Cooking

Prepare gluten-free dishes that are delicious and nutritious

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 find and 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.

Covers the medical, practical, and emotional aspects of living gluten-free

Includes more than 150 tasty recipes, including gluten-free ethnic dishes and a section of quick and easy starter recipes, which is new to this edition

Shows you how to boost nutrition and flavor in your dishes

Gives you the know-how to make any meal gluten free

Complete with delightful lists of gluten-free comfort foods and kid's favorites, as well as tips for converting a kitchen to a gluten-free workspace, Gluten-Free Cooking For Dummies is the best way yet to stay happy, healthy, well-fed, and wheatless!

Sound nutrition is the cornerstone of any healthy lifestyle, writes Michel Stroot, and he should know. As the executive chef at southern California's famed Golden Door Spa, he has perfected the art of conscious cooking and nourishment and now shares over 150 of his unique and delicious recipes in Golden Door Cooks Light and Easy. The Golden Door Spa is one of America's most exclusive holistic wellness retreats, and the celebration of food - from garden to table - is a cornerstone of the spa's simplicity is luxury ideology. Stroot's recipes are not only nutritionally balanced, but also imaginative, aromatic, and always delicious. In keeping with the Golden Door Spa philosophy, he aims to provide the hurried person a cuisine of simple and enticing meals that will renew physical and mental energy, with recipes that use only fresh, healthy ingredients, allowing creativity and spirit to enhance every meal.With guidelines for creating well-balanced meal plans, advice on how to cut time in the kitchen, and ways to reduce fat while enhancing flavour, Golden Door Cooks Light and Easy surpasses so many other cookbooks that amount to nothing more than a list of exotic ingredients from a fancy kitchen. From breakfast to beverages, appetizers to sauces, salads to seafood and easy desserts, Chef Stroot shares his favourite menus as he reflects on the Golden Door belief that it is necessary to maintain a balance between what goes into our bodies and what we can expect to get out in terms of energy, enthusiasm, and enjoyment.

Here are Kenneth Roberts's favorite recipes, gathered by his niece and accompanied by Roberts's notes and anecdotes.

Homestyle Family Favorites gives you more than 200 tried & true recipes from home cooks across the country. These wholesome recipes are raved about at potluck dinners, inherited through generations, or swapped over the backyard fence. From mac 'n' cheese to meatloaf, heartwarming chili to chocolate chip cookies, the recipes in this book offer today's updated versions of all your favorite comfort foods. Plus, the personal stories from recipe contributors woven throughout make this one cookbook that you'll want to curl up with on the couch for a good read!

As you flip through these pages, you'll find classic homestyle recipes for breads, soups, and desserts, plus casseroles so ooey, gooey and cheesy that your friends and relatives will want to borrow your new cookbook for the recipes! And you'll enjoy our best holiday recipes, from Watermelon Slice Cookies for the perfect Fourth of July treat to Scalloped Oyster Stuffing for a Thanksgiving gathering.

You'll also get the best collection of homestyle menus for all occasions... 6 in all. From Beef & Broccoli Wellington and Glazed Carrots for a Cozy Winter Supper to a Spring Celebration of Blue Ribbon Ham Casserole and Skyscraper Banana Splits, each menu features a photo sure to inspire perfect results.

The wholesome, natural treats for dogs detailed in this book can be made in your own bread machine. The author tested the recipes on dogs of all sizes and shapes. Treats can be made from chicken and beef broth, as well as nonfat (for the overweight dog), and even vegetarian ingredients.

Gourmet's Five Ingredients, based on the "Five Ingredients" column in the magazine, fuses culinary imagination with an easy approach to cooking. Sample recipes include: Ricotta Gnocchi with Roasted Tomato, Fried Eggs and Asparagus with Parmesan, Tarragon Lobster Salad, Cucumber and Cumin Soup, Speedy Pizzas, and Strawberry Margarita Ice Pops -- all taking into account that after a long day at work or play, it's best to keep things simple, but still unique and delicious.

This user-friendly book contains 32 menus and more than 200 recipes -- 100 never before published -- and 80 full-color photographs. Informational boxes are included throughout, and an index lists quick recipes and one-dish dinners.

Illustrated throughout with more than 40 full-color photographs, this invaluable, no-sweat guide to good eating offers ten time-saving menus with 250 succulent recipes for today's increasingly busy lifestyles.

The coauthor of The Silver Palate Cookbooks presents a classic collection of fresh, healthful food for home cooks everywhere. A feast of fabulous fare for the seasons and holidays that applies inspiration and joyfulness to calorie counting. Two-color illustrations throughout.

This sparkling full-color cookbook features 100 widely varied recipes encompassing everything from tomato and tomatillo, chile, tropical, fruit, corn, bean, garden, ocean, and exotic, to nut, seed, and herb. Includes hints on handling volatile peppers, suggested accompaniments, and, of course, a heat scale.

