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A few weeks ago I was very kindly sent this book to review:

This is Blissful Bites by Chrissie Morgan. This is a book chock full of vegan recipes. It includes chapters for breakfasts, appetizers and soups, salads, vegetable sides,whole grains and carbs, sea vegetables, compassionate proteins and healthy desserts. Each section is divided into either summer, autumn, winter, spring or anytime.

As well as being vegan, all the recipes are healthy and seasonal with a clear focus on macrobiotics, and therefore a lot of recipes are free from onion, garlic and the ‘nightshades’ such as potatoes, peppers and aubergine. I know some people have digestive issues with onions and garlic – this would be a great recipe book for you! There’s also a lot of gluten free recipes, in fact most of the baked recipes use gluten free flour.

Most of the ingredients used in the recipes are kept simple and are therefore easily available. There are a few more specialist ingredients such as brown rice syrup, various gluten free flours like kamut, and the various seaweeds in the seaweed chapter but other than that its mostly standard stuff.

Before getting into the recipes Chrissy gives a great introduction to the plant based diet, common cooking techniques, equipment needed etc. There is also a lot of information interspersed through out the recipes as you go along such as a cooking techniques for veggies, basics on how to cook beans, natural sweeteners and so on.

I decided to try making a recipe from the autumn salad section – the arugula (rocket) – edamame salad with orange sesame vinaigrette:

This was delicious! I did change up a few of the ingredients to use what I had on hand and it still tasted great!

There really are a lot of wonderful recipes in this book that I can’t wait to try such as orange pumpkin ginger french toast, not so forbidden rice salad and ginger cookies! I would definitely recommend this book for vegans and non vegans alike that are looking for extremely healthy and tasty recipes. This would also be a great book for those following a gluten free diet as a fair few recipes are gluten free.

Chrissy also has the brilliant website The Blissful Chef which includes a great recipes section and blog.

I have one copy of Blissful Bites available to giveaway to one lucky reader!

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Giveaway open to EVERYONE! and closes at 12am GMT Tuesday 27th September 2011, good luck!