The PDQ (Pretty Darn Quick) Vegetarian Cookbook: More Than 240 Healthy and Easy No-Prep Recipes for Busy Cooks

This book is absolutely wonderful!!! Both my husband and I work full time, are in school, and have an 18 month old daughter to care for, so needless to say, things are a little hectic. Add to that that I am a vegetarian and he is a meat eater, and cooking dinner has pretty much been impossible. However, with this book it is actually feasable for us to have homecooked meals. The recipies have a variety of inspirations, ranging from Italy to Mexico and Thailand to Japan. I love cooking, and we all love good food, so it is wonderful to be able to cook healthy, good tasting meals again. Also, the meals are so good, that my husband says that he does not mind being meatless at most of his meals! One of the things that we appreciate the most is that there are not any really hard to find ingrediants and the recipies do not rely on tofu or setien or other meat substitutes. They are just GOOD recipies without any meat. For people who would like to have good home-cooked meals, but do not have time to spend all day (or even a couple of hours) in the kitchen, I wholly reccomend the book. I am finally cooking and enjoying dinner again!

This book is terrific. It is easy to use with clear instructions. The food produced is excellent - little prep is necessary, and the recipes almost always call for the amount of each ingredient that is actually sold in most stores. So, if the recipe calls for 6 oz of something, it is probably available in a 6 oz size. There is no waste that way. Also easy to double the recipes and the food is great as leftovers, as well. This cookbook has made a huge change - for the better - in my daughter's life. She has little time and even less kitchen space. Every recipe that she has tried has been easy and wonderful.

This book strikes a perfect balance. It is quick and easy, but at the same time it is creative and delicious. I enjoy the creative aspects of cooking, but I have limited time to cook many evenings, so this book is ideal. So many cookbooks go to one extreme or the other - either they have easy but boring and obvious recipes, or they have great tasting recipes that take all day and have 50 exotic ingredients. This book avoids both extremes, making it a great resource for everyday cooking for a family. Additionally, it is full of vegan recipes and vegan options - although I am not strictly vegan, I prefer vegan recipes for health reasons. Because of my happy experience with this book, I have added another of the author's books, "Vegan Italiano" to my wish list. If you want to expand your repertoire of quick and easy recipes, and at the same time have more variety and flavour on the table, this book is a great choice!

PDQ stands for "pretty darn quick" and vegetarian veteran Donna Klein's The PDQ Vegetarian Cookbook is specifically designed to showcase 240 nutritious, delicious, palate pleasing, "no-prep" recipes for today's time-stressed kitchen cooks seeking meatless menus for themselves and their families. Including more than 100 vegan dishes, the recipes comprising this "must have" addition to any vegetarian cookbook collection ranges from Easy Appetizer Burritos; Smoked Provolone and Roasted Red Pepper Panini; Asian-Style Coleslaw; and Mushroom Stroganoff Noodles; to Stir-Fried Cinnamon-Curried Rice with Peas, Dried Fruit, and Coconut; Creamy Polenta with Parmesan; Roasted Carrots with Chutney; and Blueberries in Cassis over Lemon Sorbet. No cutlery, graters, juicers, electric mixers, blenders, or food processors are required. Enhanced with tips on using convenience foods and with comprehensive nutritional analysis for each individual, "30-minutes or less" recipe, The PDQ Vegetarian Cookbook is a "must" for working spouses and parents with a vegetarian life style.