Vegan Diner: Classic Comfort Food for the Body and Soul

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Finally, a collection of recipes that provides guilt-free comfort-food indulgence for vegans everywhere. With 125 recipes and more than 30 food photos, author Julie Hasson aims to introduce plant-based diner fare both savory and sweet. This new vegan classic covers breakfast, lunch, and supper from the diner-gone-vegan!

From pancakes, waffles, and luscious muffins to scrambles, faux Benedicts, and homemade sausage, this vegan cookbook has breakfast sizzling. Traditional lunches get a healthy new lease through clubs, open-faced sandwiches, soups, and pastas. Even filling casseroles, comforting mac-and-cheese, and slow-cooked stews are deliciously reinterpreted, followed by desserts ranging from shakes to creamy cheesecakes.

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In her newest effort, Hassan (125 Best Cupcakes) offers a cookbook that will be a boon to vegan cooks who crave diner-style food like crispy banana-cinnamon waffles, beer-battered onion rings, sloppy joes, pot roast, and pineapple coconut cream pie. Desserts and baked goods rely heavily on soy or almond milk, vegan margarine, and flaxseed meal. Main "meat" dishes like smoky seitan roast (which can be sliced and used to make sandwiches) depend upon more hardcore vegan ingredients like vital wheat gluten, nutritional yeast flakes, chickpea flour, and TVP (textured vegetable protein). One of the more intriguing recipes is for Barbecued Ribz, essentially a dough that is baked in the oven, scored into strips, slathered in homemade barbecue sauce, and grilled. Hassan includes a glossary of vegan ingredients in the front, a list of online resources in the back, and lots of food photos and diner images (salt and pepper shakers, booths, barstools) throughout. This is a book for the committed and adventurous vegan cook; it's inspiring and fun. (May)

Library Journal

Hasson (125 Best Cupcake Recipes) writes that many students in her cooking classes don't want to give up their favorite foods. To counter that excuse, she here includes many favorite American dishes as vegan delicacies. She first lists vegan pantry items (such as agar powder, egg replacer, and tofu) and special equipment (blender, metal measuring cups, and whisk). While this book doesn't include nutritional information, it's a fun vegan cookbook—featuring, e.g., Mocha Muffins, Diner Donuts, Vampire Fries, Mushroom Burgers, and Ooey-Gooey Brownies. Sure to add some variety to weeknight meals.

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Kirkus Reviews

A former meat-lover puts a vegan twist on the diner experience.

A Portland-based cookbook author and online food-show producer (The Complete Book of Pies, 2008, "Everyday Dish") recalls her love of the distinctive comfort food she enjoyed as a child "squished into slippery Naugahyde booths" in neighborhood diners. Unwilling to sacrifice those indulgent diner specialties after converting to veganism, Hasson began a series of "recipe veganizations" hoping to recapture their essence without compromising food ethics. The result is 116 recipes featuring vegan substitutions like agave nectar for sugar in Cinnamon Orange Rolls and Rough Rider Barbecue Sauce, and the hearty meat-replacement seitan (processed wheat gluten) swapping out for beef in Philly Sliders and Not Your Mama's Pot Roast with Roasted Vegetables. Six sections run the gamut from bread-heavy breakfast recipes to particularly tempting main courses like nutritious burger and cutlet variations that incorporate quinoa grains, mushrooms, cashews and panko breadcrumbs. Dessert ideas include flaxseed cookies and soymilk brownie, pudding and pie variations. A minor misstep is a meatless Quick and Hearty Chili concoction that doesn't quite translate from accompanying photograph to recipe. For home chefs new to the vegan revolution, Hasson offers two explanatory indexes: "Vegan Pantry" takes the guesswork out of many key (and possibly unfamiliar) recipe ingredients, and "Special Equipment," a less-essential but still beneficial kitchen resource.

Even meat-lovers may find some tempting, healthful substitutions in this worthwhile homage to the diner-dedicated vegan.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780762437849
Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
Publication date: 3/8/2011
Edition description: First Trade Paper Edition
Pages: 192
Sales rank: 77,938
Product dimensions: 7.30 (w) x 9.20 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Julie Hasson and her husband started their web-based cooking show, Everyday Dish TV, after realizing that the market was ripe for an accessible vegan show. She is the author of five cookbooks, and has contributed to numerous magazines. She lives near Portland, Oregon

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Rachel0402

Posted April 11, 2011

WOW!

WOW! That is all I can say about this book. I have converted to a vegan life but my family (1 husband and 3 kids) still enjoy a little meat. I have to say though they have LOVED everything we have tried in this book. Julie does an awesome job of making the recipes easy to follow PLUS the recipes contain ingredients that are readily available at any grocery store. Even if you aren't vegan you will want to pick this up just for the option to make some of your favorite diner food healthy (who knew diner and healthy could be in the same sentence).

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veganKaren

Posted February 22, 2012

Very highly recommend this book -- comfort food for vegans and loads of fun

Vegan Diner is a great recipe book for delicious food, especially the comfort food that people might miss from their pre-vegan days. Delightful comments too. Share this book with your non-vegan friends and family members and they too will enjoy this book. Most of the recipes are great for pot-luck ideas as well. YUM.

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Anonymous

Posted March 31, 2012

Please Please get this

I love love this cook book it is easy to follow and I have only come across one or two ingredients that were not readily available at my local health food store. I found that the recipes come out great and taste even better than I expected. I have been a vegan for over 15 years and own many cook books and I can say that this is going to be in my top 5 list of all time great vegan cook books to date. The food is also very kid friendly so if you have a family and need some fun and great tasting recipes check this cook book out
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