Whether you're a vegetarian, a raw vegan, avoiding dairy, a meat-lover just looking for something new and delicious or you want to lose weight and cleanse, Emily von Euw, author of the bestselling Rawsome Vegan Baking and newly released100 Best Juices, Smoothies and Healthy Snacks, has creative recipes for savory, mouthwatering main dishes and meals.
Emily's balance of raw and lightly-cooked savory recipes range from Veggie Wraps with Miso Mustard Gravy to Raw Pizza with Spinach Pesto and Yam Burgers with Daikon Fries and Ketchup. They deliver the comfort and complexity sometimes missed in vegan diets-and they're eye-catching to boot. Readers will be left feeling stuffed and satisfied. Emily's popular blog, This Rawsome Vegan Life, won the Vegan Woman's Vegan Food Blog Award and was named one of the Top 50 Raw Food Blogs. Her tempting vegan eats paired with her spectacular photography mesmerizes a strong following.
Emily von Euw (pronouns: they/them/their) is the creator of the award-winning recipe blog This Rawsome Vegan Life (thisrawsomeveganlife.com), and author of multiple cookbooks, including the bestselling Rawsome Vegan Baking. Em’s passion in life comes from friendships, food, wilderness, mindfulness, art, and lots of dark chocolate. They have presented at veg expos and festivals across Canada and the US, and their work has been featured in publications around the world. Em lives with their wonderful girlfriend on Vancouver Island, Canada, on land belonging to the Snuneymuxw First Nation.
A great mostly raw vegan cookbook with a section for some healthy cooked whole food vegan meals as well. As a gluten free vegan, I can make almost anything in this book. I like that a lot of the recipes don't take too much time and have a lot of common ingredients. As someone who is vegan and trying to eat healthier, this cookbook is ideal and has some great meals.
First, let me say I have Emily's other two cookbooks & I think they are great. Her dessert cookbook is my favorite of the two. I use it weekly. This one however fell a little short for me. I have been counting down the days till it came out & I bought it the day it did. The pictures are great & almost all the recipes look yummy enough but they are just a little basic. This book would be great for a beginner cook. Most recipes don't have many ingredients, which is good & bad. Good because it makes them simple, bad because most of these I could have thought up myself. One recipe for example is just carrots, kale, water, miso, pasta & garlic. Another is just sweet potatoes, tahini, lemon juice, & pepper. I guess I just don't think of these as "recipes". Or at least "recipes" I wanna pay for. A lot of the recipes are just a few "main" ingredients & then a dressing. There are a few things that I am really excited to try though. Like the pizza. That looks amazing. And a lot of the bowls look promising. I will probably use a lot of these recipes as inspiration or a starting off point.
First let me start by saying that I am a huge fan of the author. Emily von Euw is responsible for my green smoothie habit. Her Rawsome Vegan Baking: An Un-cookbook for Raw, Gluten-Free, Vegan, Beautiful and Sinfully Sweet Cookies, Cakes, Bars & Cupcakes is everything I want in a cookbook. Not only do the recipes look great but even more importantly, they inspire me to create me own recipes following her ideas and hints. That said, this particular cookbook was a little tiny bit of a letdown. Mostly because the desserts were so terrific in the first book. It would have been hard to live up to that benchmark. Whereas I would recommend her first cookbook to everyone, regardless of their eating habits, this one is perhaps best for those specifically looking for vegan recipes.
Not sure how much I'll use this cookbook. Many of the recipes call for ingredients not readily available to me or which are unfavourable in my household. But I really like how Emily von Euw writes and photographs her recipes and I'm pleased to have supported her work!
I received The Rawsome Vegan Cookbook as a birthday gift. We have enjoyed the recipes we have tried and I think this one will become one of my staple cookbooks.