Cold-Weather Cooking Review

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(More customer reviews)I love this book. I've been into cooking since I was about 5 and I own over 4,000 cookbooks, but this one is definitely my fav. I bought it in December 1990 and at this point, have cooked nearly every recipe in the book. They are all fabulous. I have never had one of these recipes fail.
I have given this book as a gift many times over the years, and the recipients have all come to love the book as much as I do.
Here are some of the standout recipes:
Creamed Spinach - it's a very simple recipe but the best I've ever tasted
Mustard Creamed Onions - a zippy twist on a Thanksgiving tradition
Spanish Garlic Soup - rich and unusual
Raised Waffles - worth the price of the book just for this recipe!
Apricot Ginger Cream Scones - totally fattening & totally worth it
Turkey Mole - the best mole I've ever had, way better than most restaurants
Spicy Shrimp, NOLA Style - just like Pascal Manale's
The thing I love about these recipes is that even the ones I don't think I'll like (such as Rhubarb Custard Pie) come out great. SLC also has a fun, chatty and erudite writing style, so reading her cookbooks is almost as much fun as cooking from them.
Many of the recipes are a bit long and can take awhile to make, but the end product is worth every minute of prep time.


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Cooking for Fifty: The Complete Reference and Cookbook Review

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(More customer reviews)A good guide for a cook who cooks for crowds. It is well written with buying guides, menus, and recipes. It will me a great help to my kitchen.

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A sourcebook of 300 contemporary, healthful recipes and references that balances common sense with uncommon ideas. Includes nutrient breakdowns for all recipes, alternative instructions for microwave, food processors and other time-saving equipment as well as realistic food costs for a wide range of operations and budgets. The reference section contains a brief course on cooking techniques, conversion charts, equipment capacities, cooking times, recipe reduction and expansion tables and both U.S. and metric measurements.

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Extraordinary Foods for the Everyday Kitchen Review

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(More customer reviews)The collaboration of attorney and mother of three Loni Kornblum and child psychologist and nutritionist Bruce Semon, Extraordinary Foods For The Everyday Kitchen is an impressive culinary collection of sugar-free, yeast-free, wheat-free, milk-free, soy-free, and all Kosher recipes healthy living. Easy to prepare with the explicit instructions (going so far as to put key terms and actions in boldface type), Extraordinary Foods For The Everyday Kitchen offers a mouth-watering spectrum of dishes ranging from Chinese Tomato Soup, and Quick 'N Easy Ratatouille, to Spicy Pumpkin Cranberry Pie and so many more. Extraordinary Foods For The Everyday Kitchen is a superb resource for cooks who have to combine strict dietary requirements with succulent taste in their epicurean creations.

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Extraordinary Foods for the Everyday Kitchen, by LoriKornblum, and Bruce Semon, M.D., Ph.D.is a companion cookbook to AnExtraordinary Power to Heal.Extraordinary Foods is completely freeof yeast, wheat/gluten, milk/casein, and common allergens such as soy,corn, peanuts and rye.This cookbook is also completely kosher andsugar free.Containing more than 125 new, original recipes and morethan 60 menus including recipes from both Extraordinary Foods and ourfirst book, Feast Without Yeast:4 Stages to Better Health, the recipesand menus will astound and amaze you at how many unbelievably goodtasting foods you can make with limited ingredients.This book goesbeyond Feast Without Yeast, including recipes for tacos, pizza, salsa,felafel, many new salad dressings, mayonnaise, and other deliciousfoods that most people thought they had to give up on a yeast free,wheat free, dairy free diet. Extraordinary Foods uses no artificialingredients and no "exotic" ingredients that require expeditions tospecialty stores.All ingredients are whole foods, vegetables, andeasy to find.

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Betty Crocker's Best Chicken Cookbook Review

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(More customer reviews)I love this book! There are so many wonderful recipes. I turn to this cookbook when I can't decide what to make for dinner. The pictures are great, and there's one for each recipe. None of the recipes are more than 1 page long, and each lists the prep time and cook time. There's even fast & easy chicken ideas on the inside cover. One of my favorite recipes is the Honey-Glazed Chicken Breasts - they're delicious and easy to make. I highly recommend it!

