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Bake, Make, and Learn to Cook
Bake, Make, and Learn to Cook Vegetarian: Healthy and Green Recipes for Young Cooks
The 2019 winner of The Great British Baking Show goes green with a collection of must-try vegetarian recipes, following up his debut book Bake, Make, and Learn to Cook.
Grab an apron! With more than forty vegetarian and plant-based recipes for scrumptious meals, savory snacks, tasty treats, and showstopper desserts, David Atherton’s second course is a feast for readers who care about the food on their plate. Will it be spicy cauliflower bites or mini pizza swirls for your snack on the go? Pasta and homemade pesto or made-from-scratch veggie burgers tonight? How about melt-in-your mouth chocolate cookies with a secret avocado ingredient (shhh)? Featuring easy-to-follow, boldly illustrated, step-by-step instructions, with notes on stocking a pantry, commonly used cookware, and eating locally and seasonally, this buffet of deliciously healthy recipes is perfect for budding chefs everywhere.
Grab an apron! With more than forty vegetarian and plant-based recipes for scrumptious meals, savory snacks, tasty treats, and showstopper desserts, David Atherton’s second course is a feast for readers who care about the food on their plate. Will it be spicy cauliflower bites or mini pizza swirls for your snack on the go? Pasta and homemade pesto or made-from-scratch veggie burgers tonight? How about melt-in-your mouth chocolate cookies with a secret avocado ingredient (shhh)? Featuring easy-to-follow, boldly illustrated, step-by-step instructions, with notes on stocking a pantry, commonly used cookware, and eating locally and seasonally, this buffet of deliciously healthy recipes is perfect for budding chefs everywhere.
80 pages, Hardcover
Published November 8, 2022
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David Atherton
17 books7 followersDavid Atherton is the 2019 winner of The Great British Baking Show. Formerly an international health adviser, David Atherton now writes a food column for the Guardian, where he shares some of his fun and healthy recipes. Bake, Make, and Learn to Cook is his debut book, focused on tasty recipes that will inspire a love of cooking and baking in little ones and their caretakers. He lives in London.
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November 4, 2022
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It's not important to know who celebrity cook Atherton is to enjoy this vegetarian tome for beginner cooks. Like the earlier Bake, Make and Learn to Cook (2021) (which had fantastic illustrations by Rachel Stubbs), this offers a variety of meals and snacks from a "green" perspective. It would be helpful to the planet if people ate less meat, and these recipes provide an easy and delicious way for children to convince their families to do just that.
I always like to see cookbooks with more practical meals than baking, and this starts out with some standards, along with a few unusual dishes. Tomato sauce, veggie burgers, and stir fry noodles are standards, but Eye Love Bread (bread with a sunny side up style egg baked on top of it) and corn and potato cakes will be new to most readers, and I maye try the green spinach crepes myself, spread with homemade hummus.
There are also savory snacks, including a guacamole made with green peans, cheesy rabbit crackers with chia seeds, and bread crowns that reminded me of some of the elaborate projects in Harry Potter: The Official Harry Potter Baking Book by Joanna Farrow. Baked goods, such as a strawberry jam tart, sticky flapjack, and apple rock cakes, seem delightfully British, but the inclusion of "freezy grapes" seems a bit forced. I am sceptical that they taste like sorbet! For the truly motivated, there are "Showstoppers" including spring butterfly cupcakes. This has very good instructions for waht I learned a few years ago are "fairy cakes"-- you basically lop off the peak top of a cupcake, cut it in half, and stick it on top of the frosting so it looks like butterfly wings. Sort of. Finding out that this is what a fairy cake was one of the big disillusions of my adult life.
All in all, the recipes are clear and easy to follow. The beginning of the book has standard safety precautions and information about tools and ingredients. Bowsher's illustrations are fun; different from Stubbs and as particulary 2020ish as those, but in a different color scheme and with heavier, inked lines. For children who loved Washburn's 20 Recipes Kids Should Know, Gerasole's The Spattulata Cookbook, or Gold's Kids Cook 1-2-3, this would make a great gift, along with some oven mitts and a package of chia seeds!
