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The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook : 250 No-Fail Recipes for Pilafs, Risottos, Polenta, Chilis, Soups, Porridges, Puddings and More, from Start to Finish in Your Rice Cooker

Beth Hensperger, Julie Kaufmann

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Total reviews: 67 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Beth Hensperger and Julie Kaufmann's The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook offers 250 timesaving, convenient, and healthy recipes for making everything from simple white rice to full-course meals. This cookbook proves the rice cooker--which tends to have a bad rap as a never-opened or oft-neglected wedding gift--can be surprisingly versatile: not only does it prepare your rice, it can be used for every dinner course--salad, soup, vegetable, entree, and even dessert.

There is a complete buying and cooking guide for the many rice varieties, as well as other whole grains such as barley, millet, wheat berry, and quinoa. Many of the recipes provide convenient alternative cooking methods for traditional dishes like Italian risottos (the Italian Sausage Risotto is wonderful). Hensperger and Kaufmann show the rice cooker can also work miracles for hot breakfast cereals and porridges with such recipes as Hot Fruited Oatmeal. Delightful main courses include Steamed Ginger Salmon and Asparagus in Black Bean Sauce, and the meal is done almost exclusively within the rice cooker for simple preparation and cleanup. The dessert section has many ideas beyond the expected Old-Fashioned Rice Pudding--the Poached Pears with Grand Marnier Custard Sauce is one elegant and sophisticated example. Both authors of this cookbook are seasoned food writers and this combined effort gives tasty, easy, and healthy recipes that will motivate you to use what has been, until now, an underutilized appliance. --Teresa Simanton

366 Delicious Ways to Cook Rice, Beans, and Grains

Andrea Chesman

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Total reviews: 20 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Andrea Chesman presents 366 creative and flavorful "natural gourmet" recipes using a wide variety of beans and grains, like basmati and jasmine rice, adzuki beans, amaranth, and quinoa. Organized by course and main ingredient, these dishes range from light and lively starters to hearty and soul-satisfying foods that stick to your ribs but not to your waistline. American favorites are well represented here, but adventurous cooks will be pleased to find ethnic cuisines dominating this mouthwatering collection, including such recipes as:
* Spicy Vegetable Couscous
* Pesto Pasta with Cranberry Beans
* Smoky Black Bean Burritos
* Jamaican-Style Rice and Peas This wonderful addition to our 366 Ways series features foods that are among the most versatile and healthful in the human diet, not to mention absolutely delicious.
* Recipes are high in flavor, low in fat.
* Each recipe includes a detailed nutritional analysis, which counts calories, fat, percentage of calories from fat, protein, fiber, sodium, and calcium.
* Vegetarian dishes dominate the collection, but healthful variations include salmon, shrimp, and chicken.

Whole Grains Every Day, Every Way

Lorna Sass

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Total reviews: 24 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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Thanks to the low-carb movement and the updated USDA food pyramid, we all know we should be eating more whole grains (the “good carbs”). But what exactly are whole grains? And how can we make them not only what we should eat, but what we really want to eat? In Whole Grains Every Day, Every Way, bestselling cookbook author Lorna Sass demystifies whole grains with a thorough grain-by-grain primer followed by more than 150 irresistible recipes.

In this extensive guide to the wide range of fantastic whole grains available–many of which are gluten-free–Sass introduces home cooks to dozens of grains, including amaranth, barley, buckwheat, hominy, popcorn, polenta, Job’s tears, millet, oats, quinoa, brown rice, red rice, black rice, rye, triticale, sorghum, teff, farro, grano, green wheat, kamut, spelt, wheat berries, and wild rice. She shares tips for buying and storing these grains as well as the best and simplest way to cook them.

