Using clever timesaving and fat-busting techniques, Gugino shows busy cooks how to get a healthy dinner fit for a gourmand and on the table in 15 minutes, including the time it takes to chop and prep. This cookbook drastically cuts the preparation time for meal-sized entrees, while offering creative new ways of thinking about any recipe that can change the way readers cook.
"From Our House to Yours" brings together over 90 recipes from respected cookbook authors and chefs for portable comfort food that's easy to make and even easier to share. Benefiting Meals on Wheels of San Francisco, it also includes tips on preparing ahead of time, transporting, and reheating. 50 color photos.
Explains how to incorporate antioxidant-rich foods into daily meals to fight disease, increase vitality, and slow the aging process, providing more than 100 simple recipes that use such ingredients as berries, tomatoes, and soy.
Beat the Clock - Cooking for One or Two Table of Contents Introduction Cooking for Just One and Two Microwave Cookery – Insta-Cooking Why Beat the Clock Cookery Healthy Eating Tips The Positive Psychological Power of Too Much Ice Cream in the Freezer! Say Cheese Potato Cheese and Pickle Hash Stir Fry Pork with Vegetables Bacon and Liver Brochettes Quick Ham/Gammon Casserole Sweet and Sour Pork Lemon Curd Soufflé Omelette Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction Those days of leisure are gone, when the womenfolk of the family spent hours and hours in the kitchen, thinking up recipes, after collecting all the ingredients present in the cellar or in the garden. That was when they were going to use their creativity in order to make up hearty, nourishing meals for the whole family. In fact, in olden times, it was the responsibility of one particular person to cook for the whole family, and she would not be bothered with other duties. That was because everybody knew that her forte was cooking and she was happy, cooking in the kitchen, brewing up recipes, contacting her friends for new tips and techniques, concocting some marvelous surprises and some fabulous failures, and so on. And the full family appreciated this effort on her part. Times changed, and the joint families started to go nuclear in the 20th and 21st century. Instead of a full family living together and eating together and playing together and praying together, many families started moving away from the main family and setting up their own households.
In a heartwarming, insightful memoir, a harried working father describes how, driven by a lack of communication with his wife, a lack of connection with his children, and his emphasis on work over family, he made the decision to make sure that he would be home at six p.m. to enjoy a healthy meal with his family, five nights a week, for the next year. Reprint.
To do what no other magazine does: Deliver simple, delicious food, plus expert health and lifestyle information, that's exclusively vegetarian but wrapped in a fresh, stylish mainstream package that's inviting to all. Because while vegetarians are a great, vital, passionate niche, their healthy way of eating and the earth-friendly values it inspires appeals to an increasingly large group of Americans. VT's goal: To embrace both.
