Customer Rating: 
Summary: My Favorite Cookbook
Comment: I use this cookbook every week and love the recipes. I have been vegetarian since 1995 and have a large collection of vegetarian cookbooks, but this little book is my all time favorite. I use it at least twice a week. The recipes are full of flavor and attractive. Some of my favorites recipes are Vegetarian Stew with Dumplings, African Sweet Potato Stew, Texas Red Chili, Taco Salad, and Chinese Vegetables in Peanut Sauce. My husband is not a vegetarian, but he enjoys these great dishes as much as I do. The recipes use everyday ingredients and make wonderful leftovers.
Regarding the review that this cookbook only has beans and pasta - well that may be a valid opinion, but those foods are staples in the vegetarian diet, as are nuts, tofu, and eggs (for lacto-ovo vegetarians like me).
Customer Rating: Summary: Great Food, Vegetarian or Not
Comment: I am not a vegetarian but I love the recipes in this book. The muffuletta sandwich is awesome. I found the recipes very easy and tasty. They are also wonderful for entertaining.
Customer Rating: Summary: Nice little book!
Comment: I bought this book mainly because I have been a fan of the recipes in the Vegetarian Times magazine for quite some time, but wanted a collection that was more geared towards watching calories and fat without getting too complicated. So far I have not been disappointed. I have made about 10 different recipes from this book and have found all of them to be tasty, these aren't real "gourmet" recipes for the most part, but they are fairly quick and tasty.
The prep time will take you longer if you aren't very skilled at chopping, but as an avid cook that has not been an issue for me. As for the comment about the nutritional info being off by quite a lot, this cookbook makes use of things like low-fat sour cream, low-fat cheese, tortillas, whole wheat buns, etc. Depending on which brand you buy of those items there can be a big difference in the calories. The nutritional software used for generating the info most likely just uses an average. I will say that I have been using their nutritional info to plan meals for my husband and myself and in the last month we have both lost weight.
I have noticed that some of the recipes in this book, for instance the mexican lasagna, are also contained in the Vegetarian Times Complete Cookbook. I'm not sure yet just how much overlap there is.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: NOT easy
Comment: These recipes are ridiculously complicated and each one has a multitude of ingredients. FAST & EASY? For who? Martha Stewart??
I'm using this book as a doorstop.
Customer Rating: Summary: fantastic
Comment: I have used this book for a few years now and I love it. The recipes really are fairly fast and simple to follow. The nutritional information is provided for each recipe which really helps for people trying to follow certain diets like Weight Watchers. I recommend this book and have given it to others.
