Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Betty Crocker Halloween Cookbook

by Adam Kowit    (Find this book)
A Spooktacular and Delicious Collection of Halloween Recipes
When it comes to fun food, nothing beats Halloween. From scary treats like Boneyard Dirt Pops to frightening main dishes like Spiderweb Black Bean Burgers to bewitching beverages like Chilling Jack-o'-Lantern Smoothies, this must-have collection of Halloween recipes will keep kids and adults well fed and fully entertained too! So if you're looking for fun in the kitchen this Halloween season, fear not. Betty Crocker Halloween Cookbook is the terrifyingly tasty time you've been waiting for.
Look inside for:
  • Almost 100 recipes accompanied by scary full-color photographs
  • Bonus features on setting up a Halloween buffet, easy ways to reuse Halloween candy and recipes for giving ghoulish gifts
  • Helpful cooking tips and techniques throughout, along with full nutrition information for every recipe

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Better Homes and Gardens Year-Round Slow Cooker Recipes

by Better Homes and Gardens    (Find this book)
Now you can prepare fuss-free slow cooker meals all year long
This book is unlike any other slow cooker book. You'll find delicious year-round fare that you never imagined could come out of your slow cooker. It's true that slow cookers are perfect for simple hearty, comforting winter meals—and you'll find hundreds of tempting traditional and innovative recipes for them. But slow cookers can also produce great dishes—and save you time, effort, and money—throughout the year. This one-stop, comprehensive collection features hundreds of slow cooker recipes—from appetizers to main courses to desserts—that are simple to prepare and satisfying for your whole family to eat.
  • Includes hundreds of delicious, seasonal recipes, including appetizers and snacks, breakfasts and brunches, soups and stews, casseroles, main dishes, sides, and desserts
  • Features hundreds of gorgeous photographs offering mouthwatering inspiration
  • Offers tips, hints, and cooking shortcuts that make prepping and cooking easier and faster than ever
  • Special icons highlight recipes that are ideal for warm weather
  • Includes special-occasion menus, from holiday parties to picnics in the park
Whether you're full-time soup lover or just love a meal that's simple and easy to prepare, this is the ultimate soup cookbook for you.  --  Publisher Marketing

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Weelicious: 140 Fast, Fresh, and Easy Recipes

by Catherine McCord    (Find this book)
Every parent knows how difficult it is to get to get kids eating happily and healthily. Catherine McCord has the answer: Weelicious! Creator of the wildly popular blog Weelicious.com, Catherine, who honed her cooking skills at Manhattan’s Institute of Culinary Education, strongly believes in the “one family/one meal” idea—preparing a single, scrumptious meal the entire family can sit down and enjoy together rather than having to act as “short order cook” for kids who each want something different. In Weelicious, she offers dozens of recipes and tips for creating quick, easy, healthy, and fun food that moms, dads, and young children of any age will absolutely adore—from the most persnickety infants to the pickiest grade-schoolers.

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Complete Meals in Minutes: Over 700 Great Recipes

by Oxmoor House    (Find this book)
If you want easy, delicious, and healthy recipes that do not require hours in the kitchen, turn to Cooking Light Complete Meals in Minutes, a cookbook that allows you to choose exactly how much time you can spend in the kitchen—whether 15, 20, or 30 minutes—and find the right recipe in a snap.  --  Publisher Marketing

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

American Heart Association Healthy Slow Cooker Cookbook: 200 Low-Fuss, Good-for-You Recipes

by Janice Roth Moss    (Find this book)
Start with healthy ingredients and take delicious meals out of your slow cooker any night of the week.

The slow cooker, America’s favorite kitchen appliance, has become increasingly versatile and sophisticated, and now it can support a heart-smart diet, too. Under the spell of its low heat, lean meats, whole grains, legumes, vegetables, and fruits transform into succulent meals.
From appetizers to desserts and everything in between, the 200 recipes in American Heart Association Healthy Slow Cooker Cookbook will surprise you with their variety and depth of flavor. Braised Curry-Rubbed Chicken slow cooks among Middle Eastern spices, including ginger, cumin, cinnamon, and curry, in a pool of citrus juice and honey. Cioppino with White Wine features a saucy tomato base that simmers until scallops, mussels, and bite-size pieces of mild fish are added to finish this hearty fish stew. Vegetables, beans, and beef stew together to make for a mouthwatering rustic Country Cassoulet, and chopped zucchini, tomato, and basil along with bulgur and provolone cheese are packed into Italian Artichoke-Stuffed Bell Peppers that cook until tender. With some easy planning before or after the slow cooking, such as browning meats or boiling water for pasta, you’ll have tasty meals chock full of good nutrition on your kitchen table night after night.
This cookbook also includes nineteen full-color photographs as well as information on the benefits of slow cooking and how a slow cooker can help you eat well. The best way to ensure good food comes out of your cooker is to put only good-for-you ingredients into it, and with American Heart Association Healthy Slow Cooker Cookbook, you’ll learn how much your slow cooker can do for you while you’re enjoying a healthy lifestyle.  --  Publisher Marketing

Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Ten Dollar Dinners: 140 Recipes and Tips to Elevate Simple, Fresh Meals Any Night of the Week

by Melissa D'Arabian    (Find this book)
Melissa d’Arabian, host of Food Network’s Ten Dollar Dinners and season 5 winner of The Next Food Network Star, makes good on the $10 promise of dinner for four in her eagerly awaited debut cookbook. For home cooks who care about what they feed their families and want to stretch their dollars, Melissa is the best guide for putting delicious meals on the table.
With four young girls ages six and under, and a hit show on Food Network, Melissa d’Arabian focuses on savvy budgeting, efficient shopping, and full-flavored cooking. Ten Dollar Dinners has 140 recipes and more than 100 creative, practical tips on great money-savers (“Clear-Your-Pantry Week”); inventive takes on old standby dinners (try her Moroccan Meatloaf); and how to get ingredients to last longer (keep your green onions in a glass of water and they will regrow several times over!). And with a coding system to help you create your own $10 menu, Ten Dollar Dinners celebrates spending with purpose, cooking with love, minimizing time spent in front of the stove, and savoring your homemade meal.
Melissa is a pro at creating satisfying meals that adults and kids alike will enjoy, using everyday ingredients and transforming them into delicious dinners. Her Potato-Bacon Torte (which, at 50 cents a serving, was one of her winning recipes on The Next Food Network Star) shows how basic and inexpensive supermarket ingredients can be turned into an amazingly satisfying dish. Her Roasted Vegetable Tian is a great way to take advantage of deals in the produce aisle. The Four-Step Chicken Piccata offers a plan for getting food on the table in just minutes, using almost anything in the pantry.
Anyone can use this book—especially those who want to save money—and feel great about cooking sensibly for elevated, simple meals that are healthy family-pleasers.  --  Publisher Marketing

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Melt: 100 Amazing Adventures in Grilled Cheese


by Shane Kearns    (Find this book)

A funked-up American classic
Your favorite comfort food—grilled cheese—is going where no toasted sandwich has gone before. Gone are the boring days of white bread and yellow cheese. In their place are creativity and excess: griddled stacks dripping with hybrid cheeses, sandwiches oozing with surprising flavor combinations, and deep-fried desserts that reveal the standby's sweeter side. Inside this awesome book, you'll find 100 mouthwatering recipes, with twists on the traditional like:
  • Crème Fraîche with Apple and Cucumber
  • The Beer, Kale, and Crouton Mash-Up
  • Inside-Out Blue Cheese Pecan
  • The Candied Baconator
  • Chocolate Brownie Indulgence
Melt is one part gourmet, one part gluttony—and the only book you'll need to satisfy all your grilled cheese cravings!  --  Publisher Marketing

Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Betty Crocker Diabetes Cookbook: Great-Tasting, Easy Recipes for Every Day

by Richard M. Bergenstal    (Find this book)
The all-in-one cookbook and resource for managing your diabetes
"This beautiful cookbook will help millions of individuals in their quest to live well with diabetes. The authors bring together recipes along with practical advice on developing a healthy lifestyle, which is at the heart of great diabetes care."
—Robert R. Henry, MD, University of California School of Medicine and VA Medical Center, San Diego; Past President, Medicine & Science, American Diabetes Association
Living with diabetes doesn't mean having to give up the foods you love. The Betty Crocker Diabetes Cookbook includes a wide variety of delicious, satisfying foods that are good for people with diabetes—and everyone else too! In conjunction with the International Diabetes Center and experts from the Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition at General Mills, this book offers more than just recipes. It also features the latest medical advice and essential nutrition information.
You'll find:
  • 140 easy-to-make recipes for breakfasts, snacks, main dishes, desserts and even vegetarian and gluten-free meals
  • Mouthwatering full-color photography offering plenty of delicious inspiration
  • Real-life advice on planning, preparing and enjoying great food
  • Menus for everyday healthy eating and special occasions, too
  • Carbohydrate Choices for every recipe, as recommended by the American Diabetes Association—the easier way to plan your meals throughout the day
  • Nutrition information with every recipe, including food exchanges if you use them to plan your meals
  • Diabetes resources guide and glossary

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Christmas Baking: Fun and Delicious Holiday Treats

by Mia Ohrn    (Find this book)
The Christmas season is a magical time—sleigh bells ringing, puffy snow flurrying, a cozy fire crackling, and wonderful aromas coming from the kitchen as families make yummy Christmas treats. Christmas Baking will make the holiday season even more magical with fun and simple recipes that are sure to become Christmas traditions in every home.  
Prominent Swedish pastry chef Mia Öhrn offers thirty-eight of her amazingly creative and delicious recipes for cakes, cookies, candies, truffles, cupcakes, tarts, and breads that are tasty, colorful, fun, and decorative. Learn how to build and decorate the perfect gingerbread house, create marzipan elves, make toffee sticks, ginger-flavored chocolates, a gingerbread bowl, fig pie, and decadent chocolate cake with blood oranges. Aside from the sweets, Öhrn includes recipes for a fruit and nut bread, saffron bread, and poppy crisp bread.   
Along with the recipes, the author provides helpful hints for choosing the best ingredients, gives you valuable baking tips and decorating ideas, and shows you how to properly preserve your finished creations. The beautiful photographs of the delightful treats and winter scenes by Ulrika Pousette make Christmas Baking a very special book filled with treats that everyone will love.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015

The Mexican Slow Cooker: Recipes for Mole, Enchiladas, Carnitas, Chile Verde Pork, and More Favorites

by Deborah Schneider    (Find this book)
A collection of 55 fix it and forget it recipes for Mexican favorites from an award-winning Mexican cooking authority, in a stylish, engaging package.
When acclaimed chef and cookbook author Deborah Schneider discovered that using her trusty slow cooker to make authentic Mexican recipes actually enhanced their flavor while dramatically reducing active cooking time, it was a revelation. Packed with Schneider’s favorite south-of-the-border recipes such as Tortilla Soup, Zesty Shredded Beef (Barbacoa), famed Mole Negro, the best tamales she has ever made, and more, The Mexican Slow Cooker delivers sophisticated meals and complex flavors, all with the ease and convenience that have made slow cookers enormously popular.  --  Publisher Marketing