suggested accompaniments, and alternatives, such as adding grated cheese, rice, or shrimp to Pepperpot Soup, a stew of greens, sweet peppers, tomatoes and potatoes, spiced with a Caribbean blend of thyme, cinnamon and chiles.

This book is a perfect way to get pleasantly acquainted with a wide variety of grains and vegetables, from millet and South American quinoa to daikon radish and tomatillos. A useful gift for students, beginning cooks, budget watchers (many of the soups require only water, not stock), newlyweds, and everyone who wants to eat well and healthfully, this sweetly illustrated book could live happily in any household. It includes some recipes using fish, as well as a good selection of vegan choices. --Dana Jacobi

A Beautiful Bowl of Soup: The Best Vegetarian Recipes

Paulette Mitchell

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

A Truly Lovely Addition to your Cookbook Collection with a minor exception. 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

I love this book. Not just for the recipes but for the clean design and beautiful photographs. Everything about this book makes you want to use it over and over.

I do have one word of caution. Her miso soup recipe calls for you to boil the miso. She makes an effort to explain how beneficial miso is for your health but unfortunately, boiling miso destroys all of the good enzymes.

Add it at the end by turning off the heat, mix in your miso, and wait a few minutes before serving. Heat activates the enzymes but, again, boiling will destroy them.

Aside from this small detail, it is one of my favorites amoung my vast collection of cookbooks.

Editorial Review:

No, there is no chicken stock in this soup. What you'll find here is page after glorious page of the loveliest, most delicious soups and stews - each and every one entirely vegetarian. Brimming with international flavors, Paulette Mitchell's easy-to-follow recipes are paired with unique accompaniments, garnishes, and toppings that add tremendous visual appeal. Witness hearty Pumpkin Stew baked and served in a pumpkin shell; classic onion soup updated with crunchy goat cheese toasts; and Spicy Sweet Potato Ancho Bisque swirled with bright Roasted Red Pepper Cream. From Mediterranean Saffron Stew to Greek Spinach and Orzo Soup, these colorful dishes are simple enough for every day, yet sophisticated enough for elegant dinner parties. Instructions for making tasty vegetable stock from scratch, a selection of delicious vegan soups, and a helpful "tips" section make this gorgeous cookbook an important addition to any kitchen where good food and good health are on the menu.

The Ultimate Soup Cookbook (Reader's Digest)

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Simple ingredients, elegant results 4 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

If you are a soup lover, this is the book for you. Simple to follow instructions and, generally, easily obtained ingredients. Every recipe I've tried has been excellent, and it includes a wide variety. This is not a "gourmet cookbook" but the results look great when served and won't take all day for you to make them. Only improvement would be if it was bound so it could lie flat.

Great variety of recipes 4 out of 5 stars.
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This is certainly a comprehensive book on soups. I am yet to try any of the recipes at the time of this review, however, I could not help notice that if you are not totally familiar with American cooking ingredients, you may find yourself somewhat lost at times. Here's an example, "cannned chicken" along with a few other ingredients, but in saying this I am more than prepared to learn about them. Unfortunately, this book does not have a glossary section, although it does have a brief conversion section on the very back page (with the most common conversions). I have tried googling for subsitutes for these items but have been unable to find any substitutes. So there are possibly some recipes I may never get to try due to this, which is a shame.

This book also mixes both imperial and metric measurements on some of it recipes, which is confusing to say the least.

It certainly does have a wide variety of soups, even quick 30 minute soups (although, these do utilise canned soups to quicken the cooking time). I am impressed with the inclusion of recipes for larger quantities ie; serves 10 or more. These are particular good for dinner parties.

Even though, I feel this book would benefit from an informative glossary section explaning food substitues for non American buyers, I would certainly NOT AVOID BUYING THIS BOOK due to this. I guess this is a common problem in reality when purchasing books from other countries, if only the publishers could see this and make the books more universal (now wouldn't that be nice).

Cooking Light Soup (Cooking Light)

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

satisfied customer 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 14 people found this review helpful.

I had seen this book at Meijer for 17.95. I really wanted it. Got a good price and rec'd it very quickly. I have nothing but good things to say.

Worth the price! 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 7 people found this review helpful.

This is an excellent book for the beginner. The recipes are simple and easy to follow. I've made a few recipes from this book and they were wonderful! A must have book if you love soup whether you are a beginner or not.

