Gourmet Vegetarian Cuisine.
Friendly foods are friendly to our bodies, our pocketbooks, our busy schedules, and our environment. They are natural, healthful gourmet foods from a three-time Culinary Olympics medal winner whose dishes range from the everyday to the elegant. As Brother Ron says, "I don't just try to make these dishes taste as good as traditional foods; I make them taste better."
The wealth of tantalising recipes includes hot and cold appetisers, salads, soups, pastas, entrees, side dishes, breads, and desserts. In the entree chapter, Brother Ron demystifies alternative protein sources - beans, grains, tofu, tempeh, and seitan. An expanded seitan section gives recipes for making this lesser-known wheat food from scratch, and creative ways of using it. A special section on Brother Ron's Culinary Olympics winners features more complex gourmet fare - from Southern Blackened Tempeh with Tomato-Apricot-Ginger Coulis to Tofu Seitan Wellington to Swiss Burnt-Pecan Torte.
