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Easy Soups from Scratch with Quick Breads to Match: 70 Recipes to Pair and Share

IVY MANNING · Chronicle Books
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover

Nothing is more comforting at the end of the day than a hearty bowl of homemade soup accompanied by freshly baked bread, and this book shows home cooks how to do it in under an hour. Easy Soups from Scratch with Quick Breads to Match makes it simple to create delicious, nourishing soups...
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A Date with a Dish: Classic African-American Recipes

Freda DeKnight · Dover Publications
Pages: 390
Format: Paperback

An outstanding feast of distinctively American culinary genius, this comprehensive collection of authentic African-American recipes was assembled by a well-known cooking columnist for Ebony magazine. Freda DeKnight was baking bread and biscuits by the time she was five years old. In the course...
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Smashed, Mashed, Boiled, and Baked--and Fried, Too!: A Celebration of Potatoes in 75 Irresistible Recipes

Raghavan Iyer · Workman Publishing
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Who knew a potato could ever taste so good? Raghavan Iyer, that's who! A master teacher and beloved, award-winning cookbook author, Raghavan pays tribute to his favorite ingredient in a continent-by-continent celebration of the amazing potato. Its recipes, inspired by a diversity of cuisines...
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Naturally Sweet: Bake All Your Favorites with 30% to 50% Less Sugar

America's Test Kitchen · America's Test Kitchen
Pages: 336
Format: Print book

In this timely, unique cookbook, America's Test Kitchen tackles the monumental challenge of creating foolproof, great-tasting baked goods that contain less sugar and rely only on natural alternatives to white sugar. White sugar is one of the most widely demonized health threats out there,...
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Soup Swap: Comforting Recipes to Make and Share

Kathy Gunst · Chronicle Books
Pages: 176
Format: Print book

There's no better way to cultivate community, foster friendship, or simply nourish family than over heartwarming bowls of homemade soup. And here, soup lovers will find 60 terrific recipes, featuring such classics as creamy Tomato Soup with Grilled-Cheese Croutons plus international favorites...
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Make It Easy: 120 Mix-and-Match Recipes to Cook from Scratch--with Smart Store-Bought Shortcuts When You Need Them

Stacie Billis · Da Capo Lifelong Books
Pages: 273
Format: Print book

Cooking doesn't have to be a chore. Why make it difficult - when it can be easy?When you're juggling a job, kids, pet, house, spouse, you-name-it - it can be tough to resist the urge to toss a frozen meal in the oven and call it a day. Stacie Billis knows the challenge of feeding your family...
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The Encyclopedia of Spices and Herbs: An Essential Guide to the Flavors of the World

Padma Lakshmi · ECCO
Pages: 335
Format: Print book

From the Emmy-nominated host of the award-winning Top Chef, an A-to-Z compendium of spices, herbs, salts, peppers, and blends, with beautiful photography and a wealth of explanation, history, and cooking advice.Award-winning cookbook author and television host Padma Lakshmi, inspired by her life...
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Back in the Day Bakery Made with Love: More than 100 Recipes and Make-It-Yourself Projects to Create and Share

Cheryl Day · Artisan Publishers
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover

Cheryl and Griffith Day, authors of the New York Times bestselling Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook, are back with more recipes to make with love. Who needs store-bought when baking things at home is so gratifying? In this follow-up to their smash-hit first book, the Days share ways to lovingly...
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Love Real Food: More Than 100 Feel-Good Vegetarian Favorites to Delight the Senses and Nourish the Body

KATHRYNE TAYLOR · Rodale Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

The path to a healthy body and happy belly is paved with real food -- fresh, wholesome, sustainable food -- and it doesn't need to be so difficult. No one knows this more than Kathryne Taylor of America's most popular vegetarian food blog, Cookie and Kate. With Love Real Food, she offers...
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America--Farm to Table: Simple, Delicious Recipes Celebrating Local Farmers

Mario Batali · Grand Central Life & Style; Gift edition
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author and world-renown chef Mario Batali pays homage to the American farmer-from Maine to Los Angeles-in stories, photos, and recipes.AMERICA -- FARM TO TABLE Simple, Delicious Recipes Celebrating Local FarmersMario Batali, who knows the importance of ingredients to any amazing...
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Ruhlman's How to Braise: Foolproof Techniques and Recipes for the Home Cook

Michael Ruhlman · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

The second in a new series of highly accessible and instructive single-subject books covering basic to advanced techniques that will make you a better cook.According to James Beard-award winning cookbook author Michael Ruhlman, "Braising is what cooking is truly about--transformation....
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Big bad breakfast : the most important book of the day

John Currence · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 257
Format: Print book

From the James Beard Award winner, Top Chef Masters contestant, and acclaimed author comes this fun, festive, and highly caffeinated ode to the joys and rituals of the Southern breakfast, with over 125 recipes inspired by the author's popular restaurant in Oxford, Mississippi.John Currence...
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Candy Is Magic: Real Ingredients, Modern Recipes

Jami Curl · Ten Speed Press
Pages: 312
Format: Print book

This game-changing candy cookbook from the owner of Quin, a popular Portland-based candy company, offers more than 200 achievable recipes using real, natural ingredients for everything from flavor-packed fruit lollipops to light-as-air marshmallows.Chai Tea Lollipops, Honey and Sea Salt...
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Skinnytaste Fast and Slow: Knockout Quick-Fix and Slow Cooker Recipes

Gina Homolka · Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pages: 304
Format: Print book

80+ Under 30 Minute Dishes and 60 Slow Cooker RecipesThe easiest, tastiest, most convenient healthy recipes - ever!With Skinnytaste Fast and Slow, you can get a nutritious, flavor-packed, figure-friendly meal - complete with a flourless chocolate brownie made in a slow cooker - on the table...
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Rise and Shine: Better Breakfasts for Busy Mornings

Katie Sullivan Morford · Roost Books
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Give your kids--and yourself--something to rise and shine about! 75 recipes that make the first meal of the day worth waking up for.Rise and Shine is the answer for every parent who has struggled to get breakfast on the table and to get their child to actually eat it. With 75 breakfast...
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