Excellent Variety, Quick Preparation, & Delicious 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

So far I've had this product for a month and everything turns out so nice. My husband is a "meat and potatoes" kind of guy and he has really enjoyed many of the soups as well, as they are filling and tasty! I'm a big fan of all cooking light cookbooks and also purchased their Slow Cooker Recipes book at the same time as this one and it is equally as delicous and quick to prepare. For anyone who likes quick, easy, healthy, or unique - you will enjoy these two books.

Editorial Review:

Ah, the comforting allure of soup, as brought to you by the creative experts at the Cooking Light Test Kitchens. With 56 easy-to-follow soup recipes, this new cookbook is as beautiful as it is practical; a handy reference for delicious recipes that are nutritious as well as satisfying. Sure to be well-thumbed, its smaller size and hardcover design lend themselves to frequent perusing and planning. This attractive volume will be a must have for beginning and seasoned cooks alike.

Gifts in a Jar: Soups (Gifts in a Jar, 4)

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

SOOO Good 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

All these In a Jar books are great. Need a gift for anyone or everyone - these are super suggestions.

Perfect gifts for new parents, new neighbors or care pkgs.! 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

I like to give these soup gifts in a jar to expecting parents just before the baby arrives so they have a ready-to-go homemade meal on hand. I also add a California Corn Bread jar to go with the soup. I also like to include the canned items that need to be added like canned tomatoes, chicken, etc. to make it as easy as possible for them. These jars would make a great welcome gift to a new neighbor or to someone with a cold or recovering from the flu or other illness. I think it's just such a unique gift that is very useful and tasty, too!

Easy Thank You Gifts 5 out of 5 stars.
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When I retired from teaching high school, I made gift jars for 11 support staff people who made my job easier - secretaries, guidance staff, attendance office staff, etc. They were thrilled. My favorites are Creamy Cheese Soup and Cheesy Potato Soup. I decorated the lids with circles of fabric and attached the recipe cards with raffia. Easy to do and a nice way to say thanks for 33 great years!

Editorial Review:

Recipes for how to create Gifts in a Jar. Includes gift tags with each recipe. Just cut the tags out, personalize and attach to the jars. Soup recipes include Chicken Noodle, Tortilla, Minestrone, Calico Bean and Cheesy Potato. 5 1/4 x 8 1/4", 128 pgs

The Big Book of Soups and Stews: 262 Recipes for Serious Comfort Food

Maryana Vollstedt

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

My favorite cookbook for the past year! 5 out of 5 stars.
18 of 19 people found this review helpful.

I love soup, but I don't like to spend all day making it. Maryana has "boiled down" every recipe to the simplest yet tastiest way to make it. Try the Sunriver Soup for company...it is delicious. I have had this book for over a year, and have made over 20 of the recipes...they have all been fantastic. Both of the Gumbo recipes are super, the seafood one is divine. The Gazpacho is perfect, and I love the Mexican Chicken and Corn soup too. I like how she doesn't require a million and one ingredients but just selects the perfect combination of spices for each soup.

NOT MUCH BETTER THAN A GOOD BOWL OF SOUP 4 out of 5 stars.
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I'll admit..I'm mainly a soup person only in the fall and winter months when it's cooler and you don't mind a nice pot of soup simmering on the stove for several hours. Soup and winter just goes together even though this book contains many lighter receipes that can be enjoyed all year round.

This is a follow-up to the Big Book of Casseroles and contains receipes for over 250 soups, stews, and chowders. Some very elegant soups perfect for a formal dinner party to go along with stick to your ribs soups for tailgating before a big game. There's old classic favorites such as Chicken Noodle, Motzah Ball and Clam Chowder to go along with more exotic soups such as the Thai Ginger Chicken Soup and Spicy Cuban Pork Stew. One of my favorites is the Chicken with Buttermilk Thyme dumplings which is just fantastic in the dead of winter like it is now. There are several potato soup recipes which I absolutely love including the baked potato soup.

The recipes are fairly simple to make and most of the ingredients are availabe from the grocery store but a few will require a visit to a gourmet food store if you really want to do it right. This book is a soup-eaters dream!

