Meet Sara and Kate, two Mormon girls who love to cook. They're also wives and mothers balancing home management, part-time work, church and community involvement, and countless other things — just like you! As busy moms, their philosophy is that cooking really good food for your family doesn't have to be complicated. In fact, cooking at home can be a delicious, fun, and easy way to care for your family and friends.
Our Best Bites bring together more than 150 recipes for delicious, easy meals and snacks that are fun to make, include healthy, fresh ingredients, and are more popular with families. The authors share their tips and tricks (mixed with an abundant sense of humor), and step-by-step, full-color photographs for each recipe.
Char-Broil’s America Grills! features 222 recipes for making everything from appetizers to desserts on the backyard grill. Sumptuous, full-page color photographs accompany the recipes, which focus on fresh, seasonal ingredients, simple preparations, and bold flavors. The book features low-and-slow American barbecue favorites as well as quick and innovative dishes, many with a regional or cultural accent.
A sequel to the bestselling Char-Broil’s Everybody Grills!, America Grills! features mouthwatering photos of hot-off-the grill food; easy-to-follow directions; accurate grill/cook times; expert tips on techniques and using the latest equipment; and delectable marinades, sauces, and rubs.
Char-Broil’s America Grills! is appropriate for everyone who loves cooking and eating outdoors, from the beginner to the seasoned barbecue enthusiast. Developed by editors at Creative Homeowner in partnership with Char-Broil, one of North America’s leading grill manufacturers, this stunning book will help you grill, barbecue, and cook appetizers, main courses, salads, vegetables—even desserts—that will have family and friends licking their fingers. More than 250 color photographs, with photos illustrating each recipe.
Full of delicious recipes, shopping, cooking, and baking tips, as well as philosophy, trivia, and humorous observations regarding the increasingly popular but frequently misunderstood vegan lifestyle, All American Vegan has something for everyone. Aspiring vegans will find practical down-to-earth advice about making the transition to a vegan diet as convenient and uncomplicated as possible.
Parents of vegan children will appreciate the common-sense meal planning tips that introduce and incorporate the vast and ever expanding variety of vegan convenience foods now available. Non-vegetarians and the vegan curious will discover an approach which transforms the seemingly impossible into the entirely feasible. While veteran vegans and animal activists will appreciate the Winograds’ provocative perspective on how to most effectively promote widespread veganism. All American Vegan – It’s a cookbook and so much more.
Healthy Palate, reveals how to eat healthy and prepare simple, but delicious food in your own kitchen. Mary Lynn Farivari, a registered dietitian, shows you how to cook seasonally and sensibly while seamlessly adding more fruits and vegetables as you create simple weekday meals to elegant dinners for guests. She has combined her love of good food and good health with these great tasting dishes.
A wonderful meal and flavor combination is the Lime Chicken with Spicy Sweet Potatoes dish. Baking the chicken while simultaneously roasting the sweet potatoes and bell peppers simplifies meal preparation. Other delicious dishes include Shrimp, Green Beans and Tomatoes with Linguine and Beef Stew with Lentils and Celery; are all examples of incorporating vegetables into the recipes helping you save time and enjoying more vegetables. There is a vegetarian section with several bean and tofu dishes. Helpful suggestions are provided with all the entrée recipes with ideas of what to serve alongside the meal.
The recipes provide plenty of flavor, yet are careful with the calories and sodium. A complete nutrient analysis is listed for each recipe. She shares practical information and tips for healthy living. Healthy Palate is perfect for the health-conscious or for those interested in losing weight or who have diabetes, high cholesterol or high blood pressure.
There are more than 165 recipes in Healthy Palate, Delicious and Simple Recipes to Enhance Your Meals with Fruits and Vegetables including breakfast, lunch, dinner and desserts. You will soon find new favorite dishes as you enjoy cooking from this book.
Brand new in 2011, Seaboard to Sideboard Entertains is the gorgeous and long-awaited follow up to the award-winning Seaboard to Sideboard. Journey through the social calendar of the Cape Fear Coast region as Seaboard to Sideboard Entertains gives locals and visitors the chance to re-experience the sights and tastes of coastal living. Not to be missed!
From picnics on the beach to bridal showers and garden parties, Seaboard to Sideboard Entertains showcases coastal entertaining styles and charm. The featured menu ideas for events with friends and family, such as a progressive dinner, watching a boat flotilla, or tailgating at the big game are sure to win every cook the admiration of their guests.
In this exquisite and very personal book, Martha Stewart welcomes you into her world, where she entertains in the expressive and beautiful style that she has made so famous. Whether a simple blueberry breakfast on a Sunday morning in Maine or a more lavish holiday dinner at Bedford, each of the gatherings is equally memorable, for what Martha cherishes above all is spending time and sharing delicious food with her family and friends.
