Jennifer Browne - Vegetarian Comfort Foods: The Happy Healthy Gut Guide to Delicious Plant-Based Cooking

A DVANCE P RAISE FOR V EGETARIAN C OMFORT F OODS This book will make your gut giddy with joy! Jennifers easy-to-read information, practical advice, delicious healthy recipes, and meal plans make it so easy to improve your digestion and reclaim your health. Tess Masters, author of The Blender Girl cookbook What we eat affects our bodies, and by being mindful about what we nourish ourselves with, we make progress towards improved health and a better life. Brownes Vegetarian Comfort Foods encourages clean and fun food, and overall better nutrition choices. Jared Koch, founder & CEO of Clean Plates Many of us would love to improve our diets and take control of our healthbut where to start? In Vegetarian Comfort Foods , Jennifer Browne makes it fun, tasty, and eminently doable with a fabulous collection of healthful recipes. Combining solid nutrition facts with personal anecdotes and delicious food, its as inspiring as it is practical." Kim Foster, MD, family physician, author, and health blogger. As an athletic, happy vegan for over twenty years, I believed that my diet was optimal, and that it provided the necessary fuel and support to keep me experiencing an active, high-achieving lifestyle.

And then along came Jennifers Happy Healthy Gut and Vegetarian Comfort Foods , and my best self was surpassed! I am grateful to Jennifer for writing easy-to-understand, fun, and enjoyable books that not only educate me further on my own body, but have brought me to greater understanding of how to improve my beloved plant-based diet and improve my digestion simultaneously. Lets Eat! Bif Naked, international recording artist, activist, vegan In this day of constant bombardment of junk food, its refreshing to come across a recipe book that is designed to teach us how to eat for good digestive health. Vegetarian Comfort Foods is not only a book thats easy to read and follow, it has an abundance of simple, easy recipes to get you there quickly. Sylvia Tarnuzzer, nutrition and weight-loss coach

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Cover design by Anna Christian Cover photo by Wild Honey Art House Print ISBN: 978-1-63220-332-8 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-63220-747-0 Printed in China A CKNOWLEDGMENTS A project such as this one cannot be completed by only one person. Turns out, it takes a lot of enthusiastic believers (and many hungry mouths, willing to taste a lot of food!) to create a cookbook. Thank you to Skyhorse Publishing for giving me the incredible opportunity to express my excitement for plant-based eats in this book. I believe that food is everything. Just as it contributes to health, strength, and survival, it is also responsible for sickness, weakness, and disease. Understanding how food works with your body and choosing to use that knowledge for the purpose of growth and repair is one of the most important things you can do for yourself.

Im genuinely blessed to have been given the chance to inspire others to create new and nourishing dishes for themselves and their families. Thanks to my generous friends, Andreas and Marlene, for lending us their beautiful kitchen to shoot in, and to Tanya R. Loewen of Wild Honey Art House, who photographed my favorite foods and made them look much prettier than I ever could. To those who lent us fabulous dishes and backdrops for many of the recipesGary, Joy, Judy, Kory, and TanyaI cant thank you all enough! Finally, a shout-out to the lovely few who contributed recipes: Andreas, Karley, Marie, and Natalie. Thanks so much for sharing! This book is better because of you. D EDICATION For those who have inspired me to live a better lifethe amazing people who have shouted to the rooftops that food is the best medicine, that the body is self-healing, and that being mindful about what goes into your mouth is a necessity for living happily and healthfully. D EDICATION For those who have inspired me to live a better lifethe amazing people who have shouted to the rooftops that food is the best medicine, that the body is self-healing, and that being mindful about what goes into your mouth is a necessity for living happily and healthfully.

I was listening, and others are too. For my children, whom I hope are growing up to understand what real food is, and why thats important. Lastly, for Dave, for letting me get away with my ridiculous ideas, not calling me out on my compulsiveness, eating every last bit of anything I put in front of him, and never bursting my bubbles. C ONTENTS O N B EING M INDFUL ABOUT W HAT Y OU E AT Homicide is 0.8% of deaths. Diet-related disease is over 60%. But no one f***ing talks about it.

Jamie Oliver I truly believe that food nourishes your entire body and soul, and that to be healthy and happy, you need to adopt the mindset that food is fuel. Nothing is more important than your bodys ability to grow and repair, and the food we choose to eat is directly related to how well we can accomplish this. A few years ago, I had been sick for nearly a decade with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). You know what healed my body and eradicated my symptoms? You guessed itfood. Good food. Whole, plant-based, mindfully-chosen food.

Thats it! If food could help me get healthy, then food can help you, too. For this reason, Im thrilled to be able to share with you the kind of food that my body (and your body) craves. You might not know it yet, but somewhere in that beautiful body of yours, your cells are begging for the type of nourishment that the recipes in this book can provide. When I began my journey to improved health and wellbeing (Digestive Bliss Town is actually what I called it in my first book, Happy Healthy Gut: The Natural Diet Solution to Curing IBS and Other Chronic Digestive Disorders ), I needed all the help I could get. For this reason, Ive included some information on pantry prerequisites, kitchen tools, cleansing, and a few other goodies. But the largest portion of this book is dedicated to my favorite recipes, divided into nine different categories of food: Juice, Smoothies, Sauces & Dressings, Wake & Break, Nibbles, Sides, Rawsome Salads, Main Eats, and delicious Sweet Tooth must-haves.