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The Best Pressure Cooker Recipes

Cinda Cavich

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Imagine being able to prepare a wonderful beef stoganoff in only 10 minutes. Or a rich, creamy cheesecake in only 20 minutes. That's a complete meal in just half an hour! And it's what you'll be able to enjoy with your pressure cooker and The Best Pressure Cooker Recipes.

While the benefits of pressure cooking have been known for generations, advances in pressure cooker design have made these small appliances safer and more convenient than ever before. Today, North Americans are discovering that pressure cooked meals are not only faster (about 75% faster, on average) but also healthier since the food retains more of its nutrient value while requiring less fat for cooking. The result is that over the past decade, pressure cooker sales have continued to rise, now approaching 1 million units a year.

While the resurgence of pressure cooking is comparatively new to North American households, in other countries (from France to India) it has always been the preferred method for preparing moist and flavorful stews, vegetables, risottos, and soups. In fact, many homes in Europe and Asia will use two cookers simultaneously to prepare a meal.

With The Best Pressure Cooker Recipes you get more than 125 recipes specifically designed to take advantage of what pressure cookers do best. And as you'll discover, pressure cookers are amazingly versatile. Sample from starters such as "Braised Artichokes with Red Pepper Aïoli" or "Spicy Sweet Potato Soup." Delicious main course offerings include "Chicken Cacciatore" and "Cajun Seafood Gumbo," along with bean dishes like "Maple Baked Pork and Beans with Apples." Side dishes such as "Roasted Garlic Risotto with Asiago" are sure to complement any meal. And pressure cooker desserts? Absolutely! Just try the "Orange Espresso Cheesecake" or "Cool Lemon Custards with Fresh Berry Compote."

In addition to a helpful tips and kitchen wisdom that accompany the recipes, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of pressure cooking, including guidelines for adapting your own recipes, compensating for the effects of altitude on pressure cooking, as well as a comparison of the various styles and models of cookers on the market. Whether you're new to pressure cooking or an experienced cook looking for great pressure cooker recipes, this book is a must-have for your kitchen.

Stevia Sweet Recipes: Sugar-Free-Naturally

Jeffrey Goettemoeller

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Total reviews: 18 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Recipes are not sugar free 2 out of 5 stars.
7 of 14 people found this review helpful.

I was very disappointed in this book. Approximately 80% of the recipes contain sugars in the form of fructose from fruit or vegetables. Apples, oranges, carrots, corn, onion, dates, cherries, bananas, etc. are all high in fructose. I guess I was hoping to see more recipes not containing any sugars.

Wonderful everyday recipes 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

User friendly. Many everyday recipes. Lots of tips for success.
Mainly uses Stevia Extract powder.

Less calories, great taste! 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Just what I was looking for & at an affordable price! Due to aspartame poisoning, I needed to use a natural, no calorie sweet product for my baking. Stevia is the answer! This book gives me the proper amount of Stevia to use when I make lemonade from my fresh lemons, apple dishes from my fresh apples and all those goodies I crave! This is a must have in everyone's cooking repetroire! Loosing weight and feeling healthier without feeling deprived!

Editorial Review:

The author offer health-conscious readers 168 creative recipes using the herb Stevia as a sweetener. In addition to dozens of mouth-watering dessert suggestions, this book provides a tantalizing array of breakfast, main course, salad and side-dishes - all sugar-free!

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.
40 of 40 people found this review helpful.

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:

From whole wheat, oats, and rice to farro, barley, and quinoa, no grain is left unturned in this compendium of more than 75 healthful recipes. There's a tasty dish for every meal of the day: Quick Skillet Flatbreads made with millet or teff for breakfast, or a hearty dinner entr e of lamb and rye berries braised in red wine. Even desserts get the whole-grain touch with such sweets as Chocolate-Chunk Buckwheat Cookies. A source list helps find the more unusual grains and a glossary describes each one in detail. The New Whole Grains Cookbook makes it easy to eat your grains and love them, too.

Sproutman's Kitchen Garden Cookbook : Sprout Breads, Cookies, Salads, Soups and 250 Other Low Fat, Dairy-Free, Vegetarian Recipes

Steve Meyerowitz

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Total reviews: 14 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Healthy eating, yes, if you want a total lifestyle overhaul... 3 out of 5 stars.
86 of 94 people found this review helpful.

I guess I'm not the typical reviewer here - I am interested in healthy eating, but without the context of a major life change for myself and my family of five... I'd like to find new ways to eat well, without undermining our entire familiar (mostly vegetarian, mostly well-balanced) diet.

Let's start with what this book IS: an excellent guide to using all types of sprouts, and to which types are good for which occasions - baking, stir-frying, salads, etc. It's also a rather overt advertisement for "Sproutman's" own website and sprouting tools (sprout bag, greenhouse, seeds, etc); fair enough.

The book is full of interesting, simple recipes and ideas for using sprouts either raw or with low temp cooking to get the most nutrition out of every green, crunchy bite. He's also thrown in a bunch of related nutrition stuff - non-sprout items like vegan ice creams and helpful alternatives to salt and other seasonings.

