366 Delicious Ways to Cook Rice, Beans, and Grains

I have lots of cookbooks, but this is my everyday source. It's not overly dependent on cheese and other fatty ingredients, and yet Ms. Chesman doesn't shy away from them. Same with unusual ingredients--I can find quite a few recipes to choose from based on my pantry, but there's plenty of inspirational cooking here. All the recipes are simple, and use simple, healthy ingredients and every single one I've tried has turned out wonderfully. Mostly vegetarian, the few recipes that recommend meat ingredients offer vegetarian alternatives. I was looking for a cookbook like this for a long time and was so pleased when I started cooking from it and realized I'd found exactly what I was after! *Update 8/17/13* I wanted to add to this review because I continue to be so impressed with this cookbook. I'm not sure it shows up in searches for "vegetarian" or "vegan" cookbooks, which is really too bad. So many of the reviews for the newest vegan cookbooks complain about all the meat analogs, and the reviewers say they were looking for "real food." I want to recommend this book to all of those people. Personally, I like to change things up with seitan or tempeh or even frozen "veggie ground" every once in a while. But 366 Delicious Ways has none of that. There are exactly two recipes that call for tofu, and they're Asian dishes. Everything else is beans, grains, vegetables, and the occasional dairy or egg. Some of my favorite dishes: Pizza-flavored Popcorn, Black Bean Salad with Goat Cheese, Vegetarian Paella (flavorful, and not at all greasy like some others I've tried), Syrian Lentils in a Spicy Tomato Sauce (like so many of these dishes, the ingredient list seems incredibly simple, but the flavor is outstanding), Dried Lima Bean Gratin (this has the creamy decadence of a great mac and cheese, but with beans and far less cheese - I make a white sauce instead of the can of evaporated milk called for), and Maple Baked Beans.

In China, a popular greeting replacing "How are you?" is "Have you had your rice today?". The Chinese word for rice is the same as the word for food. In Thailand when you call your family to dinner you say, "Eat rice"; and in Japan the word for cooked rice is the same as the word for meal. Parents tell young Chinese girls who leave rice in their bowls that each grain of rice they leave represents a pock mark on the face of their future husbands. There are perhaps as many as 40,000 varieties of rice grown on every continent, except Antartica. You will learn about many of these varieties of rice in the beginning chapters of this book, and you'll even learn how to make your own easy mixes. Combined with beans, rice dishes offer a perfect protein, without the saturated fat complementing our meat dishes. Rice is high in complex carbohydrates, contains almost no fat, is cholesterol free, and is low in salt. On top of all the wonderful rice dishes found inside the cover of this beautiful book, you'll enjoy a wide variety of bean and grain recipes. This book is a must for any flexitarian, vegetarian, or vegan . . . and for anyone who wants to achieve a better diet. The recipes are easy to make, can be prepared ahead, and are delicious! If the only rice in your pantry is Minute Rice, you are missing out . . . on flavor, nutrition, and eating pleasure. Expand your palate and buy this book! You and your health will be all the better for it. Lynette Fleming, Coauthor of Lunch Buddies : Buddy Up for a Better Diet

This book is amazing with a variety of wonderful healthy recipes. Being a Macrobiotic follower I enjoyed reading it and making some of its recipes. However, when it comes to dessert recipes and a few other ones I noticed that the author has no objection in using dairy and sugar in the ingredients! That upset me really. But overall, this book can really give you delicious ways to cook your rice, beans, & grains!

We love this book! It has some of the best recipes that we have ever made! It is quite extensive and has broadened our tastes into grains and beans that we have never even heard of before. Finding some of the ingredients was a little tricky at first, then we started to let our fingers do the walking and had better luck finding some of the odd ingredients at the smaller ethnic stores and health food stores than the supermarkets. But definitely call first. It was a hit and miss affair. The absolute best thing about this book was that they include the nutritional value for each recipe which in invaluable for maintaining certain diets like weight watchers. Needless to say almost everything in this book is low in points because of the sheer amount of fiber in them. We LOVE this book!!! get it you won't be disappointed!

I bought this book because it said in the product description that it had recipes for quinoa and other grains. I really wanted some quinoa recipes but there are only 3-4 recipes for quinoa and amaranth. A lot of the recipes are very similar were ingredients are concerned so the author has really tried to eke the recipes out to have 366 recipes, most recipes have black beans and salsa in them. The author is American and she loves cornbread there are so many recipes for cornbread and similar corn based items, I just want to say if you haven't tried cornbread trust me you haven't missed a thing. Most of the bean recipes are for burrito and chili type meals. Also the portion sizes are again American portion sizes and we all know how slim they are in the US. I have got some American cookbooks and there are a few that are good, this is not one of them.

Great book for all manner cooking , this book gets you out your everyday blah cooking, particuarly liked the marmalede corn muffins , something I didnt ever think that the kids would like , big hit!

my go to book for rice, grains, and legumes Will look for another of her books !

Printed on cheap paper, no illustrations, photos or artwork so you have no idea what you are making. Very boring book.

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