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Richly illustrated with full-color photography demonstrating basic cooking techniques, an entertaining and useful cookbook for the absolute beginner explains how to concoct a variety of simple, delicious dishes without fuss, covering everything from classic comfort foods to ethnic treats, along with helpful cooking techniques, substitutions, and easy-to-follow instructions.

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A comprehensive guide to using a pressure cooker offers insightful tips on selecting a pressure cooker, cooking techniques, safety, maintenance, and nearly four hundred tempting, foolproof recipes for every meal of the day. Original.

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A collection of 645 award-winning recipes from cooking contests across the country includes a wide array of dishes, all made with everyday ingredients and easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, that include appetizers, soups, entrées, breads, desserts, and sweet treats, accompanied by food substitutions, spice and herb tips, and food storage ideas, in a ring-binder format.

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It's hard to believe that these tempting and delicious baked favorites contain no sugar, honey, or artificial sweeteners: Chocolate-Coconut Cake; Spelt Whole-Grain Yeast Bread; Peach Pie; Sugar-Free, Dairy-Free Fudge; Blueberry Crisp; Summer Afternoon Malt; Whole-Wheat Raisin Cookies; Graham-Cracker Cookie Cutouts; Apple-Nut Cinnamon Rolls; and Raspberry Popsicles. The secret is fruit, pure and natural, along with fruit juice concentrates, date sugar, and other healthful alternatives to sugar. All recipes are dairy-free and most are cholesterol-free and can be adapted for common food allergies. Deborah Buhr's family-tested recipes are irresistibly good - perfect for children, diabetics, calorie counters, the food allergic, and anyone with a "healthy" sweet tooth.

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Organized by cooking technique, a culinary master class teaches kitchen novices how to cook using a variety of common cooking techniques, including broiling, braising, poaching, and sautéing, and features two hundred all-new recipes, accompanied by helpful step-by-step photographs, that help cooks put their lessons to work. 450,000 first printing.

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Featuring more than four hundred of the finest recipes from the famed cooking contest, a tempting cookbook contains all of the grand-prize winners, including snacks, appetizers, salads, soups, sandwiches, main dishes, sides, and desserts, along with other recipes voted into the Bake-Off Hall of Fame, profiles of contestants, and photographs of the finished dishes.

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An imaginative array of unique cupcake designs explains how to use snack items and common candies to create a variety of confectionery masterpieces to suit any occasion, from a big-top circus cupcake tier for a child's birthday, to a white cupcake Christmas wreath, ghost chocolate cupcakes, turkey cupcake place cards, or sausage and pepperoni pizza cupcakes for April Fool's Day. Original.

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With your slow cooker and Betty Crocker, you’ll enjoy homemade goodness on your schedule.

At the end of a long day, when everyone’s home and hungry, what could be more welcoming than a delicious, hot dinner ready and waiting for you? With Betty Crocker More Slow Cooker Recipes, it’s easy to find just the right dinner for you and your family to enjoy! Here’s a collection of All-New Recipes, created to help you get the most out of your slow cooker–for everyday cooking and weekend meals, for casual get-togethers and holiday special occasions. If you’re new to slow cooking, you’ll find all you need to know to get started. And if you already love your slow cooker, there are more than 130 tempting new recipes to enjoy and more than 50 full-page color photos to inspire you to try something new.

You’ll find ALL-NEW recipes for fix-it-and-forget-it favorites like:

  • Appealing Appetizers: Cheesy Chicken and Peppers Dip, French Onion Meatballs, Teriyaki Smoked Riblets
  • Super Soups and Stews: Meatball Stone Soup, Pork Tortilla Soup, Fisherman’s Wharf Seafood Stew
  • Easy Everyday Dinners: Turkey-Sausage Bean Bake, Zesty Italian Beef Tips, Ham with Cheesy Potatoes
  • Perfect for Potluck: Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya, Swedish Meatballs, Texas-Style Barbecued Beans
  • Simply Delicious for Summer: Southern-Style Green Beans, The Ultimate Creamed Corn, Teriyaki Barbecued Chicken Sandwiches
  • Hearty Holiday Treats: Apricot-Glazed Pork Roast and Stuffing, Bacon and Corn Bread—Stuffed Turkey Breast, Ham with Currant-Cherry Sauce
  • Luscious Leftovers: Chinese Beef and Broccoli, Cheesy Pork Quesadillas, Supper Ham Frittata

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An accessible resource to making artisan breads at home with a minimum of time and effort counsels home bakers on how to prepare larger quantities of dough for use as needed, in a volume of recipes that also features an array of baked desserts. 15,000 first printing.

