What a delight it was to open the Australia Post mail bag and gently slide this book from it protective cover. I flipped through the pages, breathing in the gorgeous illustrations and dreaming of the delicious everyday vegetarian recipes that I could make from this beautiful book.
Hardie Grant kindly sent me a copy to share with you and I can’t wait for it to appear in one of your homes. Whether you are vegetarian or carnivore, we all know that eating less meat is better for us and the environment. And this cookbook makes you want to devour vegetarian dishes for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Jade O’Donahoo, author of Eat This My Friend cookbook and blog of the same name (check it out here) once owned a tiny hole in the wall cafe in the heart of Melbourne, after selling it, she wanted to share the secrets of her favourite dishes.
The book is filled with more than 60 lovingly illustrated recipes for versatile, healthy veggie dished that are fuss free and perfect for sharing with friends.
If you’d like to win a copy of this cookbook tell me below your favourite vegetable and why.
Entries are open until midnight on Friday 3rd March.
Winner will be contacted via email on Monday 6th March.
Entrants must have an Australian postal address.
Fav Veg? Definitely Brussell Sprouts!
Without a doubt my absolute favourite veggie has to be Cauliflower, and do you know what? I cannot explain why I love cauli so much, it’s just that when it is around, all I can think about it creamy cauliflower mash, and gently fried cauli-rice, or some yummy cauliflower fritters, or maybe cauliflower smothered in cheese sauce!! Oh my!! I am salivating at the thought lol, mmmm Cauliflower for dinner methinks.
my favourite vegetable is asparagus, it reminds me spring is here as the delicate and succulent spears pop their heads through the soil. As they reach for the sky it looks like someone stretching their arms high and wide to welcome the sun. They taste amazing as well!
What a gorgeous book! Love the hand drawn illustrations and love the colours! I’d never heard of her cafe but I love some good old secret ‘family’ recipes!!!
My favourite veggie is beetroot – it’s so versatile – i use it in savoury meals, desserts and i use the juice to colour my sourdough. I also made home made playdough for my nephew with the natural colouring!
I love the sweetness and the earthiness taste.
Roasted has got to be my favourite version but I’m also a fan of beetroot carpaccio – sliced really thinly – makes a great alternative to a meat carpaccio when having vegetarian friends over for dinner! Beetroot risotto is another favourite.
The leaves are great fried off with some butter as well!
Brussel Sprouts are my fave, we have to count them out so we get equal number – my hubby and I
Cauliflower! Especially heirloom varieties which look amazing! Plus it’s super versatile and can be cooked a million ways and is such a good vessel for flavour.
My favourite would have to be pumpkin! So delicious and so versatile, in sweet and savoury dishes. I love it in curries and casseroles, it thickens and subtly sweetens, YUM!
I absolutely am in love this book. The artwork and color palette are amazing. I would say I am in love with eating homegrown royal purple beans. The reason is because I adore the color and the time for it takes to grow. It gives are better appreciation for how the cycle is presented when you grow your own food. The best part is the surprising change of the purple bean when cooked it goes back to green. Hoping that I can win! Stay blessed and I adore your blog and Instagram page.
Pumpkin! It’s my absolute faaaavourite veggie! It is delicious cooked ANY way and so versatile, goes with everything! I actually made a yummy Roast pumpkin salad for a family party just the other day, and had to cook more pumpkin because I ate it all before it made it into the bowl! haha! Oddly I hated it growing up, but I am making up for lost time now. Good luck to everyone, and I think I will grab myself this book if I’m not the lucky winner as it looks gorgeous. 🙂
Oh! Definitely need some inspiration for some new veggie recipes. My favourite vegetable is broccoli. Lightly blanched, salted and butter.. Yum Yum Yum
I love tomatoes! I think I add them everywhere I can, and they always add an extra flavour to my dishes!!
Is it even possible to only have one favourite vegetable?! Mine would have to be broccoli. When I was pregnant, it was my very first craving. I love to eat it steamed, roasted and raw in or on just about everything (even pizza!). It’s the one vegetable I can always enjoy, no matter how I’m feeling. My 8 year old self is definitely cringing at this though.
Might not be cool but potato ! Hot Chips !!!the the comfort of mash, baked potatoes with coleslaw cheese and bacon, roast potatoes on a Sunday night, life just wouldn’t be the same without them 😚
My favourite vegetable is avocado 🥑 because it is so versatile. Love it on sourdough mashed up with poached egg on top or in a simple salad. X
Kohlrabi! It makes the best kraut, even better than cabbage. And if you bite into it raw the texture makes you feel like you are eating an apple but a cabbage tasting Apple.