Still, I found that most of the recipes were impractical for family cooking. If two cups of sprouted wheat make a single small loaf or several crackers or cookies, it doesn't take long to realize I'm going to need wheat berries bursting out of every corner of my tiny kitchen in order to create one meal for the five of us.

And that's just bread! To create enough sprouts for us to eat a single salad, a single stir-fry, a single helping of sprouted nuts... well, we're probably going to need to renovate other areas of the house to accomodate all the grow-bags or baskets.

Also, many of the recipes are just variants on previous recipes. Like, he'll take a page to describe how to make a cracker, and then ANOTHER page - this is just an example from memory - on how to make seasoned crackers, and it's obvious the ingredients and steps are identical, just with seasonings added.

Finally, having tasted sprouts and fermented products, I have some idea of what kinds of flavours to expect. Suggesting that his fermented "rejuvalac" beverage will taste similar to lemonade sounds way overblown. He actually hints that it may taste more "like sauerkraut" - to me, that's a BIG difference. Sorry, but I don't curl up on a summer's day with a tall, cool glass of sauerkraut.

Similarly, I realize our dependence on added sugars is overblown, but if I call something a "cookie", my kids (10 & 11) are going to know I'm lying if it's only sweetened with natural sprout maltose and a few raisins. Yes, sprouts give a nice malty sweetness to bread - but only the most idealistic parents would believe kids would accept it as a special-occasion treat.

I guess I was looking for a book that would help me incorporate sprouts into every aspect of our regular household dishes - stir fries, yes, but also to add flavour/nutrition to standard yeast breads, cakes, cookies, veg patties, etc.

Being almost totally vegan (he practically apologizes in the one section where he asks you to put a bit of butter into your rice cereal), there is too little range of dishes for our family's tastes and the dishes offered seem too monotonous for long-term enjoyment.

This book may be ideal for a single person or a couple who want to try an "extreme" veg or raw-foods or minimal-cooking lifestyle. For our family lifestyle, the overhaul required is too enormous to even begin imagining - and trust me, I have plenty of imagination!

Making Sauerkraut and Pickled Vegetables at Home: Creative Recipes for Lactic Fermented Food to Improve Your Health (Natural Health Guide) (Natural Health Guide)

Klaus Kaufmann, Annelies Schoneck

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Making sauerkraut and pickled vegetables at home 2 out of 5 stars.
28 of 30 people found this review helpful.

This book is a disappointment. I bought it after I got my Harsch fermentation crock and I do not find it very useful. There are 8 recipes for fermentation for different vegetables (in addition to two different variations for sauerkraut)and about half of the book has 9 food recipes all for sauerkraut (ie pineapple sauerkraut, reuben, etc) with a full page color glossy photo on the opposite page of the recipe (wasteful in my opinion). There is a section on adding herbs and spices and it is unhelpful as it does not give details for many of them on how to use/prepare them for fermentation. There is an interesting section on Healing with Lactic Acid Fermentation, but that is about it. The biggest reason I do not like this book is that there is little troubleshooting detail or any help/suggestions for fermentation when the conditions are less than ideal.

Create your own kraut 5 out of 5 stars.
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Great book for beginners. Easy to follow recipes that require only vegetables and mason jars to start . Even my very first batches of sauerkraut turned out great. Delicious!

Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2007: EVERY RECIPE...A Year's Worth of Cooking Light Magazine (Cooking Light Annual Recipes)

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Get a whole year’s worth of the most flavorful, healthy, good-for-you recipes from Cooking Light in Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2007! Dig into some of our bestdesserts, soups, salads, stews, one-dish meals, sandwiches, breads, rolls, muffins, biscuits, sides, and international dishes, bursting with unforgettable flavors.

Try elegant Roast Chicken with Mint-Cilantro Pesto…crunchy Crab Cakes with Red Pepper Mayonnaise…chic Oven-Roasted Tomatoes with Goat Cheese…comforting, down-home Pork Chops with Country Gravy…and creamy Café au Lait Chiffon Pie.

And you’ll also get: • More than 1,000 healthy Cooking Light recipes • Secrets, tips, and how-tos from the magazine • Luscious, full-color recipe photos that look good enough to eat• Three recipe indexes, so you can find what you need…fast! • Recipes judged best-of-the-best by the editors at Cooking Light • Detailed nutritional analysis for every recipe

PLUS The Holiday Cookbook! Celebrate the season with The Holiday Cookbook, our annual section in Cooking Light Annual Recipes dedicated to offering you ideas on what to serve, when to serve it, and how best to serve it. We provide a generous helping of make-ahead tips and menu suggestions to take the hustle and bustle out of the holidays. Our festive dinners and creative ideas ensure that the time you spend in the kitchen is, indeed, time well-spent.

The Complete Book of Raw Food, Second Edition: Healthy, Delicious Vegetarian Cuisine Made with Living Foods * Includes More Than 400 Recipes from the World's Top Raw Food Chefs

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This masterful collection of over 400 raw food recipes is a "must-have" for anyone who enjoys vegetarian cuisine.

