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My Cookbook: Love Real Food

The path to a healthy body and happy belly is paved with real food―fresh, wholesome, sustainable food―and it doesn’t need to be so difficult. No one knows this more than Kathryne Taylor of America’s most popular vegetarian food blog, Cookie and Kate.
By SideChef
November 16, 2017
My Cookbook: Love Real Food
My Cookbook: Love Real Food
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Welcome to SideChef's original recipes. Created from scratch in the SideChef Kitchen, where recipe inspiration and ingredient experimentation is a way of life.
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Welcome to SideChef's original recipes. Created from scratch in the SideChef Kitchen, where recipe inspiration and ingredient experimentation is a way of life.
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With Love Real Food, she offers over 100 approachable and outrageously delicious meatless recipes, complete with substitutions to make meals special diet-friendly (gluten-free, dairy-free, and egg-free) whenever possible. Her book is designed to show everyone―vegetarians, vegans, and meat-eaters alike―how to eat well and feel well.

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What’s Inside

The Basics

• 100+ recipes, all of which are meatless


• 90% brand new recipes, plus a few blog favorites (better than ever!)


• 36 of the recipes offer tested “Change It Up” tips for how to change the recipe with the seasons, etc.


• Vibrant photos of every recipe


• Hardcover


ISBN-10: 1623367417


Published by Rodale Books


Official release date May 16, 2017

Chapters

• Introduction


• Good Morning


• Salads


• Soups


• Happy Hour


• Let’s Feast


• Sweet Treats


• Extras

Special Features

• Cooking tips and flavor boosters


• My favorite ingredients


• Foods for dogs


• Five steps to creating an epic salad


• Cooking cheat sheet: tape it inside your kitchen cabinets


• Menus and helpful recipe lists


• And more!

Special diet details

Each recipe offers special diet labels for the following categories, as applicable. The recipes offer simple dietary substitutions/modifications whenever possible (all thoroughly tested!).

• 100+ vegetarian recipes


• 97 dairy-free/dairy-free option recipes


• 95 egg-free/egg-free option recipes


• 97 gluten-free/gluten-free option recipes


• 89 nut-free/nut-free option recipes


• 100 soy-free/soy-free option recipes


• 96 vegan/vegan option recipes

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Bam! Books a Million

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Anthropologie

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