All of the events feature menus and stories for dreaming and planning, as well as delicious yet approachable recipes: Tomato and Gruyère Toasts, Mini Crab Cakes with Tarragon Tartar Sauce, Tiny Tuna Burgers, Leek and Porcini Risotto, Wild-Mushroom Lasagna, Braised Short Ribs, Roast Turkey Breast with Sage Butter, Rhubarb Crumbles, Blueberry Jam Tartlets, and Chocolate Honey Ice Cream with Butterscotch Sauce, plus some of Martha’s favorite drinks, including Pomegranate Cosmopolitans and Honeydew Mojitos. Mix and match the recipes to create your own distinctive occasion.
Set among Martha’s dining rooms, kitchens, gardens, and patios, this is her most intimate book yet, a new classic for hosts and home cooks of every generation.
After taking us on journeys into her own kitchen and into kitchens across Italy, Lidia Bastianich now invites us on a road trip into the heart of Italian American cooking today. Traveling around the United States, Lidia visits Italian American communities that created something new out of the recipes passed down from their ancestors.
As she explores this utterly delectable and distinctive cuisine, Lidia shows us that every kitchen is different, every Italian community distinct, and little clues are buried in each dish: the Sicilian-style semolina bread and briny olives in New Orleans Muffuletta Sandwiches, the Neapolitan crust of New York pizza, and mushrooms (abundant in the United States, but scarce in Italy) stuffed with breadcrumbs, just as peppers or tomatoes are. Lidia shows us how this cuisine is an original American creation that redefines what we know as Italian food while always paying tribute to Italy, and she gives recognition where it is long overdue to the many industrious Italians across the country who have honored the traditions of their homeland in a delicious new style.
When Julia Child told Dorie Greenspan, “You write recipes just the way I do,” she paid her the ultimate compliment. Julia’s praise was echoed by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, which referred to Dorie’s “wonderfully encouraging voice” and “the sense of a real person who is there to help should you stumble.”
Now in a big, personal, and personable book, Dorie captures all the excitement of French home cooking, sharing disarmingly simple dishes she has gathered over years of living in France.
Around My French Table includes many superb renditions of the great classics: a glorious cheese-domed onion soup, a spoon-tender beef daube, and the “top-secret” chocolate mousse recipe that every good Parisian cook knows—but won’t reveal.
Hundreds of other recipes are remarkably easy: a cheese and olive quick bread, a three-star chef’s Basque potato tortilla made with a surprise ingredient (potato chips), and an utterly satisfying roast chicken for “lazy people."
Packed with lively stories, memories, and insider tips on French culinary customs, Around My French Table will make cooks fall in love with France all over again, or for the first time.
On the wildly popular show Iron Chef America, Cat Cora uses her instincts to transform random ingredients into exciting creations on a moment's notice. In this book, she turns her eye to some of our most popular dishes to make them faster, fresher, and lighter. These are the swift meals that Cat relies on when she comes home from work to cook for her own family: Greek-Style Nachos, Grilled Chili-Lime Flank Steak Soft Tacos, Crispy Baked Fish Stix with Mustard Dipping Sauce, Quick Chicken Curry with Peas, and Sour-Cherry-Filled Chocolate Cupcakes.
In dishes like Baked "Fried" Calamari with Marinara Dipping Sauce and Tex-Mex Tuna Casserole, Cat puts a new spin on old favorites. She updates others, tossing chipotle-spiced croutons into a Caesar salad, or replacing the usual beef in stroganoff with chicken and adding fresh tarragon. Each recipe illustrates Cat's motto: just because a dish is a classic doesn't mean it can't be improved upon.
In Perfect One-Dish Dinners, the New York Times best-selling author Pam Anderson shares her secret for having people over without breaking stride: Make just one dish. Instead of a parade of offerings, she focuses attention on a single main course--a rustic tart, paella, grilled platter, or homey stew. Perfect One-Dish Dinners showcases about forty such meals, perfect for every season and occasion, all designed to wow guests, calm the cook, and relieve the dishwasher at the end of the night.
Stews for All Seasons Worldly Casseroles Roasting Pan Complete Big Summer Salads and Grilled Platters.
But that's not all. If the cook wants to make something extra, Pam provides a compatible appetizer, salad, and dessert for every one dish. And as a special bonus, she throws in "nearly instant" alternatives for each--more than 200 mixable, matchable recipes. Whether for a book group, church get together, birthday party, or family supper, Perfect One-Dish Dinners makes easy, shareable meals perfectly doable. More than 200 recipes in all.
