Love the Foods That Love You Back: Clean, Healthy, Vegan Recipes for Everyone

by Cathy Katin-Grazzini

Overview

This exciting, new cookbook is for the food curious and people who like to cook as well as for home cooks who want to reinvigorate their repertoires and uncover the healing properties of food. One thing that Katin-Grazzini guarantees is that her recipes are sure to be crowd pleasers whether you’re an herbivore, carnivore, or omnivore. Offering tried-and-true advice for setting up for success, stocking a pantry, and mastering the building block recipes, she also serves up such tasty, global-inspired fare as Curly Tzatziki Salad, Pulled Barbecue Jackfruit, Early Spring Miso Soup, Pasta alla Puttanesca, and a Savory Torte with New Potatoes, Tomatoes, and Snap Beans. The chapters on breads and sweet treats will have you baking frequently and saying farewell to processed foods.

"Plants are rising in popularity, so I want to entice food lovers and excite their imaginations with creative remakes of traditional favorites as well as new dishes that are delicious, original, and by the way, really good for us, the planet, and our fellow creatures," says Katin-Grazzini.

Katin-Grazzini began her journey into the whole-foods, plant-based world after her husband Giordano’s life-threatening surgery. She ramped up her research, received a degree in plant-based nutrition from Cornell, and discovered that changing they way we cook and eat can transform health and give us a biological reboot! With her culinary and nutrition expertise, she will guide home cooks through the delicious, nourishing power of plant-based foods across more than ninety recipes without oil, salt, meat, dairy, or sugar. With her fresh and flavorful dishes, you will discover foods that are not only soul satisfying but also good for the body.

LOVE THE FOODS THAT LOVE YOU BACK is just the kind of inspiration for those who want to eat mindfully but don’t want to skimp on taste and the foods they crave.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780789345738
Publisher:	Rizzoli
Publication date:	09/10/2024
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.38(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Cathy Katin-Grazzini is the founder of Cathy’s Kitchen Prescription LLC, and is Food Editor for VEGWORLD Magazine. Chef Cathy Katin-Grazzini’s regimen changed dramatically when her husband Giordano’s life was miraculously saved after life-threatening surgery. She ramped up her research and embarked on a journey that led her and Giordano to plant-based cuisine and wellness.

Table of Contents

Introduction 8

Stocking Your Pantry 20

Setting Up for Success 26

Building Blocks 30

Ajvar 32

Artichoke Mousse 35

Berbere 36

Chipotles in Adobo 39

Creamy Vegan Ricotta 40

Dried Fruit Paste 42

Fruit Glazes and Vinegar Reductions 45

Easy "Cheesy" Sauce 46

Garlic-Herb Sauce 49

Miso Powder 50

Pomarola Rustica 53

Vegan Greek-Style Yogurt 54

Cucumber Raita 56

Ranch Dressing 59

Roasted Piperade Sauce 60

Roasted Sweet Pepper Sauce 62

Silken Vegan Mayonnaise 65

Soy Chèvre 66

Vegan Bèchamel Sauce 68

Lighter Fare 70

Meslalla (Moroccan Orange Salad) 72

Autumn Leaves Salad 74

Apple Fennel Summer Salad 76

Curly Tzatziki Salad 78

Nordic Salad 81

Delicata Pomegranate Salad 82

Vegan Ricotta Pâtés 84

Eggless Salad 86

Tuna-ish Salad 89

Shakshouka 90

Potato-Stuffed Mini Peppers 92

Buffalo Cauliflower 95

Pulled Barbecue Jackfruit 96

Polenta Crostini with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes and Capers 98

