Bhavna Patel

Cooking Smart with Bhavna Bhavna Patel

The complete guide to healthy and smart cooking. Welcome to my book of world cuisine featuring vegan and vegetarian recipes! This book is all about living life healthfully and tastefully. I believe variety is the spice of life, so I love to try recipes from many other cuisines besides Indian. These days, Whole Foods, bulk stores, and farmers' markets are my favorite stores to visit, as I love to cook a variety of different foods. Through this cookbook, I would like to share how one can serve restaurant-style food from home with minimal effort. Better yet, your family members and guests will think you've put hours of time and effort into preparing a meal! WhenI cooked my very first stew recipe in my Cosori Pressure Cooker, it tasted gourmet and delicious, like slow-cooked, restaurant-style stew. Pressure cooking is only a few hundred years old, and it only really became popular for home-use in the last century. When I was a child, using first-generation pressure cookers was still considered dangerous. They didn't have all the built-in safety mechanisms of modern pressure cookers. I'll never forget howI first learned about pressure cookers. I was about ten years old, and I saw one explode! Dal (lentils) all over the ceiling! On the cabinets! Almostall over the kitchen! What a mess. I never got discouraged, though, from using a pressure cooker in my daily cooking. And now that time has passed, I'm more confident than ever in using my pressure cooker. But I'm transitioning to an electric pressure cooker, because it has more safety features, it's easier to use, and it has more cooking options.