For your chance to win one of these copies, leave me a comment below sharing your favorite non-meat meal. Mine is avocado on toast. Oh, yum!

The Vegan Cook’s Bible, by Pat Crocker,  is good for vegans and non-vegans alike. It features 250 recipes including Bulgar Asparagus Salad(it’s Aspargus season, you know!), homemade Candied Nuts (a healthy snack treat), Almond and Curry Brocoli Stir-fry (Ooh, I can use locally grown almonds for this one!), and Dark Chocolate Pudding (I have to have chocolate at least once a day).

The book offers sections on getting to know herbs, common vegan cooking ingredients, and how to eat to support Healthy Body Systems.

For example, the top 10 heart healthy foods:

*Fish
*Garlic
*Soy foods and beans
*Pomegranate
*Extra virgin olive oil
*Oats and oat bran
*Celery
*Apples
*Asparagus and leafy greens
*Tea and cocoa (see, chocolate is good for you!!)

Please leave me a comment and I’ll get back to you next week with our two winners!

Giveaway open to residents of the US only.

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So far, my favorite recipe is the Sweet Potato and Wild Rice Cakes that are on page 308. A combination of two types of rice, diced sweet potatoes, shredded vegetables, and rosemary – yum. I look forward to using my own fresh sweet potatoes for this recipe next Fall.

I had the opportunity to ask Pat Crocker a few questions that I’m hopeful will help beginning vegans. Please come back tomorrow and you will have the chance to win a copy of  The Vegan Cook’s Bible for yourself.

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Blisstree: Many people want to make changes to their diet, whether for ethical or health reasons. What is the easiest way to transition to a Vegan diet?

Pat Crocker:For me, the easiest transition was to explore the Vegan diet one day a week. That way, I and my family had time to think about just that one day’s food without our whole foodstyle being turned topsy-turvy. Once we were comfortable with finding recipes we liked and enjoying fresh plant ingredients, we ventured out to two days and it didn’t take long before we found that we had totally changed our eating habits and only wanted vegan foods.

Blisstree: Busy people like to have a handful of go-to recipes to fall back on. Can you recommend a few quick, healthy, flavorful favorites?

Pat Crocker: I have always loved roasted vegetables and so naturally, the rich and slightly sweet flavors of roasted vegetables were the first recipes I developed for this book and they have remained my favorites. Dishes such as Roasted Zucchini Shells with Almond Filing (page 281); Lentil and Rice Bowl (page 309); one-pot dinners like Corn, Beans and Squash Bake with Oat Nut Topping (page 275); stir-fry dishes such as Vegetable Paella (page 295) and of course, pasta and grains- see my Moroccan Couscous (page 319) are all relatively fast and easy to make.

Thanks, Pat! 

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The Vegan Cook’s Bible – Interview