Romero - Protein ninja : power through your day with 100 hearty plant-based recipes that pack a protein punch

PRAISE FOR SALAD SAMURAI For salad inspiration, I can think of few sources better than the new cookbook Salad Samurai... Romero brings her fun-loving sensibility and unerring palate to the table. Her recipes, with their brilliant combinations, span the seasons.Washington Post Its accessible main course salad recipes are anything but boring, with unexpected flavor combinations that make me wonderhey, why didnt I think of that?Epicurious.com From one of the most popular vegan cookbook authors of our time comes a collection of perfectly tuned recipes thats long overdue... [and that] you dont have to be vegan to love.VegNews.com A must for dedicated vegans, a good way to ease into salads for even the most stubborn meat lover, and a great resource for anyone who wants to move to a more sustainable, healthy diet.Examiner.com Romero debunks the myth that salads are only an appetizer, using whole food ingredients and plant-based proteins that will appeal to vegans and non-vegans in equal measure... a great resource for anyone who wants to move to a more sustainable and healthy diet.Philadelphia Tribune Romero is a rock star of vegan cooking.... In this book, she shakes up the staid world of salad with her cheeky writing and seasonally arranged salads.Portland Press Herald PRAISE FOR VEGANOMICON Spending time with [Moskowitzs] cheerfully politicized book feels like hanging out with Grace Paley.

She and her cooking partner, Terry Hope Romero, are as crude and funny when kibbitzing as they are subtle and intuitive when putting together vegan dishes that are full of non-soggy adult tastes.New York Times Book Review Exuberant and unapologetic... Moskowitz and Romeros recipes dont skimp on fat or flavor, and the eclectic collection of dishes is a testament to the authors sincere love of cooking and culinary exploration.Saveur Full of recipes for which even a carnivore would give up a night of meat.San Francisco Chronicle The Betty Crockers Cookbook of the vegan world... Its one more step in the quest to prove that vegan food really doesnt taste like cardboard when you know what youre doing.BITCH ALSO BY TERRY HOPE ROMERO Salad SamuraiVegan Eats WorldViva Vegan WITH ISA CHANDRA MOSKOWITZ VeganomiconVegan Pie in the SkyVegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie JarVegan Cupcakes Take Over the World Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book and Da Capo Press was aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed in initial capital letters. Copyright 2016 by Terry Hope Romero Photos by Vanessa K. Rees All rights reserved.

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Table of Contents CONTENTS Let it be known before you turn the page... I know where you get your protein from.

And that youre probably doing a decent job of it. If you eat animal productsmeat, dairy, eggs, bugs, dont tell me what elseyoure getting enough protein. If you dont eat any animal products, but your diet is rich in a variety of wholesome plant-based foodsbeans, soy foods, nuts and seeds, whole grains, vegetables and fruits, and even the occasional soy meat, you are also getting enough protein. Probably. Most of the time. Yet the very existence of this book, Protein Ninja, does not imply at all that vegans, vegetarians, or even omnivores who choose to limit their consumption of animal products are not eating enough protein.

The seemingly unslayable But where do you get your protein? question from well-meaning but frustratingly naive steak-munchers still goads my inner sixteen-year-old vegetarian. To this day. Or occasionally annoys the present day forty-two-year-old vegan typing this sentence. PROTEIN IS FOR EVERY KIND OF (NON)ATHLETE About two years ago working out and getting in better shape became a priority. Over twenty years of NYC living made an avid walker out of me: Every day can be an urban hike here, if you wear the right shoes and cant afford to cab it everywhere! My interest in weight training came into focus as well: Even in my late teens I flirted with weight lifting, an ungainly fat kid in the YMCA weight room. Ive had the same New York Sports Club gym membership since 2001, for crying out loud, and since I joined Ive never gone more than two weeks without dropping in for at least a quick spin on the elliptical.