Chloe Coscarelli - Chloes kitchen : 125 easy, delicious recipes for making the food you love the vegan way

Chloes Kitchen features vegan food like youve never seen it before.

Classically trained Chef Chloe Coscarelli brings fun and energy to this healthful, animal-free cuisine by reinterpreting 125 of Americas favorite foods with great-tasting ingredients and clever techniques. Chef Chloe burst onto the culinary scene by winning the Food Networks hit reality show Cupcake Wars the first time a vegan chef captured the top prizewhich delighted her many fans who had been loyally following her on chefchloe.com . The new face of vegan cooking, Chef Chloe is luring foodies of all stripes to try her ingenious, accessible recipes for delicious, vibrant, beautiful food.

Chef Chloes first-ever cookbook is illustrated throughout with gorgeous full-color photography of the mouthwatering dishes. She begins with helpful advice on how to set up your own kitchen for stress-free, healthful eating. Chef Chloe also explains how to get all your nutrition from a plant-based diet and why its so healthy, with support from the foreword by renowned physician Neal D. Barnard, M.D. Then, in her fresh, dynamic style, Chef Chloe provides a huge array of incredibly appetizing, inventive recipes she has created, from savory starters to decadent desserts. Her comforting macaroni and cheese, creamy Fettuccine Alfredo, crave-inducing sliders and fries, and adaptations of the most popular Chinese, Indian, and Mexican dishes win over carnivores, omnivores, vegetarians, and vegans alike.

With Chef Chloe, eating vegan doesnt mean giving up your favorite treats and flavors. With instructions throughout for making these meat-, egg-, and dairy-free recipes without gluten and soy, heres how you can enjoy family favorites and her renowned, coveted dessertsincluding the first publication of the recipes for her Cupcake Wars winning vegan cupcakeswithout busting your belt.

CHLOE COSCARELLI is a lifelong vegetarian and a vegan since 2005. Chloe honed her culinary skills at the Natural Gourmet Institute of Health and Culinary Arts in New York City, which she attended after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley. She also completed Cornell Universitys plant-based nutrition program based on Dr. T. Colin Campbells The China Study . Chloe gained additional experience working at Millennium Restaurant in San Francisco. A contributor to VegNews and The New York Times , she has also been featured in Womans World, Fitness, O, the Oprah Magazine, Rachael Ray , and Martha Stewarts Whole Living . Chloe lives in California with her family and two adopted dogs, and is involved with local animal rescue groups.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Coscarelli, Chloe.
Chloes kitchen : 125 easy, delicious recipes for making the food you love the vegan way/Chloe Coscarelli ; foreword by Neal D. Barnard.1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
1. Vegan cooking. 2. Cookbooks. I. Title.
TX837.C664 2012
641.5636dc23
2011050694

ISBN 978-1-4516-3674-1
ISBN 978-1-4516-3675-8 (ebook)

To my best friend,
my mom,
for teaching me how to cook
and encouraging me
to follow my dreams.
I love you.

You can cook!

For the first eighteen years of my life, I genuinely believed I couldnt cook. I didnt think I had the patience, skills, or palate for cooking, all because of a couple less-than-perfect attempts. Guess what I learned? With a little bit of practice and a good appetite, anyone and everyone can cook. That means you!

What the heck is this vegan cooking thing?

This is the question I get asked the most. Vegan cooking is preparing food without any ingredients that come from animals. No meat, poultry, fish, dairy, or eggs. Vegan (or plant-based) food is naturally low in fat, cholesterol free, and more healthful than meat or butter-laden foods. If you think Im talking about sprout sandwiches and bland tofu, think again! These pages are filled with flavor-loaded, moist and juicy, ooey-gooey, party-in-your-mouth recipes that no one will ever believe are vegan. You can make elegant and mouth-watering meals that will leave you feeling satisfied and energized without using any animal products. Vegan food is healing for your body, great for the planet, and much easier to prepare than you think!

Living on the Veg

Ive always been a huge animal lover. You name it, Ive adopted it. From pit bulls and rats to frogs and lizards, Ive always been a please-can-we-keep-him? kind of girl. One day, in seventh grade, I made the connection between the pets I loved and the food on my plate. It suddenly didnt make sense for me to eat animals for dinner then cuddle with my pups at night. I decided to become a vegetarian, and I went vegan a few years later. My meat-eating, yet open-minded and supportive family soon followed my living-on-the-veg lead. My mom went crazy in the kitchen, veganizing every passed-down family recipe in her repertoire for us, and she urged me to join her in the fun. Before I knew it, I was learning how to cook with her, eating delicious new foods, losing weight, and feeling great.

Aha Moments, Oven Lights, and the Big Apple

Everyone talks about having an aha moment; you know, when the oven light in your head clicks on. For me, this happened in college at UC Berkeley. I was studying sociology and dance and living with five fabulous girls in a tiny apartment with a kitchen no bigger than a car. I spent more hours than I could ever count in that kitchen. My friends and I pulled many all-nighters studying for exams, but I would always make time for baking elaborate triple-tiered birthday cakes for my roommates and throwing buffet-style brunch parties on Sunday mornings. Nothing gave me more joy than cooking and baking, and I realized that I wanted to spend my life doing just that. Aha!