Can anyone recommend a good vegetarian cookery book?

Have you tried the NHS app Be Food Smart? They have both vegi and meat with quick easy recipes.

Thank you all so much for your suggestions, and apologies for delay in my reply, but due to the high winds and rain our broadband connection at home got blown out! It has been like having my arm cut off. I too do not like HFW as I find him a little pompous and unrealistic, yes we could all go fully organic and cook on our eco Aga if we earned what he did from telling the rest of us what to do! I dont know why I didnt hink of Delia ( or Saint Delia is she is known in my house) as her recipes always work. I have Ottolnghi book, he is fab. So all I need to do is have a look at Amazon and see if I can find a Cranks book. Will keep you posted. Thank you all for your help.

I still use my Cranks cookery book, and am very fond of Rose Elliot and Delia too. (Roquefort cheesecake with pear salad!) My favourite right now is by Yotam Ottolenghi, who is Israeli but combines that with lots of Middle Eastern and Mediterranen ideas. He is not vegetarian, but many of his recipes are, and they are spicy and different.

(Bit late here to refer to the veal- but I became a vegetarian over 35 years ago, and the what finally convinced me was being in a queue at Dover docks while lorries full of veal calves drove on to the ferry. The sound will stay with me always.)

We were vegetarian for a few years, when everyone was at home, and I used a Rose Elliot book, also Sarah Brown. We were living near Hull at the time and she came to do a demonstration for a women's group I belonged to.
We still have no-meat meals 5 days a week.
Mostly I use lentils and other pulses for protein. Plus fish.

www.viva.org.uk has lots of recipes, including stuff about the 5:2 diet.

Maniac, she used to have a really good vegetarian restaurant in Scarborough. I have her books as well.
I recorded Scandimania and watched it last night. HFW going hunting for elk. I fast forwarded at the disembowelling, etc. That's why I do not like his vegetarian cookbook. I'd rather read recipes by someone who knows about vegetarianism.

We had a thread on this subject in 2011.
I've used Sarah Brown's 'Vegetarian Kitchen' for many years.First published by BBc in 1984 to accompany TV series of same name.
Also 'New Vegetarian Kitchen'-same author- published in 1987.
Both my copies are well-thumbed

More and more I'm going online for recipes. I have shelves full of cookery books and only use a couple from each book.

Online websites, like Delia or BBB Good Food means you can print off recipes or save them into a computer file.

I don't know Elliot's pasta book, so I can't comment on that, but I can't say that I've found other books of hers too simplistic. I will avoid her pasta book though...;)

I'm not keen on HFW but I'm not quite sure why. I find many of my recipes from magazines to supplement the recipe books I already have - there are often good veggie ones to be found.

Sorry.

Can you meat eaters go on another thread? The question was about vegetarian cookery books. We have been over the meat versus vegetarian and poor little cows topic before.
Someone bought me the HFW book, but I do not like the man. He's a bandwagon jumper. I would rather have a book from a vegetarian, although I do like the Simon Rimmer one.
Rowantree, I explained why I thought Rose Elliot simplistic.She tends to think that people do not know the basics. That's why I asked what sort of cook GillT was.

There is a bias against veal, because of the way "white veal" is produced. What became of the drive to produce "rose veal" from calves reared more healthily and happily?

More male calves are reared for beef these days as artificial insemination means that farmers can be more selective over the choice of bull. Fewer calves are now killed at birth and sent for dog meat.

Very few, Elegran as we don't have much of a veal industry in this country.

Dairy calves don't generally grow up as very good beef. That is why they arer converted into veal.

Once again, dairy and beef cattle are being confused.

Yes, I was just thinking about the meat aspect. As you were...

Yes they would Ana as cows need to calve in order to give milk.

I suppose they'd never have been born.

But what would happen to the bullocks if they didn't go for meat?

Dahlia, i was going to recommend Hugh and Delia, they are both excellent.

Simon Rimmer's The Accidental Vegetarian is also really good. If you live anywhere near Manchester his veggie restaurant Greens is well worth a visit.

I also use the good food website a lot.

Having been a vegetarian for 20 years, I didn't get on with Rose Elliott for some reason. I use Delia Smith Vegetarian Cookery and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's River Cottage Veg Every Day book - a great success. Oh, and a Good Housekeeping Vegetarian book is excellent. Otherwise I rely on a collection of recipes cut-out over the years from newspapers, magazines, etc. Even have one or two from Gordon Ramsay, delicious and tasty. And my old "Cranks" books come out, too - though they are falling apart!

I WUV Homity Pie, Sook! If it wasn't a Fast Day, I'd make it - perfect veggie comfort food
Rose Elliot simplistic? Well, maybe some of her recipes might be, but I've enjoyed using Gourmet Vegetarian Cooking, Your Very Good Health, A Foreign Flavour and a few others over the years.

I really love the Cranks recipe books though :D

I got my Homity Pie (yum yum) recipe by googling Cranks.

Veggie Chic by Rose Elliott has some great recipes and not in the least simplistic.

Hamlyn's Quick Cook Vegetarian is full of dishes that can be thrown together quickly when you're in a hurry.

There are plenty out there so have fun!