Simple Green Suppers: A Fresh Strategy for One-Dish Vegetarian Meals

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125 recipes for complete one-dish vegetarian suppers that pair pantry staples with fresh ingredients--perfect for nonvegetarians aspiring to eat a more plant-based diet. Discover the pro-veggie, pro-flavor way to prepare fresh, healthy, high-quality plant-based recipes. Simplify dinner planning, and make flavorful dishes, by learning how to pair veggies with one other powerhouse pantry or fridge staple. The eight chapters here match veggies with eight different supper-building ingredients- Noodles, Grains, Beans, Leaves, Toast, Tortillas, Eggs, and Broth. The recipes here aren't just vegetarian, they are veggie-forward, and designed to demonstrate how to prepare seasonal vegetables in satisfying, filling suppers by pairing them with staple ingredients of the omnivore world. How you cook your veggies and how you combine them with other satisfying whole foods is the secret to delicious results. Full of vegetable cooking techniques, this book also offers tips on keeping an organized, well-stocked, flexible pantry, and provides a lot of good make-ahead and streamlining techniques that will make cooking delicious, easy vegetarian meals possible every night.

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Susie Middletons Simple Green Suppersand her genius strategy for turning seasonal vegetables into flavorful, inventive, one dish dinnersis the solution to the perennial question: what should I cook for supper tonight Middleton shows that the path towards more satisfying and simple dinners at home is to put flavor first. Each recipe is crafted to bring the best qualities of seasonal vegetable forward and to amp up their flavor with sauces, seasonings, and herbs. Chock full of tips for making the most of the food you have in your larder and fridge, this is a cookbook that vegetarians and omnivores alike will reach for again and again.Willi Galloway, author of Grow Cook Eat

Simple Green Suppers is full of my kind of comfort food: nourishing, veggie-centric, one-dish meals. I love Susies warm voice and confident guidance in building a pantry to accommodate the many inspired dishes in this book.Kimberley Hasselbrink, author of Vibrant Food

"If you like your meals fresh and frugal, try this practical guide to vegetarian convenience cooking."Library Journal

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Food writer SUSIE MIDDLETON is the author of three cookbooks- Fresh from the Farm- A Year of Recipes and Stories (Taunton Press, 2014), The Fresh & Green Table(Chronicle Books, 2012), and Fast, Fresh & Green (Chronicle Books 2010). The former chief editor and current editor-at-large for Fine Cooking magazine, Susie lives year-round on Martha's Vineyard. Known for her vegetable expertise, Susie maintains a popular blog about cooking vegetables at sixburnersue.com, and she writes and photographs a regular farm-to-table column and frequent features for Martha's Vineyard magazine. She is a consultant to Edible Communities and a featured blogger on www.ediblefeast.com. She writes and develops recipes for Vegetarian Times magazine and Fine Cooking and contributes to The Huffington Post.