Editorial Review:

The Big Book of Soups & Stews brings succulent meats, tender vegetables, and creamy, savory goodness with 262 comforting recipes for soups, chowders, and stews. From a hot and hearty stew for a cold night to a cool, refreshing Vichyssoise for a sizzleing

Mollie Katzen's Recipes: Soups: Easel Edition

Mollie Katzen

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

Solidly good vegetarian soups 3 out of 5 stars.
20 of 21 people found this review helpful.

Mollie Katzen's Recipes: Soups is produced in an interesting format. It's a small ring-bound book tucked into a board sleeve so it'll sit well on a shelf. Once you take the book out, you move a couple of things around, tuck one thing into another, and you end up with an easel. The idea is that you set it up so it only takes up a few inches of counter-space and your recipe ends up standing up in front of you, making it easy to read while you cook.

In this it works fairly well. The angle is fairly steep, so you'll need to set it down on a perfectly level surface or risk pages falling closed on you. I also felt that this worked better for cooking than for looking through the cookbook to find recipes, which was a bit more awkward. And once you've set it up as an easel, it'll never quite collapse back all the way again; while you can slip it into its sleeve to fit on a shelf, at least, it's still a bit awkward to work with in other ways. Other folks might find this format perfect; it just didn't quite work for me.

The handwriting font is attractive, but when it comes to cookbooks my personal preference is for something plain and clear. There are no photos, but I tend to think photos are pretty unnecessary with soups. The directions are clear and simple; these are not overly complex recipes.

The table of contents and index are quite handy; the ToC lists recipes in order, while the index lets you look for things by ingredient, both of which are useful.

It seemed to me that the flavors in these soups weren't balanced entirely well. Some seemed under-seasoned while others seemed over-seasoned. The spices in the curried squash soup smelled to-die-for while cooking, but the soup was flavored strongly enough that I found it a bit unpleasant, and that's unusual for me (I'm a flavor junkie!). I also found some of the soups didn't reheat very well (without mentioning this in the directions), which is a tad unusual for soups.

The soups aren't vegan, as a number of them use dairy, but it would be simple enough to substitute soy products and the like.


If you're die-hard looking for a source of healthy, vegetarian soups, this is certainly a good option. As a cookbook in general, however, I'd say it's good but not great. On the other hand, many of the things I wasn't so fond of will be taste-dependent.

Editorial Review:

Mollie Katzen has been credited with moving vegetarian cooking from the fringes of American society onto mainstream dinner tables, and her celebrated soups have been mainstays for vegetarian and nonvegetarian home cooks alike for decades. Marking the 30th anniversary of her enormously popular MOOSEWOOD COOKBOOK, this charming easel-backed cookbook brings together her classic hot and chilled soups, along with some new and tasty recipes, for the first time. Each recipe is lovingly hand-lettered and illustrated with Mollie's distinctive pen-and-ink drawings, making this timeless soup collection the perfect kitchen countertop companion.

Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread Cookbook

Crescent Dragonwagon

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Total reviews: 18 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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In every traveler's mind exists the perfect little out-of-the-way inn where the bread is always fresh-baked and the beds are downright heavenly. And where the soup is gratifying, gutsy, and downright gratifying.

Since 1981, Crescent Dragonwagon-noted children's book author, cookbook writer, and innkeeper-has owned that perfect little inn: Dairy Hollow House in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

Distilling all her soup-making, bread-baking and salad-mixing wisdom into one book, Crescent Dragonwagon presents 200 of the recipes that have made her inn a many-time winner of the Uncle Ben's Best Inn of the Year Award. Here are the pedigreed soups: Winter Borscht . la Vielle Russe, Cuban Black Bean Soup. Soups with a twist: Fishysoisse, Gazpacho Rosa, New World Corn Chowder. Soups to warm you up: Deep December Cream of Root Soup. And soups to cool you down: Chilled Avocado Soup, Mexique Bay, Orange Blossom Special. Plus dozens of fabulous breads, from Slightly Fanatic Whole-Grain Dream Bread to Rosemary Foccacia Dairy Hollow, and salads, including Beet and Apple Salad on Mixed Greens. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club's HomeStyle Books and Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service. Over 267,000 copies in print.

