The Spice Kitchen: Everyday Cooking with Organic Spices Review

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(More customer reviews)The Spice Kitchen is a good introduction to the use of spice for those who have been timid of doing so. An apt description from the back cover is that this book is "a fresh new way to make everyday foods more delicious...."
Hence, most of the recipes consist of an already-familiar dish that has been jazzed up with the addition of one or few spices. I find this to be a good approach for those who are inexperienced in using spices. The chance of success is high, compared to something like a complex Indian curry. It also allows the novice to clearly taste the effect of the spice.
Some dishes that illustrate this approach include:
Curried Deviled Eggs with cumin, coriander and turmeric.
Popcorn spiced with Creole seasoning.
Caramel corn with cloves.
Cheeseburgers with ancho chile and lemon zest.
Potato salad with fennel seed and dill weed.
While there are a few recipes that include a more complex blend of spices (Jamaica Jerk Chicken, Tandoori Chicken Skewers with Curry Butter sauce), most recipes are fairly simple. For this reason, cooks already experienced with the use of spices will probably find this book a bit lacking.
The ultimate goal of this book was to provide ways to spice up simple daily home cooking, and it meets that goal. The book is also visually appealing and well-written. Combined with a rack of spices, it would make a good gift for less experienced cooks.

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The Spice Kitchen offers more than one hundred delicious recipes for using herbs and spices to add vibrant flavors to your food at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and any time in between. From Spiced Yogurt and Granola Parfaits, to Strawberry Salad with Cinnamon-Balsamic Vinaigrette, Spiced Guacamole, Tarragon Chicken Potpie, Clove Spiced Caramel Corn, and more, this exciting cookbook is full of inventive recipes, information, and tips for using herbs and spices. Best of all, the recipes are easy and fuss free--a must for busy home cooks who want to spend less time in the kitchen and more time at the family table. And with dozens of full-color photographs and illustrations, The Spice Kitchen is as beautiful as it is practical.The Spice Kitchen changes everything, using herbs and spices to add special twists to favorite family recipes, from macaroni and cheese, to burgers, chicken salad, deviled eggs, and much more. It's the only all-purpose cookbook for spicing up everyday meals. Not just exotic extras, spices from around the world make it easier--and much more fun--to turn out delicious and healthy food. The simple but flavorful recipes and ideas in The Spice Kitchen will make old family favorites new again--and bring everyone to the table.

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Spelt Healthy Quality Whole Food Cooking and Baking with Spelt Review

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(More customer reviews)So many modern wheats have been genetically engineered for specialized uses ranging from 'pop tarts to envelope glue' that they have actually become deleterious to the health of many people. 'Spelt' is an organic 'bread' grain that retains its ancient genetic profile, is naturally self-enriched, especially high in B vitamins, and for those who have developed an aversion to modern wheats, far easier to digest. It is an all-around grain that enjoys an excellent flavor, is absolutely nutritious, and is suited to whole food dishes ranging from baguettes to delicate fruit pastries, from stuffed mushrooms to soups, and salads to pizzas. "Spelt Healthy! is a specialized cookbook that culinary expert Marsha Cosentino has compiled to showcase the versatility of this ancient grain in baking and cooking. There are more than 200 featured, kitchen-cook friendly recipes based on spelt. One of the more unusual nutrition informations provided are the Blood Type eating notations (A, B. AB, O). Another special feature is the section of 'Food Intolerances and Allergies'. There is even a 'Shopping for Spelt' appendix. The recipes range from Whole Grain Waffles with Spelt Sprouts and Fruit Bits; to Pao Doce (Massa Sovada or Portuguese Sweet Bread); to Coated Pan Fried Fish Fillets; to Chocolate Chip Florentines. Combining the features of a reference, a guide, and a recipe collection, "Spelt Healthy!" is a welcome addition to personal, family, professional, and community library specialized cookbook collections.

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How to Cook Everything : Easy Weekend Cooking Review

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(More customer reviews)This new cookbook offers 90 weekend entertaining and make-ahead recipes. 90!!! How to Cook Everything: Easy Weekend Cooking shows the reader the easy way to shop for, prepare, and cook every recipe. I'm thrilled to own it.

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Cook something special this weekend!Classic Beef Stew. Bread Pudding. Lamb Shanks with Tomatoes and Olives. Chocolate Mousse. Weekends are when you can indulge yourself a little, and with How to Cook Everything(TM): Easy Weekend Cooking, you can enjoy making delicious comfort food favorites and exciting specialty dishes.Mark Bittman, the award-winning author of the bestselling kitchen classic How to Cook Everything(TM), shares his favorite simple-and infinitely flexible-weekend recipes. You'll be able to prepare bountiful brunches, fun outdoor meals, family feasts, even dinner parties. To inspire you and help you plan your meals, you'll find Bittman's straight talk on cooking and special features, including:* Creative recipe variations and ideas* Tips for shopping, preparing, and cooking the recipes* Illustrations to demystify trickier techniques* Menu suggestions for a Lunch Buffet, a Summer Weekend Cookout, a Weekend Dinner with Good Friends, and more* At-a-glance icons highlighting recipes also good for weekdays

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Sexual Healing: A Novel Review

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(More customer reviews)Who would have ever thought that women could have such power over their sexual lives. Jill Nelson gives that power to us in "spades". This amusing, erotic, sometimes alarming, always entertaining first novel is a must-read from beginning to end. Ms. Nelson captures the frustration and loneliness of African-American women and offers a solution which is unorthodox, pleasurable, and, frequently, downright hysterical. The book is erotic and moving as well as roll on the floor funny. Some of the scenes are so steamy that I was loathe to read them on the subway for fear of embarrasing myself! Ms. Nelson's first work of fiction is as well-written and engaging as her previous non-fiction offerings. The main characters, Lydia and Acey, are fully realized, infinitely human, and engaging, and the plotlines' twists and turns keep you turning pages with a fury. I read the entire book over the weekend! Not content to write a book which deals with women's concerns about finding love and/or sex in the 21st century, Ms. Nelson throws political intrigue, race relations, ghost spouses, and transexuals into the mix. All of these elements come together to bring us a read that is at once thought provoking and entertaining. Don't just walk, run to get this book! You won't regret it. And once you've finished reading Sexual Healing, you'll find yourself clamoring for more fiction from this superb and uproarious author.

