I admit, I have a cookbook addiction and have collected over 300+ cookbooks in my lifetime. Lucky for me, I have a pretty big house and my husband built me numerous shelves in our pantry for me to house all of my favorite books!
Today, I get to introduce you to a new cookbook that I recently added to my collection.
Title: Meat on the Side
Author: Nikki Dinki
ISBN: 978-1-250-06716-6
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Meat on the Side – Delicious Vegetable Focused Recipes for Every Day is a hardcover cookbook by author Nikki Dinki, co-host of the Cooking Channel’s Junk Food Flip. The book teaches you a better way to cook and eat!
Nikki’s new cookbook, Meat on the Side: Delicious Vegetable-Focused Recipes for Every Day contains 270 pages with mouth-watering photographs and over 100 recipes. The author will show you how to make vegetables be the star of the plate, making every meal more nutritious, with significantly fewer calories than the meat-focused alternatives.
This book is an ideal resource for people who are looking to save money by buying less high-priced proteins while providing their family with a well-rounded meal. The cookbook is totally geared toward home cooks to make the shift to more healthier foods & vegetable focused meals.
Small Example of Recipes Included:
Eggplant Meatballs
Brussels Sprouts & Tomatillos Skillet Pizza
Kale Crepes with Sweet Potato Cream Cheese
Zucchini Crostini with Pomegranate Goat Cheese Spread
Spaghetti Squash Mac & Cheese with Green Chiles & Creole Chicken
Celeriac & Lobster Rolls with Fennel & Apple Slaw
Grilled Pattypan Squash & Egg Bagel Sandwich
Red Cabbage & Raspberry Grilled Cheese
Mushroom Breakfast Polenta
Buffalo Cauliflower
Mushroom & Beef Sloppy Joes
+ Many More!
I absolutely LOVE this new cookbook! Just last week we made the Pumpkin Quesadilla recipe and the entire family loved it! It required ingredients that I already had on hand and made a very tasty lunch!
One of the things I love about this book is that the author includes various tips with most of the recipes. These tips help you along the way when it comes to prep and/or serving time. Her directions are super easy to follow and there are no “weird” ingredients that you need to go searching the world for. You should be able to buy all of the ingredients locally to you.
We are hoping to try out the Mushroom & Beef Sloppy Joes and the Linguine & Red Pepper Clam Sauce recipes next. Oh my gosh, they look so delicious in the book and I know I can easily follow her recipes!
You can learn more about Nikki Dinki and her new Meat on the Side: Delicious Vegetable Focused Recipes for Every Day by visiting her website online.
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This sounds like a wonderful cookbook. I love the idea of having more recipes where the vegetables are the star, especially because I am trying to incorporate more veggies into my diet.
What a Wonderful Recipe Book! This is a change that I really welcome! Less meat and more Veggies!! By Using these recipes plus trying to buy Organic foods we should be on our way to better Health! I will definitely have to get used to the different types of veggies in these recipes, but it will definitely be worth the try! Thank you for this very informative Review! 🙂
I completely understand your cookbook addiction; there always seems to be room for one more on the shelf in the kitchen or the stack by the chair. This looks like a good one, especially with all of the summer produce in the market now. The Eggplant Meatballs sound like something I’d love to try. Thanks for the review.