Product Description

Whether they are full- or part-time vegetarians, this guide should inspire readers to find pleasure in creating innovative meals. With easy-to-find ingredients, most of the recipes featured require less than 40 minutes to prepare.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #332108 in Books
• Published on: 2000-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 216 pages

Review
...longtime vegetarian Allrich takes a fresh approach to cooking with this delightful new book. Emphasizing simplicity without sacrificing flavor... -- Cape Woman Magazine, June 2000

A good book for those of you who want to begin working vegetarian recipes into your diet...lots of fun and creative recipes. -- Creations Magazine, September 2000

Festive festival meals don't only belong to seder-making Jewsand Yule-log eating Christians. Goddess worshippers, too, can make meals celebrating the seasons. If you're a witch who is stumped for celebratory recipes, look no further than Karri Allrich's "Recipes from a Vegetarian Goddess." Celebrating Spring Equinox? Try serving cream of carrot soup and curried stuffed eggs. Looking for the proper libation to serve on Beltane (May Day)? Mix up a pitcher of May wine. For Summer Solstice, try chilled potato leek soup and curried slaw; on Imbloc (Candlemas), bake Irish soda bread and a pear crisp. Allrich does more than reel off recipes. She urges readers to make preparing meals a spiritual experience--call on Hestia, as you "patently stir a soul-satisfying soup" and Aphrodite as you pull chilled wine glasses out of the freezer or place a vase of fresh-cut flowers on your table. And recognize that taking time for a good meal honors the Goddess, and connects bread-breakers to her and to each other. Bon Appetit! (Beliefnet, June 2000) -- From Beliefnet

This delightful book is a welcome reminder that we are constantly surrounded by the sacred-it's even on our plates! -- The Beltane Review, Winter - Marisa Young reviewer

About the Author
Karri Allrich (New England) is an artist, writer and cook who incorporates the Goddess into all aspects of her life. She shares her home and studio with her husband Steve Allrich, an author/artist, and their two sons. Karri has completed her second book, "A Witch's Book of Dreams" and is currently working on a third; another cookbook due out in 2002.

Customer Reviews

Seasonal Feasts!
This book is filled with delicious, easy to prepare healthy meals. I am not a vegetarian, but do have a few vegetarian cookbooks. My other books contain recipes with hard-to-find ingredients, which makes it difficult to try something new! This book, unlike those, had ingredients available at my local grocery store, fast, flavorful meals and in an easy to read format.

This book is also divided into seasons, which I find to be VERY nice. Once, I had gone to an herbalist in Chinese medicine, and the doctor there told me that I was eating the wrong foods. I was confused, as I was eating salads! How unhealthy is that? She explained, because it was winter, I should have been eating warming foods; foods that are harvested in the wintertime, such as oranges, soups etc. I was really quite surprised, yet it made sense.

Later, I took an herbal healing class. In that class, the instructor stated that in a region where there is poison oak, for example, there is another herb capable of healing a poison oak reaction. I thought about that for a while, and fused these two ideas of thinking.

We are provided with foods that are nourishing to us in the appropriate season to where we live. That does not mean you can never eat pineapples in the north, but that you should take advantage of the bounty available to you while it is in season.

Karri Allrich presents this book in an effortless fashion, with little excerpts to go with each recipe, as well as sample menus for appropriate Pagan holidays. Her recipes are flavorful, and quick and easy to make. I look forward to her future cookbook, "Cooking by Moonlight, 13 Menus for 13 Moons" due out in 2002.

Examples of her recipes include: Bruschetta, Huevos Rancheros, Bear Dreamer's Walnut Biscotti, Spicy Hummus, Roasted Winter Vegetables and May Wine.

I would highly recommend this book for your kitchen!

Vegetarian cookbook with a dash of Goddess lore
I love this book! It is divided into 4 sections, following the seasons, and gives recipes for the 8 Wiccan Sabbats. Each section begins with a bit of Goddess lore. There is a magic to the book that anyone can appreciate - whether you love the Goddess, food, or both!

I like the recipes because they are mostly vegetable, bean, and pasta based. There is some dairy - mostly for the desserts - and a little tofu. The ingredients can be found at any local supermarket and no special kitchen equipment is required.

Do yourself a flavor and buy this book!!!

Recipes to please any Goddess and her family
After preparing the Tortellini with Sun-Dried Tomatoes and Feta on page 23 of the Everyday Feasts section of "RECIPES FROM A VEGETARIAN GODDESS", I knew this cook book was going to be a winner. The dish's easy preparation with delectable results inspired me to turn to the variety of other unusual entrees, plus the offerings of soups, salads, and deserts all with enticing flavors and Goddess inspired combinations. Especially helpful is the Vegetarian Goddess' Pantry that appears at the beginning of the book, which lists "must have on hand items" to make the menu planning and preparation of these innovative recipes with ease. You will delight in all this book has to offer, from the visually stunning cover painted by the artist/author KARRI ALLRICH, to reading her beginning comments before each recipe, to the many splendid offerings you can easily prepare and enjoy. You will turn to this book time and time again for healthy and delicious meal planning. This would be a beautiful gift for a loved one, too, whether they are vegetarian or not...the recipes are for all to discover and savor. The book is now first in line in my row of cook books and I look forward to trying every one of these dishes through the seasons.