Any recommendations? I’ve drawn a lady at work in secret Santa that has an obsession with cookbooks and is also vegetarian.

Anna Jones. We have one called ‘a new way to cook’ (I think) that we use all the time and we’re not actually vegetarian. Good, quick recipes that aren’t crazy complicated.

Loads…. in the Indy
Plenty – Yotam Ottolenghi
Indian Vegetarian Feast – Anjum Anand
Antonio Carluccio’s Vegetables

Thug Kitchen – Vegan but very nice recipes.

You do have to absolutely love swearing (which is a cookbook is unusual) otherwise look elsewhere…

Second for Thug Kitchen! is great!

Hare Krishna Book of Vegetarian Cooking is also great!

Go on. You know you want to…

Plenty is pretty good as is Prashad by Kaushy Patel, but if she has a thing for vegetarian cookbooks there is a fair chance that she has a lot already.

Didn’t take long for the first bacon related reply though 🙄

Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World – nice recipes, though it is American so may need translating

Ms Cupcake – looks interesting, maybe more English recipes

Sea Shepherd one is good

Plenty is excellent, I think he’s done another Plenty 2. Note his other cookbooks are non-veggie (also excellent)

Let me think 2 of my kids are veggie and they have another good cookbook they love. Also many italian options.

+1 for Prashad. Great indian vegetarian cookbook

Leon fast vegetarian is very good

+ 1 for Anna Jones – either one, ‘a Modern way to cook’ ‘a modern way to eat’
+ 3 for Thug Kitchen – get the latest ‘Thug Kitchen 101’ it’s properly funny too which is a winner in my book
+1 for Leon’s Fast Vegetarian

Was too going to recommend Plenty. Also Veganomicon.

Not tried it yet but Madhur Jaffrey’s ‘Curry Easy Vegetarian’ gets mostly v good online reviews.

My quick cheaty veg/vegan recipe: *

1 x Jar Loyd Grossman Balti sauce. (Bought cos was a quid on offer. Actually v good!)

2 x big handfuls of puy/dark grn dried lentils

Enough liquid veg stock to double-cover lentils. I use a heaped teaspoon or two of Marigold low sodium dried bouillon

1 x diced carrot

4-5 sliced mushrooms

1/4 can of coconut milk

1 packet microwave brown basmati rice

Bring to boil stock then add lentils and carrots cook on medium/low heat until mostly soaked up and lentils soft.

Add mushrooms

Add sauce

Stir well and simmer further 10 mins stirring in coconut milk to add some liquid and creaminess.

Serve with the rice after microwave has pinged.

*Sampled and scoffed tonight along with a nice white wine.

julie sahni – classic indian vegetarian cookery

my go to book.

Can I plug recommend my step-sister’s cookbook?

http://www.belindaconnolly.com/the-deliciously-conscious-cookbook/

Available on Amazon either as an e-book or a proper book. Also has gluten free options (her sister, my other step-sister, suffers from coeliac disease), and proposes vegan options or nut-free options to many of the recipes.

EDIT : An overview is available here http://www.belindaconnolly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/DCC-choose-your-recipes.pdf

*Edit – serves two 🙂

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage Veg Every Day – where most recipe books you might use one or two recipes out of in reality, we use this book most days.

Aye, Thug Kitchen

Was a pretty dedicated meat eater but this (and a pescatarian girlfriend) have changed me.

I like that they’re not trying to copy meat dishes or flavours but doing their own thing. Plus they swear a lot which is **** awesome **** bawbaggery total shit balls great cocks

Beautiful food. My girlfriend is always cooking from it. I don’t think it’s specifically veggie, but just is anyway if that makes sense.

The Thug Kitchen books are ace.

Plenty is excellent, I think he’s done another Plenty 2. Note his other cookbooks are non-veggie (also excellent)

Not a big fan of plenty – lovely looking book, make a great present, but the recipes are a bit of a faff and use too many ingredients. Although the shakshuka is nice, I will admit.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage Veg Every Day – where most recipe books you might use one or two recipes out of in reality, we use this book most days.

This is much better, and far more practical. Not as nice as a gift, though.

+1 for river cottage. Recipes are generally really simple with a handful ingredients. We use it all the time.

The Palomar book has some great vege recipes, mixed in with other things like lamb’s tongues… (which are nice as well). I tend to cook a lot more of the vege recipes than the meaty ones.