Best of the Best from Virginia Cookbook II or Lantern Vegan Family Cookbook

Best of the Best from Virginia Cookbook II: Selected Recipes from Virginia's Favorite Cookbooks

Author: Gwen McKe

"Virginia is for Lovers"...and what's not to love about delicious Hampton Roads Crab Imperial? Or warm and homey Chili Pie with Cornbread Topping...tasty Strawberries and Cream Bread...popular Tidewater Toffee...or Bird's Nest Apple Pie-a recipe that's been around since the 1890s? Learn what a Second-Day Wedding Cake is, and how simple the requested Smithfield Inn Stewed Tomatoes are, and why someone would name a recipe "I Would Kill for a Piece of Virginia Pie."

Every one of the 350 recipes in this collection has been selected as favorites from seventy-six popular Virginia cookbooks. This new Best of the Best from Virginia Cookbook II is a companion to Volume I, now both a part of Quail Ridge Press' acclaimed Best of the Best State Cookbook Series, which has sold over two million copies. These cookbooks provide a fun and tasteful tour of the different cuisines throughout America.

Table of Contents:

The Quest for the Best     7
Contributing Cookbooks     9
Beverages and Appetizers     11
Bread and Breakfast     37
Soups, Stews, and Chilis     61
Salads     83
Vegetables     105
Pasta, Rice, Etc.     127
Meats     143
Poultry     163
Seafood     175
Cakes     195
Cookies and Candies     217
Pies and Other Desserts     233
Catalog of Contributing Cookbooks     255
Index     277
Best of the Best State Cookbook Series     288

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Lantern Vegan Family Cookbook

Author: Brian P McCarthy

Over 400 recipes from the kitchen of Chef Brian P. McCarthy! Now that you've become a vegan, you're learning lots of ways to prepare tofu, but you or someone you love is really starting to miss macaroni and cheese, turkey dinners, pumpkin pie and birthday cake. Maybe you and your family feel self-conscious (and hungry) at holidays, picnics, and parties. Or maybe just one person in the family is vegan, but you need to create meals that everyone will eat.

Since the day Brian McCarthy and his wife, Karen, chose a vegan diet for their family ten years ago, Chef McCarthy has created over 400 simple vegan recipes with easy-to-find ingredients for traditional favorites like biscuits, corn bread, stews, pastas, pizzas, cakes, pies, and even eggnog. All the recipes come from the McCarthy home kitchen and have passed the test of many family meals. For individuals or families who are concerned about animals, the environment, or their health, mealtimes just got a whole lot easier.

Publishers Weekly

Serious in intent and plain in presentation, this is a subdued cookbook for vegans (no meat, fish or dairy) who cook three meals a day and need a reliable cache of ideas. Oregon professional chef McCarthy spent 10 years amassing these recipes to sate his own family's desire for "real food" as they were settling into the vegan way of life. The result is this comprehensive selection that spans all parts of the meal. There are vegan versions of familiar family dishes, such as macaroni and cheese, vegetable quiche pie, lasagna florentine and French toast, which feature such traditional substitutes as egg replacer powder, varieties of tofu and vegan cheese. Some recipes flash with originality (e.g., Moroccan Red Lentil Soup), but others (e.g., Acorn Squash with Molasses) are reliable standbys with no vegan-offending ingredients in their original incarnation. A glossary and list of items in "A Well-Stocked Vegan Pantry" are serviceable, but lack the explanations and idiosyncrasies that make cookbooks and their writers memorable. By emphasizing the everyday aspect of preparing food, McCarthy concentrates on large-scale coverage rather than culinary openness and creates a book that speaks to the converted or nearly converted vegan. (Nov.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.