Notes about Recipes in this book

• Sriracha cilantro ranch dressing

  • patioweather on August 08, 2024

    This is incredible. It's like it's designed exactly for my partner.

• Balsamic Dijon vinaigrette

  • patioweather on May 04, 2023

    Pretty basic balsamic dressing. Got the job done!

• Marinated baked tofu

  • patioweather on August 09, 2024

    Basic recipe for baked tofu, intended to be used with the different marinades in the book. I used the maple bacon marinade, which was delicious. (I saved all my marinade to make a sauce later because it was that good.) WORD OF WARNING though. I used Hodo tofu which is quite dense, and the end result was a little too meaty--like a chicken breast cooked too long. I would have preferred a more standard tofu in this preparation.

• Korean BBQ [marinade]

  • patioweather on August 27, 2024

    I used this on pan fried Beyond steak tips and it was great. My omnivore partner loved it.

• Maple almost like bacon [marinade]

  • patioweather on August 08, 2024

    I really like this marinade.

• Sriracha ranch salad party

  • patioweather on August 09, 2024

    This is a beautiful and tasty salad. The base of the salad is what I would consider a typical "side salad," but the paired sriracha ranch dressing is fantastic, and the suggested tofu and nuts are also delicious. Just an FYI about this book is that it's more of what I would consider an "ingredient prep" book. Most of the book is dedicated to recipes for dressings and salad toppings, like different types of croutons and plant-based proteins. At the end are suggestions for combining them all, and that's where this recipe comes in. As such, if you made the recipe by itself from scratch, you would be creating multiple sub-recipes.

• Bacon crunch nuts and seeds

  • patioweather on August 08, 2024

    I keep snacking on these even though I kind of burnt them. I used mixed nuts.

• Caesar walnuts

  • patioweather on May 04, 2023

    The flavor on these was very intense. I personally found it too intense, but one of my friends could not stop eating them.

• White sweet potato salad with spinach zhug dressing

  • patioweather on August 19, 2024

    This dressing is very lemony; more lemony than herby. It's beautiful though. Maybe I had an especially strong lemon or didn't measure carefully.

• Korean shiitake bacon salad rice bowl

  • patioweather on August 27, 2024

    This was great. It has a million components so I thought it would take forever, but it really didn't. I didn't dress the vegetables and instead just seasoned them. I blanched the spinach in the microwave. I also used pre-cut cauliflower. I had issues with the mushrooms but it was my own fault. I cooked it the amount of time specified, and tasted a few and they were amazing. However, I thought they could be a little bit crunchier, so I put them in for longer and burnt them.

• Gochujang dressing

  • patioweather on August 27, 2024

    I added a little bit of agave to make it taste more like what I am used to in restaurants.

• Buffalo tomato soup with kale Caesar salad

  • patioweather on September 17, 2024

    We really enjoyed every part of this. I don't usually like buffalo-flavored things, but it's very subtle here and this ended up being one of my favorite tomato soups. I added roasted brussels to the salad and used store-bought croutons instead of the book ones, and both were good choices. My boyfriend, who made the soup, does want it noted that the recipe says to use a 2 qt pot, but the recipe MAKES 2 qts of soup so if you follow those instructions, you will have a mess in your kitchen.

• New Catalina dressing

  • hbakke on August 21, 2023

    This tasted different (and smokier) than what I was expecting, but it made a nice dressing. I made a few substitutions so that may have affected the end result. I used a bit of red onion in place of shallots and golden syrup in place of agave nectar. I would make this again with shallots as the red onion was too strong a flavor.

• Savory sesame tamari [marinade]

  • christineakiyoshi on May 19, 2023

    Quite delicious! I used tofu.

• Wasabi miso lime dressing

  • christineakiyoshi on May 19, 2023

    This dressing is to die for. I doubled the amount of wasabi used.

• Peanut avocado brown rice crunch bowl

  • christineakiyoshi on May 19, 2023

    This is absolutely delicious. Some substitutions are that I used white rice, a lemon cucumber from the garden. I didn't have any avocado or sushi ginger on hand so omitted it. This is incredibly filling!

• Steamed seitan cutlets

  • samfrances on July 22, 2024

    The dough was very wet for this. I wonder if the recipe calls for too much liquid.

• Lazy seitan gyro spinach salad

  • samfrances on July 22, 2024

    Very tasty indeed. The dressing, the croutons and the seitan are especially good. However, I feel like I spent all day in the kitchen.