Because The Vegan Spiralizer (which is available for preorder!) is my second cookbook, I knew a bit more what to expect… so this time around, I saved some fun pictures of “the process” to share with you all!
Groceries
Just to give you an idea of the amount of ingredients that go into creating a cookbook, here is my grocery haul for about 1.5 days worth of cooking…
That’s two full-sized reusable bags, two medium-sized reusable bags, and 2 plastic bags (because I just didn’t bring in enough bags!) – that’s a lot of ingredients for less than 2 days of cooking, eh?
I spent a lot of time shopping, and that doesn’t even take into account the time I spent thinking about new recipes, outlining them, making lists… Come to think of it, I wish I had kept a time log so we’d know exactly how long it took! It also would’ve been fun to take a picture of EVERY grocery haul!
Recipe Sneak Peeks
Here are a few of my favorite dishes from the new book!
Mmmmmm this gooey cheesy goodness is Potatoes au Gratin, made with both sweet and Yukon gold potatoes, TONS of cheese, and covered in a crispy panko crust! Looking at this now… let’s just say I might make it this weekend haha!
These Apple Walnut Muffins proved to be a real challenge. If all 101 recipes in this book were my actual human children, these muffins are the one child that would’ve been sent away to boarding school.
Granted, the challenges were mostly my fault. You see, while writing my first book, I kept my laptop open on the island counter, typing any last-minute changes or substitutes into the recipe outline that I had started with. This time around, I switched to keeping the outline on my laptop, while handwriting notes in a dedicated notebook. I thought it would be easier, and in many ways it was.
Except for the first time I made these muffins. They came out PERFECTLY! Moist, not too dense, and with a ton of apple flavor. But when I went back to look at the recipe again so I could share it with my recipe testers, I realized I had neglected to include the amount of flour I had used. SMH. WTF. FML. I had to make them FIVE MORE TIMES just to get the flour amount back to correct. But then I also made an error when I typed up the recipe for my testers and included some wonky baking temperature that couldn’t possibly have been correct… like 463 degrees, or something silly like that. So I made them again to figure out the right temperature. Then I made them two more times because by this point I was just so nervous about them!
TL;DR, these muffins are delicious and I’ve baked them approximately 47 times.
Finally, the potato salad I just cannot get enough of. First, because it is Wasabi Potato Salad and I love the flavor of wasabi. Second, because it uses white sweet potatoes for a surprising first bite. And finally, because it’s all SPIRALIZED!
And that was the most fun part of writing this book… taking recipes we all love (like potato salad) and presenting it in an entirely different way.
If that sounds like fun to you, too, you should definitely head over to Amazon and preorder your copy of The Vegan Spiralizer Cookbook – there are 101 recipes in there that I think you’ll love!
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