It's not important to know who celebrity cook Atherton is to enjoy this vegetarian tome for beginner cooks. Like the earlier Bake, Make and Learn to Cook (2021) (which had fantastic illustrations by Rachel Stubbs), this offers a variety of meals and snacks from a "green" perspective. It would be helpful to the planet if people ate less meat, and these recipes provide an easy and delicious way for children to convince their families to do just that.
I always like to see cookbooks with more practical meals than baking, and this starts out with some standards, along with a few unusual dishes. Tomato sauce, veggie burgers, and stir fry noodles are standards, but Eye Love Bread (bread with a sunny side up style egg baked on top of it) and corn and potato cakes will be new to most readers, and I maye try the green spinach crepes myself, spread with homemade hummus.
There are also savory snacks, including a guacamole made with green peans, cheesy rabbit crackers with chia seeds, and bread crowns that reminded me of some of the elaborate projects in Harry Potter: The Official Harry Potter Baking Book by Joanna Farrow. Baked goods, such as a strawberry jam tart, sticky flapjack, and apple rock cakes, seem delightfully British, but the inclusion of "freezy grapes" seems a bit forced. I am sceptical that they taste like sorbet! For the truly motivated, there are "Showstoppers" including spring butterfly cupcakes. This has very good instructions for waht I learned a few years ago are "fairy cakes"-- you basically lop off the peak top of a cupcake, cut it in half, and stick it on top of the frosting so it looks like butterfly wings. Sort of. Finding out that this is what a fairy cake was one of the big disillusions of my adult life.
All in all, the recipes are clear and easy to follow. The beginning of the book has standard safety precautions and information about tools and ingredients. Bowsher's illustrations are fun; different from Stubbs and as particulary 2020ish as those, but in a different color scheme and with heavier, inked lines. For children who loved Washburn's 20 Recipes Kids Should Know, Gerasole's The Spattulata Cookbook, or Gold's Kids Cook 1-2-3, this would make a great gift, along with some oven mitts and a package of chia seeds!
February 21, 2023
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Kids in the Kitchen Vegetarian Style!
This vegetarian cookbook is designed for kids to use. It has simple instructions with illustrated steps for each dish.
Inside, the author has unique items such as Eye Love Bread which really looks like a giant eye, Pea-camole that is reminiscent of guacamole, but without avocados, and cheesy crackers in the shape of rabbits.
Inside, you will find recipes for things that might be expected such as salads, spaghetti and even veggie burgers. But other things have familiar names but unexpected ingredients.
For instance, there is a smoothie made with cauliflower, scones made with strawberries and beets, along with cupcakes that include peas.
The author attests that all these things are delicious, and to give them a try. He is really concerned that children eat healthy, so he has worked to make things that will appeal to a child’s palate.
Mr. Atherton does eat milk, cheese, and eggs, so those things are a part of his recipes.
The illustrated directions make it easy to put these dishes together—everything written is geared to a child's level. All the recipe pages are bright and big which will encourage them to be made. The author has made it fun to cook. Kids in grades seven to ten will enjoy this five-star book.
Thank you, Candlewick Press, for providing Tickmenot with a book to review. Opinions are my own.
Kids in the Kitchen Vegetarian Style!
This vegetarian cookbook is designed for kids to use. It has simple instructions with illustrated steps for each dish.
Inside, the author has unique items such as Eye Love Bread which really looks like a giant eye, Pea-camole that is reminiscent of guacamole, but without avocados, and cheesy crackers in the shape of rabbits.
Inside, you will find recipes for things that might be expected such as salads, spaghetti and even veggie burgers. But other things have familiar names but unexpected ingredients.
For instance, there is a smoothie made with cauliflower, scones made with strawberries and beets, along with cupcakes that include peas.
The author attests that all these things are delicious, and to give them a try. He is really concerned that children eat healthy, so he has worked to make things that will appeal to a child’s palate.
