Love and Lemons Every Day: Easy, Seasonal Vegetarian Recipes That Make Inspired Everyday Cooking Attainable

Author: Jeanine Donofrio
Genre: Cookbook
Type: Trade Paperback
Pages: 320
Source: Publisher
Publisher: Avery
First Published: April 2, 2019

Book Description from GoodReads: The second cookbook from the award-winning blogger behind Love and Lemons --devoted to easy, seasonal, vegetarian recipes that make inspired everyday cooking attainable.

Jeanine Donofrio, founder of the wildly popular Love and Lemons food blog, has redefined fresh vegetarian cooking with her inventive recipes using seasonal ingredients. Now in her second cookbook, Jeanine presents simple techniques for cooking bright, beautiful food every day. With more than 100 recipes for breakfasts, lunches, and easy suppers, as well as quick flavor charts for salad dressings and other staples, this cookbook proves that getting in your kitchen every day can be rejuvenating. Recipes like Crispy Butternut Squash Burrito Bowls, Spicy Tomato Watermelon Salad, and Blueberry Fennel Focaccia showcase Jeanine's philosophy that simple combinations are the key to flavorful, exceptional meals.

Complete with the exquisite design and photography Love and Lemons has become known for, this cookbook will both excite your senses and give you the practical tools you need to cook every day with confidence.

My Rating: 4 stars

My Review: Love and Lemons Everyday is the second cookbook by Jeanine Donofrio, the blogger behind the Love and Lemons food blog. With her down home 'girlfriend in the kitchen' vibe, Jeanine (and her husband, Jack), bring readers inside their home kitchen where they share their passion for plant-based recipes.

This beautiful, inspirational and doable cookbook is packed with stunning colour photos and includes season-specific recipes featuring a wide range of produce. These are recipes for the average home cooks who want to focus their diet on vegetarian or vegan options with ingredients can be sourced from local food stores or farmer's markets. 

Donofrio also includes great tips sections including: her favourite kitchen tools, tips for protein sources and a great 'Waste Not, Want Not' section that details inventive uses for those odds and sods like broccoli stalks, beet greens and the cores of cauliflower so there's less waste and more taste in your dishes.

With our home boasting one vegetarian and a couple who enjoy eating less meat, we are making and enjoying more vegetarian meals. I appreciate the wide range of recipes in this cookbook and how big-name veggies, like sweet potatoes, cauliflower and squash, take centre stage and that meat substitutes aren't the focus. That said, I personally found this cookbook to be more vegan-focused than vegetarian, which doesn't fit our family quite as well as I had hoped.

Overall, this is a beautiful and versatile cookbook for vegetarian or vegan home cooks, or for those of us who just want to eat a little less meat without giving up taste and creativity in the kitchen. With these easy to use recipes, home cooks will be making healthy, fresh and wonderful tasting meat-free dishes for the whole family.


My top recipes from this cookbook: 
Sweet Potato and Sage Breakfast Biscuits
Lemon Risotto with Trumpet Mushroom 'Scallops'
Jack's Garlic Pretzel Knots (these are 'knot' to be missed!)

Disclaimer: My sincere thanks to the publisher for providing me with a complimentary advanced copy of this title in exchange for my honest review.