Single-subject cookbooks with 80 beautifully photographed recipes, plus low-fat cooking tips and techniques. Concealed spiral binding allows book to lie flat for hands-free use.

This is one of five volumes in a series of books that celebrates the diversity of American regional cooking by exploring its flavors as they relate to grilled food. Each of the five volumes contains more than 300 recipes (including variations), and is proof of the old adage that "everything tastes better when cooked outdoors."

The Greek Mama's Kitchen is a celebration of the fascinating and diverse culinary traditions from different Greek communities as continued by families today. Focusing on the mother of the household, we catch a glimpse of how the old and new worlds meet and marry. Rosemary Barron shares her favorite everyday recipes and those popular for special occasions as they have been passed down through the generations. She records the cooking skills she learned from her mother and grandmother, and divulges family secrets that give certain dishes an extra zest to set them apart.

A look at the development of methods for cooking food as well as storing and preserving it. The recipes included in each chapter are adapted to modern times, but are authentic. Notes show how colonial women would have gone about the project differently. There are chapters on regional cooking, soups, corn, soul cooking, beverages, and desserts.

America's most respected cookware retailer, the world's largest book publisher, and renowned cooking authorities combine their talents to guide modern cooks.

Chile peppers are turning up everywhere, and in this collection you'll find 200 of the best recipes collected from Chile PepperI>> Magazine's past issues. Recipes range from the subtly piquant to the scorching; traditional ethnic dishes, classic and original creations. Interesting sidebars, notes, quotes and anecdotes from past issues dot the pages, taking readers from the days when a jalapeno was considered incendiary, to the present when the habanero -- the food equivalent of liquid lava -- has taken center stage. Whether you're a seasoned chilehead, or aspiring (perspiring?) heat seeker, HEAT WAVE! takes you to the center of the heat. So grab a bottle of your favourite hot sauce, some tortilla chips, and HEAT WAVE! and dive in.

Author Steven Raichlen has put his classical French training to delectable use in the service of low-fat bliss for health-conscious dessert lovers, miraculously transforming such naughty pleasures as Chocolate Silk Pie, Lemon Poppy Chiffon Cake, and Balinese Banana Split into healthy delights. As always, Raichlen provides complete nutritional analyses and careful instructions, so you'll be sure to have picture-perfect desserts every time.

Share the unsurpassed pleasures of discovering, cooking, and eating good, simple food with this beloved book. Equal parts cookbook and memoir, Laurie Colwin's "Home Cooking" combines her insightful, good-humored writing style with her lifelong passion for wonderful cuisine in essays such as "Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant," "Repulsive Dinners: A Memoir," and "Stuffed Breast of Veal: A Bad Idea." "Home Cooking" is truly a feast for body and soul.

A beautifully designed and practical introduction to creative cooking!

"How to Cook gives" teens the know-how and confidence to cook their own meals, whether for themselves or to impress friends and family. The 100 easy-to-follow recipes offer plenty of ideas to get them started. From ginger-chicken stir-fry to scrumptious mini cheesecakes, there's a great balance of healthy meals and treats from different countries around the world. Fascinating information on ingredients, origins, seasonality, healthy eating, and insights into food culture are spread throughout the text so young adults are kept informed about what they're eating.

With this great selection of adaptable recipes, food facts, and fail-safe techniques, "How to Cook" will get teens creative in the kitchen, and enthusiastic about food for life.

Twenty-five years and three million copies ago, The I Hate to Cook Book first came to the rescue of those who find the kitchen a snare, a confusion and a pain in the neck. Two more books spiced with humor and topped with practical advice followed. Together with drawings by the incomparable Hilary Knight are the best-tasting and funniest of Peg Bracken: 443 of those fast, delicious I-hate-to-cook recipes in one book. Includes Hurry Curry, Stayabed Stew, Sole Survivor and hundreds more, plus the easiest, best desserts this side of kahlua-over-ice cream.

Every two and one-half minutes, a woman in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer. The incidence of breast cancer in women has increased from one in twenty in 1960 to one in seven today. Fortunately, there are many doctors and organizations actively searching for a cure. And the top organization is The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF), founded in 1993 by Evelyn H. Lauder, Senior Corporate Vice President of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

Now, Evelyn H. Lauder turns her energy to this gorgeous, full-color cookbook. Drawing on her years of experience working with doctors and nutritionists at leading hospitals, as well as her own personal eating philosophy, Mrs. Lauder has created a testament to living well and being well.

All of her royalties will be donated to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation. A great gift for a mother, a sister, a husband, or a friend, this cookbook is a must-have for anyone interested in a healthy lifestyle.