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This book is Vollstedt's effort to bring back the tradition of lighter suppers in the evening following the heavier dinner earlier in the day. This is how my mother-in-law cooks during holidays and I like this approach because you don't have a heavy feeling late in the day.
The recipes are easy to understand and follow and not intimidating at all, she took the term easy seriously when putting this book together. Easy does not mean boring or monotonous her recipes cover a wide variety of foods including soups, salads, sandwiches meat, poultry, eggs seafood and fish, pasta, vegetables, pizza stir-fries, grilling and desserts. Two categories salads, and pasta grains and legumes have both a chapter for main dishes and one for side dishes.
Although the focus is easy recipes there is a wide variety to choose from and it would be hard to pick up this cookbook and walk away without some ideas for a good and tasty supper.
This is a wonderful book. It has useful information about diabetes, including the effects of stress. It contains many useful charts. One of the best features of this book are popular recipies that have been adapted for a diabetic diet. You don't have to sacrifice enjoyment in order to eat well.
It does contain ingredients that myth declares taboo. This book will show you how to use foods in a healthy way. If you are using books that were written 10 years ago, I would replace them with this and similar books. This book is up-to-date with medical findings.
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I am one of those procrastinators who keep putting things off. Writing this review was one of them. Thanks to a couple of amusing reviews in the last few weeks and some a few months ago, I have gotten over my procrastination and here is mine.
First, my credentials:
I own both editions of Mrs. Bhargava's books. I have been interested in Indian food for a long time but have been occasionally turned off by the inconsistency and sometimes overly rich and spicy Indian food available in restaurants. I have cooked almost every recipe from Mrs. Bhargava's book (some of them many times) and am now confident enough to serve the dishes at some of my most important gatherings.
A lot of wonderful things have already been written by many people about the book. I agree with them and will not repeat them.
Here is why the book appeals to me:
- The warmth with which it is written really comes through
- The methods are simple and following them accurately will almost always lead to very tasty, wholesome and good looking dishes
- I can eat the food every day and feel good about it
Now my other purpose for writing the review:
One or two reviewers write that that the food is "too watery", some of the dishes are "dull" or the yogurt did not turn out as they had expected. One person has complained about the Hindi glossary in the front.
All I can suggest to these people is to follow the instructions to the tee - and based on my extensive personal experience, they will never have to worry about how the dishes turn out.
To the person who complained that the recipes are dull - well may be she/he should keep on going to the Indian restaurants.
And as for the Hindi glossary, honestly, I find it to be a big help when I am "showing off" my newly acquired expertise on Indian food to my friends.
There was one constructive suggestion - listing the ingredients in the order of use. Although, it has not been an issue for me since I measure and arrange the ingredients before I start cooking, I can see that a casual cook may find it slightly inconvenient. I hope Mrs. Bhargava will make this improvement in the next edition.
In the mean time, thanks, "Mom," for this wonderful book. Your "love" certainly comes through!
I ordered the 2006 and 2007 edition from Amazon after using the 2008 and 2009 for two weeks. Every week, I go through all four books and pick new recipes to try. I make the ingredient list and I go grocery shopping during the weekend. With this weekly format, I have thrown away less food and saved more money. My boyfriend and I loved every meal so far! I love the format of the book. It has allowed me to go through the book and pick recipes at random, which makes dinner time an adventurous experience. These books have given me a renewed passion in cooking at home.
Eating smart becomes a culinary delight with great-tasting, good-for-you recipes
An emphasis on international cuisines, classic comfort foods, and new twists on traditional favorites—in their skinnier versions, of course
Triple-indexed to find what you need in a jiffy
Plus the editors’ favorite recipes, the best-of-the-best recipes
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I took this cookbook out from the library a few weeks ago. I have since made several of the recipes and I am now asking for this cookbook for Christmas! I have several cookbooks but I would say this is superior to them all. Not only does it have great recipes, but the tips throughout the book, such as 'How to seed a pomegranate' are really useful. I especially liked the section that tells you which ingredients last in the fridge and freezer. I would say this cookbook does not have many 'traditional' recipes, but I did make the cream cheese brownies and they were a hit! Also of note, the chipotle shrimp cups and edemame and shrimp salad. My only dislike of this book is the index, which I think can, at times, be poorly organized when trying to find your favorites. I agree with another review that also has the subscription--buy this book instead of a yearly subscription! While there are a lot of ads in each issue, there are a fair number of recipes. This cookbook however, has some of the best rated recipes!
