Italian Cooking at Home with the Culinary Institute of America

by Gianni Scappin    (Find this book)

Authentic, amazing Italian cooking made easy.

This sumptuously photographed guide to cooking all things Italian in the home kitchen will win over both beginning and experienced cooks with authentic and inventive recipes and step-by-step guidance from the experts at the CIA. Covering a variety of dishes from snacks, pickles, and preserves to pasta, meat, fish, and dessert, "Italian Cooking" is the perfect primer for fresh and flavorful Italian cuisine. With rustic focaccias, long-simmered soups, and entrees with aromatic herbs, these vivid recipes are irresistible. Wine suggestions and mouthwatering photographs accompany the recipes.Includes more than 150 fantastic, approachable Italian recipes Covers chapters on Gli Spuntini (Snacks and Little Bites), I Crudi (Raw Dishes), Le Minestre (Soupe), La Pasta Secca (Dry Pasta), La Sfoglia (Fresh Pasta), I Pesci (Fish), Le Carni (Meat), and more. Features tantalizing photos by Francesco Tonelli that illustrate cooking techniques and provide plenty of inspiration for the home cook
"Italian Cooking" offers a grand tour through Italian cuisine, covering regional cuisines, wines, and histories along the way. -- Publisher Marketing

The Biggest Loser Dessert Cookbook: More Than 80 Healthy Treats That Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth Without Breaking Your Calorie Budget

by Devin Alexander    (Find this book)

Each season on The Biggest Loser, we watch the contestants sweat their way to a healthier body and a brand new lease on life. But the dramatic changes that unfold on our television screens are only part of the story. To be successful at home, the contestants have to develop strategies and sustainable habits they can maintain for the long haul. And that includes learning how to satisfy sweet cravings--and keep deprivation at bay.
In The Biggest Loser Dessert Cookbook, best-selling author Chef Devin Alexander shows you how to indulge sensibly with more than 80 guilt-free recipes made from wholesome, all-natural ingredients.
- Rediscover your passion for fruit with desserts like the Naked Apple Tart, Cherry-Vanilla Almond Parfait, and Strawberry Cloud Souffles
- Cool down your cravings with frozen treats such as the Waffle Ice Cream Sandwich, Mango-Peach Key Lime Sorbet Popsicle, and Pumpkin Ice Cream
- Share your sweets with a crowd with bake-sale favorites like Fudge Swirl Peanut Butter Cupcakes, Go Blue-Berry Cobbler Mini Loaves, and Pecan Praline Cookie Thins
- Sip your way to satisfaction with the Mango Lassi Milkshake, Peach No-Belly Bellini, and Icy Chai Shake.
Losing weight is all about making smarter choices--not giving up the foods you love. Turn your guilty pleasures into healthy indulgences today! -- Publisher Marketing

Cooking Basics for Dummies

by Bryan Miller    (Find this book)

Basic tools, techniques, and recipes for creating easy, delicious meals

It doesn't take culinary mastery and great recipes to be a great cook. "Cooking Basics For Dummies, " 4th Edition, appeals to beginners who want to learn the basics of cooking and implement understandable and practical recipes in their everyday cooking experience.. "Cooking Basics For Dummies" digs you out of microwave dinners and tipping delivery persons and propels you with all the ingredients you need toward becoming a superior home cook. This hands-on guide shows you the fun and easy way to prepare meals all your guests and family members will love, from die-hard vegetarians to the most passionate meat eaters. Fun, tasty, and easy recipes the whole family will enjoy for every occasion. Covers grilling, slow cooking, pressure cooking, roasting, and sauteing. Considerations for vegetarians, special diets, and sustainable dishes with flavor and pizzazz

With the help of "Cooking Basics For Dummies," you'll be able to handle boiling, poaching, steaming, braising, grilling, and so much more like a master. -- Publisher Marketing

The Great Chicken Cookbook: Over 230 Simple, Delicious Recipes for Every Occasion

by Reader's Digest    (Find this book)

Chicken is an amazingly versatile food. It can be poached, baked, sautéed, grilled, stir-fried, and roasted. Plus it can be dressed up or down, featured as the main dish at an elaborate dinner party or served as a quick low-fat meal at lunch. Whether you're looking for a great appetizer or tempting main dish, chicken is the easiest and most economical choice. Packed with helpful hints, The Great Chicken Cookbook offers more than 230 recipes in nine sections-from Snacks and Starters to Roasts and Picnics. Recipes include:

