The Edgy Veg: 138 Carnivore-Approved Vegan Recipes

Hutchings, host of the YouTube channel The Edgy Veg, shares her carnivore-friendly approach to eating vegan in this charming and instructive cookbook. Rather than focusing on complicated recipes, Hutchings takes simple approaches to creating vegan versions of classic meat-based dishes, including French onion soup, biscuits and gravy, spaghetti and meatballs, fried chicken, and fish and chips. There are also vegan takes on the Taco Bell Crunch Wrap Supreme, the Chick-Fil-A sandwich, and the Big Mac. Hutchings’s recipes are as pared-down as possible, and most ingredients are easily sourced. Introducing a recipe for pumpkin sage soup, Hutchings says, “I’m lazy AF in the winter.... For you fellow bears out there, this recipe is a great place to start” as something to stock up on in anticipation of a freeze. Hutchings’s ingenuity is inspiring, whether she’s presenting a street food–style Thai basil beef dish, a chocolate mousse, or shredded Hogtown jackfruit, in which the fruit acts as a stand-in for barbecue pork. Other innovative dishes include breakfast burritos made with sweet potatoes, pinto beans, scrambled tofu and avocado; a carrot-based “lox” for morning bagels; and a cauliflower treatment of Buffalo wings. This light-hearted and encouraging cookbook is a welcome surprise.[em] (Oct.) [/em]