Archive for January, 2010

California Pizza Kitchen Pasta, Salads, Soups, And Sides

At California Pizza Kitchen restaurants crosswise the country, many of the favorite dishes (and most-requested recipes) are not the pizzas! Customers keep coming back for the boldly flavored pastas, soups, salads, and side dishes. The follow-up to the bestselling California Pizza Kitchen Cookbook, this new cookbook serves CPK customers just what they ordered — secret restaurant recipes, never unfilled before. With gorgeous color photographs of the finished dishes throughout the book, CPK fans will be tempted by recipes for Oriental Chicken Salad, Spinach Artichoke Dip, and Kung Pao Spaghetti, to name just a few.The new cookbook will include tales and

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Ani’s Raw Food Desserts: 85 Easy, Delectable Sweets and Treats

You can have your cake and eat it too with Ani Phyo’s innovative, tasty desserts. From cobblers to cookies, pies to cupcakes, Chef Ani’s simple-to-make sweets are wheat-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, processed sugar-free, and cruelty-free. Deceptively simple, these treats pack loads of flavor and nutrition in every bite. Substituting these mouthwatering desserts for traditional baked ones will give your body much-needed nutrients while sacrificing none of the flavor. With lists of essential tools, key ingredients (including “superfoods” that enhance flavor and nutrition), full-color photos, and gorgeous design, Ani’s Raw Food Desserts proves you don’t have to sacrifice taste or style to

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BabyCakes: Vegan, (Mostly) Gluten-Free, and (Mostly) Sugar-Free

Forget everything you’ve heard in this area health-conscious baking. Simply, BabyCakes is your key to an enlightened, indulgent, sweets-filled future. This is vital news not only for parents whose children have allergies, for vegans, and for others who struggle with food sensitivities, but also for all you sugar-loving traditionalists. The recipes in these pages prove that here is a healthy alternative to thoughtlessly made desserts, one that doesn’t sacrifice taste or texture. Having experimented endlessly with alternative, health-conscious sweeteners, flours, and thickeners, Erin McKenna, the proprietress of beloved bakery BabyCakes NYC, developed these recipes–most are gluten-free, all are without refined sugar–in

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The Williams-Sonoma Collection: Salad

Tender spring asparagus. Luscious summer berries. Spicy autumn greens and bright winter citrus. More than any other dish, salad allows the characteristic flavors of each season to shine. A simple amalgamation of fresh ingredients in a salad from your kitchen can be more impressive than even the most elaborate dish. Williams-Sonoma Collection Salad offers more than 40 wonderful salad recipes, grouped by season to emphasize the importance of using ingredients as they reach their natural peak of ripeness. Whether you have a bumper crop of cherry tomatoes in your patch or a handful of wine-colored beets from the

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Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes: 175 Inspired Ideas for Everyone’s

Book Description Here’s no better authority on delectable desserts than Martha Stewart. She and her ingenious team of editors have consistently made the most tasty recipes, and their dedication to simple instructions, how-to photographs, and gorgeous styling is supreme. And here’s no more in-demand dessert right now than cupcakes. Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes</i< features 175 thoughts and includes recipes for the cakes, frostings, and fillings, along with a trove of suggestions for tastefully decorating and embellishing them. From classics such as devil’s food cupcakes to sweet surprises like peanut butter and jelly cupcakes, and from elegant delicacies like tiny cherry-almond

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Green Smoothie Revolution: The Radical Leap Toward Natural

Thanks to processed and quick foods, being overworked, and feeling stressed while eating on the glide, it is increasingly hard for most of us to eat anywhere near a balanced diet. We may not be obviously sick, but may suffer from lack of focus, insomnia, sluggishness, or any host of symptoms caused by nutritional deficiency. Green Smoothie Revolution takes aim at this silent rife by restoring balance to our diets. Combining nutrition and know-how with recipes that pack a powerhouse punch, Victoria Boutenko reintroduces long neglected fruits, vegetables, and greens in the most persuasive style for our busy lives: with

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The 100 Best Vegan Baking Recipes: Amazing Cookies, Cakes,

From classic breads, cakes, and desserts to imaginative new creations, the recipes in this book eliminate the dairy and eggs without reducing the flavor. These homemade delights have been taste-tested to tantalizing perfection. Each bite proves that vegan-baked goods can be just as delectable as their animal-product counterparts. Whether one is motivated to do something clear for the earth, to show compassion for animals, or to be excellent for one’s health, these instant-to-make, simple-to-bake recipes offer a proven new approach for novice bakers and professional pastry chefs alike. The 100 Best Vegan Baking Recipes features alternatives for favorites like cupcakes,

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Gluten-Free Baking Classics for the Bread Machine

Bread may be the personnel of life, but if it contains gluten it can trigger an allergic reaction, and even provoke serious digestive disorders like celiac disease. Consumers who like bread but must avoid gluten have long been at the mercy of mediocre harvest and high prices. With this timely cookbook, they can have their bread and eat it, too. Acclaimed author Analise Roberts developed these simple, foolproof recipes for the Zojirushi bread machine. Roberts’ outstanding recipes array from simple and satisfying Basic Sandwich Bread to complex and scrumptious Golden Italian Bread with Raisins and Fennel. She also offers ethnic

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Cooking Light Cook’s Essential Recipe Collection: Salad: 57

Learn just how creative and satisfying salads can be with this new addition to the Essential Recipe Collection. A gorgeous collectible volume, it draws from 58 of the very best salads from 20 years of Cooking Set alight magazine. Recipes include appetizers, main dishes, and make-ahead meals, all promoting the Cooking Set alight mantra to “eat smart, be fit, live well.” Cooking Set alight Cook’s Essential Recipe Collection: Salad: 57 essential recipes to eat smart, be fit, live well (the Cooking Set alight.cook’s ESSENTIAL RECIPE COLLECTION)

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Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar: 100 Dairy-Free Recipes

Don’t run. Don’t hide. Vegan cookies are going to invade your cookie jar, one tasty bite at a time. Join award-attractive bakers Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero (authors of the hit cookbook Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World) as they continue their world-domination mission—with dairy- and egg-free batches of everyone’s favorite treats. Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar includes more than 100 irresistible recipes for cookies, bars, biscotti, brownies, and more. Learn festive desserts that are sure to impress family tree and acquaintances at any occasion, from birthdays to bake sales. Or simply tempt yourself with:

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