Mollie Katzen's Vegetable Heaven: Over 200 Recipes for Uncommon Soups, Tasty Bites, Side Dishes, and Too Many Desserts

I watched the show before I bought this companion cookbook. I can hear her encouraging voice as I make the recipes. I like the notes at the beginning, and the conversion table. I also like that most of these recipes will appeal to American palates. My family won't eat asian style vegetables, and I find many vegetarian cookbooks lean heavily Asian or Indian. While there are definitely things to suit everyone here, my family liked what I chose from this book.

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 ËšF/ËšC 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.

Vegetable recipes designed for great taste, and if they happen to healthy that's a nice side effect.

This is the kind of cookbook where it's best to follow the recipe exactly, at least the first time you make them, as often it's not completely visible from the recipe why it is designed as it is, and changes can easily upset the balance.