Your best cookbook club book recommendation! It’s my turn to host for the year. No one is a full vegetarian but we’re all not huge meat eaters. We’re all adept cooks and fairly adventurous eaters.

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Kt · Answer

Start Simple: Eleven Everyday Ingredients for Countless Weeknight Meals: another staple for vegetarian-forward recipes that don't feel like they're trying to replicate meat-based dishes. good for all levels of cooking, and so many you can twist and tweak to your preferences and delight (looking at you roasted cauliflower herb salad and broken pasta with ricotta and walnuts)

Brigid · Answer

Third Culture Cooking: A friend recommended this after they did it for their own cookbook club. So many winners and great ideas to start from.

Maren Ellingboe King · Answer

In the Kusina: We just did this beautiful book in my cookbook club and it was a huge hit! It’s all vegetarian, very creative Filipino food. Everything was delicious!

Kt · Answer

Tenderheart: Cover to cover with amazing vegetable recipes, but also a beautiful family story. It's like the perfect cookbook had a baby with a dream coffee table book.

Some recipes from it on my summer rotation:

Cauliflower and Kale Pesto Pasta Salad with Burrata

Soy-Pickled Tomatoes with Silken Tofu

Carrot Peanut Satay Ramen

Hannah Swanson · Answer

By Heart by Hailee Catalano: this was a huge hit in my cookbook club! hailee is a superstar at using seasonal ingredients and making recipes that are fun yet approachable

Juliana · Answer

nothing fancy by Alison Roman: We have so many favorite books (and ours is a vegetarian cookbook club), but this meal was especially delicious.

Andrea · Answer

Six Seasons by Joshua McFadden: This book is split into Spring, Early Summer, Midsummer, Late Summer, Fall, and Winter and each section highlights vegetables that are in season at that time with the best recipes for them. We looove cooking from it and could not recommend more highly.