15-Minute Diabetic Meals

Great taste happens fast, even for diabetes-friendly meals!
What can you cook in 15 minutes? A lot! "15-Minute Diabetic Meals" provides time-saving recipes that can be prepared in 15 minutes or less. Using convenience items--such as pre-cooked meats, poultry, and pre-cut produce--and taking advantage of the tremendous choices in the grocer's freezer section, healthy meals can be made in a fraction of the time.
For people with diabetes, meal times can become a chore. All the measuring and recording doesn't leave much time for actual cooking. Survey after survey has shown that people with diabetes want recipes that are not only delicious but fast. "15-Minute Diabetic Meals" contains 200 recipes that cover everything from breakfast, lunch, and dinner to between-meal snacks! 200 recipes that take less than 15 minutes to cook Written by Nancy Hughes, author of nine published cookbooks and a recipe developer. Backed by the American Diabetes Association. (Check Catalog)

Everyday Easy: Cakes & Cupcakes: Cheesecakes, Muffins, Brownies, Sponge Cakes ( Everyday Easy )

Given the pressures of other aspects of fast family life, help in the kitchen is essential. And "Everyday Easy"-a series of cookbooks that each include a collection of around 90 recipes-provides an inexhaustible collection of favorite family recipes to be dipped into on a daily basis for any home cook.
What's not to love about cakes and cupcakes? In the latest title in the successful "Everyday Easy" series, " Cakes and Cupcakes," you can wow your friends and loved-ones with decadent desserts, or get your own sugar fix with minimal fuss. (
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The Essential New York Times Cookbook: Classic Recipes for a New Century

Hesser, a food columnist for the New York Times, offers a superb compilation of the most noteworthy recipes published by the paper since it started covering food in the 1850s. What she has produced is no less a chronicle of American culinary history--an evolutionary progression that marks the notable and sometimes regrettable changes in our approach to food--than a cookbook. Recipe originators are a hodgepodge of talent, including noted chefs and the kitchens of famed restaurants such as Le Bernardin as well as Times writers, most notably Craig Claiborne, whose culinary mastery is evidenced throughout. Every category of food is covered, and each recipe is accompanied by serving suggestions for complementary dishes within the book. From 1877's tomato soup and 1907's roast quail with sage dressing to Eisenhower's steak in the fire and 1968's sour cream coffee cake, Hesser showcases the best of the best. Each recipe is dated, and many include cooking notes. Hesser, whose witty bent permeates every page, does a more than admirable job with this stellar collection of more than 1,400 recipes, which should grace the shelves of every food-lover. (Check Catalog)

Cake Boss: Stories and Recipes from Mia Famiglia

Best known on TLC cable as the Cake Boss, Valastro shares recipes and a sometimes treacly tale of family, tradition, and ambition. A fourth-generation baker born in Hoboken, N.J., Buddy honors his Sicilian father, who taught him his craft, while marking his own rise from apprentice to master baker. His is the American dream told in flashbacks; like his show, the book plays on charm and the idea that to know Buddy is to like his work. Still, the book offers hard-won baking know-how. It conveys the dramatic sweep of Buddy's accomplishments as bolstered by his traditional values and family. For drama, it depicts, as mini-crises, the elaborate challenges and difficult designs that proliferate as Buddy's clientele expands to include Modern Bride and Britney Spears. However, despite great technical descriptions, including his bakery's cannoli recipe and photos of his spectacular cakes, Buddy's tale of immigrant success proves too familiar. (Oct.) Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information. (Check Catalog)

The Everything Vegan Cookbook ( Everything (Cooking) )

Hackett, who writes about vegetarian food on About.com, teams up with registered dietitian Bull to present reasons for a vegan diet as well as nutrition and shopping tips. Writing for those just beginning to explore vegan cooking, they include recipes for Mushroom and Rosemary Wild Rice, Quinoa and Hummus Sandwich Wrap, and Chocolate Mocha Ice Cream (no ice cream machine needed!). Highly recommended for its brief health discussion and beginner recipes, this book provides just enough information for the new vegan. For more detailed vegan health coverage, consider also Brenda Davis and Vesanto Melina's "Becoming Vegan" (Check Catalog)

The Family Dinner: Great Ways to Connect with Your Kids, One Meal at a Time

Film and TV producer David (An Inconvenient Truth) enlists more than 50 child-care experts, writers, celebrities, activists, musicians, and chefs--including Nora Ephron, Maya Angelou, Judge Judy, Michael Pollan, Sheryl Crow, and Alice Waters--in support of family mealtime rituals. Mother of two girls, David presents a grab bag of child-friendly ideas from her trial-and-error experiments before and after divorcing actor Larry David: creative table settings; quick weekday meals and leftovers; cooking with kids; table games; reading selections and discussion topics; and ways for divorced parents to establish food traditions. For the recipes, Uhrenholdt draws on her Danish heritage and global flavors. It may take effort to entice young children with artichokes and edamame, most will likely enjoy composting and gardening; while teens may balk at table games, David knows how to snag an audience with viable alternatives to enemies of health and togetherness (TV, computers, cellphones, factory farmproduced foods, soda, plastics, etc.). She tempers her earnest tone with whimsical flourishes (poetry, quotes) and nostalgic reminiscences from contributors. Parents willing to adjust busy schedules to raise healthy, conscious, and confident children will find David's ideas practical and enjoyable, her passion irresistible.(Check Catalog)

