Reddit reviews Minimalist Baker's Everyday Cooking: 101 Entirely Plant-based, Mostly Gluten-Free, Easy and Delicious Recipes

If that's what you think of vegan recipe books then you haven't been looking

https://www.amazon.com/Thug-Kitchen-Official-Cookbook-Like/dp/1623363586

https://www.amazon.com/Minimalist-Bakers-Everyday-Cooking-Plant-based/dp/0735210969

https://www.amazon.com/Fuss-Free-Vegan-Everyday-Favorites-Veganized/dp/0147530350

My omnivore friends, who do NOT sugar coat their opinions, unanimously love everything I've made from those cookbooks. It ain't just kind words. Two of them have approached me and asked me to teach them how to cook like that all the time

When I became vegan, I frequented the frozen a bit too much.

I love to cook but found myself in completely new territory when I went vegan; home coooking was intimidating (thus making frozen an easy transition choice).

I got a freq books and learned some of the pantry and meal prep basics and I've been on a food journey since! Here are two of my favorites (easy, healthy, delish, and all meals covered):

• Isa Does It - Amazingly Easy, Wildly Delicious Vegan Recipes for Every Day of the Week
  
• Minimalist Baker's Everyday Cooking
  
  
  Edit: awesome choice and welcome! 🙃😊

I have to work late tonight, but tomorrow I'm going to try a recipe from my new cookbook: Minimalist Baker's Everyday Cooking

Very excited!!!! I love her website. I think I'll make the pizza burgers first. I made her buffalo chickpea wraps on Sunday -- soooo good.

I tried it for awhile but I have a co-worker who's done it for years. Her diet consists a lot of vegetables (obviously), fats (olive oil, avocados etc), and GF carbs like pasta and quinoa. What's slightly inconvenient about this diet though is that you have to really cook almost all of your meals at home (restaurant foods can be more limited etc). If you like to cook though then don't worry! My favorite cook book is [Minimalist Baker's Everyday Cooking] (https://www.amazon.com/Minimalist-Bakers-Everyday-Cooking-Plant-based/dp/0735210969/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480281693&sr=8-1&keywords=minimalist+baker). A lot of GREAT recipes that are often GF as well as vegan (and if it's not GF already she tells you how to modify it). I've made some really good meals for my boyfriend (omnivore and not GF) and he thought they were delicious. So, all in all, it's very doable if you really want to stick with it and put in the extra time/effort sometimes.

Around here, the name of the game is cooking something that my 9 and 2 year old children will like...that is also vegan. So my favorite meals to cook (spicy thai food stuff) really has nothing to do with it hahaha. We do a lot of Mexican inspired dishes, which lends very well to vegan cooking (tacos, burritos, enchiladas) as well as mostly being gluten free, which is important for me when I'm running a lot. Spring rolls are also a big hit around here. These are really fun because the kids can choose which toppings go on theirs and roll their own up. Pizzas are always a hit as well. We will occasionally get some vegan cheese for pizza, but it's really unhealthy stuff, so the trick is the have a rich sauce (pesto is my favorite) and a variety of veggies to keep the pizza interesting without cheese. My laptop broke recently so all my favorite recipe bookmarks are gone, but there's a few books I can recommend if you're looking for some inspiration.

Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give a Fuck

Minimalist Baker's Everyday Cooking

America's Test Kitchen: Vegan for Everybody

Before I went vegan I thought I was eating healthy because I was very into the whole local/organic/humane meat/cheese/eggs scene. As it turns out, just because your bacon and brie came from 10 miles away, doesn't make it healthy. A typical day of eating would be eggs with cheese for breakfast, a salad with meat and cheese on it for lunch, and for dinner we'd frequently have brie around to snack on while cooking, then a main meat course with a salad and some veggies cooked up in quite a lot of butter. So, I mean, I would look at all that and think it was healthy. I ate a salad every day for lunch, and always have some vegetables with dinner. When I went vegan - which was a complete transformation that took place overnight after spending a few hours watching Cowspiracy and then following it up with watching Earthlings, it was a drastic change in diet, but it was not difficult at all. Without getting too preachy, the immorality of eating animals with no other purpose than because we like the taste was for some reason a shocking revelation to me. It hit me very hard and I just underwent this incredible paradigm shift. It's like asking if it's difficult for me not to rape somebody because I like the way sex feels. The amount of vegetables I ate increased 10 fold over night and the physical change I felt from that alone was incredible. The energy, the overall happiness, and I'm not going to lie, pooping as a vegan is enough to keep anyone off meat and dairy. So, it was a pretty big change in diet, but because I felt so much better physically and emotionally, it was an incredibly easy transition.

Thanks for the questions! I'm loving being a part of this today, it's so fun talking to you all.

I enjoy Minimalist Baker because of the photos of every recipe + macros listed. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735210969/

I also really like this one (especially for impressing dates), though I'd argue most of it is a little decadent to be healthy. https://www.amazon.com/Fresh-Vegan-Slow-Cooker-Ultra-Convenient/dp/1558327908/

I would purchase Minimalist Baker's cookbook immediately. The recipes are some of the best I've ever found, imo

I just checked out Minimalist Baker's cookbook and the Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give A Fuck Minimalist Baker was meh, but Thug Kitchen is amazing. A lot of the recipes use cheap, simple ingredients and the dishes are pure deliciousness. I'm currently borrowing these books from the library, but I think I definitely need to add Thug Kitchen to my collection.

I also have the Seitanic Spellbook by the Vegan Black Metal Chef. It's ok for some basic stuff, but I don't care for how it's organized. Also, he doesn't use measurements in any of his recipes, which is ok if you like to improvise a lot, but it kinda leaves me in the dark if I'm trying a new recipe.

Then there's Happy, Healthy Vegan Kitchen by Kathy Patalsky which is ok if you can get past her narratives and obscure ingredients. Like, bitch, I'm not getting six different unicorn salts to put on my toast.

I also have The Joys of Vegan Baking (meh), and Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World (haven't tried it yet).

EDIT: damn amazon links

I love Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer.

As for cookbooks, this cookbook.

If you have an ice cream maker/plenty of free time, I love this for vegan ice cream