Vimala Rodgers - Vegetarian Meals For People On-The-Go: 101 Quick and Easy Recipes

Vimala Rodgers

Copyright 2002 by Vimala Rodgers

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EDITORIAL SUPERVISION: Jill Kramer

PRODUCED FOR HAY HOUSE BY LANSDOWNE PUBLISHING, AUSTRALIA

PROJECT COORDINATOR: Bettina Hodgson

DESIGNER: Avril Makula

PHOTOGRAPHER: Amanda McLauchlan

STYLIST: Michaela le Compte

FOOD STYLISTS ASSISTANTS: Rodney Dunn, Steve Pearce

FOOD: With thanks to Anticos Fruitworld, Northbridge

PROPS: Papaya Studios, Empire Homewares, Funkis Swedish Form, Made in Japan, Major & Tom,

Planet Furniture, Bisanna Tiles, Cloth, Ruby Star Traders, Domestic Pots, Carmague, The Baytree

PHOTOGRAPHY PP 23, 30, 35, 38, 83, 138, 158, 171: Maree Homer, STYLED BY: Vicki Liley

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The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

Library of Congress Calaloging-in-Publication Data

Rodgers, Vimala.

Vegetarian meals for people-on-the-go : 101 quick & easy recipes / Vimala Rodgers.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 1-56170-843-7 (hardcover)

1. Vegetarian cookery. 2. Quick and easy cookery. I. Title.

TX837 .R737 2002

64l.5636dc21

2001051468

ISBN 13: 978-1-56170-843-7
ISBN 10: 1-56170-843-7

11 10 09 08 7 6 5 4
1st printing, May 2002
4th printing, January 2008

Printed in Singapore

I dedicate this book to John Robbins

Contents

Deepest appreciation to my dear friend Sister Catherine Connell, who, in earlier years, gave me permission to be fully alive. Then, in 1989, it was she who dragged me to a health-food store and insisted that I purchase John Robbins book, Diet for a New America. The rest is history.

Much gratitude to Louise Hay for her many kindnesses and her unfailing support, and to Hay Housers Jill Kramer and Christy Salinas for their awesome, upbeat attitudes and their enlightened openness. Such gifts!

This book would still be whirling about randomly in my head, had not a friend said, Ill typeset it for you. An expert in her field, she volunteered hundreds of hours to giving this book its first real form, a gift I shall never forget. Assembling a cookbook is a massive undertaking, and for doing it with such a light heart, I gratefully acknowledge Maggie Shank, without whom you would not be holding this book in your hands.

And of course

A Fourth of July Rockets Red Glare thank you to all my incredible children, each so gorgeously different from the other, in whom courage, brilliance, and a relentless sense of humor have always flourished wildly! These qualities were called upon again and again as I bumbled my way through the process of learning how to be a momand how to cook naturally, often guessing my way through it all. Although my children are adults now, their distinguishing traits have not changed. Jean-Marie, Stephanie, Siobhan, Matthew-John, Mark, Amanda, Sara, and LukeI offer you my sincerest appreciation, love, and greatest respect. What an outrageous adventure!

Nothing will benefit human health and increase
the chances for survival on earth as much as the
evolution of a vegetarian diet.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

INTRODUCTION:
ABOUT THE BOOK

Let your medicines be your food
and your foods be your medicine.

HIPPOCRATES

I became a vegetarian in 1969. Because it was virtually an unknown lifestyle at the time, I had no magazines, recipes, or health-food stores to depend on for menus and information. Although nutrition education became a necessary component of my new diet, it took me at least five years before I felt I had really caught on to preparing balanced and tasty meals. Fortunately for my family and me, our doctor was a Seventh-Day Adventist, the only person I knew who had an extensive educational background in nutrition. While he knew very little about meal preparation, Dr. Lloyd Pratt became my guardian angel when it came to learning about minerals, enzymes, amino acids, vitamins, and the thousands of other components the body requires for sound, trouble-free functioning.

I mention this so youll know that the recipes in this book are based not only on ease of preparation and taste, but on sound nutritional principles as well. Although some recipes worked the first time around, most are the product of much experimentation, many redoes, and countless shuffling of ingredients to suit the fussiest palatefrom high chair through high school age and well beyond. I learned the hard waythrough trial and error. Ask my children: I had eight of them. They were my primary taste-testers.

Ive written this book for the many people who are beginning to question their eating habits and relate them to the state of their health. Although newsstands are filled with information on diet and health, how to eat better, vegetarianism, and the like, many of those whom I know and love dont have a clue where to start, and they simply dont have spare time to spend in the kitchen.