Fresh from the Vegan Slow Cooker: 200 Ultra-Convenient, Super-Tasty, Completely Animal-Free Recipes

The media could not be loaded.  I have been a vegan 8 years and two three members of my family are vegan while the rest of my family eat meat. Some members of my family love spice filled dishes that are not spicy hot and others like more bland food. This is one of my favorite cookbooks. I made 51 recipes from Robin Robertson’s “Fresh from the vegan slow cooker.” Of the 51 recipes my family tried 26 are family favorites now ! And I would serve them in a restaurant to meat eaters or to guests. The other 24 recipes were EPIC FAILURES and none of the children or adults in the family would eat it. All the failures literally got flushed down the toilet BUT ONLY after I tried 5-6 different ways to fix the flavor. Sometimes I could make it edible. But most the time not. But I was willing to try many recipes to find the ones our family loves. Everything I can make in the slow cooker I can make in my pressure cooker when I am pressed for time and the pressure cooker makes Robin’s recipes taste even better.I made these 51 Recipes:1) ORANGE TOPPED Italian polenta cake – LOVED IT! Grade- A+++++!!! My husband loves this. I give this a 3 1/2 out of 5 stars. But This is a family favorite. I have made this 9 times BUT I BAKE it in the oven at 350 F degrees in a 8x8 pan for 45 minutes and I get a Fantastic cake. I made this at Christmas and Easter. (Honestly for a vegan cake it is good. I don’t think it is great BUT my entire family loves it and it disappeared in 20 minutes.2) PINA COLADA CAKE – LOVE IT! Grade A+++++ Amazing! We LOVED this! But again I BAKE it in a 8x8 for 55 minutes at 350F degrees.3) THREE SISTERS SQUASH- LOVE IT! A+++++, LOVED IT! I made this recipe three ways to test which would give the best flavor. I made it in the slow cooker, in the oven and in my pressure cooker all on the same day do I could do a side by side taste test. The POT-IN-POT pressure cooker method gave the BEST flavor. I cooked it in an 8 quart pressure cooker for 70 minutes.4) ETHIOPIAN STYLE TEMPEH and LENTIL: LOVE IT! grade A+++++ - LOVED IT! Family favorite! I have made this 12 times. But I make it in my Pressure cooker for 9 minutes on High pressure with a natural release. I also use her suggested swap of TVP instead of tempeh. We are not tempeh fans so I always substitute tvp or more lentils. I made this at a family reunion of 20 and everyone loved it and asked for the recipe!5) GREEK STYLE BEANS with tomato and spinach - LOVED IT! A++++ Family favorite! I put mine in my pressure cooker when I am in a hurry and it does make it taste significantly better. I made this at a family reunion and everyone loved it.6) AFRICAN INSPIRED PEANUT STEW – LOVE IT! A++++ Family favorite. It is ready in 5 hours on high. We LOVE this over rice. Again I put this in my pressure cooker when I am in a hurry and it tastes just as good. My family asks for this once a week.7) CORNBREAD TOPPED CHILI: LOVED IT! GRADE A+. I make this as is in my slow cooker on days I am out working for the day. But when I am home I put this in my pressure cooker. And I use My favorite cornbread by Sally’s baking addiction for my oven baked cornbread.8) CHILI MAC page 147, LOVED IT! And we gave it A++ or 5 stars.9) THE WHITE CHILI p79, LOVED IT! A+, 5 stars. I add one bottle of Hernandez salsa verde to this to adjust the flavor in order to make it delicious.10) CABBAGE and YELLOW BEET BORSCHT p61. LOVED IT! A- 4.75 stars out of 5.11) NORTH AFRICAN CHICKPEA SOUP pg 48. LOVED IT! Family favorite. A++++ I have made this 15 times now. I made it for a big family reunion and everyone wanted the recipe. It is fabulous!12) Slow and Spicy