Mollie Katzen's Recipes: Salads (Mollie Katzen Easel Editions)

Mollie Katzen

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EVERY VEGETARIAN SALAD UNDER THE SUN! 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

Mollie Katzen has given vegetarian cooking style and pizzazz, and this Salad book is no exception. Her new book presents salads and antipastos as a main meal using fruits, vegetables, beans, cheeses, nuts, pastas, oils, and herbs. Mollie emphasizes freshness and educates on less common greens and veggies. She also has recipes for Tofu Mayonnaise and Homemade Croutons. The presentation is illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings and sprinkled with useful tips.

The books contents include:
A Pep Talk for Wilted Saladmakers
Other Salad Vegetables
Basic Green Leafy Salad with Three Favorite Dressings
Warm Salad
Raw Vegetable Salad
Tabouli
Lentil-Bulgur Salad
White Rabbit Salad
March Hare
Sri Wasano's Infamous Indonesian Rice Salad
Kristina's Potato Salad
Dill Pickle Potatoes
Very-Much-Marinated Potatoes
Perfect Protein Salad
Tofu Salad
Four Waldorf Variations
Just White Beans with Pickled Red Onions
Bermuda Salad
Swiss Green Beans
Chilled Marinated Cauliflower
Bulgarian Salad
Moroccan Orange-Walnut Salad
Eggplant Salads: Romanian, Israeli, Indian, Italian
Marinated Vegetables
Odessa Beets
Balkan Cucumber Salad
Jicama, Orange & Fennel Salad
Marinated Sweet Potatoes & Broccoli
Carrot-Yogurt Salad
Coleslaw
Marinated Pasta Salad
Eggless Egg Salad
Chilled Asparagus in Dilled Mustard Sauce
Alfalfa-Romano Salad
Fancy Stuffed Pears
Spinach Salad with Red Onion, Goat Cheese & Strawberries, and Buttermilk-Balsamic Dressing
Endive & Radicchio Salad with Hazelnuts & Plums
Fennel with Red Onion, Olives & Figs
Vegetarian Cobb Salad
Avocado & Ruby Grapefruit Salad with Grapefruit Vinaigrette
ANTIPASTO:
Gingery Marinated Chick Peas
Marinated Mushrooms
Marinated Small Artichokes
Bell Peppers
Cauliflower and Carrots
Swiss Chard
Roasted Green Beans with Garlic and Pine Nuts

If you cannot find a salad to serve and eat in this list, maybe you just don't like salad! Seriously, I have used her recipes over the years and they don't disappoint. Highly recommend! A great companion book is THE 3:00 PM SECRET: Live Slim and Strong, Live Your Dreams

Editorial Review:

Credited with moving vegetarian cooking from the fringes of American society to mainstream dinner tables, Mollie Katzen has proved that there's more to salad than tossed greens. With fresh fruits and vegetables, pungent cheeses, beans, oils, herbs, and nuts, a salad can be a hearty meal in itself. Celebrating THE MOOSEWOOD COOKBOOK's 30th anniversary, the latest addition to the MOLLIE KATZEN'S RECIPES series brings together her classic salad combinations from MOOSEWOOD and ENCHANTED BROCCOLI FOREST in a convenient easel format. Each recipe is lovingly hand-lettered and illustrated with Mollie's distinctive pen-and-ink drawings, making this timeless collection the perfect kitchen countertop companion.

"Mollie Katzen's work is the exemplar of a healthful cooking style that has no dogma and offers no apologies."
--New York Times

Twelve Months of Monastery Soups

Victor D'Avila-Latourrette

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Offer your guests a big bowl of warmth and comfort--stir up some homemade soup! Brother Victor-Antoine d'Avila-Latourrette, author of From a Monastery Kitchen, follows the months of the year with simple recipes using seasonal ingredients. The soup recipes are international as well--try some Polish Pearl Barley Soup in February and Traditional Austrian Cheese Soup in November. Brother Victor-Antoine recommends chilled soups in the summer for refreshment; June's creamy Chilled Carrot Soup features the zest of ginger and lemon, and the Cold Zucchini Soup in August is delightful with the recommended lemon basil. The simplicity of the recipes makes them suitable for beginning cooks, who will learn that a great variety of flavors can be produced just by changing the order in which the vegetables are sautéed or by using vegetable broth instead of beef bouillon. Twelve Months of Monastery Soups is a delicious introduction to the art of soup making. As Brother Victor-Antoine notes, "soup remains a faithful friend during all of life's occasions."