The Hashimoto's Cookbook and Action Plan: 31 Days to Eliminate Toxins and Restore Thyroid Health Through Diet


Karen Frazier - 2015
    Karen Frazier has been living with Hashimoto’s for more than 20 years. She knows firsthand how hard it is to give up gluten, corn, soy, and dairy—inflammatory foods that also happen to be staples of the standard American diet. She also knows that it is possible to enjoy eating again because she’s doing it, and she can help you, too.With The Hashimoto’s Cookbook and Action Plan, you will find:• Clear explanations of the causes and symptoms of Hashimoto’s• A guide to the most common dietary triggers• A month-long action plan to eliminate problem foods, broken down into a 3-day cleanse and a 3-week meal plan• Shopping lists for the entire month so you buy only what you need for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks• Over 125 recipes in all, including a chapter of reintroduction recipes Prescription medicine is not the only hope or answer for Hashimoto’s. Start cooking with The Hashimoto’s Cookbook and Action Plan and feel for yourself how food really can be thy medicine.

Madhur Jaffrey's Essential Indian Instant Pot Cookbook


Madhur Jaffrey - 2019
    Now, Madhur Jaffrey, the beloved authority on Indian cooking, shares more than seventy fabulous recipes--some entirely new, others reworked from her previous, acclaimed cookbooks--for the Instant Pot. Here are recipes for Saffron Rice with Golden Raisins; Mung Dahl Rice and Cabbage Soup; Sweet Hot and Sour Eggplant; Chicken Cooked in a Kerala Style; and Pork Vindaloo. Also included are a selection of side dishes including chutneys, yogurts, and salads (think Baby Arugula Salad with Mustard Oil; Quick Tamarind Chutney; Onion and Tomato Salad; and Spicy Mushroom Chips). Here too is a primer on how to best use the Instant Pot to maximize flavor. And while these recipes are quick and easy to prepare, they retain all the rich complexity for which Jaffrey's food has always been known. Here is the only Indian Instant Pot cookbook the home cook will ever need.

Great Cookies: Secrets to Sensational Sweets


Carole Walter - 2003
    From traditional favorites like Snickerdoodles, Oatmeal Raisin, and Favorite Lemon Squares to future stars of the cookie jar like the trail mix–inspired Teton Trailers and chewy, chocolaty Midnight Macaroons, Great Cookies provides something to satisfy every taste and every occasion. There’s even a section devoted to the quintessential American cookie—chocolate chip. With nuts or without? White chocolate or milk? Chocolate dough? Oatmeal in the dough? Carole provides a dozen chocolate chip recipes in all, plus definitive research on a crucial issue: “Not All Chocolate Chips Are Created Equal.” Drop cookies. Bar cookies. Piped, pressed, and rolled. Great Cookies covers every conceivable method for baking these tasty confections. In the more than thirty years that she has studied and taught baking, Carole has cataloged a wealth of helpful tips and troubleshooting hints that for the first time are gathered in one collection. With guidelines for measuring and substituting ingredients, storing and freezing, recapturing that fresh-from-the-oven flavor, decorating, even gift-wrapping and shipping, Great Cookies addresses all the basics and then some. And this ultimate guide is rounded out with authoritative information on ingredients, equipment, and the foolproof techniques for which Carole is known, including the essential “Secrets To” hints for every type of cookie. With master baker Carole Walter by your side, you may never look at a glass of ice cold milk the same way again.

Ideas in Food: Great Recipes and Why They Work


Aki Kamozawa - 2010
    Their book shares the knowledge they have gleaned from numerous cooking adventures, from why tapioca flour makes a silkier chocolate pudding than the traditional cornstarch or flour to how to cold smoke just about any ingredient you can think of to impart a new savory dimension to everyday dishes. Perfect for anyone who loves food, Ideas in Food is the ideal handbook for unleashing creativity, intensifying flavors, and pushing one’s cooking to new heights. This guide, which includes 100 recipes, explores questions both simple and complex to find the best way to make food as delicious as possible. For home cooks, Aki and Alex look at everyday ingredients and techniques in new ways—from toasting dried pasta to lend a deeper, richer taste to a simple weeknight dinner to making quick “micro stocks” or even using water to intensify the flavor of soups instead of turning to long-simmered stocks. In the book’s second part, Aki and Alex explore topics, such as working with liquid nitrogen and carbon dioxide—techniques that are geared towards professional cooks but interesting and instructive for passionate foodies as well. With primers and detailed usage guides for the pantry staples of molecular gastronomy, such as transglutaminase and hydrocolloids (from xanthan gum to gellan), Ideas in Food informs readers how these ingredients can transform food in miraculous ways when used properly.  Throughout, Aki and Alex show how to apply their findings in unique and appealing recipes such as Potato Chip Pasta, Root Beer-Braised Short Ribs, and Gingerbread Soufflé. With Ideas in Food, anyone curious about food will find revelatory information, surprising techniques, and helpful tools for cooking more cleverly and creatively at home.