Sloppy Joes p114. Grade B or 4 out of 5 stars. The directions need to be fixed in the cookbook. I did a sloppy Joe recipe cook off test and my Crockpot Vegetarian slow cooker “All American meatless sloppy Joe recipe won hands down with all the members of our family. Also if you make this recipe don’t add the chipotle until the lentils are soft because the vinegar in the chipotle sauce kept my lentils from softening. I cooked this for 48 hours in the slow cooker and they didn’t soften. I put it in my pressure cooker for 2 hours and they finally softened. The next time I made this I did not add the chipotle until the lentils were soft.13) Apricot Tapioca pudding. My guests liked it. And said it was good. But I cook a lot and for my standards it was a FAIL. My go to recipe for tapioca in the slow cooker is from “Cooking Light: Slow cooker tonight” cookbook.14)Thai Coconut Rice Pudding with mango - My family liked it. But for me it was a Fail. I make Thai mango sticky rice with mango in my pressure cooker that puts this recipe to shame. Seriously a huge let down.15) Berry Banana Breakfast bread - grade Fail. The texture was not good. And the flavor not great.16) carrot cake - epic fail. It tastes even worse the next day! We garbage canned it.17) Fat-free applesauce cake - Epic Fail flavor wise. I have eaten a fat free vegan diet for 8 years so I had high hopes for this. NOPE!18) Applesauce Walnut cake - grade Fail. F. Will NOT make it again.19) Braised collard greens with pot licker page 201- Fail. Nobody would eat this. And we love our greens. Next time I will just omit the spice and my family will eat it up.20 Moroccan Inspired Stuffed Winter Squash - verdict: grade 3 stars out of 5. I won’t make it again.21 Moroccan Tempeh and Chickpea with prunes and apricots p160. rating: Epic FAIL. Disgusting. F. We flushed it down the toilet. We are not fan of beans with fruit.22) Tunisian Inspired Stiffed Bell Peppers - grade - Fail. F. Garbage canned it.23) Chipotle Polenta Bake pg. 135- Fail. Gross24) Three Bean Cholent pg 100. Grade C-, or 2.25 stars. Really, really, really bland. I could not figure out how to fix the flavor.25) Brunswick Bean Stew p 85. grade C . 3 out of 5 stars. I won’t make it again.26) Happy New Year Chili - verdict : Fail. I have better chili recipes and THIS cookbook has much better chili recipes. We love Lorna Sass’s “Great Vegetarian cooking under pressure” black bean chili. It is my go-to chili recipe. I make it for our church chili cook off competition and win. No money awarded just bragging rights. I also love Cooking Light Slow Cooker Tonight’s Caribbean chili and three bean vegetarian chili. All three have won at our church chili cook off.27) Chipotle Black Bean chili with winter squash- Fail. Flushed it down the toilet. ( I LOVE “Crockpot the original slow cooker vegetarian recipes” Butternut squash, chickpea and lentil stew it is a family favorite and I have made it over 20 times now.28) Crockpot Callaloo Soup - 3 stars out of 5. Grade C. Won’t make it again.29) Grandma Gennero’s Minestrone. EPIC FAIL! Grade F. This was super bland. Like nursing home bland. I tried 5 different ways to jazz this up but nothing worked to fix it.30) Summer Vegetable Soup - Grade F, Fail. 0 stars. Again the flavor was really, really bland. I couldn’t fix it he flavor.31) Lentil Vegetable Soup p 47. As is a C-. I had to adjust the flavors a lot to get it to an A-. I added 2 bay leaves, 1 tsp dried rosemarry and 1/4 tsp Tony Chaucer’s blend.32) Kale and Cannellini Bean Soup p46. grade Fail. 0 stars. Again this is super, super, super bland.33) Breakfast polenta p 283. verdict: gross! Flushed it down the toilet.34) Cuban black bean soup ~ F 0 stars. We love “Cooking