Publisher: CICO Books
Delicious and original recipes for 100 different pickles and preserves, from fruit-filled jams, jellies and marmalades, to tasty curds, cordials and chutneys.
Love Asian food but too intimidated to make it at home? Do you find yourself flipping through an Asian cookbook, and then going out for Thai noodles or Korean Barbecue, rather than going into your kitchen? When Marnie Henricksson gave up her noodle shop in Greenwich Village, and settled down to raise her kids in the 'burbs, she had difficulty finding her favorite Asian ingredients at the local supermarket. So, Marnie tweaked her recipes to work with readily available ingredients, allowing her and her family to enjoy Asian food everyday. In Everyday Asian, Marnie shares seventy-five of her favorite dishes with home cooks.As the recipes draw on the traditional cuisines of Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, and India, Marnie begins the book with a chapter detailing how to find, make, and store necessary ingredients, as well as giving advice on invaluable kitchen equipment for Asian cooking.Here's your opportunity to master classicdishes such as Pad Thai, Chinese Pork Roasts, Spring Rolls, and Vietnamese Pho, and expand your imagination with Marnie's innovative recipes for Asian Pesto (replace pine nuts with peanuts and Italian basil with Thai basil, cilantro, and mint) and Spicy Chicken Wings (an American classic with a good dose of Asian spices).It's clear from the abundance of Japanese, Korean, Indian, and Vietnamese restaurants that Americans are crazy about Asian food; however, cooking the real thing at home has always been a problem if you don't live near an Asian market. Now, with Marnie's easy-to-follow recipes, enjoying Asian food as often as you like is just a supermarket aisle away.Show book
For hikers, home gardeners, or anyone who wants to be prepared for an emergency, quick and easy package-and-prepare meals—just add water! If you want to have quality food to take on the trail or to the campground for pennies a meal; preserve the bounty from your backyard garden; or store nutritious fare for weather or other emergencies, prepackaged meals in a bag are an affordable and healthy option. This collection of recipes, with tips on dehydrating equipment and storage, allows you to have fast, simple dinners, desserts, snacks, appetizers, and more ready to go, or to throw into the crockpot. Prepare dehydrated: Peach, Raisin, and Oatmeal Cookies Pineapple Pork and Rice Mascarpone and Spinach Linguini Spicy Roasted Red Pepper Hummus Lentil Chicken Chili Spicy Sausage Breakfast Bake, and much more!Show book
Pull up a stool and learn about beer with the Wench!Craft beer is officially everywhere: there are now more breweries in the United States since any time before prohibition. At the local grocery store, the beer aisle is as big as the cereal aisle. At the bar, it's increasingly hard to choose a beer--the IPA is stronger than the ESB, right?In this book, Ashley V. Routson (aka The Beer Wench) provides the first all-in-one guide that demystifies beer and makes learning fun. She'll quickly bring you up to speed on beer styles, the brewing process, how to taste beer like a pro, and how to pair beer with food. Unconventional tastings, delicious recipes from killer craft breweries, eye-catching photos--and, of course, plenty of beer--means there's never a dull moment.Show book
A collection of over 1,000 craft projects, games, activities, recipes, skills, and more that transport you back to the simple life of the countryside. In Old-Time Country Wisdom & Lore, you’ll learn how to read the clouds to predict the weather, make a long-lasting campfire, can fruits and vegetables, braid a rug, use a divining rod to find water, make a hammock, brew strawberry tea, tap trees to make maple syrup, find the best fishing spots, make homemade cheese and butter, build a rubber-band boat and other children’s toys, fashion a backpack, cook up jams and jellies, keep your house spic-and-span, make gravestone rubbings, stitch a quilt, form adobe bricks, tan animal hides, dip wax candles, play Mumblety-Peg and other games, mix your own shampoos and lotions, build a tin-can lantern, make wallpaper and wall stencils, smoke sausages, cure arthritis and other ailments, fire a clay pot, craft homemade Christmas ornaments, repair leather shoes, rid your home of pests, plant your garden according to the moon’s phases, and much more. Curated by famed Texas folklorist Jerry Mack Johnson, Old-Time Country Wisdom & Lore is a homespun encyclopedia of classic country know-how.Show book
Any person diagnosed with diabetes has one simple question: What do I eat now? When diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, doctors typically tell their patients to start eating healthy. But what does that mean? If figuring out what to eat seems like taking a test, here's the solution, the American Diabetes Association audiobook, What Do I Eat Now?.Written in clear, concise, and down-to-earth language that takes the mystery out of confusing nutrition recommendations, this indispensable guide can help listeners make lasting changes in as little as a month. In only four weeks, listeners can eat better, improve their diabetes management, and live a healthier lifestyle.With What Do I Eat Now?, listeners will be able to:Start off fast—quickly turn their diet aroundDo it right—learn what to eat and whenCut to the chase—follow easy, straightforward advice from diabetes expertsLeave confusion behind—learn essential nutrition tips everydayShow book
Dill-icious! 101 creative ways to use pickles in soups, starters, sandwiches, salads—and even desserts. This fun and zesty cookbook is full of recipes for making pickles—as well as using them in a dill-icious collection of pickle appetizers, sandwiches, salads, dinners, and even desserts. Whether it’s dills, gherkins, spears, chips, sour, or sweet, discover such innovative recipes as:Sweet & Sour Mustard PicklesBacon-Wrapped Pickle PoppersDill Pickle SoupRoast Pickle PotatoesSweet Pickle Pie and many more!Show book
