There’s so many tempting recipes in Appetite for Reduction, I can’t seem to put the cookbook down. The thought of trying any one of those 125 recipes follows me around all day like a little puppy. Besides the 2nd Avenue Vegetable Korma, here’s what I’ve made so far:
- Pad Thai Salad (pictured above) – one of my favorite Thai dishes but in a refreshing salad form. The Peanut-Lime Dragon Dressing that goes on it, totally makes the salad. The dressing is a little bit on the thin side. Blending it in a mini food processor, some of the liquid leaked out, but none of the flavor. I’ve been using the dressing on all sorts of other things.
- Easy Breezy Cheezy Sauce – so easy to make. I had it with butternut squash ravioli, but really I could just eat it by the spoonful.
- Scallion Potato Pancakes (pictured above) – it’s hard to find a good rendition of scallion pancakes in restaurants, usually they’re way too greasy. So it’s nice to be able to make a baked version at home out of potatoes. It doesn’t taste exactly like the ones made out of flour but it’s still very tasty.
- Cranberry-Cashew Biryani – not really a brown rice eater, but I like it in this recipe. The yummy flavors helped a lot.
I really liked cooking from this cookbook, I think you’ll like it too. So I’m giving away a copy of Appetite for Reduction.
To enter the giveaway:
Leave a comment in this post with your worst vegan junk food addiction (because you know, acknowledgment is the first step). Comment must be made by midnight PST on Monday, February 21st; one entry per person. No purchase is necessary to enter or win.
One winner will be randomly selected (using random.org) from the comments received and announced in a new post on Tuesday, February 22nd. Winner will have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be randomly chosen. Prize awarded is the cookbook that I received from the publisher (approximate retail value $19.95). I did not drool on it.
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There are these vegan/GF taquitos we get at a local HFS, they are amazing. I used to lovex10 regular taquitos, so when we found these… love at first bite. They only have about 8 ingredients, all pronounceable, so I guess they’re not too bad :-)
I know this isn’t ‘veganized’ junk food, but I love blue corn tortilla chips. A bag rarely lasts a week..
chocolate. usually just semisweet chips straight from the bag…
This book sounds awesome. I love scallion pancakes and definitely welcome a good recipe for a lighter-than-usual version.
My vegan junk food addiction is French fries, straight up…or sometimes doused with veg chili. I definitely have difficulty resisting crispy, fried potatoes.
My vegan junk food addiction are the flaxseed veggie tortilla chips from trader joe’s with cilantro/jalapeno hummus.
Thanks for the opportunity ! Linh
What a coincidence! I’ve been seeing this book since morning, everywhere on net. Here you come with same book giveaway. Woull love to have this one too! :)
My biggest guilty pleasure vegan treat totally took me over this week: vegan cocoa-almond butter. My friend makes extremely delicious nut butters, and recently created a cocoa-almond butter that is to die for! She even makes truffles out of them! She gave me about 1/3 cup of the stuff on Tuesday morning and by Wednesday night it was all gone!
My name is sweetkaroline and I am addicted to eating dark chocolate morning, noon, and night.
11 more steps;)
my mom sent me vegan choc. chip cookies for v day…. let’s just it hasn’t been pretty.
Potato Chips! They’re my weakness. >:o
My vegan addiction is also chocolate chips. I grab handfuls out of the bag when I feel a craving – which is way too often!
Hi there! I have seen you are enjoying this new cookbook. Thanks for the giveaway.
My worst addiction french fries or oven roasted potatoes with lots o’ ketchup!
My vegan addiction to mac and cheese – and not the “healthy” cheese sauce made with nutritional yeast and veggies, but straight up melted Daiya milk earth balance flour salt/pepper. YUM!
Definitely chocolate. :)
I will meekly admit that I could eat an entire bag of tings in no time flat. I have no control over those little salty, crispy sticks!
oreos. Full of hydrogenated fat and yumminess.
Hi! So glad I’m doing my blog catch up today! I’ve seen this book everywhere and it looks amazing.