Desserts in Jars


Bonnie Scott - 2014
    No matter what the occasion, a dessert is a welcome gift, and jars are the latest trend in home décor and food. Combine the two, and you’ve made a sure-fire dessert that will be a welcome addition to any gathering or event. Cakes, puddings, parfaits and more yummy desserts are all made and served in cute, retro-style Mason jars. These stylish serving dishes make perfect containers for any casual get together. Plus, they’re sturdy and inexpensive, so you can make up a few or enough to serve the whole clan. Add the colorful, personalized labels that you can print online, and they’re perfect for sending home with your guests at the end of the evening for a late night snack, compliments of you! Over 600 labels are available online for printing.

The Elements of Cooking: Translating the Chef's Craft for Every Kitchen


Michael Ruhlman - 2007
    But how does a beginning cook become good, a good cook great?Modeled on Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, The Elements of Cooking is an opinionated volume by Michael Ruhlman—the award-winning and bestselling author of The Making of a Chef and coauthor of The French Laundry Cookbook—that pares the essentials of good cooking into a slim, easy-to-take-anywhere book. It will also stand alongside a handful of classics of the kitchen, just as Strunk and White's book sits on the desk of every writer and every English student. Not only does this book deconstruct the essential knowledge of the kitchen, it also takes what every professional chef knows instinctively after years of training and experience and offers it up cleanly and brilliantly to the home cook. With hundreds of entries from acid to zester, here is all the information—no more and no less—you need to cook, as well as countless tips (including only one recipe in the entire book, for the “magic elixir of the kitchen”) and no-nonsense advice on how to be a great cook. You'll learn to cook everything, as the entries cover all the key moves you need to make in the kitchen and teach you, for example, not only what goes into a great sauce but how to think about it to make it great. Eight short, beautifully written essays outline what it takes not merely to cook but to cook well: understanding heat, using the right tools (there are only five of them), cooking with eggs, making stock, making sauce, salting food, what a cook should read, and exploring the elusive, most important skill to have in the kitchen, finesse.

Creative Cupcake Ideas: Gourmet Cupcakes to Die For


Dennis Weaver - 2014
    You'll be wowing your friends and family with ice cream filled cupcakes, chocolate dipped cupcakes and more! Use these recipes for birthdays, holidays, special occasions and other events.

The Truck Food Cookbook: 150 Recipes and Ramblings from America's Best Restaurants on Wheels


John T. Edge - 2012
    

Clara's Kitchen: Wisdom, Memories, and Recipes from the Great Depression


Clara Cannucciari - 2009
    Her YouTube® Great Depression Cooking videos have an army of devoted followers. In Clara's Kitchen, she gives readers words of wisdom to buck up America's spirits, recipes to keep the wolf from the door, and tells her story of growing up during the Great Depression with a tight-knit family and a "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" philosophy of living. In between recipes for pasta with peas, eggplant parmesan, chocolate covered biscotti, and other treats Clara gives readers practical advice on cooking nourishing meals for less. Using lessons she learned during the Great Depression, she writes, for instance, about how to conserve electricity when cooking and how you can stretch a pot of pasta with a handful of lentils. She reminisces about her youth and writes with love about her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Clara's Kitchen takes readers back to a simpler, if not more difficult time, and gives everyone what they need right now: hope for the future and a nice dish of warm pasta from everyone's favorite grandmother, Clara Cannuciari, a woman who knows what's really important in life.