Whether you are curious about adding raw foods to your diet, or have been eating raw for years, The Complete Book of Raw Food, Second Edition contains over 400 mouth-watering-recipes produced by more than 50 of the world’s top raw food chefs, and is your essential resource on choosing ingredients, eating right and creating delicious dishes to satisfy any palate.

From soups and salads to main dishes and desserts, The Complete Guide to Raw Food, Second Edition is the largest published collection of raw food recipes. This new edition features more than 50 new recipes from up-and-coming chefs. Among these inspired raw dishes are unexpected delights such as Lasagna, Easy Pad Thai, Zucchini Bread, and Granola--all delicious--all made with live ingredients.

The Complete Guide to Raw Food, Second Edition also includes advice on choosing ingredients, resources to buy the tools you need to create raw dishes, and a comprehensive Raw Food Glossary. The second edition is expanded to include prep times for all recipes an all-new color insert, and contains updated information on kitchen equipment, techniques, and raw food festivals.

The Complete Book of Raw Food, Second Edition includes a detailed preparation for all categories of dishes including Salad Dressings, Entrees, and Delicious Desserts. Here are just a few examples of the delicious recipes available in The Complete Book of Raw Food, Second Edition:

■ Spinach Pesto

■ Raw Ravioli

■ Walnut Stuffed Peppers

■ Tomato Wild Rice Soup

■ Chocolate Smoothie

■ Watermelon Mountains

Whether you're a raw food devotee, a seasoned vegetarian, or just want to prepare delicious, healthy recipes in your own home, The Complete Book of Raw Food, Second Edition is a kitchen essential.

Cooking Without a Grain of Salt

Elma W. Bagg, Susan Bagg Todd, Robert Ely Bagg

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Total reviews: 14 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Same complaint I have with most cookbooks. 4 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

This book is wonderful for cooking with low or no sodium. I bought this because my parents needed to decrease their sodium and potassium. This book does list the potassium count in the nutrition breakdown which helps me. I highly recommend it for people looking for healthier recipes.

I keep wondering why nearly all of the cookbooks have to be in book form. Use spiral bindings, please. Make them easy to use!

Editorial Review:

Putting down the saltshaker is just the first step....

Experts agree that a low-sodium diet can decrease the risk of heart disease, migraines, diabetes, and osteoporosis.  

But to significantly reduce the salt in your diet, you must learn how to spot the hidden sodium in frozen foods, canned goods, and popular recipes.

Fully revised and updated using the latest medical research, Cooking Without a Grain of Salt is a nutrition guide and cookbook all in one.  It's filled with useful tips on how to limit sodium without sacrificing flavor--as well as savory recipes that will help you put your healthy, low-salt lifestyle into action.

From Stuffed Mushrooms and Double Corn Biscuits to Pork Medallions in Pesto, Grilled Tuna with Salsa, and Pasta Primavera, Cooking Without a Grain of Salt lets you enjoy all the dishes you love while forming healthy eating habits for years to come..

The Healthy Baby Meal Planner: Mom-Tested, Child-Approved Recipes for Your Baby and Toddler

Annabel Karmel

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Start your baby on a lifetime of healthy eating

Commercial baby food may seem healthy and convenient, but a meal prepared at home with fresh, high-quality ingredients is still the most nutritious one you can give your child. Preparing your own baby food is quick, easy and much more affordable than you might think. It is certainly the best way to cultivate healthy eating habits in your infant or toddler.

Since it was published in 1991, Annabel Karmel's book has become the definitive, essential guide to feeding babies and young children and is used by pediatricians, nutritionists, and mothers around the world. Now fully revised and updated, The Healthy Baby Meal Planner will show you which foods are appropriate for each stage of a child's development from infancy to age three.

Also included:

• Latest information on food allergies and infant nutrition

• Time-saving preparation tips and recipe ideas for special occasions

• Advice on introducing new tastes and textures to infants and toddlers

• How to make appealing meals for even the pickiest eaters

Nearly Normal Cooking For Gluten-Free Eating: A Fresh Approach to Cooking and Living Without Wheat or Gluten

Jules E. D. Shepard

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Total reviews: 38 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

informative and tasty 5 out of 5 stars.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful.

This cookbook is such a tremendous resource, especially for those newly-diagnosed and struggling to make a drastic lifestyle change. Every time I get a new copy I find myself giving it away!

The fact that Jules gives us the recipe for her own gluten-free flour is astounding b/c it is truly interchangeable with any recipe calling for wheat flour. Have you checked the prices of and tasted other gluten-free flours recently? Costly and nothing to brag about, so I don't understand the previous reviewer's comment about the book being nothing but a plug for her product. Her only 'product' is providing information and recipes for those wanting to cook and eat gluten free.

Go ahead and use the flour recipe found in the introduction to make the scones on pg.94; then you can thank Jules for the generousity of sharing her flour recipe (that she could easily charge for) because you really can't tell that they're gluten-free. And as for the dried beef comment --all I can say is, "where's the beef?" Nowhere in this book could I find a recipe calling for dried beef because, as the reviewer said, ewww.