Over 1000 tips from the Cooking Light Test Kitchens experts
200 step-by-step photographs simplify "complicated" cooking methods 50 new and varied menu options, including the Cooking Light staff’s top 10 favorites
Cook & prep times, plus complete nutritional analysis for every recipe
I took this cookbook out from the library a few weeks ago. I have since made several of the recipes and I am now asking for this cookbook for Christmas! I have several cookbooks but I would say this is superior to them all. Not only does it have great recipes, but the tips throughout the book, such as 'How to seed a pomegranate' are really useful. I especially liked the section that tells you which ingredients last in the fridge and freezer. I would say this cookbook does not have many 'traditional' recipes, but I did make the cream cheese brownies and they were a hit! Also of note, the chipotle shrimp cups and edemame and shrimp salad. My only dislike of this book is the index, which I think can, at times, be poorly organized when trying to find your favorites. I agree with another review that also has the subscription--buy this book instead of a yearly subscription! While there are a lot of ads in each issue, there are a fair number of recipes. This cookbook however, has some of the best rated recipes!
Over 1000 tips from the Cooking Light Test Kitchens experts
200 step-by-step photographs simplify "complicated" cooking methods 50 new and varied menu options, including the Cooking Light staff’s top 10 favorites
Cook & prep times, plus complete nutritional analysis for every recipe
Janet Taylor is a culinary expert whose newest cookbook, "The Healthy Southwest Table" showcases a superbly illustrated cornucopia of savory, colorful, palate pleasing and appetite satisfying dishes associated with the American southwest. From Green Tea Cooler; Fresh Fruit Salsa; Flat Enchiladas; and Tangy Tuna Cabbage Salad; to Lemon-Lime Prickly Pear Chicken; Chipotle Barbecue Tofu and Vegetables; Leftover Fish or Chicken Tacos; and Decadent Chocolate Pudding, "The Healthy Southwest Table" features more than one hundred recipes that are as delicious as they are nutritious. The novice kitchen cook will especially appreciate the informative instructional commentaries on roasting, toasting, grilling, and working with tortillas. Further enhanced with 'Highlights of Some Nutritional Studies' and 'Making Smart Food Choices', "The Healthy Southwest Table" is confidently recommended for both personal and community library ethnic and regional cookbook collections.
This cook book is plain and direct. It's like having a chef right there, in your home, explaining the recipe to you.
If anyone is going to throw a baby shower,on any sort of budget, this is certainly and completely the book to get. There's everything in there from how to make easy invitations and recipes to games to play at the shower. It's very charmingly written, well-organized and makes it so logical and simple to do. This is the only baby shower book you'll ever need to buy. Check out the lists - they're great!
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Authentic, easy-to-follow recipes, will result in such good eating that everyone will want repeat performances. And, as far as I'm concerned, that's the best way to judge a dish's success. My husband and guests almost always rave about something I have prepared...but when someone says, "will you make {dish you made} again," that's when I know I have a winner.
If you are looking for a travel guide or a history book, go elsewhere, even though this book will give you an appetizer there also. The Complete Book of Greek Cooking will deliver exactly what the title promises.
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The United States of Arugula is ostensibly about how America changed from a burgers and fries, Swanson TV dinner, baloney sandwich and Fritos kind of country to a sushi and edamame, Whole Foods, imported bottled water nation. What it really is though, is a collection of some of the best gossip I've read in a long time. This is quality stuff.
The stars of the story are food pioneers Craig Claiborne, James Beard, and Julia Child. Along with accounts of their careers, we learn of their various trysts and relationships. Even Julia Child, of whom there are no revelations of extra marital affairs here, comes across as rather bawdier than we are used to seeing her. Alice Waters gets the full treatment as well. What a busy bee she's been - that kitchen at Chez Panisse sure gets hot.
Author David Kamp has really done his homework. We learn how Whole Foods, Zabar's, Dean & DeLuca, and Williams Sonoma got started. We get the lowdown on how the French cooking craze that Julia Child started morphed into Nouvelle Cuisine in New York and into California Cuisine in Berkeley. Chefs Jeremiah Tower, Thomas Keller, and Wolfgang Puck make cameo appearances. Find out how Peet's Coffee in the Bay Area begat Starbuck's.
I can't think of anyone Kamp has left out of his book. Even Jane and Michael Stern, who specialize in finding the "best" greasy spoons, and The Frugal Gourmet (remember him?) are mentioned, if only in chatty and rather informative footnotes. But back to the gossip. Here you'll find out what food critic made Emeril Lagasse cry, what Alice Waters said to Rick Bayless when he appeared in Burger King commercials, and about the feud between Mexican food experts Diana Kennedy and Rick Bayless.
