Since Roman times, cultures around the world have been enchanted with cooking in clay and the juicy, full flavors it preserves in any dish. Today's healthminded cooks will find an added bonus: Clay pot cooking is practically foolproof and often fat-free. In The Best of Clay Pot Cooking, Dana Jacobi takes a fresh look at cooking in clay pots and comes up with over 40 easy and delectable recipes, from soups and stews to breads and desserts. Some reflect traditional uses for the clay pot, such as roasting poultry and beef; others are inventive new dishes drawing on ethnic influences -- Chicken Tagine with Green Olives &amp; Preserved Lemon, for example, or Salmon with Ginger &amp; Lime, Shrimp &amp; Ham Jambalaya, Black &amp; White Chipotle Chili, Moroccan Semolina Bread, or Banana Bread Pudding. And all these are prepared with minimum fuss, maximum flavor, and enormous nutritional value.

The Best of Clay Pot Cooking

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Jacobi, Dana

Cooking Methods

William Morrow Cookbooks

An innovative guide to cooking with soy discusses the nutritional and health benefits of soy cookery and introduces some 250 recipes for breakfasts, snacks, maincourses, exotic international specialties, desserts, and more, along with tips on baking and cooking techniques. Original.

Amazing Soy: A Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking This Nutritional Powerhouse With 240 Recipes

Cooking by Ingredient

140 delicious, healthy recipes for dark, leafy greens that will please your palate and inspire you to clean your plate, including vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options. Kale and collards don’t have to be the only greens on your shopping list anymore. Rising stars include romaine and parsley, Brussels sprouts and beet greens, and more. But say the words “Eat your greens,” and even though we know they’re good for us, many people are afraid that they won’t taste good. Fear no more! The Power Greens Cookbook provides go-to recipes that are both nutritious and delicious. Acclaimed cookbook author and blogger Dana Jacobi expands your culinary repertoire and introduces the fifteen Power Greens—from arugula to watercress—that are loaded with health-supporting nutrients and phytochemicals that enhance vitality, all the while protecting against diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure, fortifying eyes and muscles, even making your skin glow. Jacobi also shares simple cooking techniques that help you prepare these super veggies quickly. Including main dishes and hearty salads, dips, spreads, snacks, and even drinks, The Power Greens Cookbook offers myriad mouthwatering vegetable-centric recipes. • Soups: Cabbage and Brussels Sprouts Soup, Spinach Gazpacho with Walnuts, Hoppin’ John Stew with Mustard Greens • Salads: Caesar Salad with Parmesan Chickpeas, Tuscan Kale Salad with Pomegranate Seeds and Walnuts, Beets and Beet Greens with Citrus Dressing • Main Dishes: Red Beans and Smoky Greens, Kale-Smothered Pork Chops with Carrot and Apple, Tortelloni with Broccoli Rabe Florets • Small Meals and Snacks: Avocado and Watercress Tartine, Grilled Cheese and Tomato Sandwich with Kimchi, Poached Eggs in a Nest of Bacon-Wilted Kale • Side Dishes and Condiments: Carrots with Wild Arugula Pesto, French Lettuce Stir-Fry, Tahini Creamed Spinach, Kale Za’atar Shown in dozens of tantalizing photographs, these dishes are sure to become mainstays in your kitchen for weeknight family meals, casual entertaining, and elegant dinner parties. From the cruciferous and crunchy to the leafy and light, The Power Greens Cookbook is just what the doctor—and your taste buds—ordered.

The Power Greens Cookbook: 140 Delicious Superfood Recipes

Ballantine Books

The best of twenty years of natural-foods cooking from Natural Health magazine features multiethnic recipes that maximize the healing power in foods, including soups, vegetables, salads, sauces, and desserts that are easy to prepare using wholesome natural ingredients. 25,000 first printing.

The Natural Health Cookbook: More Than 150 Recipes to Sustain and Heal the Body

Simon&Schuster

From soy milk to tofu, wholesome, cholesterol-lowering soy is emerging as the staple food of choice for thousands of health-conscious households. A complete source of protein that is low in saturated fat, soyfoods can lower cholesterol and hypertension, and help promote a general standard of health. Creating a soy-inclusive diet in the ?90s is fun and accessible with the help of Dana Jacobi?s new book, The Natural Kitchen: Soy! A wonderful and complete primer on soyfoods, this book shows how to include soy in a mainstream diet. Jacobi shares her extensive knowledge of the preparation of soy and discusses the taste, texture, and nutritional value of over a dozen soyfoods.There are many ways to enjoy the benefits of soy without resorting to a diet of miso soup and soy sauce. Soy is a versatile ingredient that can enhance the flavor and texture of many dishes. In The Natural Kitchen: Soy!, soyfoods have been used in old-time favorite recipes to create healthier dishes. Among Jacobi?s innovative and tempting dishes, readers will find: Stuffed French Toast Red Flannel Hash Eggless Egg Salad Lentil Lasagna Chocolate Silk Pie Vegetarians and meat-eaters alike will enjoy the diverse dishes presented in this work. During Jacobi?s years a caterer, she often included these soy recipes in her menus to her clients? surprise and delight. She writes, "If a client requested a vegetarian main course, I would often modify a chicken or meat dish, replacing the animal ingredient with tofu or tempeh." Jacobi encourages the reader to experiment with the wide variety of soyfood products that are now available. On display in the produce section of most grocery stores are at least half a dozen different types of tofu and other soy products. Soyfoods can now be a part of every meal on the American table. About the Author Dana Jacobi is a cookbook author, food writer, contributing editor to Natural Health, and consultant in natural foods. Author of The Natural Health Cookbook and The Best of Clay Pot Cooking, she lives in New York City.

