The Vegan Stoner Cookbook: 100 Easy Vegan Recipes to Munch

The Vegan Stoner Cookbook #1

by Sarah Conrique, Graham I. Haynes

A collection of vegan recipes so simple to make that even a stoner could prepare them, this highly illustrated cookbook from the creators of The Vegan Stoner food blog proves that going vegan can be fun, cheap, and easy.

The Vegan Stoners, Sarah Conrique and Graham Haynes, write, cook, and illustrate in a world filled with eccentric--and slightly uncouth--vegetable characters. Now they invite home cooks into this universe of indie veganism, presenting foolproof recipes that will be a hit with every slacker, penny-pincher, and hipster on the block. With easy recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and munchies, this is a gateway cookbook for anyone who wants to eat fewer animal products and more veggies.

Genres: Cookbooks, Food, Vegan, Cooking, Nonfiction

128 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2013

Reviews

[Amber · Rating 5 out of 5]

This cookbook uses charming drawings to illustrate easy vegan recipes. Some of the recipes are reprinted from the website that preceded this book. The website recipes I have tried out at home were all yummy and simple to prepare. In addition to lots of previously unpublished recipes that rely on inexpensive, easy-to-find ingredients, this book includes a great reference section with vegan substitutions, recipes for homemade pantry staples like sauces and spice mixes, instructions for cooking techniques ranging from basic stove-top cooking to samosa shaping, and grain and legume cooking charts. Even without the cheap, easy, tasty recipes, I would probably buy this book just for its illustrations which decorate nearly every page with funny details that make me feel like I'm reading a grown-up version of Marzollo & Wick's I Spy. Every recipe is also accompanied by a photo, so you can see what this dish will actually look like.

[Katey · Rating 4 out of 5]

If this little gem didn't exist, it would be necessary to write it. Probably not me, since it would most likely only involve different shit you can mix into Trader Joe's vanilla Soy Creamy.

I love that the recipe ingredients are PICTURES (but the best one is the cover illustration of the baked tomato holding a blunt), and most recipes only have, on average, 6 ingredients and steps. Though there are some that I cannot fathom ever being high enough that would appeal to me (Banana Dogs) or anything that I would want to actually prepare or munch on while stoned (Shredded Papaya salad), nor would I have my shit together to roll sushi. And while I'm happy that there are some fairly healthy recipes included, I'm not the type of stoner that's going to choose them over, say, the Pancookie.

Pretty sure the reference section is for those who are too high to remember. Hence, "How to Cook on a Stovetop."

And thanks to my local library system for having this in circulation.

[Teddy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good beginner vegan cookbook and great for even skill cooks who want fast to prepare recipes.

Most of the recipes are easy, such as the Orange French Toast but I wouldn’t say that all the recipes are as easy as the description leads the reader to believe. For instance, the sushi recipe. It says to simply “roll it like a sleeping mat.” Um, if you have ever tried making sushi, you know it is difficult to roll. I have made it many times with varying rolling outcomes. It’s rarely perfect, actually never for me and I’m not a stoner. I am also considered a really good cook, if you ask my friends, family , and husband, Bill. My dog, DJ thinks so too but he also likes really disgusting things, so he doesn’t count. LOL!

I made the Peachy Crepes for desert, rather than breakfast, however used extra soy

milk and some maple syrup instead of the peach syrup from a can. I don’t eat canned peaches, I think they are disgusting. The batter would have been perfect for pancakes but came out way too thick for crepes. I just added a lot more soy milk to the batter for the right consistency. (Something that first time crepe makers may not know to do). They turned out great! I stuffed them with fresh blue berries, fresh peaches, and homemade vegan coconut whip cream. (The whip cream recipe is not in the book.)


I made the Bahnwich for an easy dinner one night and Bill and I really enjoyed it. I have a different recipe for it however, we enjoyed this one even more.

I LOVE peanut butter and chocolate, so I had to try the peanut butter squares. That was the easiest recipe I tried, it only has three ingredients, peanut butter, chocolate, and powdered sugar. They were as rich as you would expect, so I cut them into about 1″x1″ squares. We still have some in the freezer.

I recommend the Vegan Stoner Cookbook.

[Robin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Made some great recipes from the blog then bought the book. I love this book because it's exactly how I'd cook if I weren't married to someone who can Really Cook. It's perfect for those of us who need to keep things simple. It's not for someone who's adept at cooking from scratch & wants 100% whole foods (they do use TVP, soy cheeze, seitan etc.) It IS for someone without a lot of patience or time in the kitchen. The ingredient illustrations make me happy & there are photos of every recipe so it's hard to mess things up. I can see how the title might be off-putting to some, but with at most 6 steps per recipe it really seems meant to appeal to beginner or (in my case!) somewhat challenged cooks. I think it's the perfect gift for someone new to eating/cooking vegan. Get this book & make some simple-healthyish-yummy vegan food!

