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Viva Vegan!: 200 Authentic and Fabulous Recipes for Latin Food Lovers
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7 Reddit comments about Viva Vegan!: 200 Authentic and Fabulous Recipes for Latin Food Lovers:

u/anchal3 · 5 pointsr/vegan

Viva Vegan is a great cookbook. I grew up in Southern California and had Mexican food ALL THE TIME. The pozole recipes are awesome. We make burritos all the time with rice and beans and whatever veggies I have sauteed. You can do this!

u/katiekiller · 2 pointsr/vegetarian

I've really enjoyed everything I've made from Viva Vegan, which is chock full of Latin food from Central to South America (so definitely different from a Mexican cookbook, and not Mexican food heavy in the slightest, so probably not a lot of overlap). It has more of a this is how my mom/abuelita/tia/o made it point of view than a this is how they made it ages ago because blah blah grow really well in this region kind of thing.

This one isn't vegetarian, but it's a great book anyway, and probably a good compliment to an actual Mexican food cookbook - Tex-Mex by Robb Walsh has history and historic recipes from Texas' chili queens, the original Ninfa's, and so many other huge Tex-Mex institutions in Texas that we, our parents, and grand parents grew up with. I'm vegan now, but frequently go back to this book when I want to make something at home that I could easily use seitan/jackfruit/Daiya/whatever in and could never get out at a restaurant.

How do you like Salud? I've been thinking about checking it out.

u/vegan_velociraptor · 2 pointsr/vegan

I used the one from Viva Vegan.

u/jeremy3am · 2 pointsr/vegan

Peas and Thank You is great and has good pictures of every dish. Also Viva Vegan!.

u/anarkittie · 2 pointsr/vegan

Learn one vegan recipe per week and in 14 weeks you'll be able to eat a different vegan lunch and dinner every day! Breakfast is very easy to make vegan so don't really got to learn any new recipes for that. This is an easy 14 week transition plan. (You can adjust the time to suit your schedule)

If you're like me without much time (or motivation) to cook, do the following:

  • Go to All Recipes dot com http://allrecipes.com
  • Go to their search page
  • Type vegan in the search box
  • From the “Ready in” drop box, select “30 minutes or less” or if you’re really pressed for time “15 minutes or less”
  • And presto! You find hundreds of vegan recipes you can make in a giffy

    (I think there are other recipe websites where you can also control the search for time.)

    Also do research about nutrition. There are certain nutrients which are harder to get as a vegan - just like there are other nutrients that omnivores have a harder time getting. But if you know the right foods to eat you'll be ok. But you need to do research. Try these resources:

    http://www.veganhealth.org

    http://veg.ca/go-veg/vegetarian-nutrition/

    http://www.theveganrd.com/

    http://allsentientsfeelpain.blogspot.ca/2009/12/appendix-1-nutrition-vegan-meals-with.html

    You'll need a B12 supplement. Take either a liquid drop/spray or a sublingual pill - they absorb better. Although we only need 6 mcg B12 per day, it's absorbed very inefficiently in supplements, so with supplements we need 250 mcg once per day or 2500 mcg once per week (doesn't add up due to inefficiency of absorption at higher doses).

    I also take a Deva brand multivitamin - they have one geared especially for vegans. And I eat 2 tbsp of ground flax meal per day for my omega-3. (Whole flax seeds aren't digested well.) I mix flax meal into soup, stew, burritos, smoothies, cereal, oatmeal, salad dressing fruit salad - almost anything.

    The website http://www.iherb.com/ sells vitamin supplements at a discount and on orders over $20 there's no sales tax and if you're in the US no shipping cost.

    And by the way, I'm half Mexican! :) so here's a suggestion specific to being a vegan Hispanic...

    Next time you cook for your family, wow them with a vegan recipe from this book: "Viva Vegan!: 200 Authentic and Fabulous Recipes for Latin Food Lovers" by Terry Hope Romero
    http://www.amazon.com/Viva-Vegan-Authentic-Fabulous-Recipes/dp/0738212733/

    Or maybe you can find a vegan cookbook specific to your country, search amazon.com !
u/something_obscure · 1 pointr/veganrecipes

I just made some vegan churros from the recipe in Viva Vegan. They were pretty amazing. It would be something unique and vegan.

Edit: Here's a pic.

u/BadgerNose · 1 pointr/vegan

Vegan a go-go is the best for super fast, easy recipes and Viva Vegan is THE BEST latin food book ever. I make so many of the dishes on a regular basis. If you're into mexican and latin food, I would highly suggest it; for the dip recipes alone...