Cookies! and a good book

Chocolate Mint Melties. Yes, that's right. Chocolatey, minty, melty.
Chocolate mint melties from Eat, Drink, Be Vegan, Dreena Burton's latest cookbook offering.
Ok, I can hear the cries for more cookies
These are 5-spice Almond Cookies. There is just something about that crackled look on the top of a cookie. I love it. Can't say why. It's just cool looking and comforting in some holidays with your gran kinda way.

So many people have already sung the praises and talked the talk of this book. I've had it for a while and made a lot of the recipes in it. Talk about a tasty, useful, weeknight dinner book.

This book is broken up into ten recipe sections: Breakfast, Hummus, Nibbles, Sauces/Dressings, Soup/Stews, Sandwiches, Mains, Sides, Desserts, Beverages. In addition to the recipes there are sections there are cooking notes, kitchen tips, baking notes, grain and bean cooking guides

Cocoa Banana Muffins
Also from the breakfast section I can recommend the Tomato Basil Quesadilla.

Black Bean & Orange Hummus (I wasn't completely into this, just too citrusy for my hummus taste) but the Roasted Red Pepper and Almond Hummus was too good.

Zucchini Chickpea Tomato Curry

Sweet & Sour Chipotle Tempeh with Sweet PotatoesGoddess Garbanzos with Polenta Fries. I had never had polenta fries before and she made it sound like I was missing out so I had to try them. She was right. I was missing out.

Sesame Lime Soba with Shiitake and Snow PeasBean & Corn Tortilla Lasagna

Allow me to also recommend:
Pan Fried Tempeh (if you don't think you like tempeh you might be wrong here)
Tamari Roasted Chickpeas (my husband went crazy for these. There were some on the plate. He gobbled those up then pointed at the empty spot and said "any more?")
White Bean & Walnut Bruschetta (I've made this a couple times now. Really good as a appetizer or as a side with pasta).
Coco-Coconut Chili
Sweet Potato Lentil Chili (awesome awesome cold weather dish)
Popeye Pasta
Teriyaki Quinoa

Chocolate Sin-namon Cake with Creamy Vanilla Frosting. Check out the crumb on this cake. It was so light I couldn't get a neat slice. This was a really good cake.

For more desserts do try:
All-purpose Vanilla Cake (the best vanilla cake I have tried so far)
Chocolate Hazelnut Cream Frosting (for the vanilla cake obviously)
Strawberry Cream Frosting
Super Charge Me! Cookies (good travel cookies when you think the airline might ignore the fact you're vegan even though you chose the "pure vegetarian" option).

I still have more recipes to try so I'm sure I'll eventually have another collection of photos to drool on. If only I had better photography skills and a really kickass camera then you'd be in real trouble.