An entertaining guide to planning and hosting a tasting party explains how to come up with a theme for an event in which participants enjoy a search for the best wine, cheese, and other food or beverage, accompanied by place-card suggestions, a guide to international brands and sources, and tasting-and-reference cards.

Tasting Club: Gathering Together to Share and Savor Your Favorite Tastes

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cheney, Dina

Beverages & Wine

Tasting Club

DK Pub.

Creating enticing salads is easy: Start with the freshest fruits and vegetables, season them with adventurous dressings, and you have an exciting new way of thinking about first-course, main-course, and side-dish salads. Familiar favorites are the foundation for the forty-four recipes in this book, but each one is reinterpreted with seasonal produce; global flavorings; and simple, but high-impact, cooking methods. Whether it’s for a leafy-green, grain-based, seafood-topped, or meat or poultry salad, each recipe explains how and why the innovative ingredient pairings work together to bring exciting new tastes to your table. Dozens of full-color photographs depict each finished dish and reveal a bounty of bold-tasting ingredients that will enliven your cooking. With this book in your kitchen, you have all you need to transform everyday salads into exciting and delicious meals.

Williams-Sonoma New Flavors for Salads: Classic Recipes Redefined (NEW FLAVORS FOR SERIES)

Main Courses & Side Dishes

Oxmoor House

The definitive guide to nondairy milks—the first comprehensive cookbook demystifying milk alternatives—here’s how to make and customize all types of vegan milks, with one hundred delicious recipes and handy comparison charts, tips, and guidance for choosing the right dairy-free milks for cooking and baking. Got (non-dairy) milk? Whether you’re paleo, vegan, lactose intolerant, kosher, or just plain adventurous in the kitchen, your non-dairy options now encompass far more than soy, coconut, and almond milks. Consider grain milks, such as oat and amaranth; nut milks, such as cashew and hazelnut; and seed milks, such as sunflower and hemp. Which ones bake the best biscuits? Complement your coffee? Make your mashed potatoes as creamy as mom’s? The New Milks has the answers. The New Milks is the first bible of milk alternatives, helping you prepare, select, and cook with all varieties. With helpful charts comparing the texture, nutritional content, taste, and best uses for each milk, plus one hundred flavorful recipes, cooking and baking with non-dairy milks has never been easier! The first section of the book provides instructions for making an incredible range of non-dairy milks, followed by suggestions for use. Then, dive into recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner; sweets and breads; and smoothies and drinks. Each recipe calls for the ideal type of non-dairy milk, and most list alternates, so you can tweak them for your dietary needs and taste preferences. From “Buttermilk” Almond Waffles with Warm Berry Agave Sauce, to Mexican Chocolate Pudding, to Avocado-Basil Smoothies, every recipe is dairy-free, all but two are kosher, the vast majority are vegan, and most are gluten-free. Who needs the milkman when the alternatives are so much fun?

The New Milks: 100-Plus Dairy-Free Recipes for Making and Cooking with Soy, Nut, Seed, Grain, and Coconut Milks

Atria Books

Slow cookers are popular for good reason: They're the ultimate kitchen problem solvers. If you're watching your budget, they're well worth the $30 they cost since they can turn the cheapest cuts of meat into unctuous, mouth-watering results worthy of a five-star restaurant. Slow cookers also do the hard work, cooking for hours while you're out of the house only to come home to a meal just about ready to eat. And since slow cookers keep food warm, they allow different family members to eat at different times: a practical option in a world of staggered schedules. Yet, slow cookers have an image problem. Most home cooks use them for cold weather meals only, while others think slow cookers can only produce food that's mushy, bland, and watery or rely solely on shortcut ingredients like spice packets, bouillon cubes, and bottled sauces. No longer does this must-have kitchen tool deserve to be stored away when spring months hit. In Year-Round Slow Cooker, home cooks will find 100 delicious, modern, practical slow cooker recipes featuring seasonal produce. Recipes speak to the home cook whose palate is more sophisticated and who wants to incorporate seasonal produce into all of her meals. Organized by season, Year-Round Slow Cooker features notes about the featured seasonal ingredients as well as invaluable tips throughout to help cooks maximize the power of the slow cooker.

