My requirement for cookbooks is simple: that they inspire me to cook. I like cookbooks with great photography, clear instructions, great stories, and simple, vegetarian ingredients. My preference for food makes me 90% pescetarian – I love salmon and shellfish but can live without other kinds of meat – and 10% five year old kid (sour candy). I really enjoy flipping through my collection of cookbooks, dreaming up menus, thinking “I have to make this!” then… getting up to go pick up takeout. But in all seriousness, I love a great vegetarian recipe, and come this spring I’ll be getting a weekly CSA box from a local organic farm so I will have tons of fresh greens for my consumption every week. (If I get lazy there is the option of blending everything). Here are my favorite vegetarian cookbooks for my fantasy cook-at-home life:
Feast: Generous Vegetarian Meals for Any Eater and Every Appetite (buy on Amazon)
The French Market Cookbook: Vegetarian Recipes from My Parisian Kitchen (buy on Amazon)
Plenty: Vibrant Recipes from London’s Ottolenghi (buy on Amazon)
Meatless: More Than 200 of the Very Best Vegetarian Recipes (buy on Amazon)
Vegetable Literacy (buy on Amazon)
Non-vegetarian cookbooks with great vegetarian recipes:
The Sprouted Kitchen (buy on Amazon)
Giada’s Feel Good Food (buy on Amazon)
Home Made Winter (buy on Amazon)
Bountiful: Recipes Inspired by Our Garden (buy on Amazon)
What are your favorite cookbooks?