Hi. My favourite vegetable is the humble carrot. It can be made into sweet things and savoury things. It’s so cheap and versatile. All kids eat them as dippers and you don’t have to peel them if that’s your inclination. You don’t need to go to a special greengrocer to source them, they are in every main supermarket and IGA’s across the land. I might go and munch on one right now!
Mine is pumpkin. So yummy and so versatile – from soups, dips, in quiches,tarts, scones and breads and even in cakes and desserts 🙂
This looks great, and I always need a new vegetarian cookobook ;). I love broccoli, it is definitely my go to vegetable.
Brocolli, I have always had the greatest memories of it from childhood (mainly because I use to cover it in cheese sauce) but now I use it so much. Its delicious steamed, roasted it just takes on such a great flavour when paired with a few spices 🙂
My fav is broccoli! Why because my kids will eat it without the eye roll and it reminds me of my mums sausage and broccoli Scacciata
What a beautiful book and gesture. Thanks for the email 🙂
I don’t think I have a most favourite vegetable, but when thinking of one I love in so many ways, it’s probably pumpkin. But then I realised it’s a fruit??!! I feel it has a flavour that makes you grateful to be alive and on this earth! And yes it is super versatile, including for savoury and sweet, and the part I love most is scooping out the seeds, throwing them on a baking tray with some spices and coconut oil and baking them crispy for a divine snack! I can’t believe I used to get rid of the seeds!!
If pumpkin is disqualified, my favourite vege is… mushroom! Wait is that even a vegetable? No?
This is a trickier question than I thought! but great that it’s got me thinking.
My favourite vegetable is…onion. Because it can create the most incredible aroma and add so much flavour to just about anything 🙂
beans are my favourite as I cook them the Italian way that my friend showed me how in garlic and oil
It’s so hard to pick a favourite which is kind of funny since as a kid I am fairly certain I hated all veg that was not carrot. These days I love versatile veg that you can use in all kinds of things but I really can not go past a roast potato, they are the best!!
My favourite vegetable would have to be zucchini.
My grandchildren love my zucchini slice (my little granddaughter who is 3 calls it pizza lol)
Also, I can use any vegetable that needs to be eaten up and add to the slice….yum 😉
A stunning book with a nifty title! My favourite vegetable has to be beetroot. It’s versatile and can be both savoury and sweet. You can eat it root to tip and it’s flavour is all kinds of wonderful earthy goodness. As to its appearance – ain’t it just beautiful? With various colours and stripes it’s an aesthetic winner too.
Eggplant is my favorite but I am looking for some creative ways to get all my boys. Dad Mr 5 and master 1 to eat more veg. The challenge of my house
That book looks beautiful! Honestly, my favourite vegetable (of the moment) would either be sweet potato or pumpkin. They are so versatile in heaps of recipes, and are great as a sweet option as well as savoury (sweet potato brownies are amazing!!). After doing 2 rounds (currently on our 3rd) of the IQS8WP veggies are becoming very regular in our household (compared to what they used to be!!). This time we are trying the veggie program. I think it is important from an environmental perspective and a health perspective (I have rheumatoid arthritis) to include more veggies every day.
I’m a lifelong fan of tomatoes 🍅 🍅. They are a joy to grow, come in a range of sizes and sweetness levels, are awesome roasted, baked, stuffed, in pies, curries, casseroles, pasta sauces relishes Chutneys and salads. Life would be a sadder and less colourful place without the gorgeous tomato! Tomatoes have fabulous health properties too. They are full of vitamin and lycopene, so good for us! Sow a few seeds in your garden next spring and see what pops up.
Fresh corn on the cob picked raced inside cooked and covered in butter and black pepper.
At the moment we are eating fresh beans picked daily and sliced with this awesome old ‘bean slicer’ I bought in a second hand shop over 25 years ago. I screw it onto my bread board and feed the beans into two holes and turn the handle to slice, using my belly to keep them on the bench!
This cook book looks so interesting even to a New Zealander xx
Thumbs favourite vegetable…I think it would be potato. There are so many ways to cook them and they’re always readily available! Roast potatoes with rosemary and sea salt are definitely one of my favourite comfort foods and good old mash in winter with a warming curry or casserole hits the spot!
Auto correct! How did it turn hhhhmmm in to thumbs?? 😂😊
The potato. The best ever! Delicious in all it’s incarnations – roasted, mashed, boiled, fried, flavoured….nom.
My favourite vegetable to cook with would be the wonderful cauliflower!
I make it into “fried rice “, I eat it raw in a broccoli , cauli, almond salad with a vinegarette; char grill it, roast it, – it’s brilliantly versatile and a great carbohydrate.
In the words of Manu ..”yum, yum yum,I want more”!!
