The Complete Idiot's Guide to Asian Cooking


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Using Thai, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese and Chinese dishes, spices, rice, noodles and techniques, you too can create an Asian feast. This book includes techniques and tools, tips for shopping in an Asian market and more than 150 salads, main dishes and desserts.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Slow Cooker Cooking


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Over 200 easy-to-prepare recipes for appetizers, soups, stews, vegetables, breakfast and brunch, main dishes, and desserts.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Slow Cooker Cooking, 2nd Edition


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More than 300 sumptuous recipes from an award-winning author and chef. In this revised and expanded edition, award-winning author and chef Ellen Brown gives you all they need to know to make party appetizers such as spicy cheese fondue, easy classics such as Coq au Vin, vegetarian specialties such as slow-cooked black beans, and cobblers and puddings for dessert. Each chapter offers a great mix of easy, intermediate, and complex recipes.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking for Two


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What do you do when you want to make a great meal for your spouse, but all your recipes say "serves 4 to 6"? You've tried to cut down recipes-simple grade-school fractions, right?-but what do you do for a recipe that requires one egg? And did you know that liquid measurements require a different division system? But don't go rushing back to school yet. Award-winning author and chef Ellen Brown has the answer- The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking for Two! This book offers familiar favourites and new dishes to tempt your taste buds... all specially developed to serve two, without dealing with leftovers for the next week. Each recipe is created to maximize your ingredients and minimize your spending, so you buy only what you need, and use all of what you bought! Also included are recipes for small-batch baking, geared toward satisfying two, so you're walking past the brownies sitting around on the counter for the next several days.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking Substitutions


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Accept all substitutions! In anyone's kitchen-from that of a chef to an amateur cook-there comes a time when an essential ingredient is missing, or perhaps a substitution is needed for a special dietary requirement. That's where this book comes in handy, offering replacements for everything from milk, flour, and eggs to seasonings, sweeteners, and wine, as well as handy conversions for weights and measures used in antiquated family recipes. * Includes vegetarian and vegan substitutions for meat-free dishes * Kitchen-friendly with wipe-clean paper over-board cover * Easy-to-use dictionary-style format * Low-fat and trans-fat substitutions




The Complete Idiot's Guide to High-Fiber Cooking


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Get healthy with fiber, without sacrificing taste. Research shows that a high-fiber diet may help prevent cancer, heart disease, diabetes, digestive disorders, and other serious ailments. In this guide, readers will discover types of fiber and what foods are highest in them; recipes for delicious high-fiber breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks, and desserts; tips on how to put fiber into foods that aren’t high in fiber; and more. • The New England Journal of Medicine reports that diabetic patients who included 50 grams of fiber in their daily diet lowered their glucose levels by 10 percent. • Research has proven that increasing the amount of fiber can help people lose weight. • A higher-fiber diet reduces cholesterol levels.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pressure Cooking


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The only pressure cooker book written with a trained chef. ? Features over 200 delicious recipes.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Sugar-Free Cooking and Baking


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Sugar is verboten for diabetics, detrimental to dieters, and a bad idea for kids. Yet our culture bombards us with refined sugars that raise blood-sugar levels, pack on the pounds, cause behavioral problems, and are suspected to be the culprit behind a host of other serious diseases and disorders. Thanks to more natural and healthy sugar substitutes, people can enjoy sweet-tasting meals and baked goods without worrying about the ills associated with refined white sugar. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Sugar-Free Cooking and Baking gives readers the tools they need to serve their families tasty food without guilt or serious health effects.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Low-Sodium Cooking, 2nd Edition


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• Features 50 delicious new recipes • Includes new meal plan feature that targets readers' daily sodium intake thresholds




The Complete Idiot's Guide Anti-Inflammation Cookbook


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Prevent and alleviate inflammation with over 200 delicious meals in this must-have cookbook! The body's healing response to injury or infection is localized inflammation and it is normal. However, when inflammation moves beyond the local, it becomes abnormal. Much new research shows that abnormal inflammation may be linked to a variety of diseases and conditions, including heart disease, cancer, asthma, diabetes, and arthritis. Researchers suggest that diet can reverse this inflammation and the conditions and diseases caused by it. The Complete Idiot's Guide® Anti-Inflammation Cookbook — a companion to The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Anti-Inflammation Diet — has more than 200 delicious recipes that help to reduce inflammation, along with meal plans and guidance on what to eat and not to eat.