We’re lucky to live a few doors down from LA’s coolest caterer, Jennie Cook. When I hear about an event she’s working I always try to skank an invitation. We had her caterer an event for us a few years ago and it was at that dinner that I first encountered Jennie’s legendary vegan lasagna.
That was the best lasagnas I’ve ever eaten. I considered developing connections at the NSA that would allow me to get my hands on that recipe. Thankfully, with the release of her book Who Wants Seconds? Sociable Suppers for Vegans & Everyone in Between, I don’t have to resort to espionage. The lasagna is on page 142.
The book has a wide range of recipes for everything from simple family suppers to big dinner parties both meat dishes and vegan fare. If you’d like to try out some of Jennie’s recipes there’s some on her website for pickled cranberries, Waldorf salad, peanut butter blondies, sweet potato lasagna and white bean soup.
We’re giving away a copy of Who Wants Seconds? to a lucky Root Simple reader. To enter the contest just leave a comment on this post–just tell us if you’re an omnivore, vegetarian or vegan. We’ll select a winner by generating a random number and matching that to the comment order.
We’ll announce the winner on Friday and the winner will need to email us their address by Monday morning, or we’ll pull a second winner. So if you enter, be sure to check back over the weekend!
We are a house of omnivores that eat tons of veggies!
Omnivore.
We are omnivores with limited dairy + lots of fresh food.
Omnivore, though working on cutting down on the meat.
Omnivore
Omnivorous all the way.
Fully omnivore but sliding into in-between.
Omnivore!
Omnivore who loves fruits and vegetables.
After watching “Vegucated”, omnivore learning towards vegetarian.
Omnivore, but 2/3 vegetarian
Quasi Vegan!
Omnivore, but lover of good vegan/veggie food.
vegetarian
omnivore
Vegetarian 6 days a week. Chief cook and bottle washer in a house full of omnivores, plus whichever of the neighrhood kids haven’t wandered out the door by dinnertime. They usually aren’t too picky.
That’s my comment 😀
Omnivore who eats vegetarian about 6 meals out of the week
I’m vegetarian (and the cook, and I don’t cook with meat)
Husband = omnivore (social carnivore, as he calls it)
3 omnivore young adult kids
1 vegetarian young adult kid
plus we’re Orthodox Christian, so my cooking follows the calendar of fasts and feasts: vegan Wednesdays and Fridays each week plus vegan 6 weeks before Christmas, 7 weeks before Easter and about a month in the summer.
I am an omnivore.
omnivore
Omnivore.
Vegetarian since 2003 when I had an “Aha” moment about the connection between food and wealth while living in rural Peru.
Omnivore 4 days a week. Vegetarian the rest.
Love love LOVE Jennie! We get to play her annual Pie Making Party – Make It and Take It! Her lasagna really is amazing!
I’m an omnivore that eats very little red meat. You should coin a term for that!
Ummmm…….I just went on a date with a vegan so the very survival of my genetic code relies on getting this book and impressing the lady with my vegan culinary skills. Please pretend to hold a lottery and just give it to me already?
Oh, and I’m the anonymous comment above, and I’m also an omnivore.
I’m omni-everything 😉
I’m a long-time vegetarian, but the rest of the family is omnivore. This would be a great cookbook for us!
Vegetarian parent with two omnivore daughters.
Omnivore of sorts! I found a term recently, flexitarian, which is mainly vegetarian who eats meat only on special occasions. Hoping to work towards that!
Though I eat both meat and vegetables, the former must be HALAL and the latter comprise (mostly) carrots, beets, lettuce, eggplant, green beans and ginger root!
Ovo-vegetarian. I only eat eggs from our pet chickens and our neighbors’ chickens.
We are omnivores but like to cook vegetarian meals as well.
Currently an omnivore, but open to new ideas!
People call me a vegan, but I don’t. Honey, beeswax, wool, and leather too often make more sense than their synthetic alternatives, in my opinion. I call myself vegetarian. But, I don’t eat dairy or eggs. (Until we start keeping chickens next year that is….)