• Thai chicken salad
• Honey-soy chicken wings
• Chicken schnitzel
• Indian-style grilled chicken breasts
• Slow Cooker honey ginger chicken thighs
• Spicy chicken soup
• Chicken pot pie with chunky vegetables

What's more, this incredible book has features that ensure success:

• Easy-to-follow instructions
• Prep and cooking times
• Nutritional facts for the health-conscious cook
• Easy-to-identify symbols to identify quick (30 minutes or less) or low- fat recipes
• Full-color photos paired with every dish

Vegetarian Times Everything Vegan

by Mary Margaret Chappell    (Find this book)
A diverse and delicious collection of vegan recipes from the experts at "Vegetarian Times" magazine
Whether they're vegan for a day, a week, a lifetime, or even just for lunch hour, the demand among vegans for deliciously satisfying animal-free recipes has never been greater. "Vegetarian Times Everything Vegan" is the something-for-everyone vegan cookbook with hundreds of tasty, healthful recipes that will woo omnivores to the possibilities of plant-based eating while wowing committed vegans and vegetarians.
Beautifully illustrated and accompanied by a thoughtful and informative Foreword by noted authority Neal D. Barnard, MD, "Vegetarian Times Everything Vegan" is a must-have resource for anyone who lives vegan, loves cooking, or is looking for healthy meal ideas with proven weight-loss benefits. Inside, you'll find: - 250+ easy, healthful recipes with nutrition information- 50+ beautiful full-color photos- Features, tips, and sidebars that provide helpful hints on food shopping, prepping ingredients, and speeding up cooking times. -- Publisher Marketing

  

The New! Abs Diet Cookbook

by David Zinczenko    (Find this book)

A delicious follow-up to the groundbreaking. The Abs Diet, this cookbook delivers more than 200 healthy, mouthwatering breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks, desserts, and outdoor grill favorites. Each recipe incorporates one or more of the Abs Diet Power 12 Foods such as almonds, spinach, turkey, and olive oil that are scientifically proven to burn fat and build muscle. The meals in this book take the guesswork out of weight loss and make calorie counting unnecessary.
For beginners and seasoned cooks alike, this selection of classic and innovative meals such as Fig and
Prosciutto Tortilla Bites, Walk-the-Plank Grilled Salmon with Grilled Pineapple, and Blackberry Parfait Martinis makes losing weight and eating healthier both easy and delicious. Special features include speedy meals that take under five minutes to prepare, a beginner's guide to food-prep basics, and The New Abs Diet Cheat Sheet and Portion-Distortion Decoder.
Based on cutting-edge nutrition research on how to prevent high cholesterol, diabetes, and heart disease with tasty, healthy foods, The New Abs Diet Cookbook is the perfect weight-loss guide for anyone who despises dieting and loves eating.  -- Publisher Marketing

The One-Block Feast: An Adventure in Food from Yard to Table

by Margo True    (Find this book)

Based on the James Beard Award-winning blog The One-Block Diet, this all-in-one home gardening, do-it-yourself guide and cookbook shows you how to transform a backyard or garden into a self-sufficient locavore's paradise.
When Margo True and her fellow staffers at Northern California-based "Sunset" magazine walked around the grounds of their Menlo Park office, they saw more than just a lawn and some gardens. Instead, they saw a fresh, bountiful food source, the makings for intrepid edible projects, and a series of seasonal feasts--all just waiting to happen.
"The One-Block Feast" is the story of how True and her team took an inspired idea and transformed it into an ambitious commitment: to create four feasts over the course of a year, using only what could be grown or raised in their backyard-sized plot. She candidly shares the group's many successes and often humorous setbacks as they try their hands at chicken farming, cheese making, olive pressing, home brewing, bee keeping, winemaking, and more.
Grouped into gardening, project, and recipe guides for each season, "The One-Block Feast" is a complete resource for planning an eco-friendly kitchen garden; making your own pantry staples for year-round cooking and gifts; raising bees, chickens, and even a cow; and creating made-from-scratch meals from ingredients you've grown yourself. Chapters are organized by season, each featuring a planting plan and crop-by-crop instructions, an account of how that season's projects played out for the "Sunset" team, and a multicourse dinner menu composed of imaginative, appealing, and ultra-resourceful vegetarian recipes, such as:
Butternut Squash Gnocchi with Chard and Sage Brown Butter - Egg and Gouda Crepes - Whole Wheat Pizzas with Roasted Vegetables and Homemade Cheeses - Fresh Corn Soup with Zucchini Blossoms - Braised Winter Greens with Preserved Lemons and Red Chile - Summer Lemongrass Custards - Honey Ice Cream
Generously illustrated and easy to follow, this ultimate resource for today's urban homesteader will inspire you to take "eating local" to a whole new level. -- Publisher Marketing

