I was thrilled to win Helene of Tartlette’s recent give away for a copy of Heidi Swanson’s book, Super Natural Every Day
The book is simply amazing. Both the recipes and the food photography are just stellar.
The recipes focus on real food, natural food, and plant-based ingredients. Heidi shows us that you can make great meals, without being overly complicated or “fussy”. She allows plenty of room for substitutions and modifications in her recipes, which is precisely how I cook. Following a recipe to a T is not my strong suit.
Kale Salad. I’m a fan of those. As well as chocolate cococnut kale chips.
Even though there is simplicity in her recipes, by reading the ingredient lists, there is usually a unique ingredient in most dishes that provides a wow factor.
Pomegranate-Glazed Eggplant with Tempeh. That has some definite wow factor for me.
The recipes use an abundance of fruits and vegetables. It happens to be a vegetarian cookbook but I don’t think of it as a “vegetarian cookbook”. I think of it as a cookbook showcasing plant-based ingredients, whole grains, and making due with ingredients you have on hand without a lot of fuss.
Summer Squash Soup
I can’t wait to try Heidi’s Chickpeas
I make Carmelized Cinnamon Sugar Roasted Chickpea “Peanuts”
And her Oatcakes look great.
I may need to step away from the microwave with my Microwave Banana Oat Cakes with nut butter on top…
…and fire up the oven one of these days.She has a recipe for Baked Oatmeal that looks wonderful
Again, I may need to put down my own Microwave Blueberry Banana Oat Cakes to try her baked blueberry oatmeal.
And here’s Heid’s recipe for Tutti-Frutti Crumble
I love crumbles, like Raw Vegan Apple Crumble so I’m sure I’ll love her crumble!
Both Helene and Heidi are amazing cooks, photographers, and both are authors.
Helene’s book, From Plate to Pixel, just came out, too. I can’t wait to buy that one!
So many books, so little time.
Need any other cookbook reviews?
So many books. Anyone have a sumo wrestling team that needs to be fed?
I can’t wait to dig into Heidi’s book and start making things.
From my last post about Nicer Days and What to Make Next, hopefully you all get some nicer weather soon!
Thanks for sharing whether you have things on your radar screen that you’re wanting to make next and I also enjoyed reading whether you’re a creature of habit with your food and meals or whether you’re a try new things person. As I explained, I am both. Heidi’s book is perfect for the way I like to eat, as I discussed.
Time for dessert and a No Bake Vanilla Cake Batter Chocolate Truffle
They don’t use super or natural ingredients. But there is chocolate invovled which I think is super.
Questions:
1. Do you have any cookbooks that are on your wish list or any go-to cookbooks you can’t live without?
I have talked cookbooks many times and have a massive post about them with links to reviews on dozens and dozens of cookbooks I own. Check that out if you’re in the market but in a nutshell my cookbook must haves:
simple recipes that don’t take hours and hours to prepare
ingredient lists that aren’t a mile long or with hard to source/exotic/expensive ingredients
a focus on fresh, real food
beautiful photography (so many cookbooks have either no photos or poor quality. Not Heidi’s book, though. Plentiful and gorgeous images!)
2. Do you ever want to write a cookbook or a book?
I know, not firsthand but from what I’ve read and been told, that it is so much work to write a book!
Not just the actual writing of the book, but the proposals, finding an agent, editors, revisions, photographing it all. Oh you have to actually write the book, too. And if it’s a cookbook, knowing how to cook and create original recipes is a good thing.
It all sort of scares me off! Sort of.
Some days I dream and say maybe one day I will…but who knows.
For now, I write my blog posts twice a day and work full time and am a full time parent (often, a single parent while Scott travels). I don’t know how I’d write a book right now. But I never say never.
Anyone bitten by the writer’s bug out there? And if you are and want to share how you got started, fill me in! I’m all ears!