Mr. Atherton does eat milk, cheese, and eggs, so those things are a part of his recipes.
The illustrated directions make it easy to put these dishes together—everything written is geared to a child's level. All the recipe pages are bright and big which will encourage them to be made. The author has made it fun to cook. Kids in grades seven to ten will enjoy this five-star book.
Thank you, Candlewick Press, for providing Tickmenot with a book to review. Opinions are my own.
December 6, 2022
This children's cookbook is perfect for any young chefs who want to learn the basics of cooking and get inspired in the kitchen. It's so cool that this is written by one of the winners of the Great British Baking Show! This book includes recipes for meals, snacks, and desserts.
These recipes are kid-friendly and give instructions to the young readers about when to ask an adult for help. There are recipes for flapjacks, bean dip, spinach crepes, potato cakes, carrot soup, and a lot of yummy desserts. I really want to try the recipe for the Spring Butterfly Cupcakes with tiny butterfly wings on top.
Each recipe has cute illustrations that show the step-by-step process for creating delicious food. I love the adorable art style. The colors are warm and attractive!
Although the author is British, the edition that I have has all the American-style measurements in cups and teaspoons, instead of the European-style metric system. There may be different editions for the UK and USA.
This would be the perfect gift for a young cook who wants to learn how to cook delicious meals and special treats!
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a free and honest review. All the opinions stated here are my own true thoughts, and are not influenced by anyone.
These recipes are kid-friendly and give instructions to the young readers about when to ask an adult for help. There are recipes for flapjacks, bean dip, spinach crepes, potato cakes, carrot soup, and a lot of yummy desserts. I really want to try the recipe for the Spring Butterfly Cupcakes with tiny butterfly wings on top.
Each recipe has cute illustrations that show the step-by-step process for creating delicious food. I love the adorable art style. The colors are warm and attractive!
Although the author is British, the edition that I have has all the American-style measurements in cups and teaspoons, instead of the European-style metric system. There may be different editions for the UK and USA.
This would be the perfect gift for a young cook who wants to learn how to cook delicious meals and special treats!
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a free and honest review. All the opinions stated here are my own true thoughts, and are not influenced by anyone.
November 14, 2022
I started my own journey into vegetarianism when I was in highschool. I just decided I did not like to eat meat and I stopped. THis was very early on in the realm of vegetarian cookbook options and certainly in dining options. I do love how we now find vegetarian options on every menu and the stigma of not eating meat is fading (ahhh I remember being in Italy in 1982 and learning the phrase “non mangio carne” much to their horror!). This book is a wonderful way to teach young people how to eat healthy without meat as part of the diet. There are tons of fun recipes from savory to sweet from all over the world and the accompanying pictures increase the accessibility of the directions. These recipes are easy to make and they taste delicious. I made the Veggie Korma Bowls for my family and we gobbled them up and I am definitely going to try and make the amazing “show stopping” sandcastle cake. How fun is that for a beach themed birthday? I can see adding an apron and sets of measuring cups and spoons and voila, the perfect gift is created.
December 30, 2022
Love this book! I'm not a vegetarian, but do eat a wide variety of veggie dishes! I do, however, have children I cook with who Are vegetarians! We are going to have such a fun time this summer cooking the recipes with the veggies from my garden! I love the variety of dishes in this book and am pretty sure even my youngest child (age 6) will be able to participate. it would have been nice to have had some photos of finished dishes, I love seeing the photos, but doubt kids will care over much of their omission. Rachel Stubbs has contributed lovely little illustrations throughout the book! Kids are going to enjoy cooking these dishes.
I won a copy of this book from the publisher, but this opinion is my own unbiased opinion.
I won a copy of this book from the publisher, but this opinion is my own unbiased opinion.
December 28, 2022
This book isn't just for kids, and isn't just for vegetarians...it is packed with easy and fun recipes that are illustrated and simple to follow to create some yummy dishes most kids will love! The chocolate cookies made from avocados was my fav!
August 7, 2023
A really original idea for a cook book for young chefs. Still would have liked photos tho.
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