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Celebrate Winter

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Wonderful collection of recipes and other neat stuff 4 out of 5 stars.
11 of 14 people found this review helpful.

I own all four books in the series and this one while my least favorite is also helpfull for x-mas preporations. Mostly dealing with christmas it does have a chapter on new year's(american) and valentines day. I thought the X-mas section had more cookie recipes than any thing else, but hey, one can never have too many cookies.

Absolutely Neat! 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

This book is just typical of the Gooseberry Patch recipe books. There are great recipes sent in by customers and friends of the two women who started this catalog. The recipes are always good. I have not tried one that has been hard, used wierd ingredients, or didn't turn out excellently. There are nice comments at the start of each recipe suggesting pairings (applesauce is great with these pork chops, for example). And the end of each recipe is usually a little quote, a nice drawing, or some other little bonus. Although there are no pictures of the meals prepared, this series of Celebrate... are great cookbooks. Celebrate Winter is one of my favorites. I have made some great soups that I have not been ashamed to take to potlucks out of this recipe book. Great cookie recipes as well.

This is a cookbook well worth the money.

Enjoy.

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Fireside feast and merry celebrations

Best Summer Weekends Cookbook

Jane Rodmell

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Editorial Review:

Summer only comes once a year. Make it count.

Summer days and weekends are best spent outside. That's when cooks look for recipes that can be easily prepared and served at the cottage or at home, in the country or in the city.

Those recipes and more are all right here, in Best Summer Weekends Cookbook. This edition combines the best of the popular Summer Weekend Cookbook and More Summer Weekends Cookbook and adds seventy-five new recipes. Whether entertaining neighbors or guests staying for the weekend, cooking for the family, or hosting a once-a-summer everybody come gathering, this compendium will become an indispensable kitchen companion, and at 352 pages, it is a superb resource.

Recipe sections include:

• Appetizers, starters and sundown snacks
• Fresh barbecuing ideas
• Salads and side dishes
• Make-ahead main courses
• Light bites
• Breakfast and brunch
• Sweet stuff and desserts.

Each recipe also has ideas for variations and substitutions for those times you don't have a particular ingredient on hand. Make-ahead tips reduce kitchen work so you can enjoy your guests' company. The appetizing color photographs will make it hard to resist trying every dish. A new collection of Quick Tricks will help you produce fabulous dishes fast.

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The Essential Christmas Cookbook

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Raw Truth: The Art of Preparing Living Foods

Jeremy Safron

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

all around great book 5 out of 5 stars.
19 of 20 people found this review helpful.

This is a well rounded book for beginners and seasoned vets. It has a good intro for beginners including information that long time raw fooders would benefit from. The recipes are very easy to make and don't have complex ingrediants. Although I have about 10 Raw Food books, I would put this one at the top of my list.

Love It! 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

This book has wonderful recipes! It provides a raw food pyramid as a guide of what to eat on a raw diet. It also gives lists for sprouting and dehydration times. Further, it describes what grains, beans, herbs and more taste like... which is very helpful if you're new to raw. Very worthwhile book... Whether you eat raw full or part-time... you'll love how you feel and look!

Editorial Review:

In The Raw Truth, restaurateur and consultant Jeremy Safron exalts the delicious simplicity of preparing living foods. In a down-to-earth, no-fuss style, he teaches the fundamentals for soaking or sprouting ingredients like almonds and sesame seeds to make appetising, hearty, proud-to-be-raw dishes. But these dishes are not only tasty, they're healthful too. Raw foodists claim that raw foods contain all the enzymes needed to break down on their own, plus more vitamins and nutrients than their cooked counterparts.

The Book of Fish and Shellfish (Book of...)

Hilaire Walden

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Great introduction. 4 out of 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

In its roughly 50 parts, all written by experienced cooks and cook book writers, HP Books' "The Book of ... Cooking" series takes you to the cuisines of various regions of the U.S. and around the world; all in easy to follow, well-explained recipes.

This installment, the Book of Fish and Shellfish, starts with an introduction on preparing, cooking, skinning and filleting fish and preparing shellfish, and then presents recipe suggestions for all major types of seafood recipes, from flatfish to mixed catch and smoked fish dishes. Special chapters are dedicated to firm white fish, rich fish, shrimp, crab, lobster, mussels and oyster recipes. Classics such as crab cakes, Cajun style red snapper, chowders, gravlax, Mediterranean fish soup (bouillabaisse), oysters Rockefeller and seafood gumbo appear next to unique dishes such as bass with ginger and lime, flounder with prosciutto, monkfish in coconut cream, salmon with avocado salsa, trout and artichoke frittata, trout with hazelnuts, and tuna and ginger vinaigrette.

From Angels on Horseback (oysters wrapped in bacon) to yogurt-topped halibut, this collection of recipes, while not all-encompassing, is a great introduction to the endless varieties of seafood dishes - and at a relative bargain price, to boot.

