Dreena’s Kind Kitchen, a review by Tanya

Dreena’s Kind Kitchen, 100 Whole-Foods Vegan Recipes to Enjoy Every Day

Dreena Burton
Published Aug 17, 2021 by BenBella Books

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About the Book:

From veteran cookbook author Dreena Burton comes a collection of 100 dependable and delicious plant-based recipes that everyone will love.

Dreena Burton has been creating plant-based, whole-food recipes for more than 20 years. Home cooks know they can trust her recipes to turn out great—and to be delicious! Now, she has created this one-stop resource for making kinder, more compassionate food choices, for other beings, for the planet, and for yourself. Whether you need weekly staple meals for your family or want a dish to wow your friends for a special occasion, Dreena’s Kind Kitchen has you covered with these reliable, flavorful, and healthy recipes.

You’ll find a variety of breakfasts, salads and dressings, small bites, soups, entrées

, and sweets, including:

 

• Lemon-Poppyseed Muffins

• Wow ’Em Waffles
• Potato-Cauliflower Scramble
• Chipotle Chickpea Fries
• White Bean and Corn Chowder
• Pressure Cooker Quicken Noodle Soup
• Truffle-Salted Nut Cheese
• Beyond Beet Burgers
• Fiesta Taco Filling
• Italian Ratatouille
• Holiday Dinner Torte
• 1-Minute Pasta Alfredo
• Crackle Blender Brownies
• Mango Carrot Cake
• Heavenly Baklava

Dreena also shares a cooking troubleshooting section so you can boost your kitchen

skills. With helpful guidance on techniques, time-saving tips, and suggestions for repurposing leftovers into delicious new dishes, this dependable resource will boost your cooking confidence and help you find success in your own plant-powered kitchen.

My Review:

Although I’m not a Vegan, I am certainly interested in starting to cook more plant based meals and am always on the lookout for new recipes that fit this way of eating.

Dreena’s Kind Kitchen was a really helpful Cookbook in that there were a lot of good ideas and easy to follow recipes.  Many of them seemed doable for myself and my family but there were also s

ome that I know I would never try, Beet Burgers being one of them.  But having so many new options to consider and start pondering is definitely helpful for me.

The pictures in the book were gorgeous and mouth-watering!

The challenges for me in particular with this book is that there were no nutritional facts available with these recipes.  This was very surprising to me as I assumed health forward Cookbooks would include such information for those folks who are clearly focused on health conscience meals.  Additionally, some of the items used in the recipes would not be on hand naturally and I would need to prep ahead of time to order some items online.  Not a negative per se, but just something to be aware of.

Some of my favorite recipes in this book were:

Sweet Potato Muffins
Sunny Curry Dressing
Good Day Sunshine Hummus
Avo-mame Hummus
Lemon-Herbed Chickpeas
Pantry Soup
Lentil and Sweet Potato Loaf
Nanaimo Bars
Mango Carrot Cake

If you are looking for a good Plant Based Cookbook, Dreena’s Kind Kitchen is definitely one to check out!

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