20 Minutes to Dinner: Quick, Low-Fat, Low-Calorie, Vegetarian Meals

EXCELLENT! A must have. I have been vegan for a little over 7 months now and this is the first book I've found that is consistently good, fast, healthy,economical,and so delicious that even my non-vegan husband didn't pull a face when I presented him with the carrot-oat patties and brown gravy. Recipes for substitutes for egg, meat, fish, cream, and cheese are found throughout the text (the Melty Pizza Cheeze is mild and not disgusting like a lot of the faux vegan subs)as well as quick meal suggestions. I own a few other vegan recipe books and, although they have beautiful recipes, I find that they are not fast or simple enough for the everday- gotta -get- the- meal- on-while-kids-are-screaming- life that I lead. Some say the recipes take 30 minutes-I don't think that matters. If it is under 45 minutes then it is a quick meal. Gourmet vegan menus can take hours sometimes. This book will be the one with gravy splatters and juice stains. I highly reccommend it.

I own four cookbooks by Bryanna Clark Grogan, and plan on buying the rest. They are all EXCELLENT. I was born and raised in New Orleans, so I think I can claim to know what good food tastes like. The negative reviews of this book just blow my mind. The only people who might not like Bryanna's recipes are folks who think a McDonald's drive through is gourmet eating. And Bryanna's recipe ingredients are not hard to find at all; I don't know what that reviewer is talking about. I live in the country, two hours drive from a major city, and most of the ingredients can be found in my local, very rural grocery store. For those in an urban environment, ANY health food store will have nutritional yeast flakes and kelp. Hello! Don't you have a Whole Foods or a Trader Joes? Switching to a vegetarian or vegan diet means opening your mind and having some new experiences, food-wise and shopping-wise. That is part of the fun. Grogan's Chinese cookbook exposed me to Chinese mock meats, and now I get to have a lot of fun shopping in Chinese markets when I go to town. Live a little! And the mock feta isn't going to taste *exactly* like feta...do you expect a vegetarian Boca burger to taste *exactly* like a Big Mac? As for the rice issue, I use Quick Brown rice, available in ANY grocery store...cooks in FIVE MINUTES! Some of you really need to expand your shopping and cooking horizons.

I have been a lacto-ovo vegetarian for many years and own more than a dozen cookbooks in this genre. I bought this book about 5 years ago and I continue to use it weekly. It is the very best one that I have seen. The recipes are delicious and easy to make. I have also found that they leave a lot of room to vary the recipe by suggesting other ingredients. The eggless salad is always a hit at potlucks - my husband didn't know the difference! My very favorite is the 20-minute risotto which you would think would be impossible but it turns out wonderful. The seitan fajitas and shepard's pie are fantastic too - I make them almost every other week.

These wonderful authors have come together and written a wonderful book. Bryanna Clark Grodan has written other great books such as, a no fat holiday cookbook for vegetarians and an authentic chinese cuisine cookbook. Otis May is the author of a great book called " Soups on". I have read all their books and I can hardly wait for either of them to write yet another great cookbook. I can not beleive anyone would rate this book low. IT IS FANTASTIC!! and it has great tasting, easy to make fast recipes that are not only delicious but FAT FREE!. I am not a vegetarian but I need to watch my weight because of high colesterol and these recipes are good tasting and help me with my diet. Not only will these meat, egg, and dairy-free recipes be just the thing for putting together a well-balanced dinner (on those nights when you just can't figure out where the time went), but they'll be just the thing for creating a quick snack or appetizer for unexpected company and making that who-has-time-to-cook lunch. Most of the recipes are based on the Mediterranean/Asian model using lots of grains, fruits, and vegetables. Nutritional analyses accompany each recipe. I think this is a great low fat cookbook and I highly recommend it.

GREAT recipes and very easy to make. Almost all of the dishes took less than 30 minutes to make and they were ALL delicious. I thought the spinach pizza was the best!. I have cooked most of these dishes for my family and everybody seems very pleased. The book offers many different foods such as, flavorful spanish rice, seafood, soups, appetizers, spagetti, lasagna, many salads and other fresh foods. The fish recipes were all great and I found them easy to make. The book takes you step-by -step into the preparation process. I was very satisfied with all the recipes contained in this book and the price is very reasonable.