Hot for Food Vegan Comfort Classics: 101 Recipes to Feed Your Face [A Cookbook]

Lauren has made a tremendous name for herself on YouTube, and her Blog Site with easy to reproduce recipes and instructions for creating absolutely delicious, wholesome, healthy, and easy meals. As a vegetarian for more than 35 years, I have a TON of vegetarian cookbooks, but this one is in a class of its own!101 fantastic meal ideas with big, glossy, color pictures of virtually every one of them. Each recipe has easy to follow instructions and options for ingredients. I have made a number of the offerings, and have not been disappointed!Recently, we made her stuffed Acorn Squash for a dinner party we hosted, and it was a fantastic hit...even with the carnivores. (Some liked the stuffing so much, that they were stealing stuffing out of other squash!) Everyone who has tried one of the recipes that we have made from Lauren's work has asked us for the recipe.I am looking forward to making her Faux Crab Cakes using artichoke hearts instead of crab. Should be a blast!I can't recommend this book highly enough! It is simple the creme de la creme of Vegan/Vegetarian fare. Get it...you'll thank me! Bon Appetit!

While I have a ton of vegan cookbooks, this one is special. So far, I tried the cream of broccoli soup, the comforting lasagna soup, the orange tofu & veggie fried rice and the sweet potato gnocchi. All these recipes tasted incredible! I don't have a eating disorder, but I ate all the cream of broccoli and lasagna soup in only one serving because it was that good! Lauren truly perfected these recipes. Much better than even the best take-out or restaurant. Every recipe also has a gorgeous picture. I want to try many more recipes so buying this cooking was well worth the money! Other more negative reviews pointed out the un-healthy recipes in this cooking. The word "comfort" is in the title, so the goal was certainly not to provide your "Fork over knives" kind of recipes. This book is clearly superior to other vegan comfort food cookbooks, as there are no "weird" recipes and/or flavor combination. Lauren covers all the classics - and clearly tested her recipes to perfection before publishing. Some of the recipes are also relatively healthy and she sometimes give you the choice to bake instead of deep-frying.

Fantastic recipes and beautiful photos for each one.

I’m not vegan, but I’m dairy-free and eat mostly vegetarian meals so I was intrigued by the process of making your own vegan cheese-like substitutes with plant-based ingredients. I’ve only made a few recipes so far: the crabcakes, vanilla cake with chocolate buttercream, the oatmeal chocolate chip cookies (a big hit at work), and the enchiladas with salsa verde cream. They were all really tasty and fairly simple to make with mostly ingredients I already had or were inexpensive and easy to find. I even replaced some ingredients with gluten-free substitutes and they’ve turned out fine. I’ve since started watching Lauren’s videos and look forward to trying many more of her recipes. Even my meat and cheese loving husband has really liked the food so far, which is a good sign. This isn’t a health food cookbook, by the way. It’s traditional comfort foods using vegan ingredients. I love it!

Received my book today and hurried to open it :) I am very familiar with the hotforfood youtube page, so this was a no brainer to get. The book looks great, the colorful pictures, the weight, the page type. I am curious to see how these pages hold up after cooking with it in the kitchen. The book is easy to follow. There might be a few pages where I would have liked more pictures explaining the steps. I get a lot of cooking ideas from youtube, so I am very much a visual learner, so sometimes I appreciate the extra snaps of foodporn. Very few of the recipes are repeats shown for free on the youtube page. So you get a ton new ideas and recipes. Before every recipe theres a paragraph where you get to almost hear Lauren. She does a great job with this book, and making her personality almost jump out of the pages. I would have liked nutritional info on the recipes, but I understand why "comfort" might not need it (perhaps if the opportunity should arise for a second book, nutritional info. could be added?). I have cooked up several of Laurens recipes, and have only come across maybe 1-2 didn't enjoy too much. Lauren has a talent in mimicking textures, and tastes and giving you a delicious, healthier alternative. Great book, with delicious recipes.

This has quickly become one of my favorite vegan cookbooks. What I like about it is simple: Everything I have made out of it tastes great! There were a few recipes I tried that I wasn't sure about and they ended up knocking our socks off (like the brussel sprout ceasar, greek potato salad, sweet potato gnocci). I read some of the reviews that were less than 5 star on this book because I was curious why people wouldn't love it-- and I understand where they are coming from-- so let me lay out a couple reasons you might not like this book:1) Yes a lot of the recipes are multi-step or take a while. Not too many 30 min recipes. However I think that is why the recipes taste so good.2) The health factor-- it's a vegan cook book called "comfort classics." If you are looking for super healthy, no oil, etc. then this is probably not the cookbook for you, however I do find most of the recipes generally healthy. I don't cook out of this cookbook everyday (see #1), but as I mentioned I've been so happy with everything I had made from this book.If you aren't sure that this cookbook is for you, check out the "Look inside" feature. Also there is a blog with a a lot of recipes you can try out and also the Hot For Food channel is great-- that is where I learned about the cookbook.PS the Buffalo Cauliflower sandwich is life changing.