When an overweight high school student from Santa Monica spends the summer in Italy, she learns to relish life and understand the true meaning of beauty.
For healthy meals that virtually cook themselves, get out your slow cooker. Chop up some fresh ingredients, simmer them for 3-8 hours while their flavors blend and intensify, and voila, dinner's ready, and you didn't even need to be there while it cooked! Start with the basic "rules" of crockery cooking--general tips on how to prepare meats and poultry, vegetables, pasta and rice, dried beans, cheese, and fish. Then take your time with 101 delicious and health-conscious, mouth-watering recipes t...
Foreword by Master Cicerone Rich Higgins Discover a world of beer with this sensational handbook, packed with style guides, how-tos, and fascinating anecdotes about the origins and evolution of both well-known and esoteric beers—and ten unique "scratch and sniff" stickers devoted to aromas inherent in your favorite brews. To truly know a beer, it isn’t enough to taste it. You must breathe in its distinctive aroma—a specialty blend of hops, malt, water, and yeast that differentiate one beer sty...
This companion volume to" The Complete Coffee Book" offers a refreshingly contemporary approach to the perennially popular subject of tea, with its stylish design, international sensibility, and full-color photographs. With over 60 recipes for hot and iced tea, as well as baked goods, desserts, and savory accompaniments to tea, "The Tea Book" includes such delights as Catalina Citrus Sun Tea, Whole Wheat Scones with Brandied Sweet Cream, and Tea Sandwich Classics. Additional sections covering te...
Award-winning food writer Hattie Ellis's blend of history, recipes, coffee know-how and quirky details will expand your appreciation of this stimulating drink. Hattie also offers tips on buying, storing, grinding and preparing the perfect cup of coffee, plus delicious coffee recipes, to help you to get maximum freshness and flavour from your brew. Recipes from Middle Eastern coffee to classic Iced Coffee will tempt you. This is the perfect gift for coffee lovers and caffeine cravers.
This delightful volume begins with a short illustrated history of coffee, a survey of the many ways to brew it, and tips on getting the best results from each method. In addition, here are 39 international recipes that use coffee as an ingredient -- including Turkish Velvet Cookies, Cuernavaca Custard, Cape Good Hope Lamb Kabob, and of course, the classic Irish Coffee -- each illustrated with a glorious full-color photograph.
Lately juices have taken center stage on the beverage, scene -- and thanks to juicers and blenders, we can make our own drinks out of ripe and inexpensive ingredients, whenever they are plentiful in the markets. In this book Elsa Petersen-Schepelern has created 30 recipes for great juices and tonics. Delectable creations include Carrot and Ginger Crush (a good source of vitamin A) and Golden Mexican Salsa Crush (plenty of vitamin C.) Delicious recipes, captured in vibrant photographs by the ever...
With Green Smoothie Gourmet founder Dee Dine's extensive collection of easiest-ever smoothies and juices, it's a breeze to incorporate more wholesome ingredients, vitamins and nutrients into your diet. These drink recipes are all only 4 ingredients or less and don't require a fancy blender or juicer-just add a couple ingredients to an everyday kitchen blender and blend for a delicious healthy choice that readers will want to make. And, with 100 recipes to choose from, you'll never run out of exc...
If you're on a first-name basis with your barista but haven't perfected (or even attempted) making café-quality coffee at home, let Brew show you the way. In this approachable guidebook, author and coffee expert Brian W. Jones demystifies specialty coffee's complexities, teaches you how to buy the best beans and brewing equipment, offers in-depth primers for mastering various slow-coffee techniques (including pour over, French press and moka pot), and supplies you with dozens of recipes for invi...
Good Housekeeping Healthy Smoothies
by Good Housekeeping and Susan Westmoreland
Big flavour...zero guilt! Enjoy creamy, delicious smoothies that are good for you and great tasting. This book features more than 60 recipes, all triple-tested in the magazine's test kitchens. Each one sounds so tempting that you won't be able to resist blending scrumptious fruits, veggies, nuts and and seeds into these light and luscious treats, including Strawberry-Chia, Java Banana, Pomegranate-Berry, Pina Colada and Cocoa-Almond. They'll satisfy your sweet tooth without the high calories! Pl...
Refreshing, yummy recipes for America's favorite new treat.
Designed to emulate traditional, full-sized books, the fashions of classic bookmaking -- full-color throughout, stylized endpapers, fine quality paper, full-length text, and Smyth-sewn binding -- are represented in this line.Topical. Traditional. Tactile. Tempting. Targeted. Less than half the size of our Little Books, these palm-sized volumes are irresistible.