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Night Lamp Review

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(More customer reviews)Night Lamp will be satisfying to Vance fans: it is Science Fiction in Vance's most familiar style, elegantly written, full of ironic bits, often downright funny, portraying at least three complex social structures based on intricate manners. It also shares the weaknesses of much of Vance's work: it is discursive, the Science content is notional at best (for instance, his spaceships seem basically to be automobiles that can fly in space and travel at many multiples of the speed of light without relativistic effects), and it seemed short one rewrite.
The story is that of Jaro Fath, a young boy who is found, on the remote planet of Camberwell, by Hilyer and Anthea Fath, while in the process of being beaten nearly to death by local thugs. The Faths rescue Jaro, and in the process of restoring him to health it is necessary that his memory of the first six years of his life be erased. Hilyer and Anthea take Jaro back to their home world of Gallingale, where they are somewhat unconventional (by Gallingale standards) university professors, and they raise Jaro as their son.
Jaro grows up intelligent and strong, but his life is complicated by several factors. He hears voices in his head which seem to be associated with his early life. His ambition to become a spaceman and seek out the mysteries of the lost six years of his life is thwarted as much as possible by the Faths, who fear that he will come to grief tracing his apparently violent history. And he inherits from the Faths disdain for the social system of Gallingale, which is based on the concept of "striving" up social "ledges", trying to reach clubs of higher and higher status. This disdain leads to conflict with his fellow students, and naturally seems to increase his interest in a classmate (Skirlet Hutsenreiter, a wonderful name!) who is hereditarily a Clam Muffin: that is, a member of one of the highest ranked clubs.
As Jaro comes to maturity, he slowly learns more and more about his past, and of course is eventually free to track down the mystery of his birth and how he came to be alone on Camberwell. However, as I said, the plot is discursive, and the resolutions seem too often to be the result of coincidence. Often great difficulties melt out of Jaro's way. Furthermore, the climaxes of the book (there are a few) seem muffled: and the final climax is not that of the original plot problem but of one introduced only a few tens of pages prior to the end. That said, the book is interesting to read throughout, and Jaro's story is romantic and is resolved more or less satisfactorily.
The prose style is a true joy: Vance is his inimitable self. His writing has a reputation for ornateness, but it seems to me that his sentences are in fact simple, well constructed, and often relatively short. The ornateness comes from the wonderful names (of characters, of stars and planets, of the clubs on Gallingale), and from the elegance and formality of the writing, including the dialect. Vance's work has usually, it seems to me, had an ironic edge: this book has full measure of irony, and is also often much more forthrightly funny than many of his novels.

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Harry's Roadhouse Cookbook: Square Meals from Santa Fe's Favorite Kitchen Review

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(More customer reviews)I thought that this is supposed to be a forum for book reviews, not personal attacks! Suzy Q doesn't know what the heck she is talking about. I lived in Santa Fe and worked for Harry and Peyton for over a year and know that they treat all of their staff, hispanic and white, like family. And the reason that I even found this cookbook was because I miss their food so much, that I have periodically done searches to see if they have a website yet to email Peyton and ask for recipes. If the book is beautiful it is because they do things well and have good friends who do things well. I anticipate it to be a reflection of the warm and quirky, yummy eating experience that Harry's is and I can't wait to recieve my copy in the mail. Suzy Q wouldn't know something special if it hit her in the head.

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Harry's Roadhouse takes its motto very seriously: "A Square Meal Every Time." Harry Shapiro has been serving up the very best comfort food, with a unique Southwestern twist, for over a decade. This Santa Fe institution is beloved by locals and tourists alike who have come to rely on the home-cooked comfort food served with a smile-if they can find a spot to park, that is! Now get the recipes that made Harry's Roadhouse famous, from the Catfish PoBoy to the Trout Stuffed with Pinons-Sage Butter and the Wild Rice Pancakes to the famous Turkey Meatloaf! This is down-home, delicious food with a hearty flair and lots of personality. Harry's Roadhouse features easy-to-prepare recipes for regional American dishes such as:Breakfast-Blueberry Buckwheat Pancakes, Blue Corn Waffles, Roadhouse Granola Soups-Moroccan Butternut Squash Stew, Chile Corn ChowderEntrees-Jambalaya, Smothered Pork Chops, Roadhouse-Style Pulled Pork ShoulderSalads-Fried Green Tomato with Sweet Corn VinaigretteSquare Meals-Roadhouse BBQ Chicken with Texas BBQ Sauce, Roadhouse Meatloaf,Blue Corn Turkey EnchiladasDesserts-Chocolate Bread Pudding, Key Lime Pie, Classic Apple PiePlus recipes for Sides, Eggs, Vegetable dishes, Appetizers and more! If you're looking for an authentic taste of Santa Fe, there's no better place to get it than Harry's-except your kitchen!

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Easy Low Carb Living: Simple & Practical Low Carb Lifestyle Advice Review

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(More customer reviews)This 2nd book by Patricia Haakonson is a wonderful companion to her 1st successful book "Easy Low Carb Cooking". It is co-authored by her husband, a retired physician, and together they provide lots of enthusiasm, encouragement and valuable information! They take the mystery out of the "low carbohydrate" trend.

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