Cook the Part is much more than a collection of recipes; it’s a complete entertaining guide. This book turns cooking into an experience where the culinary destination is not nearly as important as the journey. Cook the Part provides detailed hosting plans that divide an entire gourmet menu into “scripted parts,” allowing groups of 6-12 participants to enjoy the cooking process together.
Everyone cooks their part, contributing to multiple courses, while learning from each other and enjoying the interaction with other guests. Gourmet menus are easy to prepare with this guide. Menus vary in difficulty and are based on themes from around the world.
The introductory chapters explain in detail how to host a Cook the Part dinner party, including tips on organization, preparation, ingredients, invitations, timing, guest attire, and décor. The host starts by selecting one of the 8 themed menus provided in Cook the Part. Each of the themed menus includes a Master Plan and a Team Plan for each of four teams. When guests arrive, the host assigns each to one of four cooking teams and gives them a Team Plan and the applicable recipes.
Cook the Part dinners are so memorable because guests participate in creating a wonderful culinary experience and then dine together, enjoying the end result of their work in the kitchen. It transforms a typical dinner party into an interactive, social activity. The detailed recipes will help less experienced cooks who are typically intimidated by the idea of hosting a dinner party. Guests leave empowered with new recipes and cooking techniques to show off at home. The experience is fun, interactive and delicious.
There's not a single thorny artichoke, scrawny quail, or roasted chestnut to be peeled in this book. What you will find in BITE ME are 175 dependably delicious recipes created for the urban and suburban, the aspiring and well-seasoned home cook. You won't need an army of sous chefs, a pantry of guava paste, or a blowtorch in order to turn a bag of groceries into a satisfying meal. We're all about making you confident in the kitchen and relaxed at the table.
When Carla Johnson was a teenager, her Mennonite grandmother caught her mom *red-wine-handed* pouring wine into her pan of chicken cacciatore. Her grandma was not happy and scolded, *Cooking with sin, are we?* That moment was etched into Carla's memory and she started a blog and several others joined in. Carla has collected a great selection of recipes with alcohol and each recipe comes with a personal story from the cook. People from all walks of life, grandmothers, businessmen, high school dropouts, professional chefs & others, share personal stories and the recipes woven through them. Cooking With Sin allows people to come together over dinner, even if they are many miles away or many years apart. It's a chance to feed our bodies and souls and have a little fun along the way. The stories are wonderful, the recipes are delicious and the sin factor sure makes it a lot of fun. This is the kind of book you, your family and your friends will enjoy. Cooking With Sin is a great gift. Plus, Carla is giving away over $50 in free bonus gifts with each copy.
The idea that you can eat anything you want as long as you commit yourself to a hardcore exercise regimen is probably the biggest mistake made when trying to reach fitness and health goals. Exercise is good and no doubt necessary, but 80% of reaching a health/weight related goal is determined by what you put into your body, mainly, your food. The goal of Getting Fit with Food is to encourage you to throw out the rice cakes and carrot sticks and learn that healthy food can taste fantastic. This book will debunk the myth that eating right means eating boring. Getting Fit With Food is your one-stop source for healthy recipes for any meal, snack or special occasion, complete with full-color photos, easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions, everyday foods and nutritional data for every recipe. It also contains 53 gluten free recipes, 39 low carb choices and 19 vegetarian meals which are all easy to locate using the glossary in the back of the book.
In the "Spice Blends: A New Way of Cooking" recipe card box, the recipes are "open".
With "open" recipes you can mix-and-match spice-blend cards with the recipe cards and create a variety of flavors by using different spice blends on the same recipe each time.
In Spice Blends: A New Way of Cooking, thirty-five different spices, which originated from various cultures in the east and west, have been combined into 15 Spice Blends. The Spice Blends are used not only to create a variety of flavors but also for their healing properties.
Cooking with Spice Blends recipe card box, will save you loads of time and money on cooking and ingredients.
The recipes are easy to prepare and most of them take 20-30 minutes or less of preparation.
The recipe card box contains:
Seventy- two full-color cards featuring all of the recipes,
Fifty recipe cards for breakfast, lunch, and dinner,
Fifteen Spice Blends cards including health tips,
Vegetarian, chicken and fish recipes,
One Spice index card stating the health benefits of everyday kitchen spices,
Three or more recommended Spice Blends, for each recipe,
Seventy healthy, mindful and tasty recipes created expressly for budding junior chefs to coax them on a path and lifelong journey of nutritious and delicious culinary exploration & inspiration. Written by Los Angeles based author, chef and healer Nancy Mehagian, who opened the first vegetarian restaurant on the island of Ibiza. Artfully illustrated by Alexandra Conn and foreword by Bridget Fonda.
