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Desert Vegan Box Set 2 in 1: 150+ Ice Cream Vegan and Chocolate Vegan Recipes by Sam Kuma: Review

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on December 12, 2016
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Desert Vegan Box Set 2 in 1: 150+ Ice Cream Vegan and Chocolate Vegan Recipes by Sam KumaDesert Vegan Box Set 2 in 1: 150+ Ice Cream Vegan and Chocolate Vegan Recipes by Sam Kuma


My favorite part of a meal is desert.  When I go to a restaurant, I ask to see the desert menu before I order dinner.  That way I know if I need to save room for desert.  LOL!  In fact, neither my husband, Bill nor I can eat as much as we use to.  When dining out, we often share a main dish and sometimes desert.  At home, I cook full recipes and we eat the leftovers.  We always have vegan deserts on hand, either ones I make or buy already made.  So, I am always happy to try out more desert recipes.

The Vegan Desert Box Set is two desert books.  One is vegan ice cream recipes and the other is vegan chocolate recipes.

Vegan Ice Cream Book


In the Vegan Ice Cream book, not all the recipes are actually ice cream.  It starts out with slush and shaved ice recipes, and then moves on to sorbets, and then ice cream recipes.   Some of the recipes call for an ice cream maker, which I don’t have.  I have made vegan ice cream without one using a special technique with good success so I used that with the recipes I tried.

All the fruit based sorbet recipes I tried worked fine and were quite delicious.  I made both the Lemon and Berry Sorbets. The Chocolate Sorbet was too icy but perhaps the result would have been better with an ice cream maker. I also made the Soft Serve Ice Cream that doesn’t call for an ice cream maker.  It was delicious but not very original.  There are a lot of frozen banana recipes out there. They are a vegan staple when it comes to desert and this is the first recipe I learned when I went vegan over 25 years ago.  There were some really good ideas for ice cream flavors and I look forward to trying more of the ice cream recipes.

There were also some ice Cream topping recipes like a berry sauce and hot fudge. The Peanut Butter Hot Fudge was really good.  It is rich so use sparingly.  Chocolate and peanut butter together is a favorite of mine!

Chocolate Vegan Book


The Chocolate Vegan Recipe Book is not just deserts, in fact, it starts with breakfast.  I don’t eat a big breakfast very often.  I usually just have a super-foods cereal mixed with my home made vegan yogurt and a handful of dried cranberries on top.  I follow that with a glass of my home made kombucha (a fermented healthy drink).  However, about once a month I make a brunch on the weekend for Bill and I.  Sometimes we invite friends over too.  This weekend I made the Chocolate French Toast.  French toast is my favorite comfort food and the cocoa powder and peanut butter made this French toast extra rich and flavorful.

I also made the Raspberry Hot Chocolate.  It’s been unusually cold here the last couple weeks so that really hit the spot.  I haven’t had time to make any of the cakes, cookies, etc but am looking forward to trying some of those recipes as well!

I give the Vegan Boxed Set books 4/5 stars.

I received the ebook version for my review.

About Sam Kuma


Sam Kuma is passionate about sharing his culinary experience to the world. His work involves modernization of healthy diet plans. He is good at vegan, ketogenic, paleo, dash and several ethnic cuisines. His main focus is to make healthy diets like vegan and ketogenic mainstream by producing delicious, appetizing recipes. In his first two books regarding Vegan recipes, he has produced delicious Vegan Chocolate meals, Vegan Desserts, Vegan Ice Creams, Vegan Burgers and Sandwiches. #veganweightloss

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Nov 16

19

Vegan: Asian Vegan Recipes for a Dairy Free Raw Vegan Lifestyle by Sam Kuma- Review

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on November 19, 2016
Posted in Books Read in 2016 • Cooking • Vegan  | Tagged With: | 4 Comments

Vegan: Asian Vegan Recipes for a Dairy Free Raw Vegan Lifestyle by Sam KumaVegan: Asian Vegan Recipes for a Dairy Free Raw Vegan Lifestyle by Sam Kuma


I am always happy to try new vegan cookbooks so when I was offered this ebook, I was happy to accept.  This is my honest review.

First, I feel the need to point out that this is not a “raw” vegan cookbook by any stretch of the imaginations.  So, I dodn’t think the word “raw” belongs in the title!  It is very misleading and anyone who follows a raw vegan diet would be very upset that they paid for a non-raw cookbook!  That said,Bill and I do not follow a raw diet, just vegan.  We both love Asian food, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian, especially! Asian encompasses a lot of the world.  Don’t expect this cookbook to cover it all.  It is mainly Chinese and a bit Japanese.

It’s unusual to see breakfast recipes in an Asian cookbook, so to see them in this cookbook was a unique surprise. I have the same breakfast every morning and like to keep it lite so I didn’t try any of the breakfasts yet.  However, some of the dishes work for lunch, like the Breakfast Wanton Soup.

I made the Salt and Pepper Tofu listed in appetizers but think it would also be a good main dish with some brown rice.  I also made the Hot and Sour Soup.  The two made a nice dinner for the two of us with leftover soup for lunch the next day.  I look forward to trying the Asian Chili Tofu, also in the appetizers section. Another night I made the Tofu Udon.  I used firm tofu instead of the silken tofu because Bill doesn’t like silken tofu. It was good! I also made the Sriacha Fried Rice for another dinner.  I’m a cook who like to make several dishes for one meal unless we have friends over.  We can’t eat as much as we use to and it just takes up too much time.

One of my favorite vegetables in Asian recipes is eggplant so I made the Spicy Eggplant.  The recipe did not specify what variety of eggplant to use so I use Japanese, my favorite kind.  It was delicious! There were a couple Indian inspired recipes but I would have like to have seen more.  I look forward to trying more of the recipes.

4/5

About Sam Kuma


Sam Kuma is passionate about sharing his culinary experience to the world. His work involves modernization of healthy diet plans. He is good at vegan, ketogenic, paleo, dash and several ethnic cuisines. His main focus is to make healthy diets like vegan and ketogenic mainstream by producing delicious, appetizing recipes. In his first two books regarding Vegan recipes, he has produced delicious Vegan Chocolate meals, Vegan Desserts, Vegan Ice Creams, Vegan Burgers and Sandwiches.

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Nov 16

10

Veggemo: Non-Dairy Beverage- Review

Posted by Teddyrose@1 on November 10, 2016
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Veggemo: Non-Dairy BeverageVeggemo: Non-Dairy Beverage


I received a carton of Veggemo for my honest review.  It is a non-dairy beverage that can be used in place of dairy milk like soy milk or nut milks.  However, it is made with “veggies”.

I was excited about Veggemo because I like the idea of a vegetable based milk as an alternative to soy or nut milks. However, to me, pea protein, potato starch, and tapioca starch, are not vegatables. Sure, they are made from veggies, but calling them veggies is a stretch! Also, I don’t like the taste. I tried it cold and then tried to froth it with my cappuccino maker. I was not a great froth but acceptable but still did not taste good. I did a blind taste test with my hubby and he easily knew which was Silk Almond and which was Veggemo. He did not like Veggemo either.

Sorry I can’t recommend Veggemo. 2 out of 5 stars.

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