Of course, if you'd rather take the high road, you can join in on the debate over whether America is better off, food-wise now than we were forty years ago. Were things more natural and healthier before high fructose corn syrup and DDT and Fast Food Nation? Or are they actually better now with organic choices and farmers' markets and the Food Channel? Argue amongst yourselves. I'm going to scour the footnotes for more gossipy morsels.
The wickedly entertaining, hunger-inducing, behind-the-scenes story of the revolution in American food that has made exotic ingredients, celebrity chefs, rarefied cooking tools, and destination restaurants familiar aspects of our everyday lives.
Amazingly enough, just twenty years ago eating sushi was a daring novelty and many Americans had never even heard of salsa. Today, we don't bat an eye at a construction worker dipping a croissant into robust specialty coffee, city dwellers buying just-picked farmstand produce, or suburbanites stocking up on artisanal cheeses and extra virgin oils at supermarkets. The United States of Arugula is a rollicking, revealing stew of culinary innovation, food politics, and kitchen confidences chronicling how gourmet eating in America went from obscure to pervasive—and became the cultural success story of our era.
Susan Loomis's cookbooks are written for any cook who loves fresh, simple ingredients and the magic that comes from spending a little bit of time in the kitchen. But they're also portraits of food-lovers around the world, and Nuts in the Kitchen is no different. Here's her description of Makram, who has a stall in her local farmer's market. "Makram is a big, burly Tunisian, with a smile like the sun and velvet brown eyes ... He hails me like long-lost family, clasps his hands, and looks to heaven when he sees Fiona." Okay now, don't you just want to go the market and meet the guy? Of course I went straight to the chapter on desserts (Coconut, pistachio, and chocolate macaroons; Crumbly almond cake) but she fits nuts into recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner. She's a relentless scout (having traveled to Turkey and Thailand, for example), and she makes friends with everyone she meets. No wonder she has over 2000 friends on Facebook. I highly recommend this book -- and her others, too (my copy of The Farmhouse Cookbook is stained all the way through).
Renowned cookbook author Susan Herrmann Loomis has traveled extensively to collect recipes that incorporate every kind of nut—from almonds to Brazil nuts, and everything in between. In these delectable recipes, you'll see nuts as much more than a tempting snack. Loomis shows how they complement, and can be the centerpiece of, every single meal of the day.
Included in this imaginative collection are more than 100 easy-to-make recipes for small plates, salads, main courses, side dishes, and desserts. Start with breakfast and serve Waffles with Walnut Whipped Cream or Apricot and Pine Nut Compote. Share an evening with friends by serving Anise- and Fennel-Spiced Walnuts or Brazil Pesto with Pasta; next, move on to a main course of Gingered Fish on Spiced Macadamia Butter; and finish with refreshing Lemon Poppy Seed Ice Cream or Coconut Sticky Rice with Peanuts. Loomis provides an invaluable collection of The Basics—including recipes for Almond Milk, Lemony Hazelnut Butter, Poppy Seed Dressing, and Macadamia and Coconut Sprinkle—for stocking every pantry and adding a new dimension to daily meals.
Along with the wonderfully diverse recipes in this book, you'll find nutritional information, menu ideas, and different kinds of food—simple, exciting, flavorful, unusual, easy, and good for you, too.
Nuts in the Kitchen is the ultimate culinary guide for using these wonderful, healthful ingredients in inventive, sophisticated, and astonishing ways. Whether you are a vegetarian, a vegan, or a meat eater, you'll find yourself turning to this book over and over as you prepare meals large or small.
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This book contains what the title says it does, however it is not compehensive like On food and Cooking, it is much smaller. This books strengths are its small size, and the information is easy to apply.
The book has been translated from French poorly. It is very awkward English, where I constantly found myself re-reading things.
An international celebrity and founder of molecular gastronomy, or the scientific investigation of culinary practice, Herv& eacute; This is known for his ground-breaking research into the chemistry and physics behind everyday cooking. His work is consulted widely by amateur cooks and professional chefs and has changed the way food is approached and prepared all over the world.
