Cheap and Easy
I have more books on food and cooking than a person could use in any one lifetime, on subjects from fermentation, to raw foods, to punk-rock musicians’ favorite vegan dishes ... and still I keep buying them in the hopes of finding the cookbook that will change my life for better forever.
The latest is Robin Robertson’s Vegan on the Cheap, which offers a wealth of tips and recipes designed to help vegans save both money on their food bills and time in the kitchen. Robertson calculates the approximate cost per serving of each recipe, and they range from 50 cents to $2.
Saving time and money are goals I need to strive for, but the recipes what really sold the book to me. They sound both innovative and appealing, with names like “Walnut-Dusted Fettuccine with Caramelized Vegetables” and “orange-Chipotle Dressed Salad with Black Bean Salsa.”
More about Robertson, including sample recipes from Vegan on the Cheap and her other cookbooks are available at her website, Global Vegan Kitchen. Also, vegan mother Krys of the Two Vegan Boys blog has started a project to cook each recipe from the book and blog about it. So far, she has raved about the “Linguine With Variations on a Pesto” and “Stovetop Cheezee Mac.”