I am a baking machine and no cake, try of brownies or dozens of cookies makes it longer than 2 or three days in the home I live in by myself :X I also go a bit crazy making ice cream sundaes. So Delicious with chocolate chips, nuts, fruit, crumbled cookies, cereal, everything goes!
Its a toss up..either dark chocolate or crunchy peanut butter…or I guess together would be ok, too.
If I have to narrow it down to one, its the crunchy peanut butter. My peanut butter jar has my name on it and usually has spoon marks inside….
My worst vegan junk food addiction is probably pizza.
This is so easy: double chocolate Newman O’s! I can’t even keep them in the house, because once they’re there, they’re going to be devoured with as many glasses of soymilk as it takes to finish the box, as quickly as possible. So delicious, SO addictive.
Oh geeze, where to start. Salty greasey snacks are my first choice guilty pleasure. (like french fries) So if I don’t have those around, I make homemade guacamole & chips/salsa. Can’t put the stuff down.
I love this book! So many people were blogging about it, that I had to order it. Isa ROCKS & is leading us towards a plant-based vegan eating pattern, rather than vegan junk food.
Oreos, I can’t buy them because I’ll finish them all by myself
Definitely vegan cheese.. I eat it way too much.
Daiya nachos. They are good to pass up late night!
lately it’s been peanut butter chocolate coconut ice cream.
Candy! and vegan frito pie…i’m ashamed.
Chocolate chip cookies. I could just eat and eat and eat. Oh and Daiya too.
My biggest weaknesses are from other Isa cookbooks! I LOVE the vegan chocolate chip cherry cookies from the Veganomicon. The cowboy cookies and chocolate pillows from her cookie cookbook are awesome too!
Chocolate anything is my weakness. I’d eat chocolate covered kale if I could figure out how to do it.
chocolate. or granola. crunchy amazing granola. i could eat it by the handful!
I love chocolate! Yum :)
Carob chips!
I have two of Isa’s cook-books, visit the blog, enjoy all four (including the recipes I have tried). All the buzz about “Appetite for Reduction” is bound to be well deserved. Would be a welcome addition to my shelf(ves). Thanks to Isa and thanks for the chance.
Favorite naughty food = white potatoe anything. Mashed turnips, while a noble idea just don’t compete. Sweet potatoe oven fries are great, but not the greatEST. sigh…
There’s SO many yummy vegan junk food to choose from… But if I had to pick it would be….Vegan pizza, with daiya cheese or any vegan cheese, and tons of veggies on top. Mmmmm…. I can knock out an entire large in one sitting and I’m a little gal.
I’m addicted to Justin’s Chocolate Hazelnut Butter; it’s really life-changing.
I love your blog and would be ecstatic to win a copy of AFR.
I already own that book so don’t pick my name but I just wanted to say that I love it!! I’ve made a bunch of the recipes already and so far they’ve all be amazing. My favorite vegan snack is probably my raw brownies http://cleangreensimple.com/2011/02/raw-vegan-brownies/
Vegan ice cream (especially Tempt hemp milk ice cream) is my biggest weakness. Thank goodness the price prevents me from buying it all the time!
I have all of Isa’s books except AFR, so I would love a copy!
chocolate chips dandies or sweet and sara marshmallows. i’m pretty happy with my vegan junk food habits & have no plans to change them, but i’d still love to win this book! thanks.
Probably vegan brownies…SO good!
Courtney
i am getting pretty addicted to daiya. i have been eying this book for a long time, and just starting my weight loss journey to be a healthy happy vegan (vegan for 3 years, have gained 30 pounds) i think i really need this!
potato chips! oh, and chocolate anything…
i’ve already got a copy, but i wanted to say i’ve considered just going through the book and cook all the recipes for a long while, too. dan and i have had the bleck-eyed pea tempeh bean balls over brown rice pasta with Isa’s cajun marinara, the thai tofu, the basil green beans, and i absolutely adore the red lentil soup with lemon. oh my goodness, it’s amazing! i cannot wait to try out the salad and those scallion pancakes, too. mmmmmmmmmmm! everything looks so awesome – and i love that it’s just as gloriously good as it all looks!
