The Vajrapani Institute Cookbook: Recipes and Reflections for a Tibetan Buddhist Retreat Center

Description: Vajrapani Institute's cookbook hopes to inspire you in the kitchen. Along with recipes, this cookbook contains reflective articles on topics such as using cooking as a spiritual path, rejoicing before you eat, and exploring the view from vegetarianism. We also discuss how to create vegan and gluten-free recipes with common substitutions. This cookbook brings together 94 of our favorite recipes from this redwood-cradled retreat center in Northern California. Rather than recipes functioning as rigid rules in the kitchen, we invite you to use these recipes as outlines for a kitchen practice full of heart. Whether you are a novice cook or an experienced chef, no matter your tradition, this cookbook is meant for you as a path into exploring your own motivation for cooking as a source of culinary creative potential.

Table of Contents: Cooking with the heart
Introduction
How to use cooking as the path by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Practicing bodhicitta mindfulness in the kitchen
Vegetarian menu ideas
Cooking with love by Ven. Tenzin Chogkyi
Grains
Ten tips for mindful eating by Andrea Lieberstein
Vegetable dishes
Rejoice before you eat by Nina Tomkiewicz
Vegetarian protein
The kindness of chickens to the human race by Andy Wistreich
Soups
Food offering prayers compiled by Ven. Rene Feusi
Salads and salad dressings
A practice for the supermarket by H.H. the Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje
Dips, spreads, and sauces
Desserts
Gluten-free and vegan cooking and baking
Appendix: kitchen tips and helpful kitchen tools
Acknowledgements and rejoicing
Bibliography

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