And then there are the boldly flavored, contemporary recipes that will truly change the way you cook, covering soups, salads, main courses, and side dishes all the way to quick breads, cookies, and desserts, with a groundbreaking section on whole-grain baking outlining tempting, healthy options. Whole Grains Every Day, Every Way will delight carnivores and vegetarians alike with recipes such as Farro Salad with Prosciutto and Asparagus, Masa Harina–Beef Casserole, Posole with Pork and Chipotle, Millet with Gingered Beets and Orange, and Coconut–Black Rice Pudding.
This is the book America has been asking for: the definitive guide that will make it easy and delicious for us to incorporate healthful whole grains into our diets with innovative recipes for every meal of the day.

Easy Beans: Fast and Delicious Bean, Pea, and Lentil Recipes, Second Edition

Trisha Ross

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Total reviews: 14 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Must love chili powder & green bell peppers 3 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

If you like chili powder & green bell peppers you will like the main courses in this book. If you do not, I would find another cookbook.

Great Bean Recipes 4 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

A simple little book, no frills or pictures, but surprisingly useful. Divided into four main categories--soups, salads, entrees, and sides--each recipe features beans, peas, and/or lentils. Many of the recipes are vegetarian/vegan, as well as some good recipes incorporating meat. The recipes aren't fancy or gourmet, but they're easy to prepare, healthy, and above all, quite tasty. If the book had pictures and a few exciting/unusual recipes for balance, I would give it five stars. Recommended for:
--beginning cooks
--busy/time-pressed cooks
--anyone wanting or needing to incorporate more legumes into their diet

Editorial Review:

The new edition of this favorite bean cookbook, Easy Beans, has been fully updated and revised. There are 20 new recipes and nutritional analysis for all of the over 100 fast, healthy and tasty bean, pea and lentil recipes. As North Americans continue to eat healthier by cutting fat, not flavor, there is an increasing emphasis on legumes as an essential part of today's healthy diet. In addition these recipes are easy on the budget. With this edition of Easy Beans, author Trish Ross has made bean cookery a tasty and healthy choice for today's busy cooks.

The Splendid Grain

Rebecca Wood

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

These recipes are consistently excellent, and wholesome too. 5 out of 5 stars.
23 of 23 people found this review helpful.

I knew nothing about this book when I checked it out of the library, except that it had recipes for some of the more unusual grains. It is only now that I looked it up on Amazon that I discovered that it won the James Beard award. I am not the least bit surprised, however, because all the recipes I have tried have been consistently delicious, wholesome, and creative. You will find very few run-of-the-mill recipes in this cookbook.

I check many cookbooks out of the library, but for many I can't find any recipes that I want to make, or if I do find recipes to try, once I make them I am generally not impressed. So I was amazed when I opened this cookbook to find so many intriguing recipes, each of which turned out better than the last.

Some highlights: The grilled millet and butternut squash cakes had so few spices I was sure they would be bland, but they weren't. They were subtle but sweet and crunchy and addictive. The millet, quinoa, and burdock pilaf again looked underseasoned, but the burdock adds a great earthy depth to the pilaf, and again, I could not stop eating this dish. Wood's recipe for Locro, a South American soup, has a large number of ingredients, but it is well worth the effort. The barley and beans that make up the bulk of this soup make it substantial and extremely filling. The celeriac is sweet and delicious, the anise seeds add a subtle mysterious note, and the roasted New Mexican chili and the kombu create a great tasty broth with more depth than a typical vegetarian soup.

The only recipe that I was disappointed in was her basic recipe for "steamed" amaranth. Wood swears it's the best way to cook amaranth, but I thought it turned out exactly the same as it always does when I cook it--gooey, but tasty. Also, as a previous reviewer noted, Wood doesn't use too many green vegetables in this cookbook, but since it is a grains cookbook I can forgive this one shortcoming.

Overall, this book is full of healthy, nutritious, creative, well-tested recipes that please the palate and the body, and are reasonably quick to prepare. The flavorings are generally subtle, but perfectly balanced, allowing the taste of the ingredients to shine through. If you like very strong tasting food, however, you might find the recipes a bit bland. The recipes are not all vegetarian, but there are enough vegetarian recipes that I just returned my library book and ordered this book on Amazon.

