Vegetarian Cookbooks

The Vegetarian Epicure by Anna Shaw.
I got my first copy in the mid-seventies after discovering Rose Elliot's Not Just A Load Of Old Lentils was indeed just a load of old lentils. The memory of her 'Shepherd's Pie' (lentils underneath, shredded wheat on top) is seared on my memory, and not in a good way. Like eating wet sawdust with an MDF topping.
The Vegetarian Epicure has undergone loads of revisions, which I discovered after I gave my well-worn copy to a friend of my son's and bought a new one & some of my favourite recipes were no longer there.

Cuisine Imaginaire by Roselyne Masselin.I bought it many years ago when we had friends visiting who had recnetly become vegetarian ,it has menus for all four seasons and lots of nice veggie things that were quite hard to come by in the early 90's.I was so impressed by some of the food I produced from it that I became vegetarian

Oh, sounds interesting Paddyane, shall have a look at that one. I have found that some of the older vegetarian cookbooks are lots of interestingly arranged vegetables with little else.

LondonGranny delighted to find another fan of The Vegetarian Epicure! - must get another copy if it's still in print.

..which it is, but dated 2014, so I'm afraid I, too, will find my favourite recipes no longer there..

The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook by Jane Price - you can still get copies but it must be over 20 years old. I also love Rose Elliot's Vegetarian Christmas. I do the "chestnut and red wine pate en croute" most winters. Nowadays I tend to look for recipes on youtube. For basic cookery methods and recipes I still use my Marguerite Patten Perfect Cooking that I got when I was first married in 1972. It usually has the answer.

Rose Elliot's Not Just a Load of Old Lentils.
I bought it when it first came out, lost it in a house move, and later managed to buy a copy from ?Amazon.
I still refer to it, even though we're not vegetarian now, but I like to make a veggie main course once a week.

I've been using 'Laurel's Kitchen' for almost 30 years, not just a cookbook, also a good read.

The BOSH! all plants cookbook is the best new book. All the recipes we’ve cooked from there have been excellent.

Any of Rose Elliott's. The old Cranks book (which I needed just last week). Modern ones: Anna Jones, whose respect for ingredients and nurturing flavour is always an inspiration.

I like 1000 Vegetarían Recipes which I bought for a fiver in Woolworths 20 years ago but we are much taken with the new Jamie’s cookbook

A recent acquisition is The Green Roasting Tin by Rukmini Iyer - fantastic. Loads of very tasty one tin recipes which suit my style of cooking perfectly. I say style, of but I actually don’t enjoy cooking at all so the less time spent doing it the better!

Inspired by this thread, have just bought the Jamie book - here's to good eating! (assuming I get around to acually making the recipes...)

I have just bought the Abel and Cole one

I just Google and save, or write them down off the tv, can't be bothered buying books they can be so expensive.

We eat a mostly vegetarian diet as we grow a lot of our own fruit and veg. I have a couple of veggie cook books but find the best way to source new recipes is decide what veg we're having then type it into a search engine and choose from the many recipes that pop up.

I write my favourites down in a blank recipe book that I got from Amazon.

I did buy Jamie's new book but my granddaughters nabbed it.

Just remembered - a friend gave me Weight Watchers own book called Veggie and it’s excellent

To be honest, these days I mainly go to the internet for new recipes. But over the years I have built up quite a collection of my own, which I tend to refer to when I can't think of anything imaginative without help. But I do find that most recipes can be adapted by substituting vegetarian options instead of meat.

Rose Elliot, especially The Bean Book.
The first Cranks book.

Any recipe book by Yottam Otolenghi.

My go to ones are The Vegetarian Athlete’s Cookbook by Anita Bean, Complete Vegetarian Cookbook by Rose Elliot and River Cottage Veg Every Day - i hardly ever look at my other recipe books x

Simon Hopkinson, Cranks, Yotem Ottalengi and Linda McCartney.....

Modern Vegetarian Cookery by Walter and Jenny Fleiss - no longer modern, but some lovely recipes, their red cabbage is to die for. Anna Shaw's Vegetarian Epicure, worth buying for the Potatoes Romanoff and Mushrooms Berkeley apart from anything else. And a tiny, wartime booklet from The Vegetarian Society that was my mum's - the recipes are, generally, as dull as ditch-water, but I can remember mum making some of them.