Hearty Vegan Meals for Monster Appetites: Lip-Smacking, Belly-Filling, Home-Style Recipes Guaranteed to Keep Everyone-Even the Meat Eaters-Fantastically Full

523 Pages·2011·48.41 MB·English

by  Celine Steen

“Hearty Vegan Meals for Monster Appetites is the ultimate cookbook for
dispelling forever the myth that vegan cuisine is nothing more than
‘bird food.’ The industrial-strength recipes here will satisfy the biggest,
most demanding appetites, and do it with plenty of popping flavors and
rich textures. Highly recommended!”
—DR. WILL TUTTLE, pianist, composer, former Zen monk, co-
founder of the Prayer Circle for Animals, and award-winning author of
the acclaimed bestseller The World Peace Diet
“Move over brown rice and tofu, there’s a new cookbook in town!
Hearty Vegan Meals for Monster Appetites will make a believer out of
anyone who is skeptical about vegan food—and that includes your
stubborn uncle Rick, who still pronounces vegan ‘vay-gun.’ I guarantee
it’ll shut him up right quick.”
—LAURA BECK, www.Vegansaurus.com
“Most of us have been there. A meat eater gleefully waves a burger in
our faces, confident that we as vegans are missing out. Not so. The
tables have turned and it’s time for us to wave some ‘hearty vegan’ fare
in their faces. The difference? They’re going to like it.”
—TAMASIN NOYES, author of American Vegan Kitchen
“This is the cookbook to consult when you absolutely must impress the
guests at your table—be they dedicated herbivores or doubtful
omnivores. Nobody can discriminate against delicious!”
—MICHELLE SCHWEGMANN, co-owner of The Herbivore Clothing
Company, www.herbivoreclothing.com
“Celine and Joni prove, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that vegan eats
are not only delicious, they are hearty! Be warned, this cookbook is not
for the weak of appetite!”
—CAROLYN SCOTT-HAMILTON, www.healthyvoyager.com
“I challenge you to look through Hearty Vegan Meals for Monster
Appetites without marking at least ten recipes to make this week. In
typical Celine and Joni fashion, the photos reel you in, the recipe titles
glue you to the pages, the ingredients are within pantry’s reach, and
there is no doubt that once you finally set the book down, your belly
will be fully satisfied.”
—ALISA FLEMING, founder of GoDairyFree.org and author of Go
Dairy Free: The Guide and Cookbook
“Celine and Joni have done it again—anyone who enjoys good food will
appreciate this cookbook!”
—HANNAH KAMINSKY, author of My Sweet Vegan
“Hearty Vegan Meals for Monster Appetites is an adventurous
exploration of food. As easy as it may be to overlook the exploitation
and waste of animal-based meals, Joni and Celine make it even easier
to empower your food choices—allowing you to indulge and eat with
compassion, respect, and responsibility for your health, for the
environment, and for all living things.”
—KURT HALSEY, vegan artist, www.KurtHalsey.com
“Celine and Joni dish up some of the best down-home, mouthwatering,
over-the-top comfort food you’ve ever had! The recipes will have you
screaming for more!”
—JULIE HASSON, author of Vegan Diner
“Need some honest-to-goodness comfort food? This book has your fix!
Loosen your belts, it’s time to dig in!”
—DREENA BURTON, author of The Everyday Vegan, Vive le Vegan!
and Eat, Drink & Be Vegan
HEARTY
VEGAN
MEALS FOR
MONSTER
APPETITES
LIP-SMACKING, BELLY-FILLING, HOME-STYLE
RECIPES
GUARANTEED TO KEEP EVERYONE—EVEN THE
MEAT
EATERS—FANTASTICALLY FULL
CELINE STEEN AND JONI MARIE NEWMAN
AUTHORS OF 500 VEGAN RECIPES AND THE COMPLETE
GUIDE
TO VEGAN FOOD SUBSTITUTIONS
This book is dedicated to our mothers, for being the most rocking role models we’ll ever know
and for putting so much heart into the “heart”-y foods we grew up on.

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Make Room for Fantastically Full
CHAPTER 1
Your Complete Prep Guide to Wicked Good Meals
CHAPTER 2
Down-Home Breakfasts
CHAPTER 3
Mean and Mouthwatering Mains
CHAPTER 4
Over-the-Top, Totally Tantalizing Sides
CHAPTER 5
The Bottomless Bread Basket
CHAPTER 6
Condiments, Sauces, and Other Staples
CHAPTER 7
Ooey, Gooey, and Downright Sinful Sweets
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Index

INTRODUCTION
Make Room For Fantastically Full
We believe that the most convincing argument for going vegan is the food.
If you can serve up a delicious, hearty, filling meal to a die-hard meat eater
only to hear, “Man, that was so good! I’m so full, I couldn’t eat another
bite,” then you know just what we mean.
People go vegan for a multitude of reasons, and this book wasn’t written to
wax philosophical. Rather, it was written so that you can create magnificent
vegan meals that will have your dinner guests wondering why they ever
“needed” meat in the first place.
Eating vegan doesn’t mean sacrificing flavor. Quite the opposite:
Eliminating the flavors that come along with animal products means using
the natural flavors in fruits, vegetables, grains, spices, herbs, and more to
create enticing and familiar flavors.
We must admit that when we each decided to go vegan, our first thoughts
were, “Boring food, here we come—at least the animals will be safe and
we’ll be healthier,” followed immediately by, “How will we ever survive
without cakes and other sweet treats?”
But the good news is that we’ve never had as much fun eating as we do
now—and our family members agree! In fact, we’re happy to report that
our significant others and even some family members have either switched
from consuming an omnivorous diet to eating solely vegan foods when at
home, or have at least made great steps toward including more vegan foods
in their diet, which, to us, is as great an endorsement as any!
We think you can convince your family to do the same, which is why we’ve
written this book. Inside you’ll find a vast collection of our “secret” recipes,
the ones we keep in our back pockets when we know a nonvegan is coming
over (or living among us) and needs to be wow-ed with straight-up great
food. All said and done, this is a book full of hearty, flavorful recipes
written by a couple of gals who find feeding friends and loved ones to be
one of the best (and tastiest) pleasures in the world.
To anyone who’s ever thought, “a meal without meat is a terrible thing to