If It Makes You Healthy: More Than 100 Delicious Recipes Inspired by the Seasons

by Sheryl Crow    (Find this book)

More personal and more enlightening than the typical celebrity cookbook, this health-focused collection from Sheryl Crow and her personal chef is a refreshing addition to an increasingly crowded field. When the singer-songwriter was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006, she reassessed her eating habits, which consisted of on-the-run tuna sandwiches and catered dressing-room food. The self-admitted noncook consulted with a nutritionist and hired chef Chuck White to cook for her on the road. This collection of recipes represents his greatest hits a warm hummus soup with cilantro pesto and garlic pita chips, and a tuna salad freshened up with green apple. Though Crow has not adopted a vegan lifestyle, many of these dishes are meatless, emphasizing colorful vegetables and fresh preparations. Exotic inventions include a sophisticated spin on peanut butter and jelly that incorporates cashew butter and fruit. Other dishes swap out ingredients to make comfort foods more wholesome and nutritious: a vegan reuben made with "corned beef seitan" and a chocolate mousse made from whipped avocado. Crow's nutritionist, Rachel Beller, offers tips throughout to educate readers. White's easy-to-follow recipes, coupled with Crow's down-to-earth narrative, make their collaboration a successful duet. Photos. (Apr.) Copyright 2011 Reed Business Information. -- Publishers Weekly

How Italian Food Conquered the World

by John F. Mariani    (Find this book)

Mariani, author of The Encyclopedia of American Food & Drink and the food and wine correspondent for Esquire magazine, makes a declarative statement in this fact-filled, entertaining history and substantiates it with hundreds of facts in this meaty history of the rise of Italian food culture around the globe. From Charles Dickens's journey through Italy in 1844 to 20th-century immigrants to America selling ice cream on the streets of New Orleans, Mariani constantly surprises the reader with little-known culinary anecdotes about Italy and its people, who have made pasta and pizza household dishes in the U.S. and beyond. Mariani's heavy emphasis on specific chefs and restaurant owners in the latter half of the book may tire your average reader, but foodies will delight as he details the rise and fall of French cuisine during the 1980s and '90s as trattorias eventually take the States by storm. Mariani includes many recipes throughout. (Mar.) Copyright 2011 Reed Business Information.  --Publishers Weekly

175 Best Babycakes Cake Pop Maker Recipes

by Kathy Moore, Roxanne Wyss   (Find this book)

"In the first six months of its launch, over 500,000 Cake Pop Makers have been sold."

With the invention of the Babycakes(TM) Cake Pop Maker, an ingenious and wildly popular appliance category has taken the retail marketplace by storm, and its popularity is only expected to increase as news, reviews and word spread. It allows the home baker to make fun and delicious cake pops quickly and easily in just minutes.

These delightful and creative recipes have been created specifically for use in this appliance and feature chapters on cake pop classics, decorating and dips, cake pop favorites, desserts and sweets, glazes, dips and fillings, donuts, Ebelskivers (traditional Danish pancakes -- a cross between American pancakes and a popover), muffins, appetizers, savory nibbles and show stoppers which are ideal for parties and gifts and come with gorgeous presentations and packaging suggestions.

Enjoy creating such delights as: Red Velvet Cake Pops, Brownie Pops, Peach Cobbler Balls Apple Pie Donuts, Beignets, Lemon Blueberry Ebelskivers Buffalo Chicken Balls, Jalapeno Cheese Pocket Breads Champagne Balls, Fourth of July Balls, Halloween Eyeballs

There's even a gluten-free and vegan section.

Also included are extensive and easy-to-follow decorating tips and techniques for everything from rustic to fancy cake pops as well as theme decorating ideas for occasions from Valentine's Day to weddings and birthdays. -- Publisher Marketing