Vegetable Desserts: Beyond Carrot Cake and Pumpkin Pie

By Jeannette L. Miller, Elisabeth Schafer, Jeannette L. Miller

Book Overview

A fresh twist on dessert. Vegetable Desserts shows you how to turn ordinary vegetables into extraordinary desserts. Twenty-four different vegetables add unique flavors and rich textures to this collection of 125 delicious recipes--while adding fiber, vitamins, and minerals. With reduced fat and calories, you can indulge in simple and sumptuous treats like: Sliced Green Tomato Pie Potato Fudge Honey Garlic Ice Cream Celery Doodles Cocoa Zucchini Cake Sweet Pea Bars Vegetable Desserts gives a complete overview of featured vegetables, including history, seasonality, and tips on selecting and storing them. It also includes complete nutrition information for each recipe.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471347361
• ISBN13: 9780471347361
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.8" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Fun, yummy desserts even teens & my husband liked!

The zucchini brownie recipe is quick and yummy! I've made several other recipes in this book, too. They're fun and real conversation starters - just don't tell 'em what's in it until after they start eating! Here's why I like the book: Great ideas, easy recipes, easy-to-ingredients. I recently made the brownies and the kids ate them up!

What a fun new way to serve vegetables

I enjoy cooking and trying new things. It is simply hard to believe the wonderous recipes that are presented in this book. We have all heard about the importance of vegetables, and this book gives a new way to "be good to yourself" while enjoying something that tastes wonderful. These desserts taste "too good to be true."

Vegetables like you've never had them (but always wanted to)

The experts are constantly telling us that we need more vegetables in our diet, but when the time comes to tell us *how* to increase our vegetable intake, they always seem short on appealing ideas. No longer! These authors saw the problem and came up with a solution... or, rather, more than a hundred solutions: vegetable desserts! This is creative cooking at its best. The recipes range from the standard use of vegetables in desserts (like Rhubarb Crunch and Maple Sweet Potato Pie) to the downright unusual (like the Kraut Crisps or the beet-based Mystery Pie). The recipes are all fully analyzed for nutritiional content, and many of them are surprisingly healthy, like the Pumpkin Tofu Pie (which, believe it or not, is the best pumpkin pie I've ever had!). There is also a lot of information about cooking and vegetables in general. This book is great for parents, vegetable fans, and anyone else who has a sweet tooth but cares about what they eat.

How to feed your family the vegetables they wouldn't eat

I have yet to try out the Danish Carrot Pudding but it will be on the table at Christmas. If you're a pumpkin lover - which is why I bought this book - there are 20 pages of recipes for pumpkin desserts. I'm working my way through them now. If anyone has any ideas on adapting the squash recipes for Asian-type squashes, I'd be most grateful for some hints.