Fantastic recipes that are healthy and taste good. Will I continue making these often, probably not but they taste great and the photos are beautiful

delicious and beautiful looking recipes. I think this would be a great addition to a cookbook section and can definitely inspire many budding chefs! Really looking forward to recommending this book.

Love all the colors in the book and the recipes that go along with. This book is perfect for displays, and then the patron will be happy to check out the title.

Lovely photographs accompany simple, easy to follow, delicious vegan recipes. This is an excellent addition to any vegan cookbook collection!

A lovely book with some wonderful sounding vegan recipes and lots of colourful photographs to inspire.

Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing a preview copy.

My family is not vegetarian, but we are expanding our variety of healthful food recipes, and this book helped a lot! The kids loved all the sweet potato dishes, and the older ones like making hummus now. These recipes have increased their vegetable intake, I think, and definitely improved my ability to make a decent meal without meat!

So many phenomenal recipes. Whether or not you are vegan you will thoroughly enjoy these recipes. Not difficult to make at all, and full of flavor. Large variety to choose from, recipes for smoothies, breakfasts, salads, soup, sandwiches, sides, appetizers, entrees, and desserts, I cannot recommend this enough to everyone!

I devoured this book--thinking the entire time that I can cook healthy AND enjoy it, too. Moreno has written the guide that has me making salads, taking compliments as I work more plant-based meals into my family's repertoire. A moderately competent home cook, I tabbed many recipes and enjoyed the clear, straightforward directions. Inspirational, motivational -- and the book is beautiful, too! I received an advance copy in exchange for my honest review.

This book has so many wonderful recipes in it, and it is a great guide for eating well as a vegan. there's a whole section devoted to smoothies! I'm in love! There are even some great recipes in here for entertaining!

I found this book very helpful and insightful. It helpef broaden my view of cooking with all colors of food.

The author begins her book by telling us “why” she started eating vegan, and she gives us a list of the foods that she uses in her recipes and she also describes some of the foods that may be unfamiliar to the reader.
You can buy most of these ingredients at your local grocery store or at a “health foods” store.
The first recipe sounds decadent and delicious “BANANA BREAKFAST ice cream SUNdAE”, and it uses frozen bananas, yogurt, berries, nuts and seeds. I would definitely want this for breakfast! There are multiple breakfast recipes from muffins to bagels and even peanut butter and banana oatmeal!
There is a delicious recipe for a hummus bowl with green tahini sauce that uses chickpeas, avocados, tomatoes and kale. There are even some very unique recipes such as CINNAMON sweet potato fries WITH MAPLE PB sauce, and EASy HUMMUS & artichoke TORTILLA PIZZA that look delicious and fun to make!
There is something to please every palate in this book!

Great plant based cookbook. Innovative ideas with flavours and textures and a great concept; eat more colour! The intro is great, a nice piece about the author and her story, one that felt genuine and real. The style is nice, easy to read and follow and the images are attractive. I will definitely be making some of the delicious looking recipes.

NetGalley kindly provided this book in exchange for my honest review.

The photos in this book were STUNNING!! They were absolutely gorgeous and probably some of the best food photography I've seen in a cookbook. I really enjoy the colorful, plant based recipes in this book. I loved that it had a section for sauces/condiments to utilize and I also enjoyed she talked about categories of food. I docked a star because there is no nutrition breakdown although I acknowledge not everyone has the budget to do recipe analysis.

Quality recipes. A touch too long and complicated for everyday mid week cooking. Length of time that sauces and pastes can be kept in fridge and best storage advice would have been beneficial.

This cookbook is gorgeous. I wanted to have it simply for the pleasure of looking through it. So it is delightful that it turns out I want to try so many of the recipes. Sweet Potato Toast, Strawberry Loaf with Cream Cheese Glaze, Edamame Peanut Noodle Salad, Baked Rosemary Root Vegetable Fries just to name a few. This book even makes me WANT to try tofu and tempeh bacon. I have a feeling this cookbook will see regular rotation in my kitchen.

I follow The Colorful Kitchen on Instagram and was thrilled to see she wrote a cookbook. All of the photos are gorgeous, and the recipes are definitely colorful!