[Rambling Reader · Rating 4 out of 5]

informative and quirky. the authors are from Portland, enough said.

[Jill · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 Stars!!

Wonderful cookbook filled with easy recipes that I actually want to cook and eat.

Bonus that there are photos on every page. Also has lots of fun little illustrations.

This book is definitely a keeper.

[maya🪷 · Rating 5 out of 5]

the art is so cute and the recipes are incredibly simple never going past six steps!! i shall try to make something from this book while st*ned and report back🫡🫡

[Stef · Rating 4 out of 5]

EDIT 4/21/2019: I came to like this cookbook more over time. Over time I've slowly come across the ingredients used in this book, so I've been able to try them out or make do with substitutes. They ARE easy, and they're tasty. I appreciate that each recipe has some bulletpoint suggestions on how to tweak the recipe further. Yep, I dig it.

ORIGINAL REVIEW: I'm not a vegan (picked this up mostly out of curiosity and because I love food books), so I didn't make any of the recipes in the book (yet?) -- I don't currently have the vegan ingredients (e.g., nutritional yeast). I surprisingly didn't have any of the more commonplace recipes either, so I guess that's not much of an excuse. With other recipe books, I pick out a few things I want to make and then go to the store to get any special ingredients, but I'm much less likely to do that with this one, just by the nature of the book -- it seems like I should already have the ingredients on hand because the recipes are easy enough for stoners to make (although some seem really ambitious to undertake while high, and by that I mean anything that involves using the oven or stove). You don't have to be stoned to try these recipes though; in fact, there's nothing really "stoner-y" about this book aside from the super cute illustrated tomato holding a joint and, perhaps, referring to mushrooms as "'shrooms." I guess my biggest problem with the book is, unfairly, that because I'm not a vegan, I don't have the ingredients to test anything out, and I'm obviously lazy. (If they would just arrive magically to my kitchen, that would be another star for this book.) But the illustrations are cute as hell, and using drawn pictures of the ingredients (that I don't have!) instead of just listing of them was creative.

[Morgan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Things I've made and loved:
Orange French Toast
Yam Scramble (subbed eggplant as listed in Tips)
TVP Salad
Chickpea Curry (I use a whole can of chickpeans)
Lentil Loaf
Peanut Stew (really good with sweet potato instead of regular)
Baked Banana Cake

There are doubles from the website in the cookbook but I actually like that because everything I've tried from the website has been absolutely delicious.

[Max · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a little weird.. lol.. great drawings and easy recipes, though. I did not realise there was a group of vegan stoners who need a book like this. :-) It's nice the recipes are so easy and use common ingredients. I do not smoke weed, lol, but I can imagine if you do and you need a quick healthy snack, this book could be helpful.

[B. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Looks like it may be fun to try some of these recipes...it says the recipes are easy, but some seem pretty complicated. I will pick a few of the really easy ones, like the banana dog, and give them a try. I’m not a vegan and won’t ever be one because it’s a massive pain in the ass, but I am trying to eat a more plant centric diet...so will be stealing recipes for when I want some veggie based junk food! Cool book!

[Kajah · Rating 5 out of 5]

I bought this as a novelty book in Portland because the illustrations are the perfect blend of charm and stupidity, but the recipes and techniques have become quite useful and they hear toward the simple, quick prepare side, and it’s easy to make variations to suit your needs. I don’t buy physical books as often as I used to, but this was a useful buy and keep.

[Charlie · Rating 4 out of 5]

this is a good book for people who are beginners to vegan cooking and wants a book to show them very quick and easy meals to fix when your short on time and don't really want to make everything from scratch.

[Tiffany Balagna · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this cookbook. The idea is that these recipes are so simple & accessible that you could even make them stoned. But you don't have to be! So many of these are tasty, even sober.

This was a library rental and I have since went and bought it for myself.

[Jessica Cardona · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay but nothing to crazy

Good funny book for a stoner friend
Recipes super easy but the drawings are cute
Basically it’s more a gag gift then a cook book
Good for vegan that never cook before and want to start easy recipes

[Charlie - disableddaydreamer | itsbarbieparis (looking for mutuals) · Rating 1 out of 5]

i really feel like in retrospect, reviewing my old cookbook- this really was just throwing random things together and pretending it was a recipe. if we called it samosas, and believed hard enough, they could still taste like vegetables in biscuit dough :/

[Bea · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best Vegan cookbook. Easy recipes

[Kayla · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easily my favorite cookbook.