I love beans I cook them thhe Italian way with garlic and oil yum o
At the moment it’s slow roasted tomato sauce with ours herbs, four different heritage tomatoe varieties that the kids grew and chopped capiscum amd zuchinni also grown from our patch. Our front yard in our group of units holds our seasonal produce amd well at the moments it’s pasta or zuchinni and corn fritters that they can create, cook and eat and know they’ve had a hand in producing it all.
My favourite is pumpkin. So yummy roasted, on pizza with caramelised onion and blue cheese.
My favourite vegetable is mushroom. I love it raw or stir fried or stuffed or bbq’d or in a salad, the possibilities are endless. The best thing about them is how good they are for you which is why I love that my kids eat them but tell me they don’t like them. I put them in all our cooking so their goodness flows through the other food/sauce but don’t plate them up on the kids plates when they can see them. The ultimate is that I actually grate them through a lot of our food and the kids eat them without knowing.
A good Ol fashioned spud! Yes the vegetable that brings comfort to everyone at any age from mashed potatoes, hot chips, potato bake and endless variations from this delicious yet humble Mr Potatohead.
My favorite vegie at the moment is zucchini. Love how many we are getting in our garden. My husband coats slices in breadcrumbs (using leftover pieces of sourdough) and deep fries to make crispy zucchini chips. Yum!!
Good golly, Miss Cauli!
I do love cauliflower, my absolute indulgence is cheesy cauliflower with ample pepper. Mmmmm…
Just one vegetable? One? Golly, that’s a hard pick. For this season I’ll have to pick tomato. Whilst technically not a vegetable I doubt you’d see it in many fruit salads! As to why it’s so good you just have to look at the variety. The colours, the shapes, the sizes, the tastes. My goodness. So many to choose from. My real reason for loving them is my favourite. When I was small I already loved eating tomatoes. My grandfather planted some seedlings with me in pots in his hothouse. When they were strong enough he gave them to me and I took them home. I distinctly remember caring for them and watching them grow. Eating my own grown tomatoes was the best. Pop called them Tom Thumbs.
My favorite veg is pumpkin. It’s the first vegetable I ate that wasn’t peas and potatoes. I ate it at my aunt’s while visiting with my nana, who was quaking in her boots silently worrying I’d not eat it or complain that I don’t eat veggies. It was utterly delicious (my aunty was a great cook) and opened my eyes to the whole world of veggies and what was available. Now I love all veggies.
My first thought is broccoli, but then I think of my beloved, cauliflower. I mean, it’s really hard to pick just one vegetable, they are all so awesome! But I’ll call it cauli! I mean, pizza bases and cauli rice for goodness sakes! The vegetable works overtime! Delicious!
Mushrooms!! Cool them so many ways!
Hi Clare, this is fun, I love reading about everyone’s fav veg! My all time fav vegetable is cauliflower, I just love it. My favourite way to cook and eat it, is with a simple cheese sauce and could easily eat just this for dinner. I use all of the cauliflower including the green outer leaves, they are just beautiful sliced up finely and steamed along with the flowerettes of the actual head of the cauliflower. I also love cauliflower in a spicy Indian curry with cashews and paneer cheese, mmm, delicious! I am making one vegetarian meal a week now, along with a few fish meals to reduce our consumption of meat, it’s a good thing to do, I feel. Have a lovely week.
Fi
Leeks! They are massively underrated and the ultimate veggie to add sweetness to pasta dishes, soups and much more!
My favourite veg has to be onion! It’s rarely the hero of a dish, but it really is the ingredient that adds so much depth to everything.
Onions… So many different types of onions for different recipes and so many, many, many ways to use them. My favourite is balsamic onions or pickled, or roasted. or on tomato sandwiches… I could go on and on and on!
Favourite vegetable has to be cabbage, because – KRAUT! And kimchi, if I can have different varieties of cabbage…
Of course it’s OK eaten cooked in various ways, but we really love having it with most meals – wouldn’t want to be without it 🙂
I love asparagus, especially with breakfast or brunch, I just feel so fancy adding it to my plate 🙂
This is a tricky one .. so many to choose from but in honor of the task ill stick adherently to the brief and choose a vegetable that surprised me..the white beetroot! Not a show off like its stainy friend ,so bright so risky or as glam as a golden beet, that vintage rocker. The white beet is pure flavour nicely steamed its the quiet achiever of the beet word …nom nom nom. I love it!
I love potatoes!! So many ways to cook them, roast, mashed, chips, or added to other ingredients to make delicious fish cakes and shepherds pies. The list goes on!!
