Lauren Toyota - HOT FOR FOOD ALL DAY: EASY RECIPES TO LEVEL UP YOUR VEGAN MEALS

Text and photographs copyright 2021 by Lauren Toyota

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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Portrait Photography: by Vanessa Heins

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2020947558

ISBN9781984857521

Ebook ISBN9781984857538

Editor: Kelly Snowden | Project editor: Emma Rudolph | Production editor: Zoey Brandt

Print designer: Isabelle Gioffredi | Art director: Kelly Booth | Print production designers: Mari Gill and Faith Hague

Print production manager: Dan Myers

Print prepress color manager: Jane Chinn

Food stylists: Lauren Toyota and Eugenia Zykova

Prop stylists: Lauren Toyota and Eugenia Zykova

Recipe photography: Lauren Toyota and Eugenia Zykova

Recipe developers: Lauren Toyota and Michelle Li

Copyeditor: Nancy Bailey | Proofreader: Rachel Markowitz | Indexer: Ken DellaPenta

Publicist: Lauren Kretzschmar | Marketer: Allison Renzulli and Andrea Portanova

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introduction

WELL, HERE WE ARE AGAIN, MY FRIENDS. I really couldnt do this without you and your enthusiasm for hot for food and the vegan food I make. In fact, its SO moving that I wanted to put myself through the madness of making a second cookbook because of it. Thanks for waiting, and thank you for supporting my endeavors in a way that makes me want to ugly cry on the floor!

This cookbook is a companion piece to Vegan Comfort Classics in that I want you to treat my cookbooks like your vegan bibles. Everything you could ever want and imagine and maybe didnt even know you needed in your life is contained in the pages of these cookbooks. While the first book gave you a great foundation, this book is going to round out your arsenal of classic comfort foods. That means it is packed with some super simple go-tos and easy everyday stuff that I whip up quick in my kitchen, including some things you can prep and plan in advance if youre into that kind of thing. And dont worry, there are still some stand-out, unique, V-hot for food kinds of recipes that youll definitely want to show off to your unconverted friends and fam.

One thing I focus on sharing more in this book is my knack for reusing, repurposing, and transforming leftovers and remnants of recipes into brand-new eats (cause leftovers suck). Thats right: I found a way to bring the RECIPE? ! to life in print. If youve been following the hot for food journey thus far, ya already know what a RECIPE? ! is. But if youre new here, Ill give you the lowdown.

A RECIPE? ! isnt really a formal recipe but a rough, adaptable blueprint. When testing and developing delicious stuff, I have to make things up as I go and then do it again to finesse the amounts and tweak things so theyre perfect. Its all very intuitive, so I try to encourage this kind of thing for anyone because its how one really learns how to cook. And because Im a recipe developer, I always have bits and pieces of recipes in my fridge including extra fillings, sauces, and so forth that I dont want to throw out. So I use everything up and make up my own meals with whatever I have on hand when Im hungry. I managed to document this ridiculous but highly entertaining and educational process on video and put it on my YouTube channel, which quickly became a hit! It was the realness and achievable nature of cooking that I guess everyone liked. Its certainly how I like cooking on camera because I dont need to perfect anything before shooting. I just waltz into the kitchen and take out stuff in my fridge and pantry, cook in real time, and pray itll turn out to be tasty. It usually is, thankfully!

In this cookbook youll see that Ive taken some of those long-lost ideas and RECIPE? ! home runs and perfected them for you, giving you inspiration for using up whatever you have on hand. On top of that, I also figured out ways yall are gonna level up your leftovers into brand-new meals using the stuff you make in this book. Throughout the cookbook, look for LEVEL UP! in the top corner to identify the recipes that are made from leftovers. Before you can level up, ya gotta backtrack to the page where the master recipe lives. Youll get the hang of it in no time.

Youll also see throughout the chapters some fun menu plans of stuff to eat on various occasions, like stuff to bring to a BYOVD (bring your own vegan dish) event! Theres some inspo from stuff I eat when Im busy, or when Im Netflix-and-chillin on a Sunday. Its endless food porn so you can stay hot for food all day! Youre going to gasp over my Sweet & Sour Rice Balls () to share with you.

So with all that said, Im just asking you to keep my RECIPE? ! ethos in mind at all times. You dont have to follow the rules because there are none! Dive into this cookbook trusting that each and every meal you create for yourself is going to be delectable and delicious and just happens to be made from plants. I want you to take my ideas and try them but also use them as stepping- stones to start working your own wizardry. Tap into that kitchen intuition. Play around, mix and match, use what you have if you dont have what I listed, and just make it work!

For every recipe, youll see a few symbols at the top of the page.

the recipes approximate prep time

the recipes approximate cook time