A group of fashionable young women in Britain are making a career of promoting healthy eating, including Jasmine and Melissa Hemsley, Amelia Freer, Anna Jones and Natasha Corrett. The Guardian has called them ‘the queens of greens’; The Telegraph named them ‘the superfoodies.’ One could also think of them as the Daughters of Nigella, the logical successors to Nigella Lawson.” I agree with the author when she says … “Right now, too many sweeping generalizations are being made in the world of food. Foods like bread are being vilified, and chefs and nutritionists are making blanket statements about how certain staple, cheap, and useful nutritious foods are unduly bad for our bodies. I think this is damaging, as it, means our psychology around these foods changes. We attach guild and a “forbidden” label to food, increasing our anxiety around it and causing us to crave it even more.” (So true!) So you grab a "handful" of coconut flakes--would that be a 6-foot tall man's hand or a 4-foot tall woman's?--but you use exactly 1 Tbsp of maple syrup and 1 tsp paprika. I find that unbearably annoying--be loose or be exact, but not at the same time! Meanwhile, remove any tough stalks from the kale and shred the leaves. Once the pasta has had 6 minutes, add the shredded kale and continue to cook for a further 2 minutes.

Keeping food consistently healthy and nourishing during a long working week can be tough. That's why Anna Jones's new book A Modern Way to Cook, following the much-loved A Modern Way to Eat (hailed the best vegetarian cookbook of recent years) is all about achieving simple, easily achievable healthy meals' Redonline

Fill and boil a kettle and get all your ingredients and equipment together. You need a large shallow pan with a lid. A Modern Way to Cook is so full of fresh ideas that I stopped turning down the corners of the recipes I wanted to make when I realized it was pretty much the whole book. From the simple to the more complex recipes, this is a good book for all days of the week.” I read the book and I tried a recipe. Oh my. We are talking flavor, folks, and it isn't the kind of amazing flavor that fades once you start considering the harm you are doing to your body from the actual sugar, salt, and fat that often comes with those huge flavor sensations. No, this is intense flavor and it's the Good Jedi kind. The kind of cook who makes you want to eat vegetarian food even if you aren't vegetarian ... Anna's skill is that she manages to make veggie food simple and super desirable, so even if you're a staunch meat-eater, you won't feel like you're missing out' Grazia Anna Jones’ previous cookbook, A Modern Way to Eat, is hands-down one of the biggest favorites of Powell’s buying team. We’ve been waiting with bated breath to dig in to cooking from her new book. I made the vegan and gluten free Pistachio and Raspberry Brownies. So ridiculously good I had to make a second batch a few days later…. Bottom Line: In like fashion to her first book (A Modern Way to Eat), Jones displays a masterful touch in blending flavors in her vegetarian recipes.”

Blitz the cauliflower in a food processor until it has a fine, rice-like texture. Put it into a mixing bowl, add the ground almonds, oats, oregano, salt and pepper, and mix with your hands. Make a well in the centre and add the eggs. Mix it all together, then use your hands to form the lot into a ball. It will be a little wetter and less firm than a traditional pizza dough. What you top your pizza with is a personal thing: I have suggested my favourites at the bottom in my ‘flavour map’ – the base, the cheese, the hero vegetable, the top note. Some words that kept coming to mind include casual, honest, easy, and enormous. In the beginning, the recipes are divided by the amount of time they take to prepare. The recipes are simple, they look delicious, and they are vegetarian. Every recipe is introduced with alternate ingredients listed so it is very easy to make the dishes using ingredients that you have on hand, or to tweak per dietary requirements. Included at the end of the book are lists of recipes are vegan and gluten free, and recipes that can become vegan or gluten free with slight tweaking. A Modern Way to Cook cements Anna’s status as one of the most important cookbook authors focusing on vegetable-centered food. These recipes are bright, bold, and bursting with flavor, and they will surely move vegetarian cookery further from the margins and closer to the center of our culinary consciousness.” I am happy to report that Ms. Jones doesn't put pepper in everything, but I still say there's too much of it. I like her chatty attitude--it's encouraging. It almost had me believing that I could actually be turning pasta every 30 seconds or so as it cooks, and at the same time be removing any tough stems from the kale and coarsely tearing the leaves.She continues …”It’s important to make a commitment to eating well, but it’s also important to be realistic…To me, eating well is far simpler than it is often made out to be. Buy good ingredients, cook at home, and make the majority of what you eat plants and vegetables, and listen and react to your body. I don’t think it’s much more complicated than that.” Amen to that! The authors’ recipes have easy to follow instructions. Most recipes have several ingredients listed that can be found in most grocery stores. Above most recipes the author talks about the dish you are about to make. I found this interesting. I also liked that the author included a chard that tells the reader of other ingredients that can be substituted. It allows the reader to be creative in making the recipe.

On top of the tons of recipes, there are charts in the book that help provide countless options for making omelets, grain bowls, one pot meals, baked potato meals, one pot meals, salads, stir fry meals, breakfast smoothies, overnight oats and fruit desserts. Rather than separate recipes by course, Jones breaks the chapters into prep time. That way, you know right where to go for need-dinner-now crispy cauliflower rice and where to flip for a more leisurely project like butternut-cannellini gratin. While the dishes are allvegetarian, it’s comforting to know that “modern” cooking can still include desserts likecookie doughbars and panna cotta.”Like bright and sudden sunshine breaking through clouded sky ... A Modern Way to Cook follows last year's A Modern Way to Eat and together they form an indispensible compendium for the contemporary cook ... Its simple, wonderful workable food that will undoubtedly make people happy ... Anna Jones, you queen of greens, you've only gone and done it again' Guardian, Cook

Anna Jones is called the new Nigella. I don't know. I think there is a hearty dose of Jamie Oliver thrown in. She is a chef so there is a chefiness to some of the recipes. Like a lot of steps. The cookbook is organized by the amount of time it takes one to prepare the dishes. Therefore, even though some recipes have a lot steps, you get an idea of how much time all of that is going to take you. Put the flour, baking powder and water into the food processor with a good pinch of salt and 1 tbsp olive oil, then pulse until the dough comes together in a ball. But also the flavor combinations totally work for me and these aren't the same bunch of recipes I see in every other vegetarian cookbook--there are a lot of things I'd never thought of before, like using white beans as a quesadilla filling with roasted red peppers and Manchego cheese, or savory beet pancakes with goat cheese and olives. I really want to eat just about everything in this book, and not only that, but I actually feel inspired to make them for myself! Guiding you through the year, from the coldest winter days to the long light summer evenings, The Modern Cook’s Year is set to become a contemporary classic. PRAISE FOR ANNA JONES I only allow myself to formally review cookbooks that are more biography or travelogue with a few recipes thrown in. But I just wanted to point out a couple of things I noticed, other than the impossibly short cooking times:More and more people are looking to include vegetarian recipes in their life beyond a mushroom risotto or yet another red onion and goat’s cheese tart. Anna Jones is the kind of cook who makes you want to eat vegetarian food even if you aren’t vegetarian…Anna’s skill is that she manages to make veggie food simple and super desirable, so even if you’re a staunch meat-eater, you won’t feel like you’re missing out. ’