Forgotten Skills of Cooking: The Lost Art of Creating Delicious Home Produce, with Over 600 Recipes


Darina Allen - 2009
    The book is divided into chapters such as Dairy, Poultry and Eggs, Bread, and Preserving, and forgotten processes such as smoking mackerel, curing bacon, and making yogurt and butter are explained in the simplest terms. The delicious recipes show you how to use your homemade bounty to its best, and include ideas for using forgotten cuts of meat, baking bread and cakes, and even eating food from the wild. The Vegetables and Herbs chapter is stuffed with growing tips to satisfy even those with the smallest garden plot or window box, and there are plenty of suggestions for using gluts of vegetables. You'll even discover how to keep a few chickens in your backyard. With over 700 recipes, this is the definitive modern guide to traditional cooking skills.

100 Great Breads


Paul Hollywood - 2004
    From basic to Mediterranean, traditional and ancient bread, the recipes throw a fresh light on this seemingly simple food with a multitude of flavours, and a twist on the older ones.

Sugar Cube: 50 Deliciously Twisted Treats from the Sweetest Little Food Cart on the Planet


Kir Jensen - 2012
    Sugar Cube founder and baker Kir Jensen left the fine-dining pastry track to sell her handmade treats on the street. Recipes for 50 of Kir's most enticing cupcakes, cookies, tarts, muffins, sips, and candies are made more irresistible (if possible!) by 32 delicious color photographs. Sassy headnotes and illustrations that resemble vintage tattoos liven up this singular boutique baking book.

The Cuban Table: A Celebration of Food, Flavors, and History


Ana Sofia Peláez - 2014
    Cuban-American food writer Ana Sofia Pelaez and award-winning photographer Ellen Silverman traveled through Cuba, Miami and New York to document and learn about traditional Cuban cooking from a wide range of authentic sources.Cuban home cooks are fiercely protective of their secrets. Content with a private kind of renown, they demonstrate an elusive turn of hand that transforms simple recipes into bright and memorable meals that draw family and friends to their tables time and again. More than just a list of ingredients or series of steps, Cuban cooks' tricks and touches hide in plain sight, staying within families or being passed down in well-worn copies of old cookbooks largely unread outside of the Cuban community.Here you'll find documented recipes for everything from iconic Cuban sandwiches to rich stews with Spanish accents and African ingredients, accompanied by details about historical context and insight into cultural nuances. More than a cookbook, The Cuban Table is a celebration of Cuban cooking, culture and cuisine. With stunning photographs throughout and over 110 deliciously authentic recipes this cookbook invites you into one of the Caribbean's most interesting and vibrant cuisines.

The Complete Low-FODMAP Diet: A Revolutionary Recipe Plan to Relieve Gut Pain and Alleviate IBS and Other Digestive Disorders


Sue Shepherd - 2013
    Mullin, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of Integrative GI Nutrition Services at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine “What can I do to feel better?” For years, millions of adults who suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) have asked this question, often to be met with scientifically unfounded or inadequate advice. The low-FODMAP diet is the long-awaited answer. In clinical trials, over three quarters of people with chronic digestive symptoms gain significant relief by reducing their intake of FODMAPs—difficult-to-digest carbs found in foods such as wheat, milk, beans, soy, and certain fruits, vegetables, nuts, and sweeteners. In The Complete Low-FODMAP Diet, Sue Shepherd and Peter Gibson explain what causes digestive distress, how the low-FODMAP diet helps, and how to: • Identify and avoid foods high in FODMAPs • Develop a personalized and sustainable low-FODMAP diet • Shop, menu plan, entertain, travel, and eat out with peace of mind • Follow the program if you have IBS, celiac disease, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, or diabetes, and if you eat a vegetarian, vegan, low-fat, or dairy-free diet. And, with 80 delicious low-FODMAP, gluten-free recipes, you can manage your symptoms, feel great, and eat well—for life.

Tyler Florence Family Meal: Bringing People Together Never Tasted Better


Tyler Florence - 2010
    In a book with 60 full-color photos the star of the Food Network's Tyler's Ultimate celebrates the pleasures of cooking with wholesome, local, in-season ingredients by discussing how his life influenced his food philosophy and providing delectableTitle: Tyler Florence Family MealAuthor: Florence, TylerPublisher: St Martins PrPublication Date: 2010/10/12Number of Pages: 301Binding Type: HARDCOVERLibrary of Congress: 2010035300