Pros: I don't normally enjoy the introduction of many cookbooks, but I really loved reading Ilene's plant-based journey and how her experience in art and textiles comes through in the food she cooks. Many of the recipes are simple to make and they call for a short list of ingredients. Did I mention they are colorful? I'm excited to make Cinnamon Sweet Potato Fries with Maple PB Sauce and the Whole Roasted Tahini Cauliflower, and a few more.

Cons: If you are oil-free like me, this is not a great cookbook as many recipes call for coconut oil, but you could probably still make some of the recipes substituing oil for something else. It's just going to take more effort and perhaps trial and error. There were also a lot of toast recipes, which I found was strange as they are almost too simple to make.

*Disclaimer: I received this book from the publisher via NetGalley. However, all opinions are my own.*

As someone who is currently vegetarian with a vegan best friend and who has been cutting out even more dairy cheese from my diet as that is the only animal product I still eat I was very interested in what recipes would be in this cookbook! I consider myself a picky eater and always have been since I was young even if I do try new foods now and again. Multiple times throughout looking at the recipes in this cookbook I found myself saying "that sounds so good!" or "that looks so yummy!" My best friend and I have cooked together before and I feel like this is the perfect cookbook to use when cooking with friends or even cooking for family who might not be plant based eaters because there is something in it for everyone even though the recipes are all entirely plant based recipes. There is everything from appetizers to entrees to even being able to satisfy a sweet tooth with some beautiful desserts! Also when we are young we are told the more colors on a plate the better, I learned this more while I did a nutrition class in high school and the name of the book is true it really is a Colorful Kitchen! Also another thing that I really enjoyed is that some of the recipes involved using other foods you can learn to make and reinventing them into something new which I believe is great for busy families and a good way to use leftovers so they don't go bad.

I think this is fantastic! Thrilled to have it. So many good recipes. I was getting bored with breakfast. Now I’ve had time to try some of these and I can tell you they are very satisfying and hearty. I especially like the carrot cake oatmeal. Yum!

Ilene Moreno started out as a blogger. She has an education in art and has had a career in the textile industry. She initially turned to a vegetarian way of eating because she didn’t want to participate in eating animals anymore. Too much suffering. She tried the junk food vegan lifestyle for awhile. Because of various health issues she later turned to a plant based diet. I follow one too and can attest to the many health benefits I have experienced for myself. She tells us that she began to approach cooking the same way she approached her design work. She viewed each meal through a designer’s lens.

So many good recipes! The shredded Brussels Slaw helped me get in my daily greens. The author tells us right up front that you don’t need a lot of kitchen equipment or space. I have found that to be true. The recipes are colorful and not complicated. The photos are beautiful. All the recipes look mouth watering good. I need variety. This provides just that. I want to eat healthy and well. Easy peezy with a cookbook like this.

Many thanks to NetGalley, BenBella Books, and Ilene Godofsky Moreno for a digital copy to read in exchange for a review. Highly recommended!

I am far from being a vegetarian, but I love veggies and fruits! This book has a lot of really great recipes for breakfasts, lunches and dinner and snack ideas! Drinks, too! I am always on the look out for new ways to eat them in dishes. So the recipes in here should please everyone., not just vegetarians or vegans! I can't wait to see a hardcopy of this book to see the photos of the foods in color!

This book is, simply put, stunning. The pictures are vibrant and made me want to immediately cook many of the recipes. This is a book I want to own.

There is something for everybody in here, I am sure. The recipes are easily replicated and you don’t need to hunt down rare ingredients. Still, Ilene Godosky Moreno combines ingredients in a way I find highly original and appealing. It is the kind of non-fuss vegan food that I adore.

One other thing that I like is how she breaks down the time needed to prepare the dishes into “total time” and “active time”. This makes planning so much easier and gives me an estimate on how my kitchen will look afterwards (that always depends on whether I can clean while I cook or not).

PS: I find the current obsession with kale slightly bemusing. In Germany we call it “Grünkohl” and it is such a staple that I cannot get over how hyped it is elsewhere (if that makes sense).