Vegan gummi bears from my local co-op. They are delicious, but pure sugar (and seaweed)
hello! i am TOTALLY addicted, to the point where i CANNOT buy them, is Trader Joe’s Pita Chips with Sea Salt. Lordy, scarf these down life a crazy person. Krazy.
I am horribly addicted to brownies. They’re so delicious! I make at least a batch a week.
French fries, for sure!
I’ve gotten myself thoroughly and embarrassingly addicted to Uncle Eddie’s chocolate chip cookies…. I made the mistake of buying a bag once, and now I can’t seem to ever leave Whole Foods without one.
My worst vegan food addiction has to be vegenaise – I won’t explain how I eat it that is so embarassing but let’s just say I don’t just reserve it for sandwiches! That stuff is crack. ;)
Mmmm. That salad looks scrumptious!
I have issues with homemade guacamole, Daiya and Whole Foods crunchy peanut butter (not even the organic kind because the regular is perfectly salted). At least two of those three things contain nutrients . . .
My favorite vegan junk food is always going to be proper English chips (fries) from a proper English chippy, covered in salt and vinegar!!! Makes me homesick thinking about them, and I’ve not found any here in the US yet.
Love your site BTW!
I’m torn between kettle corn and dark chocolate. :) Cannot wait to see this book– everything looks and sounds DELICIOUS!
I LOVE the cover! So cute!
Veggie burgers with hot sauce. yup.
Potato Chips! Especially kettle chips. Now I want chips.
My vegan junk food addictions are Mint Newman O’s and Sweet Chili Dorito’s.
hands down, So Delicious ice cream sandwiches :)
Skittles. Chocolate chip cookies (tollhouse recipe with earth balance and egg replacer). Anything fried. mmmmmmm!
You’re making a very good case for owning this cookbook. The scallion pancakes have pretty much convinced me I need it. I have a loving relationship with deep fried tofu. Is that junk food?
French fries! All the way.
Vegan chocolate cake from my local co-op. i can never shop there without leaving with a piece….or two
Where do I start… Sweets: those peanut butter bars from Hell Yeah It’s Vegan absolutely slay me. An entire batch is lucky (lucky!) to last a week. Salty: Dorito’s Salsa Verde chips. I don’t buy them, because they reduce me to a Golem-like creature. Savory: Give me some Mexican food from Pokez in San Diego! Potato flautas that will bring you to your knees in prayer to Guadalupe.
this book sounds amazing!
my junk food addiction are these amazing vegan sweet corn tamales my mom makes. i cant helpmyself when she makes them.
definitely tings… i have no control when it comes to those salty, cheezy, crunchy little guys!
Anything from vegan cupcakes take over the world is ridiculously delicious and addicting. I find myself craving those damn cupcakes at the worst times, like right after yoga or a run!
Vegan chocolate all the way…
I’m currently on a french onion dip kick. I just blend silken tofu up and add a packet of dry onion soup mix. Yum. And of course I’m dipping waffle fries, onion rings, or potato chips instead of carrot sticks :)
Vegan cake and pimento “cheese” sauce with tortilla chips (well it’s just the chips that are bad).
nachos…non dairy sour cream and cheese…olives.. quacamole…salsa…fatty deliciousness
So funny, I was just glancing through this at the book store the other way and decided I couldn’t purchase it because I have yet to make my way through so many others! But I really want it….
my favorite vegan junk food is dreena burton’s homestyle chocolate chip cookies…i dont really think they are junk though since they are just as tasty with spelt flour.
Cherry chocolate Soy cream from Trader Joe’s!
Um… french fries, hands down!! Seasoned, wedges, waffle, sweet, curly, crinkle – you name it!!
potato chips and vegan chocolate ice cream (or any flavor including chocolate). Also french fries and vegan doughnuts when I can find them.
Lara bars, hands down favorite! Guess not really junk food, but super addicting.
My worst vegan addiction is fried avocados with “ranch” dipping sauce.
I absolutely love homemade vegan ice cream with cookies!