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Offers a compilation of more than one thousand delicious and healthful recipes from Cooking Light magazine's 2007 editions, enhanced by step-by-step instructions, colorful illustrations, detailed nutritional analyses, and tips on planning, preparation, presentation, and cooking techniques.

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Join award-winning author Martha Rose Shulman as she shares the best of vegetarian cooking today. With her encouragement and her great recipes, you can eat seasonally, healthfully, and most of all, well. Using the rich array of produce now available, The Best Vegetarian Recipes offers an innovative collection of 200 new classics and updated favorites,

From spreads, soups, and salads to main-course stir-fries and stratas, bold flavors combine texture and taste perfectly. New classics like Swiss Chard Frittata and Garlic Soup with Potatoes are sure to become old favorites. Pan-fried tofu, a vegetarian staple, never tasted better than with Martha's soy-ginger marinade. Side dishes are stunning alone or coupled together. Sweet and tart flavors blend in a springtime Baby Turnip and Turnip Greens Ragout.

Entertaining is easy and elegant with reinvented favorites. Need ideas for planning a balanced vegetarian menu? Martha has plenty. Her recipes offer accompanying suggestions to complete the meal. Start with an olive oil-crusted Spinach and Cheese Tart. Serve it alongside a refreshing Orange, Onion, and Olive Salad, or the Shredded Romaine Salad for a lighter pairing.

As Martha is one of America's most highly regarded vegetarian cooking experts, you can be assured that her recipes are foolproof. Never made soup from scratch before? Helpful pointers highlight the winning combination of ingredients and techniques for "Basic" recipes. You'll also learn indispensable tips for making intensely flavored stocks and salad dressings, roasting bell peppers, and much more.

No matter what your eating style, The Best Vegetarian Recipes is simply the best collection of wholesome and healthy recipes around.

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An all-in-one guide to cooking a turkey as part of a full-course holiday meal presents more than one hundred foolproof recipes, along with step-by-step instructions and full-color photography, that cover everything from appetizers to desserts and features an in-depth guide to selecting, preparing, storing, and cooking a turkey. 40,000 first printing.

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Updated to incorporate the latest tastes and cooking trends, a step-by-step, enjoyable guide to the whole art of cooking includes more than two thousand contemporary recipes complemented by a wealth of how-to information, as well as hundreds of illustrations, tips on variations, expanded coverage of healthy foods, and other essentials.

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In her hit Food Network show Everyday Italian, Giada De Laurentiis shows you how to cook delicious, beautiful food in a flash. And here, in her long-awaited first book, she does the same—helps you put a fabulous dinner on the table tonight, for friends or just for the kids, with a minimum of fuss and a maximum of flavor. She makes it all look easy, because it is.

Everyday Italian is true to its title: the fresh, simple recipes are incredibly quick and accessible, and also utterly mouth-watering—perfect for everyday cooking. And the book is focused on the real-life considerations of what you actually have in your refrigerator and pantry (no mail-order ingredients here) and what you’re in the mood for—whether a simply sauced pasta or a hearty family-friendly roast, these great recipes cover every contingency. So, for example, you’ll find dishes that you can make solely from pantry ingredients, or those that transform lowly leftovers into exquisite entrées (including brilliant ideas for leftover pasta), and those that satisfy your yearning to have something sweet baking in the oven. There are 7 ways to make red sauce more interesting, 6 different preparations of the classic cutlet, 5 perfect pestos, 4 creative uses for prosciutto, 3 variations on basic polenta, 2 great steaks, and 1 sublime chocolate tiramisù—plus 100 other recipes that turn everyday ingredients into speedy but special dinners.

What’s more, Everyday Italian is organized according to what type of food you want tonight—whether a soul-warming stew for Sunday supper, a quick sauté for a weeknight, or a baked pasta for potluck. These categories will help you figure out what to cook in an instant, with such choices as fresh-from-the-pantry appetizers, sauceless pastas, everyday roasts, and stuffed vegetables—whatever you’re in the mood for, you’ll be able to find a simple, delicious recipe for it here. That’s the beauty of Italian home cooking, and that’s what Giada De Laurentiis offers here—the essential recipes to make a great Italian dinner. Tonight.

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The best-selling author of Giada's Family Dinners and Everyday Italian journeys into the heart of fine Italian cookery with a collection of tempting pasta recipes that range from classic favorites to innovative new dishes and are accompanied by easy-to-follow instructions for making fresh pasta, a simple selection of side dishes, and lush full-color photography. 600,000 first printing.

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