P.S. If you’re just catching up on posts from the weekend, here are mine since Friday:
- Nicer Days & What To Make Next
- White Chocolate Blondies with Chocolate Peanut Butter Frosting
- Spring Fever & Summer Excitement
- Bests & Winner
- Lovely Food
- At Home Workouts: DVDs & Podcasts
Hope your Monday is off to a good start!
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Yum, the book sounds amazing. Thanks for the review. I’ve yet to try roasted chickpeas, don’t know why, but I need to! Wow on the baked oatmeal.
1. Sure, I want to finish collecting Kristen Suzanne’s books and Ani’s next Asian book. Currently I’ve been using Ani and Jennifer Cornbleet’s books a lot, but I alternate.
2. Sure, it’d be a blast.
Some of those recipes look/sound divine! I’m a cookbook junkie. I love to read recipes, but hardly ever follow one. HAHA!!
you and me both on the following one :)
I like your cookbook must-haves. Mine are similar and is why I don’t own any cookbooks. I have never found any that have recipes I will actually eat that don’t take a million years to make and don’t require a million ingredients that I don’t have on hand. I have checked out numerous ones from the library and have copied the one to five recipes that I’ll find, but there never seems to be enough to justify buying it!
I need to use the library more too!
I’ve been thoroughly enjoying rice paper wraps. It’s almost time for me to go buy a new pack. Don’t want to run out :)
Did you find time to try making your own sushi rolls? If so, will you be blogging about it soon? Just call me Curious Beth ;)
no not yet!
Hi Averie, I love your blog, and I’m sorry to be a pedant, but I’m seeing this all over American blogs, and it drives me wild: it’s “make DO” not “make DUE,” from the phrase “make do and mend.” I’m so sorry and I’m probably going to be attacked, but it’s one of those things (along with “alot” instead of “a lot”) that I can’t stop myself typing about.
To show that I’m not just a random mean person, I’ve recently made your Coconut Oil Chocolate and I *adore* it, as does my mum who I’m trying to persuade to eat more healthily – I’d love to see her ditch the Cadbury’s for my homemade chocolate treats, but I doubt I’ll see the day :( – and I find your blog truly inspirational in my attempts to vegan-ize my diet: your straight-forward attitude and your simple-yet-always-delicious recipes are perfect! Thank you so much :)
It was simply a typo. Sometimes they happen when I am trying to write two posts a day and weed thru the 200+ blog related emails I get, daily.
And yes, thru is shorthand for through. And I know the difference :)
Glad you enjoy the blog and the chocolate. Thanks for reading!
Thank you for your reply! I forgot to tell you that I also made your Chocolate Protein Overnight Oats and I thought I was in heaven when I ate it … I must have eaten about fifty different types of overnight oats and it was by far the best, so thank you again :)
thanks for lmk you think my choc prot overnight oats are the best :)
I am definitely bitten by the writer’s bug :) I have a whole website devoted to it!
I recently finished the first half of my first novel and am pretty proud of that.
I love books of all sorts – fiction, memoirs, and I love cookbooks, where there are stories behind the recipes :)
Oh, and I would love to write my own cookbook some day. I’ve been interested in cooking since I was 14 or so, so it’s been a passion for a long time (for someone who is 22 it is yes).
But recently I’m so overwhelmed by everything that is schoolrelated, I don’t have much time to cook or write blogs…
I LOVE cookbooks, I’m kinda addicted to them… My collection is getting bigger and bigger and on top of that my wishlist is too. Super Natural Every Day is on it, Vegeterranean, Vegan Cookies invade your cookie jar, Vegan with a vengeance (I ordered that one yesterday), Eat, drink and be vegan, Everyday vegan, Vive le Vegan, Veganomicon, Appetite for reduction, My sweet vegan, … and many more. Lots of vegan cookbooks, they’re hard to get in Dutch (my mothertongue) so I order the ones I get to know from blogs etcetera.
I like how there are some papers sticking out of your cookbooks, it’s the same here!