One: Pot, Pan, Planet: A greener way to cook for you, your family and the planet

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Mam wrażenie, że są tu przepisy, które stanowią szukanie zdrowszej wersji kosztem smaczniejszej - to oczywiście może być dla kogoś atrakcyjne, ale dla mnie jest minusem. The recipes here are some of Jones’s favourites; in particular, she has a soft spot for the saag aloo shepherd’s pie. “There’s always a few standout recipes in the book that, when you get them out of the oven, you do a little fist pump,” she says. Jones – who began her career working with Jamie Oliver – says she is “an ambitious person … quite bad at celebrating my successes”. At various points, she has considered opening cafes or restaurants, but for now she thinks she can make the greatest impact through her books. But. Of the entire book of dozens/hundreds of recipes, I only bookmarked one: the lemongrass & tofu larb. None of the other recipes felt like things I wanted to cook as an everyday meal. Lovely sounding flavor combinations, though. Update: And the lemongrass & tofu larb is...fine. Not going into our regular rotation.

At several points in the book the author seems to posit that eating local and reducing food miles is the best thing we can do to reduce our impact on the climate - even going so far as to claim that eating locally raised grass-fed beef would be better than eating a processed vegan sausage that's been flown into the country. In a pan, cook the rhubarb and sugar for 2 minutes, until the juices turn the sugar into a pink syrup but the rhubarb still holds its crunch. Set aside to cool in the pan for 20 minutes. For the non-vegan cake, melt the butter in a pan, then whisk in the dark brown sugar and chopped stem ginger. Leave to cool slightly, then beat in the eggs one by one, until emulsified. Fold through the dry ingredients and pour into the prepared cake tin.Really wanted to love this one since it seems to touch on everything I appreciate: straightforward, veggie-focused, flexible, practical meals with an eco-conscious eye. I have made several recipes in this book and they've all worked well and been delicious. I was pleasantly surprised how good this book is, so many cookery books have repeats, fillers, things you make anyway, this just had so many great recipes, ideas and suggestions. Bring to the boil, then turn down to a gentle simmer for 25 minutes, to allow the flavours to infuse, adding more hot water from time to time if needed. Strain the broth if you are serving straight away, or if you plan to eat this later cool with the vegetables left in for a more intense flavour, and strain before reheating. My favorite part of the book was its emphasis on reducing/eliminating food waste. Examples of how to do this are provided throughout the book.

This fool, spiked with ginger, is so light and pillowy, and so pleasingly neon. I find it hard to think of a dessert I’d rather eat. The rhubarb brings a welcome sharpness and pop of bright pink. Vegan cream may not whip to soft peaks – just whip it as much as you can. Add the spices to the pan and stir for a couple of minutes until all smells fragrant. Next, add the tinned beans and their liquid, the tomatoes and 400ml (a tin’s worth) of water. Soak the rice noodles in cold water for at least 10 minutes until softened. Lay the tofu between 2 sheets of kitchen paper on a plate or clean surface. Place a small plate over the top and a jar or weight on the plate to press down. Leave the tofu like this to dry out for half an hour. Most of the recipes are organized by what you cook it in (chapter one = pot, chapter three = pan, and so on). My favorite chapter took a turn and focused on the top vegetables available in supermarkets and outlined 10 ways to cook it. For example, broccoli gratin, broccoli miso salad, broccoli pesto, etc. Didn't end up making too much from this; the cuisine Jones focuses on here seems to fall right into the category of the kind of thing I am able to and like to make without a recipe! I think the target audience here is experienced cooks who are looking to shift to more vegetarian/vegan and more seasonal fresh veggies in their cooking and need some inspiration/instruction. It's definitely a book for folks who already know what they're doing in the kitchen, but also just got home from the farmers market with a load of mystery greens, and there was a nice variety of flavor profiles and simple vs. more complicated recipes for veggies you're likely to find in abundance in the right season.I could tell before I ate it from the smell, from the bubbling filling and crispy top, that this was going to be everything I had wanted it to be. One: Pot, Pan, Planet by Anna Jones falls into that magical middle of this Venn diagram: this book is both. Onebrings together a way of eating that is mindful of the planet. Anna gives you practical advice and shows how every small change in planning, shopping and reducing waste will make a difference. There are also 100 recipes for using up any amount of your most-eaten veg and ideas to help you use the foods that most often end up being thrown away. What an incredible cookbook - now a staple in my kitchen! I think it's incredibly essential to interweave sustainability and climate change into your cooking, and Anna Jones does this very well for us UK dwellers, and she does this in a way that isn't pushy. Doesn't demonize anyone based on where they are in their sustainability journey as we were all once in a place in which we had no idea how harmful certain practices are for the health of the planet. And the supercilious tone of the author was a bit grating. "For the really hungry, some brown or basmati rice here would work, but I eat this just as it is." Oh, you can add a slice of bread if you're ~really~ hungry, but I rarely do. Touting the superiority of jarred beans with a little Barefoot Contessa-style toss of "but canned will do, if you must." But somehow, when Ina says it, it's comforting. When Jones says it, it feels haughty.