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Roasted to a turn, fried to a crisp, tucked into soups, stews and stir-fries or a savory pot pie, curried, creamed, stuffed or barbecued -- here is chicken for every pot! Betty Crocker's Best Chicken Cookbook is packed with over 110 recipes so chicken will never become routine, including recipes for soul-satisfying soups and stews; filling salads and sandwiches; snappy stir-fries and skillet meals; as well as moist and tender baked and roasted chicken. Betty knows what consumers want, so there's an entire chapter of Super Express recipes for meals that can be made in 30 minutes or less to make mealtime a snap. Every recipe has fresh ideas for fabulous flavor variations, low-fat alternatives, easy dress-up suggestions, or cutting down your cooking time. This book is also jam-packed with beautiful photos throughout to tempt your tastebuds every step of the way, and includes a wide range of helpful information, from poultry shopping tips to foolproof carving guides for chicken and turkey. Learn how to cut up a whole chicken, step-by-step instructions for deboning and flattening breasts, the best ways to poach and microwave chicken, and an indispensable grilling chart. Check out the all-new section with handy advice on how to keep your chicken moist, plus the most up-to-date information concerning safety issues related to poultry.

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My Love for Naples: The Food, the History, the Life (Hippocrene Cookbook Library) Review

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(More customer reviews)Anna Callen journeys to Naples to explore Neapolitan cuisine in a cookbook packed with details on traditional and regional dishes. The author's background as a cooking instructor lends to easy dishes which pepper color photos with dishes ranging from Polenta Casserole with Sausage to Spicy Vesuvius Chicken and Noodle Soup with Meatballs. Any general-interest library selecting international dishes will find this packed with appealing regional fare reflecting the author's love for Naples, and spiced with lovely color photographs.

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In this lovingly rendered cookbook memoir, Anna Teresa Callen takes readers on a culinary journey to Naples, one of her favorite Italian cities. From antipasti, soups, and pizza, to a host of pasta, fish, meat, and vegetable dishes, this collection of more than 250 recipes covers the cuisine of the Campania region, including its capital, Naples, the islands of Capri and Ischia, and the Amalfi coast. Neapolitan cuisine exemplifies la cucina povera or "the cooking of the poor", whose inventiveness with inexpensive local ingredients produced the region's legendary mozzarella di bufala, the famed, succulent ragu alla napoletana, and simple, hearty dishes that make the most of seasonal vegetables and abundant seafood. A skilled cooking instructor, the author provides easy, step-by-step instructions and much more.

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Simply Ming One-Pot Meals: Quick, Healthy & Affordable Recipes Review

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(More customer reviews)As a Food Network follower from the early days, I remember Ming Tsai and his soothing, elegant cooking show "East Meets West" from the late '90s. When I saw his familiar smile on the cover of his new book, "Simply Ming, One-Pot Meals", I was intrigued. Upon opening the book I found myself making a dash for the register, salivating over which creation I was going to try first. This book is beautiful and very well thought out. EVERY recipe has a gorgeous photograph to accompany it and the range of recipes is astounding. Delightful beverage pairings accompany each dish. Next up on my list are his "Orange-Ginger Lamb Shanks with Barley" (with a Bordeaux blend, like Chateau Centemerle, Haut Medoc, France) and "Chile Pork Fillets with Garlic Brussels Sprouts" (with a big, buttery California Central Cost Chardonnay like Peter Michael). These one-pot wonders and their pairings are my new entertaining secret!

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Folgers Special Roast Ground Coffee, 34.5-oz Can (Pack of 2) Review

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(More customer reviews)I've been drinking this regularly for several months, and the coffee tastes excellent for being neither Dunkin Donuts or Starbucks. It also doesn't lose much flavor and still tastes pretty good even after a month or 6 weeks in the pantry. It is medium strength, about on par with Dunkin Donuts regular, without the obvious disinctiveness. I drink it for my regular morning coffee where I only get a single cup before work, and drink DD on the weekends when I go through a full pot.
The biggest problem with this listing is price; Wal-Mart and Kroger have been selling these containers regularly for months at under $6.00, or under $12.00 for 2. To be exact, our local Wal-Mart had a large display of these out yesterday for $5.88 each.
At $5.88, this coffee is a great deal; at $11.00 not so much.

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Folgers Special Roast Ground Coffee is a Well-crafted, medium-roasted blend has an exceptional, balanced taste that makes mornings complete.

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