108 Recipes: Gourmet Vegetarian Cooking

by Jolanta Kusa

Book Overview

This gourmet vegetarian cookbook offers 108 delicious and innovative recipes prepared for the participants in retreats and seminars at the Nyingma Institute, where meals are offered to support deep relaxation and enjoyment. Magic and beauty can be found in the simplest things. All we need to do is to wake up to this possibility. (Have you ever seen a cauliflower? I mean, have you really seen it?) While you cook, stop for a moment to admire the shape...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 096391300X
• ISBN13: 9780963913005
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Dharma Publishing
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Truly lives up to the promise of its title

A vegetarian diet can be complex, diverse, palate pleasing and appetite satisfying -- if you have access to the kinds of recipes that are featured in "108 Recipes: Gourmet Vegetarian Cooking Form Nyingma Institute". Compiled by Jolanta Kusa and in full compliance with Buddhist traditions of food and nutrition, the featured recipes are organized into appetizers, soups, salads, entrees, grains, side dishes, dips and spreads, desserts, breakfasts and breads. Ranging from a Clear Cauliflower Soup; to an Exotic Black Bean and Fruit Salad; to a Mushroom and Chevre Tart; to a Chocolate Port Cake; to Potato Pancakes with Blue Cheese, "108 Recipes: Gourmet Vegetarian Cooking Form Nyingma Institute" truly lives up to the promise of its title and is a welcome addition to personal, family, and community library vegetarian cookbook collections.