Light Slow Cooker Tonight! Black bean soup.35) Holy Mole Red Bean chili p 73. Fail. F. Nope nope. My family doesn’t like chocolate with beans. This was the first time we had mole.36) Two Lentil chili, Fail. Nope. Chocolate in lentils. I tried two of her recipes on the same night that had cacao in them because I hoped one would taste good and be a backup in case one tasted bad. Both recipe 35 and 36 failed. We flushed them down the toilet.37) Pasta with Sunday Gravy. LOVE LOVE LoVED IT! Grade A. I have made 5 tomato pasta sauces to find the best non-fat vegan version. Jill Nussinow’s from Vegan under Pressure was really good. But Lindsay Nixon’s Happy Herbivore was an epic fail. As was Lorna Sass’s Great Vegetarian cooking under pressure version. And Isa Moskowiz’s Appetite for reduction’s marinara sauces failed. The two winners were this Pasta with Sunday Gravy by Robin and Jill Nussinow’s Vegan Under pressure Lentil Tomato Sauce.38) Smoky Split Pea Soup - A+ 5 stars. I made two split pea soups for a side by side taste test off. I am glad I did because Robin Robertson’s Fresh from the vegan slow cooker won hands down. I made it in my pressure cooker . I cooked it 14 min on high pressure with a natural release. Jill Nussinow’s spring split pea soup was disgusting.39) Carmelized Onion Soup - LOVED IT!!!! A++++ 5 stars out of 5. I sautéed the onions in a fry pan for 20 minutes then added all the ingredients to the slow cooker to increase the flavor. I cooked on HIGH for 12 hours NOT on Low for 8.5 hours. I did a cook off with Crock-pot’s the original slow cooker Vegetarian recipes. I made crockpot’s French Onion soup and I also cooked it on HIGH for 12 hours instead of 6 hours. Both recipes were really good. My family really liked both. My husband likes the sweetness of crockpot a tad bit more. But I LOVE Robin Robertson’s savory, earthy deep flavor more. But both are good. Robin’s is fabulous!40) Spiced pumpkin cake : I love pumpkin flavored anything so I decided to make both pumpkin desserts in the cookbook to test them on the same day. The flavor is DISGUSTING! I gave this zero stars and my family gave it 2 stars out of 5. Garbage canned this. I have really good pumpkin bread recipes that I will just bake in the oven.41) Pumpkin chocolate chip bread : GOOD. Grade C. 3 stars out of 5 stars. I have better recipes. So I won’t make this again. My family ate it.42) CHOCOLATE TRUFFLE CAKE - delicious. B or 4 stars out of 5 stars. I have better chocolate cake recipes. But for a LOW FAT VEGAN cake this is pretty good.43) PUTTANESCA PIZZA - LOVED IT! A++++++++++ I was super skeptical. Pizza in a crockpot? I worked as a chef when I was younger. My family LOVES this deep dish pizza. I accidentally cooked it too long and it got nice and brown, but the bottom was a tad wet. So I heated my oven up to 525 F degrees and slid the pizza onto a sheet pan. I crisped up the crust in 3 minutes or so. My family said make this every week! This is fabulous! My family requests it every week.44) LEMON GINGER POACHED PEARS - LOVED IT! A+++++++ I made these for my mom’s 75th birthday. And served them with crème brûlée from “Cooking Light Slow Cooker Tonight!” they were both a huge hit. I love that the pears are non-alcoholic.45) Farm Stand Stew p87- NOPE. This gets a 2 out of 5 stars. I made this in a recipe taste test off for my mom’s French themed dinner party to celebrate her 75th birthday. I made “Cooking Light Slow Cooker Tonight’s! White Bean, Artichoke, and Chard Ragout” to compare the two because the ingredients were very similar. Cooking Light’s recipe won 5 out of 5 stars. I am so glad I made a back up stew to serve at the party.46) BUrgundy Red Beans p109- I love cooking with