Year-Round Slow Cooker: 100 Favorite Recipes for Every Season

Kitchen Appliances

Taunton Press

Vegetarianism is a top trend and veganism is going mainstream. Even meat lovers are looking for ways to reduce their meat consumption because more and more people want to eat healthier. Meatless All Day is a cookbook for anyone who loves good food that’s delicious and conforms to vegetarian values. For vegetarians and carnivores alike. Meatless All Day focuses on new ways to prepare ingredients that are vital to maintaining a balanced diet. But more important, this cookbook will serve as inspiration for preparing ingredients that approximate the savory, smoky, hearty qualities of meat and seafood. For vegetarians, vegans, and carnivores who are reducing their meat intake, the recipes in Meatless All Day will leave home cooks (and their family and friends) feeling satisfied. The key to success: 45 “power ingredients.” More than a cookbook,Meatless All Day opens with a helpful introduction to the 45 ingredients that are the building blocks of healthful eating. Following are 80 recipes with headnotes that explain how the “power ingredients” lend dishes a meaty or fishy flavor, offer tips for making many non-vegan recipes vegan, or provide ideas for rounding out entrees with side dishes and desserts. A delicious way to ease into a top-10 food trend. If you’ve thought about going vegan or simply want to eat less meat, Meatless All Day provides you with the information, the recipes, and the inspiration to take the first step. If you’re already there, it provides exciting dishes for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. Join the millions who are enjoying satisfying food and treating themselves to a healthy lifestyle.

Meatless All Day: Recipes for Inspired Vegetarian Meals

Cooking by Ingredient

Cooking for one can be fun and easy. Mug Meals offers 125 incredibly flavorful, no-hassle, single-serving recipes, made with just a few fresh ingredients. It's the easy answer to "What can I make, fast?" And a welceom solution for busy families, teens on the go, college students, singles, and seniors. Look at all the helpful features it offers: <ul>
<li>Simple and satisfying recipes-for-one make the perfect size meal</li> <li>Never eat watery frozen meals or expensive take-out again</li> <li>The pantry supply list will keep you stocked with the essentials</li> <li>40 colorful photographs of tasty mug means will inspire you</li> </ul>
Secret weapon: your microwave. It really can be used for more than popping popcorn. The straightforward microwave basics section will teach you the ins and outs of microwave cooking. To get started, all you need is: <ul>
<li>One mug</li> <li>A microwave</li> <li>Some fresh ingredients</li> </ul>
125 hearty meals in minutes. Quickly create that home-cooked dish you've been craving with mouthwatering meals-in-a-mug for any time of day. Here are just a few to whet your appetite: <ul>
<li>Breakfast--Savory Summer Corn Oatmeal with Bacon; Double Berry French Toast; Lox and Bagel Strata</li> <li>Lunch--Moroccan Pumpkin and Chickpea Stew; White Bean Gratin with Olives and Lemon; Double Carrot Soup</li> <li>Dinner--Chinese Chicken with Noodles and Black Bean Sauce; Classic Shepherd's Pie; Lasagna</li> <li>Dessert--Mango Coconut Crumble; Molten Chocolate Cake with Truffle Filling; Peach and Cornbread Shortcake, to name only a few</li> </ul>
Instant one-cup clean-up! No more loads of leftovers that inevitably get tossed in the trash. Put an end to over-buying ingredients only to have them spoil in the crisper. Enjoy instant success with receipes that call for only a few ingredients and cook in one cup, so clean-up is a snap. And your meal in a mug is oh-so delicious!

Mug Meals: Delicious Microwave Recipes

Cooking Methods

Includes forty-four recipes for appealing, colorful salads that add a full array of textures and flavors to the repertoire of this gourmet staple.

Nuevos sabores para ensaladas/ New Flavors for Salads (Reinventando recetas clasicas/ Reinventing Classic Recipes) (Spanish Edition)

Degustis

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