In Kitchen Mysteries, Herve This offers a second helping of his world-renowned insight into the science of cooking, answering such fundamental questions as what causes vegetables to change color when cooked and how to keep a souffl& eacute; from falling. He illuminates abstract concepts with practical advice and concrete examples& mdash;for instance, how saut& eacute;ing in butter chemically alters the molecules of mushrooms& mdash;so that cooks of every stripe can thoroughly comprehend the scientific principles of food.
Kitchen Mysteries begins with a brief overview of molecular gastronomy and the importance of understanding the physiology of taste. A successful meal depends as much on a cook's skilled orchestration of taste, odors, colors, consistencies, and other sensations as on the delicate balance of ingredients. Herv& eacute; then dives into the main course, discussing the science behind many meals' basic components: eggs, milk, bread, sugar, fruit, yogurt, alcohol, and cheese, among other items. He also unravels the mystery of tenderizing enzymes and gelatins and the preparation of soups and stews, salads and sauces, sorbet, cakes, and pastries. Herv& eacute; explores the effects of boiling, steaming, braising, roasting, deep-frying, saut& eacute;ing, grilling, salting, and microwaving, and devotes a chapter to kitchen utensils, recommending the best way to refurbish silverware and use copper.
By sharing the empirical principles chefs have valued for generations, Herv& eacute; This adds another dimension to the suggestions of cookbook authors. He shows how to adapt recipes to available ingredients and how to modify proposed methods to the utensils at hand. His revelations make difficult recipes easier to attempt and allow for even more creativity and experimentation. Promising to answer your most compelling kitchen questions, Herv& eacute This continues to make the complex science of food digestible to the cook.
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I really enjoy cooking, but sometimes the thought of being in the kitchen for hours is a little too much to handle. Enter this fantastic cookbook that contains delicious, healthy and super fast meals. To be able to cook a good meal in the time it takes to defrost and cook a frozen entree in the oven is a real treat.
All the dishes that I've prepared from this cookbook have been extraordinary. You can tell that they are all well thought out in that they are very tasteful and the tastes all compliment eachother instead of competing. (Thank you Rachael for your Creamy Polenta and Bolognese Sauce!)
Probably my favorite thing about this cookbook (besides the super fast meal prep) is the inclusion of carbs. I know that everyone is saying no to carbs, but I just can't say no altogether and finally someone (Rachael Ray) agrees with me: carbs in moderation is OK.
I just now finished reading the celebrated "foie gras" section; as a Francophilic reseller checking prices for this title, I noticed some of the reviews and got curious.
For all I know the large-scale editing could be better (or the book might be intended to stand as chapter-independent), but the 5-6 pages I read were quite well crafted, with varied and sensitive sentence pacing and inclusion of many insightful details.
If you can't get from one end of a compound or (perish the thought) complex sentence to the other, like so many young video-game-deranged ADHD cases apparently have trouble doing, this lovely slice of a beautiful if hard way of life will probably be too taxing to enjoy.
But for seasoned readers, it's a delectable read as far as I've seen (and it's fun to handle a book with traditional, ragged page signature edges for a change).
Foie gras production is a pretty inhumane business, but non-vegetarians won't be learning anything totally new about how the other half lives. The people are wonderful and real. I wish I too could visit the area, as one reviewer said she did, before it becomes a part of a bygone age!
P.S. Anyone generally interested in the proud and warring nations of France and Paris are encouraged to read "Fragile Glory" by Bernstein, a former NY Times Paris Bureau Chief -- it's delightful and informative!....
From Here,You Can't See Paris is a sweet, leisurely exploration of the life of Les Arques (population 159), a hilltop village in a remote corner of France untouched by the modern era. It is a story of a dying village's struggle to survive, of a dead artist whose legacy began its rebirth, and of chef Jacques Ratier and his wife, Noëlle, whose bustling restaurant -- the village's sole business -- has helped ensure Les Arques's future.
Sanders set out to explore the inner workings of a French restaurant kitchen but ended up stumbling into a much richer world. Through the eyes of the Sanders family, one discovers the vibrant traditions of food, cooking, and rural living, and comes to know the village's history. Whether uncovering the darker secrets of making foie gras, hearing a chef confess his doubts about the Michelin star system, or absorbing the lore of the land around a farmhouse kitchen table after a boar hunt, life in Les Arques turns out to be anything but sleepy.
I really like the book because I work and am always looking for recipes that don't require a lot of prep time. This book was a lifesaver. I am able to prepare a wonderful dinner in a short amount of time. I also follow the Weight Watchers program and it was easy to translate the recipe into a points system. A friend of mines son recently was diagnosed with diabetes and this is a wonderful cookbook for her as well.