Editorial Review:

Rebecca Wood grew up on a family farm near Ogden, Utah. As a college graduate in the '60s, she landed in San Francisco and studied cooking with macrobiotic masters Michio and Aveline Kushi. The Splendid Grain proves that Wood's continuing holistic passion for being on intimate terms with what we eat has appeal for mainstream cooks. Philosophical, eclectic, homey, hokey, stuffed with old-fashioned values, and strewn with appealing new ideas, this is a lovingly written, thoroughly researched work. An enchanting storyteller, Wood sweeps you through interesting cultural anthropology and agricultural history, then presents an inspired collection of whole grain dishes. Recipes range from simple variations on the familiar oat pilaf, risotto, and tabouleh to tempting and imaginative barley-stuffed meatless dolmadakia. (The book is not vegetarian; meat, poultry and seafood dishes are included.)

The New Whole Grain Cookbook: Terrific Recipes Using Farro, Quinoa, Brown Rice, Barley, and Many Other Delicious and Nutritious Grains

Robin Asbell

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Recipes good but overly complicated, layout of book poor 3 out of 5 stars.
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I got this book the day it came out and I've probably used it twice. I'm of the feeling that you can't have enough recipes which make use of whole grains, especially the less common ones like quinoa, amaranth and farro. Yet when I feel like cooking whole grains, I find myself reaching for Rebecca Wood's "The Splendid Grain," which has, to my taste, better info and recipes and a much better layout. Don't get me wrong, I've liked what I've cooked from this book, but don't find it all that inspiring. As an example, the quinoa paella is quite good, but the recipe calls for fresh artichokes, which makes this dish affordable only during the very short artichoke season. No mention of whether you can substitute canned artichokes successfully. For the record, I did, and they tasted, well, canned, of course. I would have liked an alternative. In general, the recipes are rather complicated for the results, whereas in the Splendid Grain, they are far simpler and more varied. Also, this book is small and impossible to keep open during cooking, plus the recipes are on multiple pages. It's clear that cost was an issue and someone (publisher?) decided that pictures were more important than an easy-to-use layout. I'm happy to have this in my kitchen, but it feels like someone rushed this out and cut corners. I wanted to like it more than I actually do. Recommended, but not as a first choice for whole grain cooking.

Editorial Review:

The New Whole Grains Cookbook: Terrific Recipes Using Farro, Quinoa, Brown Rice, Barley, and Many Other Delicious and Nutritious Grains By Robin Asbell Photographs by Caren Alpert"From whole wheat, oats, and rice to farro, barley, and quinoa, no grain is

The Rice Diet Cookbook: 150 Easy, Everyday Recipes and Inspirational Success Stories from the Rice DietProgram Community

Kitty Gurkin Rosati, Robert Rosati

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Rice Diet Cookbook Review 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This book is extremely helpful for us and we are using the Rice diet as our way to loose and maintain our weight loss. So far much better and much much healthier than any other diets I have ever done (which include many). Highly recommended for those that are interested or curious on being healthy the simple way. I am not a physician but I know the struggle I have had for years with anckle swelling and gaining too much weight. Now I have a book + to guide me. Thank you to this wonderful author and the Amazon service for make it available.The Rice Diet Cookbook: 150 Easy, Everyday Recipes and Inspirational Success Stories from the Rice DietProgram Community

Editorial Review:

Based on the New York Times bestselling Rice Diet Solution.

After the success of The Rice Diet Solution, the Rice Diet Program's message boards were bombarded with pleas and suggestions for more Rice Dietfriendly recipes. The result is this collection of healthy whole-food dishes, which includes personal favorites from the Rice Diet kitchen as well as from successful dieters who want to share their weight-loss tips with everyone who intends to lose weight and live a healthier life.

