Tuesday, October 4, 2011

The Get Healthy, Go Vegan Cookbook: 125 Easy & Delicious Recipes to Jump-Start Weight Loss and Help You Feel Great!

In "Dr. Neal Barnard's Get Healthy, Go Vegan Cookbook," the country's leading diabetes team weighs in on America's hottest dietary trend. The cookbook is based on a landmark two-year study conducted by Dr. Barnard, which showed that a vegan diet more effectively controls type 2 diabetes. In fact, it's also beneficial for weight loss, the reversal of heart disease, and the improvement of many other conditions. Dr. Barnard and nutritionist Robyn Webb now offer easy, delicious meals to improve your health.
Featuring 125 flavorful recipes, readers will find all-occasion dishes that use familiar ingredients and require minimal effort. All recipes are free of animal products, low in fat, and contain a low-to-moderate glycemic index.
Barnard and Webb explain how diet changes can have such dramatic health effects and provide simple ways to get started. With convenient menus, scientifically proven advice, and inspiring stories from real people who have used Barnard's recommendations to turn their health around, there's no better cookbook to help you eat well and feel great. (Check Catalog)

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

The Everything Healthy Slow Cooker Cookbook

Slow-cooker meals may save you time and energy, but they can also help you pack on the pounds. Thanks to this clever collection of deliciously good-for-you recipes, you can please your palate without sacrificing nutrition--or your waistline! This cookbook serves up hundreds of mouth-watering recipes, including:
  • Sun-Dried Tomato and Pesto Dip
  • Greek-Style Orzo and Spinach Soup
  • Red Wine Pot Roast
  • Ginger Caramelized Chicken
  • Curried Lentils
  • Italian Meatloaf
  • Chocolate Cr?me Br?l?e
  • Stewed Cinnamon Apples
Popular food blogger and cooking instructor Rachel Rappaport provides full nutritional analyses so you can choose recipes based on calories, fat content, fiber, and more. When you save time "and" produce healthy meals, you?ll find you can have your pot roast--and eat it too! (Check Catalog)

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

The New American Heart Association Cookbook, 8th Edition

In print for more than thirty-five years and with three million copies sold, "The New American Heart Association Cookbook" remains "the" ultimate resource on achieving a healthy diet. With 612 mouthwatering recipes and the latest heart-health information,
this newly revised and updated edition is more valuable than ever.
There's just no denying that nutritious, wholesome eating combined with an active lifestyle helps prevent heart disease and increases vitality. The American Heart Association knows that maintaining good heart health throughout your life is possible, and this cookbook shows you how to get started right in your own kitchen.
"The New American Heart Association Cookbook, 8th Edition," includes not only 600-plus everyday recipes for the whole family but also the most current dietary, exercise, and lifestyle recommendations. This latest edition features more than 150 brand-new recipes, all of which meet the American Heart Association's good-health and high-flavor standards. With globally inspired tastes, trendy ingredients, and popular time-saving cooking methods, here are just some of the new recipes this edition has to offer:
- Curried Pumpkin Soup
- Spinach Salad with Roasted Beets and
- Pomegranate Vinaigrette
- Ginger-Infused Watermelon and Mixed Berries
- Slow-Cooker Cioppino
- Salmon Cakes with Creole Aioli
- Chicken Gyros with Tzatziki Sauce
- Couscous Paella
- Slow-Cooker Chile Verde Pork Chops
- Black Bean Polenta with Avocado Salsa
- Cumin and Ginger Lentils on Quinoa
- Edamame with Walnuts
- Sweet Potato Bread
- Pistachio-Cardamom Meringues
- Delicate Lemon Ricotta Cheesecake with
- Blackberries
In this revised edition of "The New American Heart Association Cookbook," you'll find updated information on trans fats and sodium, all-new nutritional analyses, and important good health tips. Also included are grocery-shopping strategies, healthy cooking methods, more than a dozen new menu plans for special occasions and holidays, a recipe index of Planned-Overs and Plan-Aheads for easy reference, and more.
With so many recipes and so much information packed between its pages, "The New American Heart Association Cookbook" will be the cookbook you return to again and again. (Check Catalog)

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Everyday Easy: Freeze-Ahead Meals: Casseroles, Hearty Soups, Pizzas, One-Pots, Oven Bakes

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.
"Everyday Easy: Freezer Ahead Meals" is packed with 90 great recipes that can be made ahead of time and will keep well in the freezer. So, for delicious family meals on hectic weeknights, all you have to do is defrost and serve. (Check Catalog)

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

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)

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

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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Tuesday, August 23, 2011

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)

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

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)

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

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)

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

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)