Mayim's Vegan Table Cookbook Review and Giveaway!

Okay everyone, I am SO excited to share this post with you!

Just take a look at what I had for lunch today...

Yes, I snapped this photo, and yes, it was as delicious at it looks...

Now take a look at what I had for dessert... 

It was still warm... Oh. My. Yummness!

And the recipes, you ask? Well, they are from Mayim Bialik. She's a fellow Jewish Homeschooling mom (you can read an interview she did on Jewish Homeschooling here), a neuroscientist and the author of my new favorite cookbook, Mayim's Vegan Table. The dishes above are the Teriyaki Tofu (page 140)  Sweet and Sour Cabbage Salad (page 85) and Cocoa Brownies (page 182).

Oh, she is also an Emmy-nominated actress and stars on the CBS show The Big Bang Theory. You can read more about her here.

But first and foremost, she is a mom to 2 boys who she has raised entirely vegan. Now, me personally, I am not a vegan. I was a pescatarian (don't eat any animals but fish) for 6 months once, when I was pregnant and could not handle meat or chicken, and I can honestly say that I have never felt better in my life then those 6 months. 

What I really love about Mayim's Vegan Table is that it is a cookbook filled with healthy foods that we actually eat, and just happen to be vegan. We're talking Latkes, Sufganiyot, Hamantaschen and Challah. There are all sorts of yummy breads and really healthy and delicious looking dinners that I think my picky kids will actually eat. I'm also so excited to try out all the pareve dips and salads for Shabbos.

Mayim's book is not here to tell you to become a vegan. She's showing you how you can take foods that you already love and make it vegan and delicious at the same time.

You know what else is awesome? Not only did she send me a copy for myself, but she sent me one extra copy for one lucky reader. All you have to do is enter the Giveaway below to win- Good Luck!

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And if you just cannot wait to find out if you won and need this cookbook NOW- click here to pick up a copy for yourself, your mom, your sisters and your best friend.

Have an absolutely awesome week!

Always, 

~Kids in the Kitchen~ with Guest Blogger and Jewish Homeschooling Mama, Altie

I am the type who would rather cook and clean up without the kids trying to help. My daughters love being in the kitchen. They are always asking me if they can bake, and make up recipes, they write them down in their own cookbook. You could find one of my daughters reading a cookbook (of course with lots of pictures) at any given time.

Often I allow them to whip up pancakes (knowing the cleaning lady is coming that day and knowing I hate to fry so if I want my kids to know what pancakes are I better let my daughter make them!)

For our anniversary my daughters then 8 and 9 cooked a whole dinner for us, with menu cards, place cards, candles and all! For the last 2 years every week my 8 year old now almost 10 has been making the Challah, seriously. Of course with my guidance, but at this point she doesn't even need my help. She loves the attention she gets every Friday night when the guests say “wow this Challah is amazing……”

Often I have to bite my tongue and let them do things their way in the kitchen. I try and let my boys all under 8 do something in the kitchen  if they beg: like mix the knaidlach, make their own egg omelets and of course braid their own little Challah. This all requires lots of patients on my end.

I was so excited last Thursday with the realization that I actually enjoy cooking now with my girls in the kitchen. They are now 10 and 11. They can put away all the ingredients that they used. They can follow a recipe nicely and we can all have fun. The best part is that they actually helped me cook the things that I needed to make….one likes baking, the other  cutting and making the salad dressings... perfect! 

At one point I looked at them and said “girls I have nothing left to cook for tonight!”

So for all of those women who don’t enjoy the kids puttering around in your kitchen, chances are the time will come when you will enjoy the benefits of it- so be patient and you will soon come to enjoy you r very own sous-chefs!

Thanks for reading and Bitayavon!