wine. I voted 1.5 stars out of 5 stars. My family gave it 2.5 stars. These were really bitter. I had to add a lot of sugar so my family would eat a bowl of them. I ) garbage canned the left overs.47) BRACIOLE-INSPIRED STUFFED EGGPLANT : LOVED IT! Grade A+ 5 out of 5 stars.48) MORROCCAN EGGPLANT AND ARTICHOKES : LOVE, LOVE, LOVE THIS TOP 5 FAVORITE RECIPE FROM THIS COOKBOOK! I used both 1/4 tsp allspice & 1/4 tsp green cardamom powder adn 1 can chickpeas with 1/2 tsp salt and 1/2 tsp black pepper and served it over couscous. FABULOUS!!!!!!49) FOUR-WAY TOMATO SPOUP: LOVED IT! 5 STARS A+50) WILD MUSHROOM SOUP WITH BARLEY : My family gave this an A- or 4.75 stars and I gave it a C+51) SPCIY TORTIALL SOUP: as is an F or 0 stars. But with these adjustments we give it 5 stars: 2 cans black beans,6 cloves garlic, 3 chipotle chiles chopped instead of 2 tsp, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp black pepper, 1 carrot, 1 celery rib, 8 oz mushrooms, 1 bell pepper, 1 cup green peas (stirred in 20 minutes before serving), red radish slices to garnish and green onions for serving)Out of 46 recipes 18 were ABSOLUTELY AMAZING and became weekly family favorites and the recipes are good enough to serve in restaurants or to important dinner guests. The rest were epic failures taste wise. I highly do recommend this cookbook. As some of our family favorites are in here. Remember that these recipes can be made in a pressure cooker as well and will give you better flavor in some cases . I will keep trying recipes from her cookbook. IF YOU ARE NOT A FAN OF SPICE FILLED RECIPES and or SPICY FOOD you MAY like the recipes my entire family found EXTREMELY BLAND. I did work as a chef in my younger years and I did experiment with each failed recipe. I took 6 small bowls and added different spices or seasonings to the failed recipes to TRY to FiX them and make them edible for my whole family. But alas I could not fix them all. Some I did salvage. With food prices sky rocketing and inflation hitting, I hope my review will save you TIME & MONEY. I flushed a lot of recipes down the toilet to find 18 family favorite recipes to die for.

I myself am a meat and potatoes kind of guy, but my wife eats very little meat. Shes not strictly vegetarian, but she wouldn't be upset if meat disappeared off the face of the planet. In an effort to cook meals we both can enjoy, we need to get creative in what we cook. I got this hoping to find just that.Right out of the gate, we tried the Sweet Potato and Black Bean Chili Casserole and WOW! This automatically earned a spot on our rotation. If I dont find another good recipe, this one was worth the price of admission. From the looks of it, you'd almost think there was meat in it, but there was none! Since we are not vegan, we just use regular versions of some of the ingredients (ex. cheese) and dishes are turning out great so far. Another one that will knock your socks off is the Callaloo Soup! The flavors combinations are just ones that I would not expect.While there are several recipes with tofu, tempeh and seitan, it is not the majority and the remaining recipes are still worth getting the book if these items aren't your favorite. I may consider substituting chicken or some other meat for these and see how they work out, but there are plenty of ideas in here if you just throw those recipes out.One final thing that I like is how recipes are indexed in the back. They are organized by ingredient, which was very intuitive for me. If I had a craving for sweet potatoes, it lists all the recipes having that ingredient (which happen to be two of my favorites noted above!). Would recommend to vegans, vegetarians and meat eaters looking for some variety!