Zucchini-Potato Fritters 100

Baked Chard in Bèchamel 103

Braised Splayed Eggplant 104

Layered Vegetable Torte 106

Tomato Roses 108

Loubia (Moroccan White Beans) 112

Warm Belly 114

Cauliflower Split Pea Soup 116

Creamy Tomato Soup 119

Chinese Hot and Sour Soup 120

Cuban Black Bean Soup 122

Early Spring Miso Soup 124

Huku ne Dovi (Zimbabwean Vegetable Stew) 126

Masoor Dal Squash Soup 128

Mushroom Barley Soup 130

Napa Flower Soup 132

Shorabat Adas (Levantine Lentil Soup) 135

Türlü Türlü (Greek Vegetable Stew) 136

Simple Soup 138

Mualle (Turkish Eggplant Lentil Stew) 140

Baked Beans Provencal 142

Yataklete Kilkil (Ethiopian Vegetarian Stew) 144

Ma Po Tofu 146

Good Grains 148

Pasta alia Puttanesca 150

Fresh Pasta 152

Creamy Tagliatelle with Broccoli and Roasted Cherry Tomatoes 154

Chard and Roasted Tomato Ravioli 156

Potato Gnocchi 158

Polenta Stacks 160

Pastel Gratin 162

Pretty Pie 164

Savory Torte with New Potatoes, Tomatoes, and Snap Beans 166

Chiucco 170

Butternut Risotto 174

Risotto Mediterraneo 176

Breaking Bread 180

Banana Poppy Seed Bread 182

Pumpkin Raisin Buns 185

Chestnut Crêpes 186

Whole Grain Crisps and Breadsticks 188

Fougasse 190

Mother Sourdough Starter 194

Mediterranean Sourdough Skillet Bread 196

No-Knead Sourdough Boule 198

Parathas with Baby Greens 202

Yufka Turkish Flatbreads 204

Zhingyalov Khat (Armenian Stuffed Flatbreads) 206

Za'atar Pizzette 208

Sweet Treats 210

Apricot Cherry Crostata 212

Roasted Plum Crostini 215

Pear and Blueberry Tart 216

Winter Fruit Tart 218

Plum Chestnut Tartlets 222

Castagnaccio Tuscan Chestnut Torte 224

Chocolate Bites 227

Chocolate Cranberry Energy Bars 228

Nicer Newtons 230

Homey Oatmeal Raisin Cookies 233

Scottish Oat and Fruit Scones 234

Crèma 237

Ganache with Berries 238

Conversion Chart 240

Suggested Reading 243

Index 244

Acknowledgments 254

Editorial Reviews

Love The Foods That Love You Back is for the food curious and people who like to cook as well as for home cooks who want to reinvigorate their repertoires and uncover the healing properties of food. [It] is just the kind of inspiration for those who want to eat mindfully but don’t want to skimp on taste and the foods they crave.” —VEGAN MAGAZINE

“The recipes look delicious, with so much variety to choose from!”—Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM, New York Times bestselling author, founder, NutritionFacts.org

“Can a plant-only, (oil and salt free) diet even taste better than one that includes oil, salt and animal products?  Can we protect our health, aid our planet, and still enjoy gourmet flavor and eating pleasure? Yes, and yes! My lifelong friend, Cathy Katin-Grazzini has produced a fantastic and beautiful cookbook…that you must get.”—Joel Fuhrman, M.D., Seven-times New York Times bestselling author, President, Nutritional Research Foundation

“Cathy takes us on a culinary journey around the world in Love the Foods That Love You Back. Her recipes are full of complex flavors, while still being approachable for the everyday home cook. Each dish is a celebration of whole foods, plant-based ingredients and the beauty of plant-based eating.”—Alora Middleton Hale, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief at VEGWORLD Magazine

“… a remarkable resource. It will delight those who are new to healthful eating and will also provide innumerable new dishes for more experienced folks who would like to bring their recipes to a whole new level.” —Neal D. Barnard, MD, FACC, President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

“… an extraordinary cookbook with breathtakingly beautiful photography.  Cathy Katin-Grazzini’s wisdom and transformation of peasant traditions from around the world will convince anyone who reads it that plant-based no oil food is incredibly delicious and a secret to vibrant health.”—Ann Crile Esselstyn, Co-author of The Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Cookbook

“Love the Foods That Love You Back is a high standard to meet in elegant low-fat vegan cooking. This book is filled with starch-based recipes from all over the world. The kinds that satisfy your appetite and give you an energy-packed day, with dishes of corn, potatoes, rice, and wheat, paired with colorful fruits and vegetables. Buy it and use it. It’s beautiful.” —John McDougall, MD, Writer, Teacher, and Mary McDougall, Researcher and Inventor of Low-Fat, Vegan Cooking

"My wife and I have long embraced and espoused this very principle- we can love foods that love us - our health, our planet, our fellow creatures - back.  Looking across an expanse of cultures and rich culinary traditions, this book beautifully, deliciously, and lovingly delivers on that promise."—David L. Katz, MD, MPH, President, True Health Initiative, Past President, American College of Lifestyle Medicine

“If Cathy's book was available 45 years ago when I became vegan, everyone would have gone vegan.  Beautifully photographed, you wish you could eat the food right off the page!  With recipes like Layered Vegetable Torte, Baked Chard in Bechamel, and Pear and Blueberry Tart, you'll think you died and went to vegan heaven.  Healthy food never looked or tasted this good.”
—Chef AJ, author of the bestselling The Secrets To Ultimate Weight Loss

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