Greens Glorious Greens!

I have been wanting to add greens to our family diet for years but needed help learning about the individual plants and how to cook them. This book is a good primer, teaching the reader about the general character of each of the most commonly available greens, what nutritional aspects they add to the diet, their flavor, texture, and how they combine with other foods to make a better meal. Importantly, the authors provide advice about the best (and worst) ways to cook each green. The recipes are simple and tasty. There are no pictures of completed recipes, but after trying one, the reader will probably not need pictures, simply because all the recipes end by gently tossing the ingredients. Nothing complicated here. A cookbook worth buying.

What impresses me most about this book is that the authors have been able to come up with a tremendous variety of ways to prepare the various types of greens without becoming repetitious or including any horrors. I created a kale dish from this book that became a newfound family favourite to my European parents--something I figure to be just short of a miracle, given a North American cookbook. The recipes are well thought out in terms of flavour and texture, and the vast majority have been planned out to taste perfect without meat, milk, cheese or eggs--a bonus for anyone that has to cook for both themselves and someone on any sort of special diet at the same time (and doesn't want to suffer). Even for the jaded cook, this book will provide tasty, natural, new ideas on what to do with a wide range of greens. I've been buying copies and handing them out like some sort of missionary. A great, unique book.

Organized by leaf, from arugula to wild greens, Albi and Walthers' book covers the buying, storing, cooking and nutritional value of 35 different greens. Each green is introduced with an illustration, and basic flavor and prep information, followed by recipes such as Apple Cinammon Beet Greens, Lemon-Rosemary Grilled Swordfish and Greens, Colcannon, Chinese Cabbage Salad, Spinach Pesto. Tips accompanying recipes include variations and advice on other ingredients from portabello mushrooms to soy sauce to toasting nuts. A useful guide and inspirational recipe book for the wide array of exotic and common greens now found together in every supermarket.

This book is a must for anyone interested in including greens into their diet. Each chapter is catagorized by specific green, describing in detail proper storage, cleaning and preparation instructions.There are simple everday recipes as well as great dishes you would serve guests. It has a broad array of recipes for side dishes, soups, main courses and salads. I got this book out of the library to sample it and just fell in love. I thought I'd make copies of the few recipes of interest. When I was done there were over 30 recipes of I wanted to make. I put it on my holiday list but have decided to buy it for myself now. I am buying about 5 more to give as gifts to my friends.Enjoy!

Leafy green vegetables are so healthy for you, but trying to figure out how to cook them was a huge challenge for me! I even found that main stream vegetarian cookbooks barely mentioned them! This book looks at each leafy green vegetable alphabetically and describes it, tells you what to look for when buying it, and gives between 5 an 10 recipes for cooking it. It covers everything from mustard, to kale, to chard, to chinese greens. I love this book! The recipes are easy and fast to prepare. I highly recommend this cookbook.