[Victoria · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked the illustrations more than the actual recipes.

[Samantha Fox · Rating 5 out of 5]

Adorable drawings, and although some of the recipes are a little wild (looking at you banana dog), most are easy and yummy.

[Wispo Reads · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy and tasty recipes.

[Suz deMello · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic book for the adventurous vegan

The recipes look both tasty and simple. Many avoid common allergens like soy and dairy. I'm excited to explore this cuisine.

[Darren · Rating 3 out of 5]

Maybe this reviewer is not the target reader for this book. Maybe there are some cultural differences at play. Stoner has, at least to this author, a very certain meaning and whilst the book is not explicit in describing this, possibly this can explain a bit of the gap between reviewer and reviewed book.

This book sets out to provide 100 recipes that are quick and easy to make as well as being vegan-friendly. Perhaps any other influences are purely optional. A series of cartoon-type drawings are central to this book and possibly even these start to put this reviewer on the back foot. Of course, the only stimulant rushing through this writer's body is coffee and that might explain why one is a little, err, confused and uncertain exactly why these cartoon-y images are particularly necessary. It just seems rather pointless, false, meaningless and child-like (in a book that is NOT aimed at children).

The same cartoons, images and odd clip art are shoehorned throughout the book, pushed around the recipes and engender a reaction that can be best summed up as "WTF?". Just after a few pages this reviewer is losing the will to continue and is ready to fling this book to the bin in despair, yet professional detachment (or masochism) means that one cannot yet raise the white flag.

Recipes are split into fairly conventional chapters (breakfast, lunch, dinner, etc.) and a few sections are given over to things like vegan substitutions and how-tos. Each recipe is concisely written, features sole U.S. imperial measures and requires a greater degree of concentration than perhaps is intended as instead of having a clear list of ingredients, for example, you have to decipher various strange graphic representations of the various products. No doubt the authors have their reasons, but reading a list of ingredients is a lot easier than looking at somebody's drawings of the same list. The range and diversity of the recipes is reasonable, one supposes, but it really does feel like a lot of effort is being wasted along the way.

Think positive.. think positive… About the best thing is the index at the end of the book. Incredibly detailed and thankfully devoid of oh-so-(not)cute images.

Sorry, but even allowing for the fact that this reviewer might not be the target audience for this book, not being a stoner and all of that (!) one really has trouble finding any enthusiasm or positivity. There is no shortage of good vegan recipe books in the marketplace. This book just feels meaningless, over-priced and trying to be something it probably cannot be. Of course, maybe things will look differently if one is a "stoner" but even so, "too much hassle, man.." might then be the refrain. If this is your bag, check it out by all means, but remember all that glitters is not gold.

The Vegan Stoner Cookbook: 100 Easy Vegan Recipes to Munch, written by Sarah Conrique & Graham I. Haynes and published by Ten Speed Press. ISBN 9781607744641, 128 pages. Typical price: USD16.99. YYY.


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[Angie Lisle · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of these recipes seemed ludicrous to me -Granola Bowl, for example- because it's something that anyone can figure out while standing in their kitchen. But turn the page and there's a recipe for a vegan version of Hollandaise Benedict and, later on, an interesting version of Cream of 'Shroom Soup, which could be used as a base for many dishes. And there's a couple dishes, like Banana Dog - a cooked banana in a hot dog bun - that I have no interest trying. There's also a couple recipes, like Samosas, that can be easily tweaked into some amazing munchies.

Each dish comes with tips on how to make slight adjustments for use in other recipes. The book also explains how to make some of the ingredients - like tahini and almond milk - so you don't have to buy prepackaged products. These recipes are designed to be quick, for people who don't mind using some prepackaged products like crescent roll dough, pizza dough, and ketchup. Substitutions are easy to make, if you prefer to make your own orange juice or English muffins.

There's an abundance of artwork - each recipe has a real photograph accompanying it but the ingredient list is depicted as an illustration that looks like it was done for a children's picture book. I received a free digital copy of this book in exchange for a review and it was hard to make out some of the ingredients on my Nook (even when I zoomed in). I recommend using this book in print format.

[Beth · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm really just vegetarian (though I generally only cook vegan recipes) and I'm definitely not a stoner, but I wondered if I might be one at heart after a stoned friend of mine purchased three pounds of jelly beans many years ago and I totally helped him finish them off.