Semi-Homemade: The Complete Cookbook

A massive collection of the best of the best recipes from Sandra's "Semi-Homemade Cooking"
This new compilation is filled to the brim with 1,001 of her most popular recipes including 200 brand new recipes from Sandra's personal recipe box and never-before-seen full-color photos taken at Sandra's new home, Lilly Pond, in Bedford Falls, NY.
Sandra Lee's "Semi-Homemade The Complete Cookbook" serves up delicious recipes from 20 in depth, unique chapters like Sandra's Cooking Basics, Poultry & Beef, 20 Minute Meals, International Fare, Slow Cooker & One Pot Wonders and provides an insiders' view of Sandra's new kitchen, pantry and three at home eating areas-formal, family and kitchen dining. Sandra, who can often be seen on the "Today" show and "Good Morning America," is thrilled to share with her readers, an excusive chapter featuring cherished recipes from her sister, muse and frequent guest on "Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee," Kimber Lee.
These quick and easy recipes, straight from Sandra Lee's dining room table to yours, are based on Sandra's Semi-Homemade philosophy and use roughly 70 percent readymade products and 30 percent fresh ingredients, so you can take 100% of the credit.Includes 1,001 semi-homemade recipes-800 fan favorites from the show and 200 brand-new for this collection-the biggest Sandra Lee collection everThese family-friendly recipes featuring food for every dining occasion are quick to make and easy to put togetherAn insider's look into the personal home of Sandra Lee and the re-launch of a brand-new, modernized "Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee" show on Food NetworkThe first book Sandra has published in partnership with Food Network with extensive on-air promotion
For Sandra Lee fans, this is the ultimate Semi-Homemade collection, packed with all-time favorites, fresh fares and fun new recipes. Between the stresses and duties of family and work, it's tough to put a delicious meal that saves time and money on the table every night of the week. Thankfully, there's Sandra Lee! (Check Catalog)

The Gourmet Cookie Book: The Single Best Recipe from Each Year 1941-2009

Gourmet"magazine, from its first issue in 1941 until its last in 2009, reflected changes in American tastes, such as the reign of coconut (1960s), pistachios (1980s), and espresso (1990s). The introduction includes tips for ingredients, measuring, equipment, and techniques. The concise recipe instructions are written for the experienced baker. This amazing collection features such cookies as Brandy Snaps, Fig Cookies, Mocha Cookies, Scandinavian Rosettes, and Mini Black and White Cookies. It represents a snapshot of American cookery—an incredible seven decades' worth of cookies complete with mouthwatering photographs. (Check Catalog)

Once-A-Month Cooking Family Favorites: More Great Recipes That Save You Time and Money from the Inventors of the Ultimate Do-Ahead Dinnertime Method

Mimi Wilson and Mary Beth Lagerborg are back with a brand new book that features their Once-A-Month Cooking ™ technique guaranteed to save time and money.  Filled with all-new cycles - two one-month cycles, two two-week cycles, and three specialty cycles: gourmet, summer, and gluten-free – their trademark method remains the same: You shop for an entire cycle all at once, buying in bulk and saving money. You do all the food prep for the cycle the next day, freezing and refrigerating what needs to be kept cold, stocking the pantry when appropriate. Then, as the family assembles for mealtime, you do some quick finishing and it’s ready - fast and delicious!  "Once-a-Month Cooking™ Family Favorites" has something for every kind of eater and includes such soon-to-be favorites as:
-Adobe Chicken
-Baked Mediterranean Cod
-Chicken Wild Rice Soup
-County-Style Ribs
-Texas-Style Lasagna
With the perfect plan in hand and bulk shopping at economically-friendly prices, the Once-A-Month Cooking ™ technique is a surefire way to get a delicious dinner on the table fast so that you can spend more time with your family! (Check Catalog)

The Best of Clean Eating: Improving Your Life One Meal at a Tim

Clean Eating magazine helps improve readers' lives one meal at a time by providing a wholesome variety or delicious, low-fat, seasonal, local, budget-friendly, quick and easily made recipes that can be shared with family and friends. The editors of Clean Eating have chosen their top 200 recipes to be included in their first-ever cookbook. Bonus! 20 new recipes! (Check Catalog)