Well I've had the cookbook for a bit now and have had a chance to try many of the recipes. One of my fears was that since they all use the slow cooker that they wouldn't actually be very good. Every one that I have tried has been good. The worst individual recipe I've tried I'd give a 3-star too. I've yet to try anything that I'd say was simply great and will become a mainstay in my kitchen.As for the actual recipes, they are well written and concise. Most of them do require varying amounts of prep time or pre-cooking. Most frequently pre-cooking is for things like onions that need to go in a pan for a few minutes before placing them into the slow cooker. I don't mind doing prep work like that, especially since it makes the ultimate meal better. But some people think 'slow cooker' means just throw it into the pot without any prep work and they just hate it when a slow cooker recipe calls for a little pre-cooking.The author indicates which recipes are soy or gluten free, and where appropriate offers ways to make them such. All in all it's one of the best slow cooker vegetarian/vegan cookbooks I've seen. The only thing it lacked which could have made it a 5-star book was its complete lack of any nutritional information beyond the soy/gluten notices.

This is by far my favourite vegan cookbook. The recipes are easy and use common ingredients already in my kitchen. There is a great variety of recipes, too, from appetizers to soups to main courses to desserts. I've found that some vegan cookbooks call for all kinds of uncommon ingredients that are not mainstream or commonly found, which means that for almost every recipe you have to go to a health foods store and buy expensive products. The recipes in this book are more user-friendly and make switching to veganism that much easier, less daunting, and far more accessible to everybody. The book might be better with more pictures but I can still imagine when things look like in my mind and lack of pictures is not a big deal to me. The book itself is very user-friendly - not too big, not too small, and the print is large and easy to see so it makes cooking while reading the recipe very easy.

The media could not be loaded.  I love this book :) no it’s doesn’t have photos but it does deliver easy delicious food! I had a dormant slow cooker and have now used it twice. Vegetable curry and vegan Italian style stew. I’m the only vegan in the family and I recently started working full time so found it hard cooking from scratch coming in from work. This book has helped no end and shown me the advantages of having a slow cooker. Who would have thought you could do desserts in one!!

Finalmente un libro di ricette vegane per lo slow cooker commestibili. Infatti ho acquistato altri libri ma invariabilmente si tratta di gente che scrive blog e senza alcuna qualifica o background da chef che mette insieme un paio di ricette e cerca di far soldi, o si tratta di ricette anglosassoni che hanno ingredienti e sapori di gusto molto diverso dal mio. Questo libro e' scritto da una professionista (e si vede!): parte con una spiegazione sullo slow cooker e sulle principali caratteristiche e misure di sicurezza. Poi spiega come preparare il seitan, tofu e tempeh prima della cottura con lo slow cooker. Ottima la sezione sulla preparazione dei fagioli. E si parte con le ricette: ben 200 e nella maggior parte fattibili. Anche le ricette di ispirazione italiana sono di gusto vicino all'originale (poi possiamo fare delle variazioni personali). Ho sperimentato anche le ricette piu' americanizzate e sono venute beneSi va dagli appetisers, agli stufati, ai dips (con pate'!), alla pizza, desserts e molto di piu. Varieta' di contenuti molto soddisfacente e soprattutto ricette fattibili e saporite on ingredienti che si trovano facilmente al supermercato (niente marchi statunitensi irreperibili qui in Italia). Attenzione, le misure degli ingredienti sono americane - per lo piu' in cups ed ounces.Libro fatto bene. L'unico appunto, oltre al sistema di misurazione che ignora il mondo non USA, e' la mancanza di foto. Infatti non so se la maggior parte dei piatti che preparo dovrebbe avere l'aspetto che mi ritrovo perche' le foto latitano.+++ NON COMPRATE LA VERSIONE KINDLE - E" IMPAGINATA MALE! +++ Infatti all'inizio ho acquistato la versione Kindle di questo libro ma l'ho restituito poche' il 40% delle ricette erano impaginate male e non si leggevano gli ingredienti ed il primo passo della preparazione della ricetta. Quindi ho ordinato la versione fisica che viene spedita dagli UK (no Amazon Prime!).

I have another book by this author and I am pleased with her recipes. Everything in here looks delicious and I just can't wait to try more. I love that there are so many ideas to choose from.

