Chili Madness


Book Description

Calling all chiliheads! This revised edition of Jane Butel's instant classic includes more than 160 recipes to feed the irresistible passion and teach the methods to chili madness. These recipes are not only for chili, but for all kinds of delicious dishes that use chilies in some creative and unexpected ways. Included throughout are bits of legendary origins and spiritual beginnings, a chili rating scale, and cook-off lore. In addition, Jane guides you through parching and peeling your own dried pods and fresh peppers, the 10-Step Chili Fitness Plan, the controversy of beans vs no beans, and beef vs. pork.




Real Women Eat Chiles


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120 chile-based, low-calorie recipes, plus diet and health information relating to chiles. Real women are featured with photographs and profiles on their lives and use of chiles.




Jane Butel's Tex-Mex Cookbook


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A new edition of a Jane Butel classic is fully revised and updated. Tex-Mex cooking is more popular than ever and Jane Butel, founder of the Pecos Valley Spice Company, makes it simple and easy with hundreds of recipes, for everything from the best guacamole to crab-filled enchiladas.




The Mom 100 Cookbook


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Introducing the lifesaving cookbook for every mother with kids at home—the book that solves the 20 most common cooking dilemmas. What’s your predicament: breakfast on a harried school morning? The Mom 100’s got it—Personalized Pizzas are not only fast but are nutritious, and hey, it doesn’t get any better than pizza for breakfast. Kids making noise about the same old lunch? The Mom 100’s got it—three different Turkey Wraps, plus a Wrap Blueprint delivers enough variety to last for years. Katie Workman, founding editor in chief of Cookstr.com and mother of two school-age kids, offers recipes, tips, techniques, attitude, and wisdom for staying happy in the kitchen while proudly keeping it homemade—because homemade not only tastes best, but is also better (and most economical) for you. The Mom 100 is 20 dilemmas every mom faces, with 5 solutions for each: including terrific recipes for the vegetable-averse, the salad-rejector, for the fish-o-phobe, or the overnight vegetarian convert. “Fork-in-the-Road” variations make it easy to adjust a recipe to appeal to different eaters (i.e., the kids who want bland and the adults who don’t). “What the Kids Can Do” sidebars suggest ways for kids to help make each dish.




El Paso Chile Company


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Just a coyote's howl away from the point where three states and two countries come together lies the site of the El Paso Chile Company, a mother/son operation that grew out of Norma and Park Kerr's love of chilis and the unique cuisine of the Southwest. With the expertise of cookbook author Michael McLaughlin, the Kerrs present The El Paso Chile Company's Texas Border Cookbook, the cookbook that makes all the mouthwatering food of the borderland accessible to every home cook. Here you will find over 150 recipes -- including old favorites and innovative dishes -- guaranteed to please the most hot-headed "chile heads" and everyone else who loves Tex-Mex food.




A Taste of Enchantment


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Capture the beauty and spirit of New Mexico with authentic and contemporary southwestern recipes. Lifestyles and traditions are embraced in full-color photographs. Includes recipes from some of New Mexico's finest restaurants. Endorsements from Jane Butel, Martin Rios of the Old House, and Jim White of Casa Vieja.




Cylindrical English Wine and Beer Bottles, 1735-1850


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For this study 211 cylindrical sealed and dated bottles and 127 completeundated bottles were examined to establish criteria for dating cylindrical"wine" bottles made between 1735 and 1850. Based on capacity, body height, base diameter, and dates of manufacture, four distinct body styles wereisolated.




Chevys Fresh Mex Cookbook


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Recipes for Fresh Mex, Sol Food, Fajita's, and desserts.