many years ago, my mom gave us a cookbook entitled the one-dish vegetarian: 100 recipes for quick and easy vegetarian meals, by maria robbins. when we were first gifted the book, it was the beginning of our get-fit-2003 campaign, and mike and i poured over every recipe in an effort to discover delicious, healthy, and quick recipes that would accommodate our new lifestyle of exercising daily and eating smaller and healthier portions of food. the title of the book is almost exactly what you get—super fast and easy meals that can be served in one dish (although it often takes more than one dish to make them, which made me feel a little duped—i was looking forward to less dishes to wash!). we dog-eared the pages of the recipes we wanted to make and found several keepers, ones that became part of our regular repertoire. years passed, more cookbooks were purchased, and this one began to gather some dust on our cookbook shelf.