The Natural Kitchen: Soy!: 75 Delicious Ways to Enjoy Nature's Miracle Food

Special Diet

Prima Lifestyles

Sumptuous Recipes for Today's Miracle Food! Long a staple of vegetarian diets, soy has emerged as a food of choice for many health-conscious cooks and diners. Soy helps lower cholesterol, prevent heart disease, and ease the discomforts of menopause. At the same time, soy can also be the cornerstone of many delicious recipes. The Joy of Soy proves just how versatile—and flavorful—soyfoods can be. Expert cook Dana Jacobi breaks new ground, offering soy dishes that are delectable, international, and absolutely divine! You'll discover dozens of recipes for cooking soyfoods every meal, every day, such as: ·Chocolate Pancakes ·Sun-Dried Tomato Dip ·Red Curried Tofu ·Spinach Pesto ·Miso Mashed Potatoes ·Chocolate Silk Pie ·The Best Tofu Cheesecake in the World ·And more! "I'm impressed with Dana Jacobi's recipes—they bring the soybean to life in mouth-watering, satisfying, delicious combinations."—Ken Hom, author of Asian Vegetarian Feast, Ken Hom's Asian Ingredients, and Ken Hom's Quick &amp; Easy Chinese Cookery "Dana is both a superb cook and an expert on soyfoods. You will love these creative, delicious recipes. This book is inspired."—William Shurtleff, coauthor of The Book of Tofu and founder of the Soyfoods Center

The Joy of Soy: 75 Delicious Ways to Enjoy Nature's Miracle Food

A fresh approach to healthy cooking emphasizes the creative use of ingredients to ensure maximum freshness, flavor, and nutrition and presents more than 130 tempting recipes, full-color photographs of every finished dish, how-to images to teach a variety of cooking techniques, nutritional sidebars, a detailed glossary, and suggestions for alternative toppings, sauces, and accompaniments. 20,000 first printing.

Williams-Sonoma Essentials of Healthful Cooking: Recipes and Techniques for Wholesome Home Cooking

Oxmoor House

A collection of illustrated cookbooks for the busy home cook utilizes a straightforward approach to preparing tasty, healthful, and time-saving dishes for every night of the week, with easy-to-follow recipes and tips on keeping a well-stocked pantry, planning ahead, and using fresh ingredients.

Williams-Sonoma Food Made Fast: Vegetarian (Food Made Fast)

Quick & Easy

From an award-winning food writer and chef-the breakthrough cookbook that identifies 12 micronutrient-rich foods that can help protect you against major disease and shows you how to turn them into mouthwatering dishes. A diet rich in nutrients, including protein, carbohydrates, fat, fiber, and vitamins, is not enough for our health. For optimum protection against heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and other chronic diseases, we also need an abundance of micronutrients. How to make sure we get enough of these vital micronutrients-and how to prepare them easily and deliciously-is what Dana Jacobi shows us in 12 Best Foods Cookbook. After identifying the 12 foods containing the most potent micronutrients-broccoli, black beans, tomatoes, salmon, soy, sweet potatoes, oats, onions, blueberries, walnuts, spinach, and chocolate-Jacobi provides over 200 fabulous, remarkably varied recipes starring these ingredients. From appetizers and sandwiches to sides and smoothies, from Salmon and Creamed Corn Chowder to a stir-fry of Asparagus, Red Pepper and Curried Tofu, the recipes in this book prove that a diet rich in all the micronutrients science has shown to be indispensable to our well-being can be a parade of delectable dishes. And, since chocolate is the most powerful antioxidant food, The Ultimate Bittersweet Brownies is one of the sweet treats that will satisfy the yearnings of health-conscious eaters and passionate chocoholics alike.

12 Best Foods Cookbook: Over 200 Recipes Featuring The 12 Healthiest Foods

Rodale Books

Which foods offer the most nutritional value? Which supposed smart choices actually fall short of their promised good? Expanding the scope of her popular 12 Best Foods Cookbook, Dana Jacobi explores the micronutrient benefits in over 60 common foods and provides a wealth of recipes that prove, as Gourmet Retailer has previously written: "we are in the hands of a wonderfully creative and talented cook." Did you know that green beans are a nutritional lightweight compared to the green soybeans called edamame? Or that zucchini is a weakling when rated against winter squashes packed with carotene, fiber, and more? For each "good food" she lists, Jacobi explains the science behind her selection—and shows how to exploit each ingredient's inherent "goodness" with her original, innovative spins on classic dishes like Turkey and Spinach Mini-Meatloaf or new combinations like Red Lentil and Apricot Soup . Alwaysmindful of the home cook's need to get meals on the table quickly, Jacobi includes many dishes that take 30 minutes or less. As cookbook author Jack Bishop has written of her 12 Best Foods Cookbook: "Dana Jacobi proves that good nutrition and pleasure are not mutually exclusive. Her inventive, simple recipes satisfy our desires and keep our bodies healthy."

The Essential Best Foods Cookbook: 225 Irresistible Recipes Featuring the Healthiest and Most Delicious Foods

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