This book has so many recipes I want to try starting with Nutty No Knead Spelt Bread. I think I am going to love it. Lots of cookbooks have recipes for veggie burgers. That is true of this one as well but this one goes further and provides a formula for mixing and matching. That is going to get a lot of use. The recipes in this cookbook inspired me to order a different cookbook from the same authors.

This is a great book. The recipes are absolutely wonderful.

A wide variety of interesting and delicious looking plant-based recipes.

Plant based recipes from appetiser to dessert ........ Wonderful vegetarian recipes........

Great recipes & wonderful pictures! I enjoyed learning more about a PlantPure life.

I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.

Great forward by T.Colin Campbell. Kim is his daughter in law. Her food was used in the immersion meal programs in the 2015 documentary film, PlantPure Nation (now on Netflix), which shows the positive impact on health people get when eating food from this book. This is a companion cookbook to the documentary. I was so happy to get some fresh recipes.

Excellent book! I am so thankful to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me the digital copy to read in an exchange for a review. I recently began following a WFPBD (whole foods plant based diet) and have had a lot of success with weight loss and reversing type 2 diabetes. I was very interested in trying some new recipes after my initial 30 days of "giving it all a try". This book delivers. Kim Campbell provides us with over 150 plant based recipes. I made and loved the Spinach Lasagna. My husband, who is still a meat lover, enjoyed it as well! The Buffalo Beans and Greens were delicious.

Highly recommended for your health of for the planet!

This cookbook features a forward by T. Colin Campbell, and seems to adhere to the eating habits recommended in [book:The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted And the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, And Long-term Health|178788].

The recipes are colorful, flavorful and delicious. They also draw from cuisines from around the world. They are original and written clearly. There is a lovely chapter on breads and muffins (Strawberry Rhubarb Streusel Muffins!!) The only thing I did not like was the font chosen for the recipe titles and section headings. I found it difficult to read.

I prepared the Sweet Mayan Lasagna, with great results and rave reviews, excepting that the amount of ingredients in the recipe did not seem to fit into the size of baking dish recommended. Or, just my user error. And the Japanese Curried Veggies were tasty, and the curry sauce had the same texture that I remember seeing in Japan, although the flavor was a bit different, maybe even lackluster. I think it was because I used unsweetened almond milk, which can be bland. I will definitely make both recipes again and use cashew or soy milk, or maybe ripple.

Other interesting recipes that I will try next are Aztec Quinoa, and African Wraps.

Overall, very well done and worth a read.

Really interesting book. I've been interested in including more plant-based food in my diet and this book has been very informative and given me plenty of ideas.

My daily menus consist of many plant based meals and I am always trying to spice them up and make them more appealing and tasty for my family so they will continue to eat what I make. This book was exactly what I needed. I love the recipes and pictures and creativity of the interesting flavors. Her tips and advice on the Veggie Burger Formula so they always come out good was right on. And the Toasted Cheez Sandwich is a family favorite. Subbing nutritional yeast for cheese flavor, who knew.

I've been vegetarian for nearly 30 years, I'm always looking to eat healthier plus I want to lose weight for my daughter's wedding so this book seemed like the perfect option.

My problem is, and I've found this with a lot of other health/vegetarian books I've read lately is that I just can't bring myself to try certain foods. This is a fault with me, I know I should be more adventurous but I'm not, tofu is one of these foods now I have eaten it in restaurants but its just when it comes to doing it myself I'm the same with eggs.

I'm happy being vegetarian I don't miss meat at all but I just don't think that unless it was for health reasons I could give up cheese although I do intend to cut down on the amount of it I eat.
I'm at the point now where I can eat at just about any restaurant (unlike when I first gave up meat and my only option was often an omelette, which wasn't a good option for me because I'm not overly fond of eggs) and I don't want to give that up. That said I do want to increase my plant based foods and with books like this I tend to take ideas, try different things.

I love salads but they have to be dressed and one of the first things I look for in any recipe book is salad dressings. Now while is book had recipes for all my favourites Ranch, Blue Cheese, Caesar they all had tofu which ruled them out for me.
There's some nice recipes here and some good ideas and I must admit I'm curious about the Carrot Dogs.
These are the recipes I've tried so far (changing them slightly to suit my taste) and they were good.

Morning Breakfast Potatoes
Portobello Mushroom Sandwiches
Pad Thai (minus the tofu of course)
Stuffed Bell Peppers

I eat a lot of hummus so these two are next:

Buffalo-Style Hummus

3 garlic cloves, peeled
1/4 cup Frank’s Original Red Hot Sauce, or more to taste
2 tablespoons tahini
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons white vinegar
2 (15-ounce) cans chickpeas, rinsed and drained, or 3 cups cooked chickpeas
Sea salt to taste
1/4 teaspoon paprika, for garnish

Carrot Hummus

4 carrots, peeled and cut into large chunks
3 garlic cloves, peeled
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup lemon juice
2 tablespoons tahini
1 (15-ounce) can chickpeas, rinsed and drained, or 1½ cups cooked chickpeas
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper

There's some good advice, ideas and recipes but it wasn't everything I'd hoped it would be hence the 3* rating.