Maybe I'm immature, but I found the drawings ridiculously hilarious. I laughed out loud at a banana getting pantsed, for example.

As others have mentioned, the recipes are primarily made with packaged foods. At first this kind of annoyed me.. but it's for stoners, after all ;) The recipes are easy to make and made me feel like most of them would just require a trip to Trader Joe's (since TJ's loves having mostly kinda processed foods).

My only complaint is that some of the recipes were a little too simplified. I suspect that that "sushi rolls" for example might be a little too difficult for even me to make sober, let alone a stoned person.

The illustrations are amusing, and I would recommend getting this book in print. (However, ever since I got a cookbook that called for "? cup of oil," I only get them in print!)

I received a copy of this free through NetGalley.

[Iris Armirioti · Rating 3 out of 5]

Λοιπόν... "You ve got the munchies, right?" αχ ναι! Όλοι το παθαίνουμε! Και δεν θες να φας παλι ότι χειρότερο απο σκουπιδολόι (εντάξει σε ενα milkshake απο τα Mac δεν θα έλεγα όχι...), όποτε σου σκάει να ψάξεις συνταγές και βλέπεις πως στο σάιτ των UO(urban outfitters) σου δείχνουν αυτο το βιβλιαράκι σαν επιλογή. Και το αγοράζεις! Ξανά λοιπόν... Δεν ειναι κακό ειδικά για κάποιον που βάζει στον εαυτό του την ταμπέλα του χορτοφαγου (ναι οι περισσότερες συνταγές εδώ προσδιορίζονται για vegans). Χορτοφάγος δεν ειμαι, μου αρέσει το κρέας, όμως οι συνταγές τους ειναι εύκολες και γρήγορες και συνήθως στη πλειοψηφία τονίζεται η αλλαγή της γεύσης απο αλμυρή σε γλυκιά και αντίστροφα, κάτι που ζητάει ο κάθε απαιτητικός καπνιστής κάνναβης την ώρα των λιγουρων! Και εχει και τη πλάκα του σα βιβλίο-το ξεφυλλίζεις εύκολα όσο εισαι υπό την επίρροια, που στο κάτω κάτω, δεν θες να κάθεσαι και να ψάχνεις και πολλά. Και τέλος πάντων, δεν σε κουράζει στο μάτι γιατι παίζουν ωραια σχέδια και γραφικά που θυμίζουν παραμυθάκι, και καταλαβαίνεις τι και πως πρέπει να κανείς για να μαγειρέψεις κάτι καλό και απλό χωρίς να φρικάρεις για το αποτέλεσμα.

[Alex McGilvery · Rating 1 out of 5]

I looked at this cookbook hoping for a way to make vegetables more interesting and provide some variety on the occasional evenings when I am in the mood and have the ingredients for some good vegan cuisine. I was a little disconcerted to see when I looked inside the cover that the stoner part of the title is given as much weight as the vegan part.

I could got past that. I was more interested in the recipes than the illustrations. I could over look the recipe for ‘herb oil’. What I had much more trouble with is the reality that this isn’t what I would call a cookbook. The recipes don’t start with ingredients, they start with mixes. I don’t buy processed food and I don’t buy mixes. That made most of the recipes unusable to me.

For those who might find the stoner amusing or applicable, or for those who want ways to tweak the mixes they already have in the cupboard, this book may be useful.

[Cass · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a great idea! Simple pictures, simple foods, all on one page! Easy to follow recipes in no more than 6 steps. Although I typically like to make things from scratch, and shudder at the thought of "soy creamer" which is used often, the recipes are simple enough not to be daunting and to allow my own spin. Plus the illustrations are adorable and the photos are mouthwatering. I want to buy this for all my friends, if just for the few reference pages of veganaise, adobo spices and how to cook beans and grains at the back.

[Samantha · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one caught me by the name. I had to get it. I found out afterwords that there is a website with some more of their recipes. A few of the recipes in this book are quite inventive. Most of the recipes are quick and all of them are easy. Thy use a lot of frozen, boxed, or canned items to help move along the cooking process. My favorite part of all was the artwork through out the book. I loved it. It was quite entertaining. I would definitely recommend this book to any vegan, stoner or not.

[Caroline Sz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Perfect cookbook for the stoned or intimidated in the vegan kitchen. The illustrations are great and fun. Recipes are easy and delicious. The author did a great job of using illustrations to define ingredient lists. The small amount of ingredients needed for most recipes - bonus that many are staples in a vegan kitchen anyway - made this the most reached for cookbook t=when the question of what to eat was spoken.