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Remember how I said that there was such an influx of great new cookbooks that it was hard to keep up with them all?<\/p>\n

Alex Nieminen<\/strong> and Riikka Sukula<\/strong> have set the bar so high with their newly released tome Vege!<\/a>, however, that I can\u2019t see it being replaced in my kitchen \u2013 at least not anytime soon. I\u2019ve been looking for a hearty vegetarian cookbook for a while now, one with only<\/em> vegetarian recipes, so as not to have to go about modifying meat recipes only realize you\u2019ve created an entirely new one.<\/p>\n

A friend was given a copy of the book at the launch party, and my enthusiasm for it was tepid at best; even the pictures looked somehow all too ordinary. I shouldn\u2019t have been so quick to judge! A week later, I browsed through my friend\u2019s book again \u2013 slowly and carefully. First of all, I realized I loved the pictures. Haven\u2019t I always fantasized about a summer in the Italian countryside, where I could set the table for a feast of delicacies made with fresh ingredients, sitting under a lemon tree and enjoying the food until sundown? Secondly, my stomach was growling with hunger as I pored over the recipes. They aren\u2019t exactly the kind of day-to-day food that keeps me feeling healthy, but rather what I consider soul food: simple and filling meals from fresh ingredients, easily thrown together at home. The kinds of meals even a carnivore would love. Not a single recipe features tofu, soy products, or other processed oddities; only fresh, pure, and ordinary ingredients.<\/p>\n

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I was so inspired by the book that I ordered a review copy of it the very next day. The day after that, I made falafels. I didn\u2019t get around to photographing them \u2013 they we\u2019re too good. I did snap a picture of those scrumptious lumps for my Instagram<\/a> account, however.<\/p>\n

Today I made Sunday soul food: creamy chanterelle, tomato, and chili pasta. After I finish this post, I intend to curl up under a blanket and, purring with contentment, mainline Netflix. These recipes would please just about anyone and I intend to make my way through them all, from cover to cover. As test-tasters I will use my friends, or whoever happens to ring my doorbell.<\/p>\n

Vege is the perfect vegetarian cookbook, just the kind that\u2019s been missing from the market. I hope this book finds its way to the kitchens of as many (even meat eating) Finns as possible.<\/p>\n

Have you checked out Vege yet?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Photos Katja Kokko<\/em><\/p>\n

Translation Katja Nikula<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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