Food: Vegetarian Home Cooking Hardcover

Beautiful photos of food and veggie gardens. Simple tasty recipes, if you love lemon,I highly recommend “Linda’sLemon Cake” recipe 😋😋😋😋delicious! Also book has cute stories of Mary and photos of her growing up in countryside. Highly recommend if you want to try delicious and simple vegetarian meals.

At first I was a bit critical about this book. But upon further perusal through the pages I was convinced that I liked it and liked it a lot. There is a simple recipe for Pan-Fried Cheese, Tomato and Onion Sandwich... I was like.... really?? But then I saw a recipe for Yorkshire Pudding. Something I had heard here and there, but never seen nor tasted. As an American I was surprised to find that this "pudding" was actually a fry bread similar to funnel cake. Wow, who knew. And such a simple recipe. It was then I conjured that perhaps the simple sandwich recipe was for those who were as unfamiliar with grilled cheese as I was of Yorkshire Pudding. It is a good book for initial ideas that you can build upon. I already have several ideas of how I want to make the Yorkshire Pudding next time I make it. I have read through several recipes, they look, and sound tasty and are straight forward, easy to follow and the ingredients easy to find, if they are not already in your kitchen. I LOVE this cookbook and I plan on preparing everything in it! It has renewed my love for preparing healthy homemade meals because I don't have to spend all day making them. They are simple, quick, and easy. Kudos Mary for a job very well done. The photos are beautiful as well. :)Note: I have read another review that knocks down the book for using canned jalapenos in a recipe instead of fresh ones.... really??? This reviewer does not have enough common sense to use fresh jalapenos if they are available?? I believe that Mary is offering the simplest most AVAILABLE items... certainly, anyone who wants to can replace these with fresh... but remember they will have to be properly prepared before adding to a recipe. Canned jalapenos are roasted seeded and soaked in water or simply seeded and pickled in vinegar. Fresh jalapenos would need to be seeded and grilled or roasted to replace canned ones. You could even boil them if you wanted. She also calls for free range eggs. Really, you don't HAVE to use free range, it is just a suggestion....etc.

I normally associate celebrity chefs with ridiculous recipes that feature ingredients that you've never heard of and are just ridiculously expensive. But this book is very different from this. I had originally heard about it in the Financial Times, as my mum desperate to get me to be more adventurous in my vegetarian cooking (I'll blame that on the student lifestyle!) sent the article to me. And what a book too! Not only do the photographs present a homely recreation of the recipes when they've been cooked - but the recipes are actually edible (there's a lack of vile blue cheeses which I am glad to see) and Mary McCartney comes across as more down to earth in terms of what she thinks people actually eat. As a student, I've been put off by a lot of vegetarian cookbooks (admittedly it may just be that I've been looking in the wrong places), as they present recipes which just combine the vilest combination of foods, or include ingredients that are simply too expensive (as a student this is a major issue for me). This book, though, does not adhere to either of these!Quick tip - the granola bars are gorgeous!

Great book. My daughter loved it and has cooked many dishes all yummy. Soups are particularly good. And the book has lovely pictures

Most of the recipes I have tried so far are simple and delicious. She allows for many substitutions if there is something you don't normally stock in your pantry, again making it very simple. There are still many recipes I want to try; so far I really have to rave about the quinoa vegetable soup was so delicious and actually really pretty and colorful. 5 stars on the lemon and zuchinni spaghetti as well. The photographs for each recipe are also mouth-watering. :) I am excited to make more things from this cookbook.