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Why not just simple vegetarian instead of vegan?
This is a vegetarian cookbook, but many of the recipes are vegan.. which make the recipes (and shopping) unnecessarily complex. For example, two recipes.. one with Alfredo sauce and a cream of tomato soup that could just use cream (or whole milk) uses raw cashews and coconut milk. I bought this book for my vegetarian college daughter living in a college town without a Whole Foods (or gourmet market). I want easy-to-follow uncomplicated vegetarian recipes. She is a beginning cook, so I wanted a simple cookbook that she doesn’t need to figure out substitutions (ie: using a cream or a basic roux instead of raw cashews and coconut milk) If I wanted a vegan cookbook I would have bought a vegan cookbook:
January 2020 · Books · verified purchase