Cookbooks

This week's topic for The Book Chat is Cookbooks!

I love buying cookbooks. We cook a lot at home and I'm always looking out for new vegan recipes. I'll go through phases where all I want to do is cook healthy, vegan food so having cookbooks in my kitchen is a necessity. We used to have a lot more before I was vegetarian, but have since cleared out our collection to better suit my diet. I go back and forth from vegan to vegetarian (unfortunately, I really like cheese and ice cream despite my allergy to dairy), so we have cookbooks for both.

I want to share three of my favourites with you: two of them are staples in our kitchen, whereas the third is really fun (and beautifully illustrated).

I love the vegan cookbook series by Sarah Kramer (a couple titles are co-authored with Tanya Barnard). I received La Dolce Vegan! as a gift when I first turned to a vegetarian diet and I haven't looked back since.  I purchased How it all Vegan! on a whim and I have every intention of buying the rest of her cookbooks. I have never been disappointed by the recipes I've tried. Some of them, like the sweet potato and black bean burritos, the breakfast tofu scramble, the kale and peanut butter pasta, and the chickpea salad have become go-to meals in our kitchen.

They Draw & Cook is a gorgeous book. Every two-page spread is a new recipe, illustrated in a distinctive style. I could look through this book and take in all of the details for hours. To be honest, I've never attempted any of the recipes (although some of them sound delicious). The cookbook is a compilation of the illustrations posted online, so you can visit theydrawandcook.com to see how awesome these recipes really are (like the one below for Monster's Favourite Pumpkin Soup).