About the Book
Many of us make poor food choices daily, leading to ill-health, lack of energy, and even sickness and disease. Have you ever thought about healthy cooking and eating and assumed it is too difficult, too expensive, or even too time-consuming? This perspective does not do justice to God’s desire for us to live our lives in abundant health and wellness.
It does not have to be this way, and Dorrel McLaren has set about in her cookbook to show us that Something Different is possible if we choose a healthy diet and couple that with spiritual wellness. The Caribbean-inspired recipes in the book are tasty, inexpensive, and easily accessible to even the newest cook endeavoring to create a healthy meal. Dorrel uses ingredients that can be purchased at most large grocery stores and includes detailed explanations on how to prepare each dish best.
If you want to try Something Different that leads to better health and quality of life, this cookbook is for you! If we “eat with the right attitude,” we can enjoy the full, vibrant, and happy life God intends for us.
“A bowl of vegetables with someone you love is better than steak with someone you hate.” (Proverbs 15:17, NLT)
“This beautifully written gorgeously illustrated cookbook is a definitive text for anyone wanting to learn how to cook delicious easy plant-base meals to enhance their overall health.”
~ Lieutenant Colonel Verona Boucher, USAF, Retired
“As a Clinician who believes and knows what you eat has an effect on your well-being, this cookbook gives you recipes that are wholesome and healthy. I would recommend this cookbook to anyone who is looking for something different in their daily cooking experience.”
~Lilieth Occenad, FNP-C, Clinician Family Nurse Practitioner
“Her (Dorrel’s) background in food, nutrition and hospitality predisposes her to an above-average knowledge of a plant-based diet. Without question, this new cookbook is a must-have for every kitchen.”
~ Leanora Salmon, R.N., Washington Adventist Hospital
Available in PAPERBACK and eBOOK formats.
About the Author
Dorrel R. McLaren is a certified vegetarian food instructor, chef, trained lifestyle wellness and holistic life coach, certified medical missionary, personal fitness trainer, and nutrition specialist. She also earned a hospitality and tourism management certificate and degrees in nutrition and organizational management.
Dorrel is passionate about health and enjoys creating new recipes, traveling, singing, and spending time with loved ones. She is married to Earl McLaren.
Earl McLaren is a pharmacist with over thirty-five years of experience. He received his pharmaceutical training from the University of Technology School of Pharmacy in Jamaica and the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in Baltimore, Maryland. He also studied nursing at Montgomery College in Silver Spring, Maryland. He is currently Pharmacist-in-charge at Wye Oak Pharmacy in Baltimore, Maryland.
Earl loves gardening and playing the guitar—a skill he shares with his grandchildren. He enjoys comedy, telling stories, and working with children’s ministries.
Together Dorrel and Earl co-founded Eden’s Hope Ministries (www.EdensHopeMinistries.com) a mission of love to share life-sustaining information for both physical and spiritual health. The McLarens have two adult children, five grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter.
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Posted by ALR on 30th Nov 2023
TEACH Services received the following review:
“As one who is personally acquainted with Dorrel McLaren, I have had the pleasure of enjoying the delectable cuisines she produces in her kitchen over many years. It is my pleasure to endorse her new cookbook “Something Different”. I have found Dorrel’s main dishes to be original finger liking mouthwatering and with a flare of professionalism in her presentation. At church functions, parties, banquets, or any other venues, her dishes are always sought out and quickly disappear. Her background in food, nutrition and hospitality predisposes her to an above average knowledge in a plant base diet. Without question, this new cookbook is a must-have for every kitchen.”
~ Leanora Salmon, R.N., Washington Adventist Hospital
Posted by ALR on 30th Nov 2023
TEACH Services received the following review:
“Mrs. Dorrel McLaren is an amazing cook. The recipes in her cookbook have been tried and proven to be beneficial for my family, my friends, and me. I have personally tasted some of the menus from her kitchen and that are also in her cookbook. I was very satisfied, and I am thankful that I have her amazing cookbook in my possession. Keep on writing these books to help those of us who need help in planning menus for our families. Thank you.
~ Dr. Paulette Terrelonge, New York School System
Posted by ALR on 30th Nov 2023
TEACH Services received the following review:
“This beautifully written gorgeously illustrated cookbook is a definitive text for anyone wanting to learn how to cook delicious easy plant-base meals to enhance their overall health. Dorrel, an impressive self-taught Jamaican vegan chef, is committed to teaching family/friends/colleagues and anyone in her hearing that wonderful heart and kidney health benefits of a plant-base diet. I have been a frontline benefactor of her mouthwatering vegan meals and I can say with surety that going plant-base significantly helped to reduce my high blood pressure over 20 years ago. When I say following the plant-base recipes in this cookbook will change your life for the better”.
~ Lieutenant Colonel Verona Boucher, USAF, Retired
Posted by ALR on 30th Nov 2023
TEACH Services received the following review:
“Every year there are hundreds of cookbooks being published and you try to decide which one to choose, but 'Something Different' is one of a kind. The author Dorrel McLaren has compiled these recipes with love and from experience with her culinary skills she focuses on individual's health and well-being.
As a Clinician who believes and knows what you eat has an effect on your well-being, this cookbook gives you recipes that are wholesome and healthy. I would recommend this cookbook to anyone who is looking for something different in their daily cooking experience. I would give this cookbook a 5.”
--Lilieth Occenad, FNP-C, Clinician Family Nurse Practitioner
Posted by ALR on 30th Nov 2023
TEACH Services received the following review:
"I am truly excited for the release of this second cookbook, ‘Something Different.’ It is a One Stop Shop for excellent healthy recipes, not just for inside but for outside of the body too! The Spiritizers add a special spiritual touch that sets this cookbook apart from the others.”
- Samois R., mother of four, Senior Office Assistant, Department of In-House Operations Seventh-day Adventist World Headquarters Office
Posted by ALR on 30th Nov 2023
TEACH Services received the following review:
Her recipes encourage the cook to change their perspective about cooking the same recipes in the same ways. “
-Laisha V. Wright, Security Coordinator Seventh-day Adventist World Headquarters
Posted by ALR on 30th Nov 2023
TEACH Services received the following review:
“I highly recommend this cookbook. You can taste the love in every bite of Ms. Dorrel's cooking. If you ever have the pleasure of being in her company listening to talk about her love for cooking and God will warm your heart.”
- Danielle S. Lee, Owner of DSLee Travel, LLC. Founder of Brown Girls International
Posted by ALR on 30th Nov 2023
TEACH Services received the following review:
“I have had the pleasure of eating from Dorrel’s table over the past 40 + years and was very happy when I bought her first cookbook The Transitional Cookbook. It has been a great help in getting my family to enjoy some of the Caribbean Meals with a vegan twist. I know that her new cookbook “Something Different” will also be an invaluable part of your cooking experience”.
~ Paulette Mascoe-Bennett, RN,
Posted by ALR on 30th Nov 2023
TEACH Services received the following review:
"Her cooking is superb, very tasty, delicious, and healthy. Great food and lessons learned over the years as she educates the customers in her classes. "
- Chris King-David, Bennett Realty Solutions Greenbelt, MD