Ultimate Veg The Best Vegetarian Cookbook Ever!

It is still hard to cook for vegetarians, despite the explosion of the Beyond Meat and Impossible Burgers phenomena. You can't serve these for every meal. You have to come up with different dishes with different flavors  Thankfully Jamie Oliver comes to our rescue with a new cookbook. There's nothing but meat free dishes in it.

Ultimate Veg: Easy and Delicious Meals For Everyone (Flatiron Books 2020) is the must have recipe book for those home chefs cooking in a vegan and vegetarian household. The book is written in Oliver's in your face style and it's refreshing to see the first pages begin with recipes. There are help pages and guides but they're at the end of the book, not at the beginning. Chef Oliver gives good hints and tips as well as urging to grow our own veggies. Vegetables lose their nutritional values as soon as they're picked. Having a garden, whether it 's a plot of land, bucket, pot or even a grow bag.He also delves into what is a portion along with how much should we eat.(about five portions of fruit and veg per day according to UK standards.) he also urges to eat the rainbow which is reflected in all his recipes. He explains why  as in eating purple veg and fruit is good for maintaining healthy blood pressure and muscle function. why, purple produce  is full of  life saving potassium. There's also a section on fats and Chef Oliver explains the differences between the various oils. He also recommends using organic butter and staying away from margarine because it is hydrogenated.

The recipes are divided such sections as soup and sandwiches, salads,,pasta, and the very fun Friday night nibbles to name a few. I love this book and plan on using it a lot. What is great is that that there will be leftovers which can be served the next day or later on in the week. There are so many recipes I want to try.I especially love the curries and stews section because it has such mouth watering dishes , perfect for the cold days - and nights ahead. The super comforting gumbo is on my radar. This is melange of chickpeas , and plum tomatoes cooked with celery , peppers and cayenne pepper. Another must cook  is his mushroom stroganoff, spiked with whiskey and made creamy with the addition of sour cream or creme fraiche. I do like the Friday night nibbles which can easily also make for a weekend supper. His polenta chips look heavenly , These can easily be made with leftover pulse too. it's roasting polenta pieces for fifty minutes in a 350 degree F oven. There's also a tasty tortilla dip that has cherry tomatoes and red chili mixed with cream cheese. The ploughman's nachos are another must make.It's sliced bread like sourdough, slathered with a mix of butter and HP sauce baked with sharp cheddar on top  and topped with pickled onions. Yum!!! There's also simple pickle recipes I want to try too. Every recipe from the pastas to pies parcels and bakes , along with soups, sandwiches and salads will be created in my kitchen.

Vegetarian home chefs must get Ultimate Veg :Easy And Delicious Meals For Everyone. There are dozens of delicious and fun recipes to make and try. There's no need to have faux beef every night once you have this book.

Quirky For Your Kitchen

Ever wish you had more help in your kitchen? If the answer is yes, then check into Quirky Inventions. This is a site where you can find some cool and helpful gadgets and inventions to help make cooking and eating easier. The best part, all the stuff is invented by everyday people like the guy next door or the mom charge of the class bake sale.

Quirky is basically a site for inventors. Started by Ben Kaufman in 2009, the site gives inventors a chance to showcase their ideas for only ten dollars an idea (the second is free thanks to a coupon). Other Quirky members (it's free to join) vote on these and also give their input on products through the various processes from color choice to price range. If you have an  unique idea, especially for cooking then submit it along with a drawing(or not but it helps) to Quirky.if it gets picked it will not only be sold on the site but also to big stores like Target, Bed, Bath and Beyond and even Williams and Somona.

What I like is wide range of finished products. They have cool kitchen gadgets like The Stem, This is a spritzer that is inserted directly into a lemon or lime and the juice is then misted out. I love this and have used this in making salads. Another fun product is The Slice, an ergonomically designed pizza cutter that creates clean slices without all the mess and cheese strings. Quirky even offers the neat and  new  Portion, a hybrid of a regular spoon and measuring spoons set that can help with cooking and baking. There are some cool barbecue implements as well that will make any BBQ chef not only hip but also good at cooking and serving those kabobs and steaks.

Go wild with the Quirky Kitchen gadgets. They are not only interesting but fun to use. If you don;t see what you want, then invent it. You never know.It may be the next million dollar idea that foodies will gobble up.