The recipes in Vegan Italiano so far seem to be pretty easy. Maybe that’s just the ones I’ve picked to cook. Still I think this is a good cookbook for begining to intermediate cooks.
This is the Winter Vegetable Stew. What a great way to use cabbage. If you’re looking to save some money, this is a really inexpensive, tasty dish. Everything comes out infused with classic Italian flavors. I usually think of a stew being a little more juicy. Concerned that this would start to stick to the pot, I ended up adding about 1/2 cup of water early on. That seems to have been the right amount. The flavor didn’t seem to suffer.
Later in the week I made the Rotelle with Fennel and Cherry Tomatoes. This is a great “I don’t feel like cooking” dish. Especially if you use canned cherry tomatoes as I did…DeKalb Farmers Market carries a brand that is really tasty. There is very little chopping involved and only 1 pot. It’s done in about 20 minutes. And I love fennel so I’m always happy to have another way to use it. I know, these aren’t rotelle. I got these mezzi rigatoni instead.