Posts Tagged ‘Cooking’

Cooking with Coconut Flour: A Delicious Low-Carb, Gluten-Free Alternative to Wheat

March 1st, 2010

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Do you love breads, cakes, pies, cookies, and other wheat products but can’t eat them because you are allergic to wheat or sensitive to gluten? Perhaps you avoid wheat because you are concerned about your weight and need to cut down on carbohydrates. If so, the solution for you is coconut flour. Coconut flour is a delicious, healthy alternative to wheat. It is high in fiber, low in digestible carbohydrate, and a good source of protein. It contains no gluten so it is ideal for those with celiac disease. Coconut flour can be used to make a variety of delicious baked goods, snacks, desserts, and main dishes. It is the only flour used in most of the recipes in this book. These recipes are so delicious that you won’t be able to tell that they aren’t made with wheat. If you like foods such as German chocolate cake, apple pie, blueberry muffins, cheese crackers, and chicken pot pie, but don’t want the wheat; you will love the recipes in this book! These recipes are designed with your health in mind. Every recipe is completely free of wheat, gluten, soy, trans fats, and artificial sweeteners. Coconut is naturally low in carbohydrate and recipes include both regular and reduced sugar versions. Coconut flour provides many health benefits. It can improve digestion, help regulate blood sugar, protect against diabetes, help prevent heart disease and cancer, and aid in weight loss.

Cooking with Coconut Flour: A Delicious Low-Carb, Gluten-Free Alternative to Wheat

Super Natural Cooking: Five Delicious Ways to Incorporate Whole and Natural Foods into Your Cooking

February 8th, 2010

  • ISBN13: 9781587612756
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Everyone knows that whole foods are much healthier than refined ingredients, but few know how to cook with them in uncomplicated, delicious ways. Using a palette of natural ingredients now widely available in supermarkets, SUPER NATURAL COOKING offers globally inspired, nutritionally packed cuisine that is both gratifying and flavorful. With her weeknight-friendly dishes, real-foodie Heidi Swanson teaches home cooks how to become confident in a whole-foods kitchen by experimenting with alternative flours, fats, grains, sweeteners, and more. Including innovative twists on familiar dishes from polenta to chocolate chip cookies, SUPER NATURAL COOKING is the new wholesome way to eat, using real-world ingredients to get out-of-this-world results.

Super Natural Cooking: Five Delicious Ways to Incorporate Whole and Natural Foods into Your Cooking

Feeding the Whole Family: Cooking with Whole Foods

February 6th, 2010

  • ISBN13: 9781570615252
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Feeding the Whole Family starts with the basics of creating a whole foods diet, from understanding grains and beans to determining what meats are acceptable to eat. Author Cynthia Lair then applies these lessons to cooking for young children and babies aged six months and older. She explains how to adapt each recipe separately for both children’s and adults’ palates. This updated edition includes the most current nutritional research along with 65 delicious new recipes, including meat dishes.

Feeding the Whole Family: Cooking with Whole Foods

Cooking Light Cook’s Essential Recipe Collection: Slow Cooker: 57 essential recipes to eat smart, be fit, live well

February 3rd, 2010

  • ISBN13: 9780848730680
  • Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
  • Notes:

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Beautiful to display and practical to use, Slow Cooker is truly a godsend for time-challenged cooks who want to prepare healthy, tasty, and satisfying meals but don’t have hours to spend hovering over their stoves. Replete with all the high standards that have made Cooking Light a trusted favorite, this new edition provides over 58 beautifully photographed recipes with useful, easy-to-follow instruction.

Cooking Light Cook’s Essential Recipe Collection: Slow Cooker: 57 essential recipes to eat smart, be fit, live well

Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies

February 1st, 2010

  • ISBN13: 9780470178102
  • Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
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Want to create tasty gluten-free meals and snacks? Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies is loaded with more than 150 wheat-and gluten-free recipes. These sweet, spicy, and aromatic dishes prove that living the gluten-free lifestyle can be not only fun and easy, but delicious and nutritious too!

This practical, guide shows you how to select the right ingredients and prepare classic healthy dishes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert. You’ll find out what you can and can’t use in gluten-free cooking, learn to spot the hidden gluten in foods, discover surprising ways to save money when you go shopping, and even manage your weight. You’ll also learn how to convert your current favorite recipes to gluten-free delights using ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen. Discover how to:

  • Prepare your kitchen for gluten-free cooking
  • Shop for gluten-free products
  • Boost nutrition and flavor in your dishes
  • Get the kids involved in gluten-free cooking
  • Make any meal gluten free
  • Add color and nutrition at the same time
  • Cook gluten-free without a recipe
  • Do the “impossible”— gluten-free baking
  • Make gluten-free sandwiches, wraps, and pizzas
  • Create fabulous gluten-free fish, chicken, and meat dishes
  • Go gluten-free and vegetarian, too

Complete with delightful lists of gluten-free comfort foods, kid’s favorites, and ways to eat gluten-free while traveling Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies is the best way yet to stay happy, healthy, well-fed, and wheatless!

Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies

The 30-Minute Vegan: Over 175 Quick, Delicious, and Healthy Recipes for Everyday Cooking

January 6th, 2010

  • ISBN13: 9780738213279
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Busy vegans, rejoice! award-winning husband and wife chefs/authors Reinfeld and Murray present 150 delicious, easy-to prepare recipes for everyday vegan cooking—all dishes that can be prepared in a half-hour.

Sections include The Lighter Side of Life: Smoothies & Satiating Beverages; Snacks, Pick Me Ups & Kids’ Favorites; Lunches: Wraps, Rolls, Bowls, and More; Extraordinary Salads; Sumptuous Soups; Small Plates: Appetizers, Side Dishes, Light Dinners; Wholesome Suppers; Guilt-Free Comfort Food: Healthy Translations of Old Stand-bys; and Divine Desserts.

The 30-Minute Vegan also provides at-a-glance cooking charts, kids’ favorite dishes, and exciting menu suggestions for every occasion—making this an essential cookbook for busy vegans who want to enjoy delicious, healthful, whole-foods vegan fare every day.

The 30-Minute Vegan: Over 175 Quick, Delicious, and Healthy Recipes for Everyday Cooking

Skinny Bitch in the Kitch: Kick-Ass Recipes for Hungry Girls Who Want to Stop Cooking Crap

January 6th, 2010

  • ISBN13: 9780762431069
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Skinny Bitches Can Bake Their Cake – And Eat it Too!

Quit your bitching–they’ve heard you already! You read Skinny Bitch and it totally rocked your world. Now you want to know, “What can I cook that’s good for me, but doesn’t taste like crap?” Well, lucky for you, the Bitches are on the case. Self-proclaimed pigs, Rory and Kim understand all too well: Life without lasagna isn’t a life worth living; chocolate cake is vital to our survival; and no one can live without mac `n cheese–no one. So can you keep to your SB standards and eat like a whale? Shit yeah, bitches. To prove it, Rory and Kim came up with some kick-ass recipes for every craving there is:

-Bitchin’ Breakfasts
-PMS (Pissy Mood Snacks)
-Sassy Soups and Stews
-Grown-up Appetizers
-Comfort Cookin’
-Hearty Ass Sandwiches
-Happy Endings (Desserts)

And a ton more! They are all so good (and easy to make) you’re gonna freak out. Seriously. What are you waiting for? Get your skinny ass in the kitchen!

Skinny Bitch in the Kitch: Kick-Ass Recipes for Hungry Girls Who Want to Stop Cooking Crap

Make It Fast, Cook It Slow: The Big Book of Everyday Slow Cooking

January 2nd, 2010

  • ISBN13: 9781401310042
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Make It Fast, Cook It Slow is the first cookbook from Stephanie O’Dea, the extremely popular slow cooking blogger: affordable, delicious, nutritious, and gluten-free recipes to delight the entire family.

In December 2007, Stephanie O’Dea made a New Year’s resolution: she’d use her slow cooker every single day for an entire year, and write about it on her very popular blog. The result: more than three million visitors, and more than 300 fabulous, easy-to-make, family-pleasing recipes, including:

  • Breakfast Risotto
  • Vietnamese Roast Chicken
  • Tomatoes and Goat Cheese with Balsamic Cranberry Syrup
  • Falafel
  • Philly Cheesesteaks
  • Crème Brulee

–and much more. Make It Fast, Cook It Slow is the perfect cookbook for easy, quick prep, inexpensive ingredients, and meals that taste like you spent hours at the stove.

Make It Fast, Cook It Slow: The Big Book of Everyday Slow Cooking

Cooking For Weight Loss Surgery Patients

December 14th, 2009

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This book offers Weight Loss Surgery patients a massive selection of great tasting dishes that meet the requirements of most bariatric surgeons performing this type of surgery. You will find everything from Cheesecake to Mustard Glazed Salmon. There is an Artichoke And Spinach Dip appetizer and even Canadian Vanilla Ice Cream. And yes, they all meet the approval of the bariatric surgeons. There are some of the best mouth watering dishes from appetizers to desserts. This is one of the few cookbooks that gives you the complete nutritional data for every recipe and with the appropriate serving size for the Weight Loss Surgery patient. Anyone on a Low-Carb, High Protein diet will also love the recipes in this exciting new cookbook. They just have a larger serving size. There are helpful tips and hints on every page, with great tips “From The Chef’s Notebook” making these recipes easy for even the novice cook. Directions for every recipe make them very understandable and easy to make.
Cooking For Weight Loss Surgery Patients
$16.95