Der Slowcooker (oder auch CrockPot) fristet in Deutschland nach wie vor ein Schattendasein, da er hier auch recht unbekannt ist. Ich bin auch nur durch diverse amerikanische YouTube Videos drauf gekommen in denen er immer wieder benutzt wurde, ich aber keine Ahnung hatte, was genau das sein soll. Um es vorweg zu nehmen: Nein, es ist keine Thermomix Kopie. Erstaunlicherweise wurde das immer vermutet, wenn ich Freunden oder Bekannten von meinem neuen Lieblingsgerät in der Küche berichtet habe.Weitere Details zum Slow Cooker werde ich mir an dieser Stelle sparen, weil die meisten, die sich dieses Buch genauer anschauen wahrscheinlich bereits wissen, was ein Slow Cooker ist. Wer nicht weiß, was ein Slow Cooker ist, es aber gerne wissen möchte, dem empfehle ich diese Seite:[...] Die Dame, Frau Frankmölle, erklärt hier und auch in ein paar Videos auf YT ganz wunderbar, was man wissen sollte. Sie hat auch ein paar tolle Kochbücher geschrieben, die einem den Einstiegt in die Arbeit mit dem SC super leicht machen.Leider sind die meisten SC Kochbücher natürlich sehr fleischlastig, da er sich bestens zum schmoren eignet. Seit ich meine Ernährung allerdings umgestellt habe, fehlte mir die ein oder andere Idee, wie ich meinen geliebten kleinen Topf jetzt noch weiter nutzen könnte ohne ständig nur Eintöpfe oder Suppen zu kochen. Und dann kam dieses Buch! JIPPIE! Ich besitze die Kindle Version, weil mir der Kindle gerade bei Kochbüchern inzwischen viel lieber in der Küche ist. Keine bekleckerten Seiten, kein Zuklappen, kein Verblättern! *yay* Das Buch ist in 12 sehr übersichtliche Kapitel aufgeteilt. Zu Anfang jedes Kapitels werden die Gerichte nochmal aufgelistet und sind auch hier nochmal mit einem direkten Link versehen um schnell zum gewünschten Rezept zu kommen.Die Rezepte sind verständlich aufgebaut, abwechslungsreich und vor allem super lecker!! Man kann sich hier ja auch eine Leseprobe herunterladen, dann bekommt man schon mal einen guten Eindruck vom Inhaltsverzeichnis. ABER: Man sollte sich definitiv ein amerikanisches Messlöffel Set zulegen! Diese sind auch schon für um die 8 € hier auf amazon.de zu bekommen und stellen bei der Nutzung dieses Kochbuchs eine wirkliche Erleichterung da. Wer das alles umrechnen und abwiegen will..., mich würde das irre machen. Aber ich brauche auch Maßangaben, gerade bei neuen Rezepten. Erst wenn ich das Gericht gut kenne, traue ich mir Augenmaß zu.Zurück zu den Rezepten: Sie sind einfach gehalten und das gefällt mir super. Am Anfang dachte ich um erfolgreich vegan kochen zu können, benötigt man jede Menge "Superfoods" und ausgefallene Gewürze und Zutaten, aber dem ist einfach nicht so. Hochtrabendes braucht man hier genauso oft wie in jedem anderen Kochbuch auch, also hin und wieder, aber nicht permanent für jedes neue Rezept 5 ausgefallene Zutaten, die man nur zu Fuß pilgernd nach Indien beim 3. Vollmond des Jahres unter dem grünen Stein links überhalb des Ganges findet. ;) Oder halt nur im Internet... ;) Was mir besonders gut gefällt ist, daß manche Zutaten selbst zubereiten werden können und es dann auch direkt einen Link zu dem Rezept gibt.Alles in allem ein super Slow Cooker Kochbuch für die vegane Küche! Leider ist es zur Zeit nur auf englisch erhältlich, aber vielleicht wird es irgendwann auch eine Übersetzung geben. Wer sich an der Sprache nicht stört, wird hier ein tolles Allround Kochbuch erwerben.