Pumpkin, roasted chunks and in a salad – warm or cold
or, a hollowed out half butternut filled with shredded zucchini and herbs, baked until delectable
or, grated and added to a veg fritter
or, barbequed thin slices to top a sourdough pizza or flatbread – very moreish
or, fermented with sprigs of rosemary
I love pumpkin
My fav would have to be potatoes I could live on them , so many ways to use them but my favourite way is baby potatoes boiled , with some butter and fresh chopped mint , heaven!!
Eggplant! Without a doubt. This was a slow burn for me, when I was younger I always wanted to like the taste (I thought it looked sophisticated !?!?) but alas my taste buds were not in sync with my longing. Then many years ago in Japan I was introduced to Miso eggplant and my love affair began. Now I eat Eggplant any which way I can get it. This book looks beautiful and I would love to get my hands on it.
I have two favs & I can’t choose one over the other!! They are broccoli & pumpkin. I could eat these everyday for the rest of my life!! I don’t care how they are prepared, I just love them!
I would have to say potatoes are my favourite vegetable. They’re always in the pantry, they can be baked, fried, mashed, stewed, sautéed, shallow fried – you name it, potatoes can handle anything. They can even turn into gnocchi! So many endless possiblilties with the humble potato and I look forward to the day that I can grow my own 🙂
Definitely sweet potato! Grate it, chop it, slice it, dice it, mash it, roast it, steam it, boil it, bake it, toast it ( it’s totally a thing!). And it’s delicious!!!
Hi Clare and readers and Eat This My Friend, thanks for the opportunity.
Sweet Potato is the absolute hands down best best veg 🙂
So versatile…chips, baked, fried, smashed with quinoa into balls, amazing sweet bakes, puddings, desserts…on and on…endless yumminess…and lets not forget the zippy nutritional benefits…win win every which way.
My favourite is Zucchini!!! Yum yum, I love to slice it up longways and use it in place of pasta sheets in lasagne.
Oh I love books that have hand drawn illustrations! Even if I dont win, that looks like a lovely blog to follow – thank you. It is hard to pin down just one favorite vegetable, but i think I would have to say eggplant. I roasted a whole tray of them yesterday, had some with grilled chicken for dinner, and enjoyed some more today with a smokey tomato, capsicum sauce. I just heard some friends are popping around later for a drink – so yes the rest will be mashed up and made into baba ganoush. What a versatile vegetable!
The underrated carrot is my favourite vegetable I eat them when most people eat an apple, raw or cooked I love them either way. What a fabulous looking book🙂
I can’t get enough of sweet potato. It has all the versatility of potato, but it’s sweeter, has a smoother texture and it’s a prettier colour! And it’s great in cake too (think carrot cake with sweet potato instead… mmmm so good!).
Asparagus! I absolutely love it and eat it year-round in any I can. It’s good in the main dishes, salads, and in breakfast foods like egg dishes.
My favourite vegetable would have to be the humble spud.potatoes can be used for just about anything,from mash ,stews chips,right up to hash browns and a great budget vegetble also easy to grow
Thank you so very much for sharing your thoughts & ideas with us.
Well, I’d have to say that I would have not one, but two (2) favourite vegetables. Reading through all the above comments I’d have to say that mine are certainly not the normal run of the mill vegies. However, there were two other ladies who obviously enjoy … eggplant like I do. But my other favourite is … okra. Both vegies make beautiful curries which I really enjoy & are just several vegies of a few that I am able to eat.
I like red beets, especially roasted with other veggies. I won’ t be able to get the book but thought I would comment anyway.
I live in the state of Wisconsin, USA.
What a gorgeous book! The illustrations look beautiful and I bet it is filled to the brim with fantastic recipes.
I had to think about this question for a while, but I would have to say that my favorite vegetable at the moment would be spinach. It is incredibly nutritionally dense and such a versatile ingredient. It works wonderfully in salads, smoothies, pasta and risotto, pizza, dips and too many other dishes to list. However, my favorite use for it would be in the creation of traditional burek, a flaky Macedonian pastry. It is absolutely delicious and a crowd-pleaser amongst friends and family. I will always hold the memories of being a little girl making it for family gatherings with my baba, specifically picking the spinach straight from the garden and steaming it before it was mixed with egg, fetta and ricotta.
Mine would be Parsnips, baked with a drizzle of olive oil or parsnip chips with sprinkling of dried homemade herb salt and parsnip mash yum! Life can be simply divine with our choice of vegetables from the garden or farmers market.
Asparagus. I grew up only eating tinned asparagus, so the first time I tasted fresh asparagus was an absolute revelation. I love it simply steamed with some lemon, salt and pepper. I avoid buying the imported stuff so waiting for it to come into season makes it extra special.
My favourite vegetable is peas! I have loved them since I was a little girl!