COOK THIS: Love & Lemons Every Day by Jeanine Donofrio
Twice a month our writer cooks from the book and decides if these farm-to-table recipes are worth the investment.
When I was 16, I decided to become a vegetarian, a phase that only lasted for about two weeks. But I wonder how long it would have stretched if I had access to the world of vegetarian cooking blogs back then—friendly, cheerleading voices with tempting photos and a can-do attitude. Jeanine Donofrio’s blog, Love & Lemons has introduced many a curious young person to the world of vegetarian eating, and her second book, Love & Lemons Every Day (Avery Books; $35) is sure to continue the streak. Her style is light, bright and international, with a little North American comfort thrown in for balance. The recipes are vegetarian, and sometimes vegan. Think: baked red lentil falafel and a mushroom and white bean pot pie. The recipes are easily whipped up on a Wednesday night, and as a bonus there are charts and grids encouraging experimentation when making things like a salad dressings or scrambled eggs.
A recent lazy Sunday afternoon called for a casual, dippy snack, so I made Donofrio’s Loaded Butternut Squash Queso—warm and pleasingly orange, but without any actual queso (cheese). Butternut squash and potatoes are boiled, onions are sautéed and all three are added to the blender with cashews, olive oil, water, lemon juice, nutritional yeast, garlic, paprika, cayenne and salt, and then blended until smooth. To serve, it’s topped with guacamole, black beans, jalapeños, red onion and cilantro. Make no mistake, this was not a cheese dip. But it was oozy and delicious, and felt just as decadent.
With Donofrio’s kind voice and approachably creative recipes, Love & Lemons Every Day would be a lovely gift for the new vegetarian in your life. These recipes truly are for “every day,” making the cookbook a worthy pick for those of us trying to add Meatless Wednesdays to our Meatless Mondays.
Excerpted Love and Lemons Every Day: More than 100 Bright, Plant-Forward Recipes for Every Meal by Jeanine Donofrio. Copyright © 2019 Jeanine Donofrio. Photographs © 2019 by Jack Mathews, Jeanine Donofrio, and Christopher Broe. Published by Penguin Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.
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