The PlantPure Kitchen is a new plant-based cookery book from Kim Campbell and is a follow-up to the 2015 film PlantPure Nation and companion cookbook of the same name. The author describes the PlantPure goal as to provide people with 'the knowledge, tools, and recipes to build delicious plant-based meals that are both healthy and fun' and the content of the book seems to fit this well. Containing 130 recipes and lots of tips for getting started on a plant-based diet the book is a great introduction for anyone looking to make changes to their diet. The recipes cover all areas from breakfast to dessert and everything in between and I've bookmarked several that I'm keen to try out including a Spicy Nacho Sauce and Raspberry Jam Bars.

In addition to the book review, I thought it might be fun to try out one of the PlantPure recipes and share the results with you. As mentioned above, there are a handful of recipes I bookmarked to try but the one I decided to go with for this post is the Chickpea Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Although I was aware of the idea I'd never made cookies with chickpeas before but the step-by-step recipe was simple to follow. The cookies are made using a blender, which again was something I hadn't really done before but it definitely made the process easier. I substituted the recipe's powdered peanut butter for natural peanut butter from a jar and the Sucanat for coconut sugar plus a dash of water and as you can see the cookies turned out really well! Free from gluten and dairy, the finished cookies are fairly dense but have a soft texture that would make them a great protein-filled snack.

Unfortunately, there is nothing special about this cookbook. I have seen most of these recipes elsewhere. The formatting of the book is not great. The photos of the dishes are not appetizing. Maybe the lighting was off or maybe it is just the ARC and the finished book will look better. This book features many pages about stocking your pantry for plant-based cooking and which tools you should have on hand. This is also very common amongst vegetarian cookbooks.

This was a huge dissappointment for me and I am trying to figure out why I feel this way. I really enjoy trying out new recipes and I am always looking for vegan recipes to add to my repertoire but this book fell flat for me. The recipes in this book did not sound enticing to me and the pictures did not help. Somehow the impression this book left with me was one lacking humour - which is what many people think vegan cuisine is always like, but it's not! It can be great - but recipes without anything that might even be remotely unhealthy (and if a little bit of oil is that unhealthy is debateable) are not something that appeal to me. And I am sorry, but I kind of doubt that children would love these recipes as the book promises.

I might be this dissappointed because the last vegan cookbook I tried was so wonderfully amazing that I am still trying new recipes and loving them (so, if you need a new cookbook to get inspired get this one instead: [book:Blissful Basil: Over 100 Plant-Powered Recipes to Unearth Vibrancy, Health, and Happiness|29502542]). But this is not entirely fair because maybe if I had tried these books in another order I would have liked this one more. But I didn't and I cannot recommend this book, as sorry as I am.

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I received an arc of this book curtesy of NetGalley and BenBella Books in exchange for an honest review. Thanks for that!

"The PlantPure Kitchen" is a whole food, plant-based (vegan) cookbook containing 130 recipes. This would be a good cookbook for someone new to cooking vegan meals from scratch. The author provided cooking tips, suggested only a relatively small number of tools, and most of the recipes were pretty simple to do. While she used gluten-containing grains and tree nuts in some recipes, she suggested easy modifications for people with those concerns.

The author started by describing some commonly used foods in vegan cooking and how to use them. She also described plant-based substitutes so you can convert regular recipes. She gave shopping tips and tips on food storage and food prep. There were also a few, short educational articles at the start of each section.

Each recipe had a picture of the finished product, and they looked very tasty (which I can't always say about vegan foods). The recipes included some vegan versions of holiday or popular foods. There were 10 breakfast recipes, 7 bread and muffin recipes, 10 burger, sandwich, and wrap recipes, 15 dressing and sauce recipes, 14 salad recipes, 11 appetizer, dip, and spread recipes, 10 soup and stew recipes, 27 entrees, 11 sides, and 14 deserts. Overall, I'd recommend this cookbook to those interested in adding more whole-food, plant-based meals to their diet.

I only made it about 1/3 of the way through this book before I pre-ordered it for myself on Amazon.

I'm excited to incorporate many of these recipes into my routine. This is the first plant-based cookbook I've read that doesn't seem intimidating to those new to the lifestyle and doesn't rely on bizarre ingredients you have to drive all over town to find.

Highly recommended.

The PlantPure Kitchen is a recipe book for those who want to eat a plant-based diet. In addition to recipes, the book includes helpful sections such as the basic pantry items and supplies needed to start cooking in this manner, plant based substitutions, gluten-free alternatives, and getting organized tips. While I'm not entirely sure I want to completely switch to all-plant diet, many of these recipes are intriguing enough that I'd like to try some of them. In particular, I'm interested in the salt-free salad dressings. The salad section begins with advice for how to manage salad-making for a busy work week. I will definitely try this as well! The excellent photography in this book makes me want to try these recipes. Some seem really easy and fast, but others seem like they'd require too much work to make after getting home from a long day of work. Overall, this book has lots of recipes I'd like to try!

For the vegetarian or vegan family, this is probably a very handy reference. We had hoped to garner some new recipes, to introduce healthier eating to the family, but my husband's assessment was "I'd rather die than eat some of that stuff." In particular, he was speaking to recipes such as "carrot loaf," (in lieu of meatloaf). As a family, however, we were able to find several recipes that we agreed on to try out. (As you can see, we are not a vegan house, so possibly not the intended audience.)