With the cold winter winds blowing,
there is nothing like comfort foods to make you feel warm inside. Now that the
bustle of the holidays is behind us, we can settle down into our routines
again. Once again we have a little more
time to call our own. What a perfect
opportunity to do some home style cooking.
In her newest cookbook, Martha’s American
Food, Martha Stewart celebrates all that is America. This allows you to travel through America
without ever leaving your kitchen. The
book is written according to regions and she has gathered the best recipes to
represent foods enjoyed in that region.
A history has been written for each recipe.
I’ve always enjoyed the Cooks Illustrated
Magazine with their great recipes and helpful hints. They do all the work to perfect a recipe and
you get the great results. You can only
imagine what their cookbook is like. The Cook’s
Illustrated Cookbook is not only filled with 2,000 recipes from the past 20
years of their magazine history, but it also explains why you have just made
the most perfect Snickerdoodles, Farro Risotto, or Chicken Bouillabaise. Do you like making great meals but don’t like
using every pot and pan that you own to make it? Then you would like The Best One Dish
Suppers from Cook’s Illustrated.
Whether cooking for your family or entertaining guests, there are over
180 recipes for simple dinners fit for a king without all the mess.
For meat lovers, Michael Symon’s
Carnivore has recipes for every type of domesticated meat (beef, pork,
chicken, or lamb) and game meats (venison, pheasant, boar, duck, quail, rabbit,
and elk) that you could imagine, as well as side dishes to compliment these
dishes. All the way from Britain, Mark
Sargeant shows us in My Kind of
Cooking how to use cheaper cuts of
meat and fish to give us results that are as “delicious and tender as prime
cuts”. Cutting back on cost doesn’t mean
you have to cut back on flavor. If you
would prefer to concentrate just on fish, you might enjoy Fish: Recipes
from the Sea. A wide range of fish
from white, oily, flat, freshwater fish and seafood are covered in this book
and are used in 200 Italian home cooked recipes. There are helpful hints as to how to choose
and prepare fish for these simple and authentic recipes.
When you think Italian, one often
thinks of pasta. The cooks from
America’s Test Kitchen have updated many standard pasta dishes and made them
healthier and easier to make in Pasta Revolution. Many of the 200 recipes contain only 6
ingredients. Included in these recipes
are ones for Asian noodle dishes.
Speaking of Italian cuisine, have you ever wondered if you could eat all
these wonderful Italian dishes and lose weight?
In Now
Eat This! Italian, 100 classic Italian recipes such as Cannoli, Mozzarella
en Carozza, and Chicken Parmegiana have had their calories reduced, but have
maintained their wonderful taste.
There’s nothing worse than when you’re told you have to restrict what
you’re eating. If Chicken Fettucine
Alfredo, Sour Cream and Onion Smashed Potatoes, and Red Velvet Cupcakes are on
your forbidden list, then you might want to consider Eat More of What
You Love. Each of their 200 recipes
for the above mentioned dishes and others are all under 350 calories.
I love to prepare meals using a slow
cooker. Put all of your ingredients
together in the morning, go on with the rest of your day, and come home to the
smells of a mouth watering meal that’s ready to eat. It doesn’t get any better than that. You can either stick with more traditional
meals like recipes found in Margaret Fulton
Slow Cooking and Fix-It and
Forget-It Pink Cookbook or travel the world with recipes from Mediterranean
Slow Cooker Cookbook, The French Slow
Cooker, The
Mexican Slow cooker, and 150 Best Indian,
Thai, Vietnamese and More Slow Cooker.
As long as we’re traveling through
cooking, it wouldn’t hurt to see what’s new in the line of Jewish cookery. As with so many other cookbooks these books, The Mile End
Cookbook, Helen
Nash’s New Kosher Cuisine, and Jerusalem-A
Cookbook are a blending of the old with the new to make meals that are both
tasty and healthy. Sprinkled between
recipes are tips, memories and traditions.
Up to this point, all of the above
mentioned cookbooks have recipes for meat dishes. We don’t want to forget those who would
prefer meatless dishes. Fix-It and
Forget-It Vegetarian Cookbook, The Easy Vegan,
Cornelia
Guest’s Simple Pleasures, Herbivoracious,
and Vegan
Indian Cooking contain recipes that won’t disappoint you. They contain recipes for appetizers, snacks,
breakfast dishes, soups, main courses, pasta, salads, and desserts. They also contain menus and substitution
lists.
For people that are diagnosed with gluten
intolerance, cooking can be somewhat of a challenge. From quick meals to slow cooked meals there
are many new cookbooks to help meet this challenge with tasty recipes. Small Plates and
Sweet Treats, Allergy-Friendly
Food For Families, The Autism
Cookbook, Simply…Gluten-Free
Quick Meals, The Gluten Free
Table, Everyday
Gluten-free Slow Cooking, and The Joy of
Gluten-Free, Sugar-Free Baking.
For this blog I wanted to list all of
our new cookbooks. As I was working on
this I realized that I would not be able to do this. So this is just a starter list. You will have to come in and check out all
the great new books that we have.
Happy
reading, happy cooking, and bon appétit!
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