Vegetarian Star

Haven’t already entered to win Cooking Light Way To Cook Vegetarian? What are you waiting for?

If over 400 pages and 700 color photos of vegetarian and vegan recipes from the editors of one the most respected cooking magazines around isn’t enough to convince you, how about the assurance that they’ve researched the veggie diet enough to know not to offer salads on every other page. Included in the book is a section on 7 Healthy Eating Principles for a Vegetarian Diet. As a bonus, we’ve reprinted them with permission.

1. Think about protein. You can easily meet your daily protein needs by eating an array of plant-based foods. Fill out your meals with beans, lentils, nuts, rice, and soy products like tofu and tempeh. Don’t rely on a hefty portion of cheese to fill the protein gap since cheeses often add saturated fat.

2. Consider calcium. Vegetarians can meet their calcium requirements by including calcium-rich dairy products (milk, cheese, and yogurt) in meals and snacks. If you’re lactose intolerant, a vegan, or simply want to incorporate other nondairy sources of calcium into your diet, you have options: fortified breakfast cereals, soy products and some green leafy vegetables.

3. When it comes to fruits and vegetables, more matters (and color counts). Whole fruits and vegetables are some of the best foods you can eat. And color is certainly key—the vitamins and phytochemicals that give plants their brilliant colors work as antioxidants, immune boosters, and anti-inflammatories in humans.

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As promised, we’re giving away a copy of Cooking Light Way To Cook Vegetarian, the new cookbook that is the first vegetarian one from the editors of Cooking Light Magazine.

Cooking Light Way To Cook Vegetarian is over 400 pages of vegetarian and vegan recipes, glossy photos, food cooking and preparation tips and even an entire chapter dedicated to just tofu and tempeh recipes.

To enter to win, simply do the following:

*For one chance to win, leave a comment on this post saying why you want to win Cooking Light Way To Cook Vegetarian.
*For two chances to win, leave a comment on this post saying why you want to win Cooking Light Way To Cook Vegetarian AND Tell us what you’re favorite vegetarian/vegan item to cook is.

Contests ends November 3rd, 2010 at midnight Pacific Time and the winner will be chosen randomly and notified by email within 72 hours.

Need an incentive to enter? Try this sample vegan recipe from Cooking Light Way To Cook Vegetarian, Hash Browns With Italian Seasoned Tofu.

Hash Browns With Italian Seasoned Tofu

Enter the giveaway and view the recipe below.

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Cook To Bang

A new cookbook has provided recipes for men and women to feed their date that are supposed to almost guarantee a good night–and a good morning.

Cook to Bang: The Lay Cook’s Guide to Getting Laid is a humorous cookbook by Spencer Walker who maintains a website with the same name. Featuring recipe titles such as “Tap That Ass-paragus Soup,” Cook To Bang is pretty much self-explanatory in what a potential chef’s goals are from picking up a copy of the book. Better yet, from the reviews of the cookbook, Cook To Bang may be a handy guide for the vegetarian and vegan players.

“I felt inclined to comment on how COOK TO BANG helped a girl out. I am in a relationship with a great guy, but I never knew how to get some serious morning action. Thanks to Sex Crazy Mofo Tofu Scramble, my boyfriend went all sex crazy after breakfast… Cook to Bang works for girls too.” –MADELINE IN LOS ANGELES

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In The Green Kitchen: Techniques To Learn By Heart. Author: Alice Waters.

Local and sustainable food champion Alice Waters has gathered 30 different chefs to contribute to her latest book, In The Green Kitchen: Techniques To Learn By Heart.

You’ll recognize some of the vegetarian contributors, such as Vegan Soul Kitchen author Bryant Terry, which may explain why Waters, although not vegetarian, has compiled a collection of recipes and techniques helpful to the mixed eating household or individual.

As Treehugger states in their Weekday Vegetarian Feature, “This is also a terrific book if you are eating less meat. There are recipes for meat and fish here, but there are many more recipes featuring beautiful produce, beans, eggs, breads and pastas.”

The theme for In The Green Kitchen is simplicity, both in recipes and technique, so there’ll be no need to stock items for a 30 ingredient dish.

Besides Terry, other contributing authors include Anna Lappé.

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Happy Birthday to us!

A year ago, Vegetarian Star was launched.

Being the giving people that we are, instead of buying presents for ourselves, we’re giving away something to one of our lovely readers.

From now until August 8th, you can enter for a chance to win Erin McKenna’s BabyCakes : Vegan, Gluten-Free, and (Mostly) Sugar-Free Recipes from New York’s Most Talked-About Bakery.

BabyCakes is filled with vegan dessert recipes, many of which are gluten-free and sugar free as well.

The book contains recipes to some of the items sold at the BabyCakes bakery in New York city, which Erin started to provide baked goodies for people with allergies and sensitivities to ingredients found in regular cupcakes, cookies, and the like.

Erin’s bakery and products have become so popular, people stop by just to pick up tubes of frosting to devour.

Plus, veg celebrities like Natalie Portman and Zooey Deschanel have given it rave reviews!

For a chance to win the cookbook and make your own addictive frosting, just leave a comment on this post telling us what your favorite dessert is.

Comments will be closed midnight EST on August 8. The winner will be chosen from a random drawing and be notified via email on August 11, and will have 3 days to respond to our email after being notified. If we don’t get a response, we’ll pick another winner!

So go ahead and celebrate with us. Tell us what your favorite dessert is. And good luck!

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