Omnivore. Like Pia, my wife and I mostly eat white meat but very occasionally eat red. Perhaps we’re pinko carnys?
We’re omnivores, but only eat humanely raised meat, so that means we’re eating vegetarian a lot of the time due to price and availability constraints.
Omnivore!
Domestic vegetarian. (We eat meatless at home, omnivore when a guest)
We are omnivore’s that produce 90% of our own meat (hunting, fishing and raising turkeys)
We are omnivores that eat vegetarian food most of the time. We love variety, and plants provide far more of that than meats do. 🙂
Omnivore!
Omnivore, but vegetarian a lot of the time as my fiance is one.
A house of omnivores with lot’s of vegan friends! This book would be put to good use!!
🙂
Omnivore looking to go vegan
Foodie,,,Tend to eat More Veggies,,,Low Carb,,,Little Meat
Omnivores…used to be a vegetarian….
Pescaterian leaning towards going vegetarian.
Recovering vegetarian with a bloodthirst!
90% omnivore. I eat fish occasionally. Meat is home grown, hunted, grown by someone I know, or grown with the earth in mind( 5% of my omnivorism).
I’ve been all three, but currently vegetarian.
I’m an omnivore.
Unrepentant omnivore
I am omnivorous. I enjoy reading your articles. Thanks for sharing your lives with us.
Amazing how many answers you have received. I am a vegetarian most of the time but am staying GMO-free and near-gluten free. I have meat on occasion, a couple of times a month. Also fish.
Mostly vegetarian.
Vegetarian housewife mother of omnivore family — except that my husband eats no gluten and no onions… our menus are — interesting.
Omnivore avoiding franken-foods, pesticides, additives and modern wheat. Simple is best, but not easy.
Omnivore working my way to vegetarian with ultimate goal of vegan.
Omnivore, leaning vegetarian.
Omnivores in our house.
Vegan, and loving the variety of nutrient-dense whole foods I get to eat! Having made the switch from lacto-ovo vegetarian 2 yrs. ago, I’m in a constant state of learning, and trying new recipes. Next on my list to try is a veggie lasagna made in a crockpot. Now I’m curious about the recipe for lasagna in the book you’re giving away!
Vegetarian, with a vegan mom and meat loving husband and in-laws.
Occasional, very selective omnivore.
Omnivore
I’m an omnivore with vegetarian tendencies. Thanks for writing such a great blog and giving us all updates on Phoebe.
Formerly vegetarian, now omnivore who has an everlasting love of vegetables.
Omnivore, inclining toward meatlessness… 🙂
I’m vegan with a very omnivore family
Omnivore
My sister comes up every Thanksgiving and she is vegan (once featured in Prevention Magazine!) but the rest of us are following omnivore. I usually have vegetarian guests, so they all sit at one end of the table (after all, the conversation is what matters). Her website is nice.
Omnivore leaning toward vegetarian but cooking for a carnivore household… Sigh…
I’m an omnivore (all raw, except when traveling) and I cook vegan food for my husband. 🙂
Omnivore
I am an omnivore who would like to be a vegetarian.
I am an omnivore but have leanings towards vegetarianism.
I live with three confirmed omnivores.
I’m a vegetarian with strong vegan leanings.
Omnivore who avoids all gluten and dairy. Paleo would probably the closest term I guess. Despite the higher cost, I only buy meat that comes from local family farms. Thankfully, I live in NYC – home of the 4 day a week Union Square Greenmarket!!
Omnivore minus dairy
Omnivore cause I sometimes can’t resist the delicious, delicious meats, but I cook vegetarian 99% of the time, and I want to explore vegan cooking. And I love you guys and your website! You are funny AND inspiring 🙂
Ardent meat lover – but yet, trying to eat the highest quality meat, and less dairy
No wheat/gluten or corn and potatoes. For as good as all the aforementioned food is – it sure doesn’t agree with me!
Omnivore! for sure
Omnivore but I eat a lot of vegan food with my meat. Wha?