Vegetarian Star

A few years ago, Dan and Annie Shannon decided to adapt every recipe from the classic Betty Crocker Cookbook to remove all the meat, dairy, egg and other animal products.

After hundreds of experiments in their kitchen, the Shannons have finally put the finishing touches on each of the recipes and created Betty Goes Vegan: 500 Classic Recipes for the Modern Family.

“The Betty Crocker brand has a well deserved reputation as being the very best at teaching American amateur chefs how to use products and ingredients to their full potential,” Annie said in a 2010 interview with Kiss Me, I’m Vegan. “When we were putting together this project, we really wanted to help people see how easy it is to be vegan, and that you really can make anything vegan once you know the tricks.”

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“The whole idea is baby steps. Try one dish a week. If it’s a big hit, throw it in the rotation, and then do another dish on Monday so then Monday is meatless, but Thursday is red beans and rice. What I love hearing is “My husband is a card-carrying carnivore, but I made him this dish from your book and he loved it so much he took leftovers to work.” When I hear that a dish is going to become someone’s staple, that’s just the coolest thing.”

—Roberto Martin, author of Vegan Cooking for Carnivores and personal chef to Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi.

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Roberto Martin, author of Vegan Cooking for Carnivores, has an interview with the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel on vegan cooking and his new cookbook.

The chef to Ellen DeGeneres may be promoting a plant-based diet now, but it was a different story years ago when he married his vegetarian wife.

“I chased her around the house with a carne asada burrito.”

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Rachael Ray hosted vegan couple Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi on her show and also welcomed their personal chef Roberto Martin. DeGeneres joined the discussion from her studio via Skype.

The group talked about vegan cheese, vegan diets and weight maintenance and shared the couple’s favorite recipes, including stuffed mushrooms; red beans and rice; hamburger spring rolls and fajita quesadillas containing vegan cheddar and mozzarella cheese, something Ellen said reminds her of the real thing.

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Vegan Cooking for Carnivores, the debut cookbook from Ellen DeGeneres‘ personal chef Roberto Martin, is doing well on a number of seller lists.

It’s currently #9 on Publisher Weekly’s Best-Sellers in the non-fiction hardcover category.

It’s stayed in the top 100 books on Amazon for the past 19 days and is #1 in the store’s “Vegetables and Vegetarian Cooking” category.

Vegans and carnivores must love those recipes for Avocado Reuben, Red Beans and Rice, Chocolate Cheesecake, “Chickn’n” Pot Pie and Banana and Oatmeal Pancakes.

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Roberto Martin, author of Vegan Cooking for Carnivores and personal chef to Ellen DeGeneres,  has a Mother’s Day breakfast idea that’s quick, easy and vegan!

What better gift to give to mom than one of health by feeding her animal-free Banana and Oatmeal Pancakes with heart healthy soy, almond or rice milk? Because these pancakes are non-dairy, they’re also a gift to mother cows in the world who have their calves taken away and are forced to produce unnatural amounts of milk through machines and medicine.

Watch Martin demonstrate Banana and Oatmeal Pancakes around minute 1:00 and grab the recipe here.

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Roberto Martin, the personal chef to Ellen DeGeneres who’s just published his first cookbook, has shared a few recipes from Vegan Cooking for Carnivores with Today.

DeGeneres’ wife Portia de Rossi wrote in the forward to Vegan Cooking, “Roberto taught me that the key to making good food vegan is substitution…you can enjoy all your favorite foods and never feel deprived.”

There’s no deprivation with these three recipes for Vegan Southern Fried Chicken, Mac’ n Cheese and Chocolate Chip Magic Bars.

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“I’ve always called myself an animal lover. And yet I ate them. Until four years ago I would be driving past these cows on pastures, and think ‘What a lovely life that is,’ and I’d go and order a steak. It takes a click, just one light bulb, and you’re like ‘I can’t do that anymore. Someone mentioned ‘If you knew what chicken looked like or you knew how chicken was made, you’d never eat it again. Something snapped.”

—Ellen DeGeneres, in an interview where she discusses her journey to veganism. The article includes some tips on going vegan from DeGeneres’ personal chef, Roberto Martin, who’s just published a cookbook.

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