Simply Vibrant: All-Day Vegetarian Recipes for Colorful Plant-Based Cooking

by Anya Kassoff, Masha Davydova (Photographer)

Overview

A colorful take on whole foods cooking—everyday dishes that are seasonal, clean, and nourishing, from the author of The Vibrant Table.

With everyday recipes inspired by the seasons and practical preparations, Anya Kassoff leads the way to colorful, internationally-flavored foods that delight the palate and the eyes. This book offers a modern way to eat—breaking the boundaries between sweet and savory with intuitively nourishing foods. Start your day with Creamy Steel Cut Oats with Rainbow Chard and Pine Nuts, throw together a rainbow-colored salad for lunch or make black rice sushi for a quick snack, and later, feed your sweet tooth and your body with Sweet Potato Chocolate Brownies. This is fresh, fun, delightful whole food.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611803846
Publisher:	Shambhala
Publication date:	02/06/2018
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	720,416
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Anya Kassoff is the author of The Vibrant Table cookbook and the recipe developer for her successful, plant-forward food and lifestyle blog, Golubka Kitchen. Her blog is a two time finalist of the Saveur Food Blog Awards, and her recipes have been featured in numerous publications, including Food & Wine, Vegetarian Times, Oprah.com, BonAppetit.com and TheGuardian.com. Anya works in collaboration with her older daughter, Masha Davydova, who photographs her work and contributes to recipe testing and editing. Anya lives in Florida. 
 
Masha Davydova is a self-taught photographer and wellness enthusiast, who runs the plant-forward recipe and lifestyle blog, Golubka Kitchen together with her mother, Anya Kassoff. She takes all the photos and videos for the blog and contributes to recipe development and editing. Masha works part-time in fashion design and lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Eating with the Seasons 5

Pantry 7

Equipment 15

1 Morning Porridges and Pancakes 21

2 Salads and Bowls 43

3 Wraps and Rolls 85

4 Soups and Stews 115

5 Risotto, Paella, and Pilaf 151

6 Noodles, Pasta, and Pizza 179

7 Fritters and Veggie Burgers 217

8 Just Veggies 241

9 Sweets for Every Season 263

10 Basics and Sauces 295

Acknowledgments 318

Preferred Brands 319

Index 320

Editorial Reviews

Simply Vibrant is intuitively organized and brilliantly executed. It illustrates how many of us are striving to eat these days: crave-able, template-style recipes with seasonal touches, simple techniques, and an underlying nourishing essence that reads as encouraging, rather than prescriptive. Anya’s approach starts with a deep-rooted reverence for what nature provides in all of its seasons—and in all of its sometimes neglected or wasted forms. The thoughtful uses for carrot tops, chickpea soaking liquid, and barley cooking water—like the rest of the book’s delicious plant-based recipes—speak to both virtue and pure enjoyment. This book inspires me to cook (and live!) with a deeper sense of care and appreciation.”
—Laura Wright, author of The First Mess Cookbook
 
“Anya’s approach to food and the seasons always stands out as creative, inventive, and colorful. Simply Vibrant contains an abundance of inspiring recipes and clever tricks to add more nourishment and adventure to your everyday meals.”
—Amy Chaplin, James Beard award-winning author of At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen
 
“Anya has the incredible ability to inspire her readers to cook, but more importantly, she helps them tap into their own intuition to create delicious meals in a more relaxed way. I love her emphasis on seasonality, and her creative approach to leaf-to-root cooking, using every ingredient to its fullest potential without wasting a single seed! This recipe collection is bursting with global flavors, unique ingredient combinations, and of course, vibrancy on the highest level.”
—Sarah Britton, holistic nutritionist and author of My New Roots and Naturally Nourished
 
“We are longtime fans of Golubka Kitchen and Anya’s creative and beautiful plant-based recipes. Her new book is jam-packed with healthy, flavorful, and simple recipes and lots of interesting suggestions on how to cook with the odds and ends of produce that usually are discarded—like making marmalade from watermelon rinds and risotto using broccoli stems. So clever!”
—David Frenkiel and Luise Vindahl, creators of the blog Green Kitchen Stories

“No more dreary plates of dingy, overcooked vegetables. Kassoff has banished dullness from the vegetarian diet. She offers a wealth of recipes, all of which promise to stimulate both taste buds and retinas.” —Booklist 

"What made me want to cook from Simply Vibrant is its more relaxed approach to plant-based cooking" —Toronto Star

"Simply Vibrant captures the kind of accidentally-vegetarian food we want to eat right now." —Bon Appetit

"[Anya Kassoff and Masha Davydova's] stylish new cookbook offers seasonal vegan recipes aimed at wellness enthusista."—Library Journal 

From the Publisher

04/15/2018
Kassoff and Davydova (The Vibrant Table) are the respective mother-daughter writer and photographer team behind the blog Golubka Kitchen (golubkakitchen.com). Their stylish new cookbook offers seasonal vegan recipes (e.g., stewed rhubarb amaranth porridge, spaghetti squash ramen with marinated tempeh, sweet potato chocolate brownies) aimed at wellness enthusiasts. Whole foods and fresh produce dominate the ingredient lists, as do items such as purified water, neutral coconut oil, flax meal, and arrowroot powder. All dishes are doable, though it helps to have a blender, food processor, spiralizer, and mandoline. VERDICT Expect demand for this follow-up to The Vibrant Table, especially if your collection circulates many health and wellness cookbooks.

Library Journal