Download From a Monastery Kitchen The Classic Natural Foods Cookbook Brother VictorAntoine D'AvilaLatourrette 9780764808500 Books

Product details Paperback 176 pages Publisher Liguori (January 23, 2002) Language English ISBN-10 9780764808500 ISBN-13 978-0764808500 ASIN 0764808508

From a Monastery Kitchen The Classic Natural Foods Cookbook Brother VictorAntoine D'AvilaLatourrette 9780764808500 Books Reviews

• Love the format of this book, wife pages, not too thick. Great vegetable recipes for casseroles, soups and sides with a great variety. Not vegan, you'll have to do your own substitutes and there a fish recipes too. So not strictly vegetarian. I found many recipes I liked, some will find their way to out Thanksgiving feast as I always make a lot of veg dishes to avoid carb and gravy overload and to provide taste and texture variety. A good recipe book to add vegetable mains to your table. A bit of a French flair to the recipes.
• I love this cookbook! Instructions are simple/easy to follow, and arranged by season I can already anticipate the fun of planning trips to local farmers markets, and perhaps raising some of my own vegetables. There are no hard-to-find (or use again) spices, and a few dishes have eggs or fish. Most are vegetarian, but could easily be adapted to meat eaters either by using them as side dishes to steak/roast, or adding stew meat/chicken/shrimp. Added bonus the quotes below the recipes.
• A great set of recipes. We haven't found one we dislike yet. The only thing I'd suggest to anyone is not to be afraid to add to the recipes or make slight adjustments. Sometimes they need a little twist or addition to make them from decent to great. That being said, they are all good, from what we have tried. Sometimes the tastes are a bit simpler, but that gives you a very genuine monastic feel.
• My husband wanted this a companion to The Monastery Garden. He's having a lot of fun reading and making the recipes.
• Simple, seasonal, hearty! One reviewer here complains about the use of dairy. Substitute! Rice milk, coconut milk, even home made vegan cheeses!
  
  I love that this book is seasonal, using very simple ingredients. Pick them up fresh at your local Farmer's Market or grow them in your back yard. This book is also quite prayerful. Loaded in recipes that celebrate saintly feast days through out the year. Even a recipe dedicated to a saint from our Orthodox cousins with a brief exerpt about his life.
  
  Many of the recipes are geared towards cooking for a number of folks, be it a family or a community of monks or friars. I am a single person. So I have the option of sharing with my neighbor, or cutting the recipe in half. The soups freeze well.
• These recipes are delicious and easy to prepare. The ingredients are easy to acquire even if you live in a small New Mexico town as I do. As vegetarians, we enjoyed some new dishes.
• Like all of Brother Victor's books this one is full of really tasty, but fairly simple recipes. He has his recipes sorted first by season and then in categories such as soups, main dishes, salads, etc. His chick pea soup, vegetable cheese casserole, and spinach casserole with tomato topping were requested again by my son. We will by trying his asparagus-stuffed eggs coming up soon.
  
  If you like tasty vegetarian food, or nearly vegetarian food (he has a few recipes for fish) I am sure you will find something to enjoy in this book. Also we all need to eat more vegetables, and Brother Victor has plenty of them in just about everything. Getting your "five a day" will not be problem with "From a Monastery Kitchen."
• I really couldn't imagine what would be in this cookbook, but was delighted to find everything easy, delicious, and so healthful. The simple and seasonal recipies call for everything available to the city dweller, and are arranged by the seasons, with beautiful passages that make this cook book a joy to use.