Overview
Friendly Foods are friendly to our bodies, our pocketbooks, our busy schedules, and our environment. They are natural, healthful gourmet foods from a three-time Culinary Olympics medal winner whose dishes range from the everyday to the elegant. As Brother Ron says, "I don't just try to make these dishes taste as good as traditional foods; I make them taste better."The wealth of tantalizing recipes included hot and cold appetizers, salads, soups, pastas, entrees, side dishes, breads, and desserts. In the entree chapter, Brother Ron demystifies alternative protein sources - beans, grains, tofu, tempeh, and seitan. An expanded seitan section gives recipes for making this lesser known wheat's food from scratch, and creative ways of using it. A special section on Brother Ron's Culinary Olypics winners features more complex gourmet fare - from Southern blackened tempeh with Tomato-Aprico-Ginger Coulis to Tofu Seitan Wellington to Swiss Burnt-Pecan Torte.
Franciscan monk, Brother Ron Picarski calls whole grains, vegetables, legumes, sea vegetables, and various other foods "friendly foods, " because they do not bear the high environmental, economic, and nutritional costs of meat and processed foods. This new cookbook has 300 recipes that do not use meat, eggs, or dairy products--for the ghealth-conscious cooks of the '90s.