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Mollie Katzen's Vegetable Heaven: Over 200 Recipes for Uncommon Soups, Tasty Bites, Side Dishes, and Too Many Desserts
By Mollie Katzen
Hyperion - 1997
This cookbook presents us with many delicious ways to prepare vegetables.
The book is laid out with a focus on dinner - with chapters on openers, soups, sides, mains, pastas, sauces, and desserts. No photographs (as with other Mollie Katzen cookbooks) but there are cute little drawings.
There is also an excellent table with volume/weight and ˚F/˚C conversions.
I have prepared recipes from many of the chapters, and in general they are very good, reliable recipes.
I really like the layout of this book. Each page is divided into thirds, the center part is white and it gives the instructions, maybe some background, or suggestions on substitutions or menus. The ingredient list in on the outer third, which is a different color for each chapter. Because each chapter is color coded, its easy to thumb through, and its also easy to know where to look for the ingredient list.
I like this book very much, and hope to cook my way through it some day.