Includes such recipes as:
¥ Basil-Mint Quinoa Salad
¥ Roasted Red Pepper Lettuce Wrap
¥ Zesty Sweet Potato Chips
¥ Pan-Seared Sea Scallops
¥ Chocolate-Banana Cream Custard
¥ Toasted Ginger Papaya

And many more!

Paella!: Spectacular Rice Dishes From Spain

Penelope Casas

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Total reviews: 22 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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From the best-selling author of Tapas: The Little Dishes of Spain and The Foods and Wines of Spain.

Unless they have traveled to spain, most Americans have never tasted a really good paella. What passes for paella at restaurants and even in cookbooks here is a pale imitation of the real thing, the vibrant Spanish rice dish that marries the robust flavors of olive oil, garlic, tomatoes, and pepper with short-grain rice, broth, and meat, fish, or vegetables. Penelope Casas is here to restore the glorious paella to its rightful place as a grain-based meal that will gratify the senses as well as be the centerpiece for easy, elegant entertaining.

Casas presents sixty different fascinating paellas, some traditional, some her own creation, showing how easily some of the preparation can be done ahead of time with supermarket ingredients. She includes a superior collection of tapas, the Spanish meal starters, two dozen simple desserts, and a handful of broths and sauces. Her passion for paella, her clear directions, and her creative pairings of fresh ingredients make this unusual cookbook a winner.

How to Live on Wheat

John, W Hill

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

tasty health in a polluted world 5 out of 5 stars.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful.

This is probably the definitive work on how to start with whole grains and
make bread and other grain based foods. The author includes essential
details about how to store grains, how to care for cast iron utensils, how
to make sourdough and sprouts, etc. that you don't see in a lot of other
books. The writing style is concise and very clear. The recipes are
flexible allowing you to adjust and substitute ingredients. It is amazing
how quickly pan bread can be made from scratch. And now I can make a $5
loaf of artisan bread with less than $1 of ingredients, and if I were
grinding my own wheat, I could do it for less than fifty cents worth of
ingredients!

Editorial Review:

This is a cookbook, preparedness resource and survival manual all wrapped into one concise and thorough reference. It covers the acquisition and storage of wheat and other grains and legumes, the preparation of all of the basic foods from the whole grain to the finished product in the simplest and most foolproof manner possible. It includes Essene Bread, Pan Bread, Fry Bread, Sprouting, Sourdough, Food Combination, Baking, Bread Making, Gluten Meat Substitute, Pasta, Improvised Bread Making, Dumplings, Cast Iron Cookery, Salads, Biscuits and Pancakes. This is an essential resource for anyone who cooks with grains, anyone who wishes to prepare for natural disasters or other unexpected events and anyone who just wants to save a lot of money on their food bills.

La Paella: Deliciously Authentic Rice Dishes from Spain's Mediterranean Coast

Jeff Koehler

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

A wonderful little rice book 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

I like rice. A lot. I value it almost as highly as my eyes, and possibly a bit higher than my hands.

I got this a few hours ago, so I haven't cooked from it, but I have sat around reading it. I like it. One recipe caught my eye for its oddness. It calls for thyme stems, with the leaves and flowers discarded. I can't say I've ever seen a recipe do that. I've seen lots that want the flowers in the pot and the stems discarded, and plenty that want both leaves and stems.

The recipes are diverse. My first flip through it looked to me like it was heavy on rabbit, and snail. A subsequent investigation tells me that it is much more diverse. I skimmed over at least one vegetarian recipe (I think there are actually three of them), as well as diverse dishes calling for all manner of fish and crustacean, plus rabbit, pork, snail, mushroom, squid ink, and vegetable. It is a bit heavy on snails. But I'm sure you can leave them out of some of the dishes.

Overall I'm far more happy about this purchase than I thought I would be.

Editorial Review:

La Paella - Deliciously Authentic Rice Dishes from Spain's Mediterranean Coast By Jeff Koehler"The most famous dish of the hottest cuisine in town right now, paella is as flavorful as it is festive. Longtime Barcelona resident and Spanish food expert Jeff