The Best Vegetable Recipes

by Cook's Illustrated, John Burgoyne (Illustrator)

Say goodbye to soupy mashed potatoes, greasy eggplant, and bland asparagus and say hello to perfect vegetables every time. Every recipe, technique, and kitchen staples needed to prepare over 350 different vegetable recipes are included in this Best Recipe Classic volume.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Reference

342 pages, Paperback

First published March 22, 2007

Reviews

[Whitney · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book's recipes are 95% vegetarian, as long as you read "vegetable broth" whenever they say "chicken broth." The only meat product making more than a cameo appearance is bacon. There are some excellent recipes scattered here and there, but it is mildly distressing that over and over again their "best recipe" consists of: braise it in heavy cream. They try to write it in many different ways, but that's what it often comes back to.

[Maleah Gustafson · Rating 4 out of 5]

obviously i haven't cooked my way through it, but when i picked it up from the library recently, i decided it was a keeper. It has a lot of easy & practical tips throughout as well as 'best' basic recipes for over 40 veggies. (the cover says 53 but some of them are lumped together, like "summer squash" and "greens" in the same chapter.

I like photos in my cookbooks & wish there were more. Also, the chapter on potatos is much longer than the rest (more uses so i guess it made sense). I wish there were a few more veggies included and a few other options (like the fact that they cover glazed carrots 3 ways but didn't discuss their findings on cooking them any other way).

A good resource with lots of info on how they arrived at 'their best' versions so you can adjust as needed. Basic as well as creative recipes that even my non-veggie-loving husband would like.