For the vegan cake, melt the coconut oil in a pan, then whisk in the dark brown sugar and stem ginger pieces. Add the coconut oil mix to the flour mixture and whisk to combine. Now, with the whisk running, add the sparkling water and mix until the batter is smooth and light. Pour into the prepared cake tin. I love the uncomplicated simplicity of the golden broth with chewy udon noodles. You could add seasonal vegetables, too: shredded greens, sugar snap peas, even roast squash, if you like. I eat this when I feel under the weather, and also when I want something satisfyingly warm and straightforward. When cool enough, wipe the pan out with kitchen paper and add a couple more tablespoons of oil. Heat over a medium heat. Add the garlic and ginger to the pan and cook for 2 minutes. Then add the broccoli stalks, drained noodles and 6 tablespoons of water and cook for 3-4 minutes until the broccoli stems are tender and the noodles are beginning to cook and crisp up. Add the broccoli florets, sauce and most of the spring onions along with 2 more tablespoons of water. Stir and cook for another 3-4 minutes until the noodles are soft enough to eat.This is a book where thought meets practical action meets deliciousness.”–Yotam Ottolenghi,bestselling author and award-winning chef Chocolate and nut butter, a flavour friendship rarely bettered. If you can’t have nuts, then sunflower seed butter will work here, too. To make your own nut butter, blitz raw or roasted nuts for a minute or two until you have a coarse powder, scrape down the sides and blitz again until you have a smooth paste. If it looks dry at that point, add a little coconut or groundnut oil, and blitz again. Sweeten with a little honey, maple syrup or vanilla, if you like. In a large lidded saucepan, toast the coriander seeds and peppercorns over a medium heat for 2 minutes. Add the remaining ingredients, apart from 2 of the spring onions, the lemon juice, soy sauce, noodles and chilli oil. Pour over a litre of boiling water. Grease a deep 23cm square springform baking tin. Heat the oven to 160C fan/gas mark 4. Put all the dry ingredients, except 1 teaspoon of the ground ginger and the dark brown sugar, into a bowl. Whisk to combine. Still dedicated to giving us stylish dishes with maximal flavour (think broad bean and green herb shakshuka, and golden rosti with ancho chili chutney), the book is punctuated with palatable nuggets of information: in chapters entitled ‘Planet I’ and ‘Planet II,’ Jones explains how we might combat the climate crisis through small behavioural changes around the way we eat.”— Harper’s Bazaar

It is a great cookbook though for vegetarians and omnivores and vegans too. The author gives so many great tips. There are so many ideas provided, multiple ways to use individual vegetables, for example, but so many ideas and so much information including pretty good nutritional information. It’s quite a natural way of cooking for me because my brother and sister are both vegan, and me and my husband, we’re vegetarian,” says Jones. “I always set myself a challenge because it meant double the recipes to test. But I think my neighbours and my family were quite pleased. They got a lot of food over the past two years.” Mix all the sauce ingredients in a small bowl with 4 tablespoons of cold water. Set aside. Cut the broccoli into florets and thinly slice the stalks, keeping them separate. For non-vegan brownies, make the chocolate batter by melting 150g of the chocolate (saving the rest for the top) with the oil in a small pan over a low heat. Whisk together the dry ingredients. Create a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and add the eggs and vanilla. Stir to combine. Pour in the melted chocolate and give the batter another stir until the chocolate is mixed through.

In the written asides to the 200 recipes, though, there is a new steeliness. She is clear in the introduction that we are at “a turning point, in a moment of crisis” and “the most powerful thing we can do is eat fewer animals and more plants”. She has spent almost three years on One and that time has gone into simplifying recipes, attempting to minimise food waste, and offer sustainable choices and value for money. One is also her first cookbook where 99% of her recipes have a vegan alternative.