Vegetarian Southwest: Recipes from the Region's Favorite Restaurants

Most of the recipes in this book are right from the area where I live....I go to a lot of these restaurants and the recipes are right on! I was so excited when I saw this book in a little shop in Sedona and that was before I even knew they were restaurant recipes. This is a great addition to your cookbook collection even if you are a meat eater, like my hubby. Easy to follow recipes, common ingredients, nothing complicated, but such great flavors. Ya gotta try this book! I gave one to a friend who isn't a vegetarian and she uses it all time. A true taste of the southwest!

My family and I spent a week camping in northern New Mexico this past June and had a wonderful time! But my most spectacular 'find' was Lon Walters lovely little book full of the very best of regional recipes from the American Southwest! I don't care what other reviewers say about the book's organization, just open it up and make whatever appears on the page before you! Everything I have made so far has been wonderful and fun to make. My Swiss husband, 10-year old daughter and 14-year old son are equally ecstatic about everything I have made .. and I do NOT back off on the spicing at all! Some recipes are more involved than others (which I prefer), but nothing is so involved that you will be reticient to make it. Even non-vegetarians will appreciate these recipes. I have already given two copies of this book as gifts and am buying three more today!!! You cannot go wrong with these recipes. VEGETARIAN SOUTHWEST has become my favorite cookbook in a fleet of some 75!

Restaurant quality, but easy to make. Jalapeno Cheese bread is particularly good. A great survival cookbook for Southwesterners stranded temporarily on the East Coast.