Mayim's Vegan Table: More than 100 Great-Tasting and Healthy Recipes from My Family to Yours

I really like this cookbook. I was a little disappointed in it when it arrived, but I've taken the time to explore it and find that I like it more every day. However, it's not perfect.This cookbook offers a good mixture of vegan recipes and nutrition basics that will be helpful to those new to the vegan lifestyle, especially parents that want to incorporate this type of eating into family meals. I have sampled several recipes that turned out very well, but not all of the recipes appeal to me. One recipe appears to be missing an ingredient. Accidents happen!Why go vegan? The authors provide basics on environmental issues and ethics behind vegan choices, without being pushy. I like that and I think it will help non-vegans become more curious without being pushed away. I also appreciate the casual and friendly approach that is conveyed throughout the book. It felt comfortable.The recipes are good, but not necessarily new or exciting. Many of the recipes are for home-style comfort foods that will appeal to families. These include recipes such as enchilada casserole, chili, French toast, and plenty of yummy desserts. If that's the type of food your family eats, and most probably do, this cookbook will help provide healthier alternatives to traditional recipes.I love cookbooks with photos, but I'm sorry to say that the photos in this book disappointed me. The style seems outdated and I think it makes the food look bland. If I were flipping through this book in a bookstore, I would probably put it back on the shelf. The internet is filled with avid food bloggers that have mastered perfect food photography. I'm sure that not everyone will agree with me, but I'm a nut for good food photography and I felt this one was lacking. I'm sorry!That said, the recipes that I tried turned out very well and were delicious. For my personal use, some of the better recipes in this book include smoothies, energy bars, granola, and Vietnamese banh mi. I tried several recipes, and will share my experiences with a few of them.The first recipe that I tried was the Outrageous Granola. It included oats, nuts, dried fruit, and was flavored with vanilla, cinnamon, brown sugar, and maple syrup. It tasted as good as it sounds! It was easy to prepare and it turned out well. This was my first attempt making granola, and this recipe made it easy. My granddaughter also loved it, especially since she could help make it.I also tried the Maple Mustard Greens. I'm always looking for a way to make me love kale, so I was anxious to try this. The dish also includes Swiss chard, which I love, and collard greens, which I have never tried. The recipe includes a full half cup of mustard, but it only serves 4 people. That's two full measuring tablespoons of mustard in one serving, which I admit worried me. I combined the mustard, maple syrup, and other seasonings and decided to lightly drizzle part of it over the cooked greens. I'm glad I did because a little really went a long way. It was really very delicious! The bonus was that I still had mustard sauce left over to use another night, which I gladly did.The Chocolate, Fruit, and Nut Clusters were absolutely delicious and disappeared quickly. They are too dangerous to make again!Page 170 includes a recipe for Olive Walnut Bread. The title sounds delicious, however the recipe left out the walnuts in the ingredient list and the directions. Plain olive bread sounded okay, but probably wouldn't be nearly as much fun for the taste buds.I am enjoying exploring the recipes and I do like this cookbook better now than I did when it arrived, so I would recommend giving it a chance. There are honestly not a lot of recipes in this cookbook that I will try because my personal preferences are different, but the ones that I am enjoying are definitely keepers.

So, I know what some of you are going to say? VEGAN, REALLY?!! Yes vegan! No, I’m not changing my diet, honestly the hubby would FREAK, but I do like to live healthy and I’m a fan of Mayim’s so I thought, why not vegan?I have to say, this is an amazing cookbook. She puts in here that she realizes that if you’re not already vegan that it is a HUGE step and it is hard to change, so she adds in some things that will help you practice to become vegan IF you want to.What I’m doing is just adding a bit more of the vegan lifestyle into my life via the kitchen! I started reading this and there is a bit about why to go or not to go vegan, what you can get from this diet, how the naysayers are wrong, etc… she backs what she says with evidence and with lovely, lovely recipes!Although I enjoyed the sciency part really I skimmed most of it because I do know about the vegan lifestyle but I’m glad that she put that part in there. I’m just not one that needed all that. My favorite part? By far the recipe section! There is a bit in here for everyone! I just got into making smoothies and she has tons of recipes for smoothies, recipes for soup, guacamole, basically recipes for nearly everything!And the cost of the meals isn’t outrageous either. Most of these recipes are made with ingredients that you may get for a salad, and no it’s not just rabbit food (you naysayers! I’m looking at you) it’s about being healthy especially when so many are over weight.So, in short… you can easily take this and add in regular or skim milk if you want to, add in regular cheese for the soy cheese ingredients, the recipes are easy to play with, OR you can be daring and do what I plan to do and go vegan for one or two days a week. I think it’ll be worth it!

I really enjoy this cookbook! A few of the ingredients listed in some of her recipes are not available nearby me, but most can be made without a couple things. I bought this cookbook mainly to help me cook for my son who has multiple life-threatening food allergies. Over the past 8 years, I have learned that if I begin a new meal for him as vegan and simple as possible and build it up from there, it usually becomes something he very much enjoys. He is content eating the same variety of foods almost every single day, but I like to change it up every now and again. The recipes call for soy quite often, it feels to me, but there are so many other options. We use coconut milk, oil, sugar, etc. Mayim keeps the meals simple, and I like that. Also, I am able to add meat if my husband wants it, and it doesn't take any extra time. I just season it and serve it up at the table with everything else. I used to make 2-3 different meals almost every night, but now it's just one! I have read and tried to use more than 45 vegan cookbooks, and this is the only one that has ever worked for my family! I am very pleased with this book. I think she did a great job with it!

Hab schon 2 Rezepte daraus gekocht und finde ihre Art zu schreiben total gut. Sie erklärt in den ersten 60 Seiten auch, zusammen mit einem Arzt, wie vegane Ernährung auf den menschlichen Körper wirkt und allgemein sind viele nützliche Tipps zum veganen Leben von ihr gestellt.

super ideen und leicht umzusetzen.das buch enthält keine revolutionär neuen rezepte, aber doch die eine oder andere gute idee. außerdem ist es super aufgebaut.volle punktezahl von mir.

Viele Rezepte sind bekannt - andere für Familien nicht geeignet. Die angekündigte Offenbahrung blieb aus. Ich habe fast alle Rezepte nachgekocht und werde leider nur 3 in mein Repertoir aufnehmen und die auch nur auf meine Bedürfnisse angepasst. Nicht wirklich ein Alltagskochbuch, eher das zweite Standbein einer Schauspielerin.

I hate to be harsh on any vegan cookbook and especially this one. I really really wanted to love it. I love Mayim and her posts on Kveller. I was looking forward to reading the book hoping it would have nice family recipes from her family and her unique voice that I love in her writing but found it really fell flat. I didn't feel the connection to the recipes. It felt disjointed like they were someone else's. I also was surprised by how many store bought products were used from what I have read from her before about what her and her family eat. I am by no means a purist and eat these things from time to time but just would have thought her cookbook wouldn't include so many. I ended up returning my copy.

I love the recipes I have tried so far and it has brought my cooking skills to a new level. My family was impressed and that makes it a good buy.