Also recommended:
Around the World Cookbook
Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home: Fast and Easy Recipes for Any Day
Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant: Ethnic and Regional Recipes from the Cooks at the Legendary Restaurant (Cookery)
Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian: More Than 650 Meatless Recipes from Around the World
On Cooking: A Textbook of Culinary Fundamentals (4th Edition) Textbook only
Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - 2006

Editorial Review:

Whether it's elegantly dished for special occasions or quick family dinners, this new addition to the popular Book of . . . series will give useful advice on buying, storing, and general guidelines for cooking--plus irresistible recipes--for a wide range of fish and shellfish dishes. Illustrated with step-by-step photos showing cooking techniques.

Celebrate Year Round Cookbook: The Best of...Celebrate Autumn,Celebrate Winter,Celebrate Sp

LLC Andrews McMeel Publishing, Gooseberry Patch

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Be inspired! In our Celebrate Year 'Round Cookbook, we've combined the best of our retired series into this one volume. Inside are recipes for easy appetizers and entrees, crisp salads and creamy desserts for almost any occasion. You'll want to make recipes like spicy cheese tidbits, tomato bruschetta, roasted corn with rosemary butter, colcannon (the original Irish comfort food) and broiled chicken with lime over and over again. For dessert, your guests will love orange-filled napoleons, county fair chocolate cake and peanut butter round-up cookies. We've even packed each seasonally themed chapter with clever tips and ideas to make every celebration one to remember.

DESSERT-LOVER'S COOKBOOK (Christmas at Home (Barbour))

BROWN, CARRIE

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Great gift for teachers... 4 out of 5 stars.
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Dessert Lover's Cookbook
Written by: Carrie Brown
Published by: Barbour
Reviewed by: Stephanie Rollins, Parish Rollins (age 4), and Isaac Rollins (age 2) for ReviewYourBook.com 10/2008
"Great gift for teachers" 4 stars
The only reason that I did not give this book a 5 is that the pages are not laminated and the type of binding causes you to have to hold the pages down (I use canned goods to hold my pages down while I bake).
Otherwise, this is a great cook book. The recipes are simple and festive. Most require few ingredients. Many of the recipes are for typical Christmas foods, such as eggnog ice-cream, cranberry cake, and pretzel wreath. Other recipes are included that I never before thought of as being festive, such as monkey bread, cheesecake cookies, cinnamon-sugar butter cookies.
These are recipes that the kids can help with. What better time to get them excited about baking than Christmas time? My children's teachers are getting this book as a gift for the holidays. We recommend it.

Editorial Review:

This satisfying collection of holiday dessert recipes includes Everything from decadent chocolate favorites to light and fruity treats-all perfect for any celebration.

Beach House Cooking: Good Food for the Great Outdoors (Williams-Sonoma Outdoors)

Charles Pierce

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

great tasty recipes, a little gem 5 out of 5 stars.
10 of 16 people found this review helpful.

I found this book in an english shopping mall called Bluewater in Kent at a branch of Jerry's Home Store! The book is very easy to use, well laid out and the food is always fantastic. It has made me look for other titles by the same authors.

great recipes 4 out of 5 stars.
4 of 9 people found this review helpful.

this book has a great mango smoothie recipe & some nice dessert recipes. i love the photographs that accompany each recipe - the full left page of each is a picture.

Winter: Recipes Inspired by Nature's Bounty (Williams-Sonoma Seasonal Celebration)

Joanne Weir

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Not my fav 2 out of 5 stars.
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William-Sonoma cookbooks usually have a lot of great recipes intrigue me, but this winter collection just did not. Too many frou-frou recipes, too much seafood in the beginning, and exotics such as duck, goose etc. I prefer cookbooks with ingredients and common forms of meat such as beef, chicken and turkey. There were some of this nature, but nothing that enticed me enough to want to make it.

Some of the desserts looked good, such as the bread pudding, the wintergreen ice-cream with truffles, and the grand marnier soufflé with ladyfingers.

Overall, I expected more from this book. I'd love it if there were some more mainstream main courses.

Amy Willcock's Aga Seasons

Amy Willcock

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Amy Willcock's Aga Seasons will show you how to cook and enjoy produce at its best, when it should be eaten, in harmony with farming calendars. In spring, Amy brings you perfect recipes such as Milk-fed lamb with lavender, while the summer recipes are all perfect for long hot days and balmy evenings, making the most of seafood, vegetables, and even preserving a little bit of summer for the rest of the year in the ultimate Raspberry jam. Autumn brings Halloween parties and delicious Squash soup with ginger, and winter boasts Cod and saffron kedgeree and Queen of Puddings. Accompanying the 180 recipes is a comprehensive calendar for produce and a section on preserving so that you can enjoy the best of the harvest throughout the year. Written in Amy's simple, informative style, featuring conventional cooking instructions and with stunning colour photographs throughout, this is the culinary calendar no Aga owner should be without.