Wild Feasts or Justin Wilson Gourmet and Gourmand Cookbook

Wild Feasts: A Game and Fish Cookbook

Author: Inc Ducks Unlimited

Wild Feasts presents a cornucopia of tantalizing fish and game preparations, from sharptail grouse pate appetizers and pheasant marsala to walleye au gratin, shiitake fish fillets, sour cream dove enchiladas and braised venison shanks. Recipes include zesty chowders, savory soups and sauces, mouth-watering marinades, and delicious complementary desserts and drinks. Cooking techniques cover a wide range of approaches too, from the more elaborate Cajun-style arrangements to simple kabobs and casseroles. (9 1/4 x 8 1/4, 264 pages, recipes)

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Justin Wilson Gourmet and Gourmand Cookbook

Author: Justin Wilson

Included are many of the recipes demonstrated on "Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cookin'", seen on PBS. A sprinkling of the distinctive Justin Wilson humor and color photographs featuring Justin displaying his skills in the kitchen and entertaining his friends capture the earthy joie de vivre that follows Justin everywhere.

Complete Book of Gourd Carving or Balanced Plate

Complete Book of Gourd Carving

Author: Jim Widess

Jim Widess and Ginger Summit, the best-selling authors of The Complete Book of Gourd Craft and Making Gourd Instruments, have done it again: they've produced another winner to delight the many crafters who work with gourds. Large, lavish, and astonishingly comprehensive, this breathtaking volume introduces every tool and every technique associated with gourd carving, offers fabulous projects that advance in difficulty, and presents a gallery of works designed to inspire. See how to choose and prepare a gourd, impress the surface with a design, and work with green gourds. The magnificent methods of decorative carving covered include fretwork, engraving, chip carving, carving with gouges, relief carving, inlay, and deep relief or sculptural carving. Throughout, color photographs of exquisite carved gourds present crafts styles fromcountries around the world. A Selection of the Crafters Choice Book Club.

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Balanced Plate: The Essential Elements of Whole Foods and Good Health

Author: Renee Loux

Famed raw foods chef Renée Loux celebrates the growing whole foods movement with over 150 delicious, creative recipes and practical advice
for leading a healthy, whole life

In her first book, Living Cuisine, Renée Loux showed how nutritious and satisfying raw foods cuisine can be. Now she takes a broader look at the benefits of a diet rich in natural, whole foods. Under the banner of "nutritional cross-training," Renée outlines the basic principles of such dietary plans as macrobiotics and Ayurveda, and dishes up flavorful whole foods recipes for optimal health––including Ratatouille Thin Crust Pizza, Roasted Spring Vegetable Salad, and Lemon Vanilla Ginger Snaps––with a nod to gluten-free living, blood sugar balance, and boosted immunity.

You are what you eat, Renée explains, but you are also what you use to clean your house and your skin, and so sprinkled throughout the book readers will find ideas for introducing the whole-foods philosophy to their home and beauty routines, including tips for composting and choosing a healthy water filter.

When Living Cuisine appeared, Alicia Silverstone applauded Renée’s recipes, saying: "Incredibly rich and delicious and full of health and restorative energy, her food is medicine." Part eco-friendly cookbook and part organic lifestyle guide, this new book reflects that same spirit, while presenting the essential elements of living well through whole foods, and living responsibly for a sustainable future.

Enlightened Cakes or Allergy Cooking with Ease

Enlightened Cakes: More Than 100 Decadently Light Layer Cakes, Bundt Cakes, Cupcakes, Cheesecakes, Tea Cakes, and More, All with Less Fat and Fewer Calories

Author: Camilla V Saulsbury

If you have had a lifelong love affair with cake, Enlightened Cakes is for you. It contains a cake for every occasion. Triple-Tiered Chocolate Fudge Cake and Dulce de Leche Layer Cake are wonderful and just right for the perfect birthday. For a fuss-free cake for afternoon coffee with friends, Cardamom-Scented Citrus Loaf or One-Bowl Chocolate Buttermilk Cake will do the trick (and can be mixed, assembled, and in the oven in less than ten minutes). More than a dozen choices are included for the winter holidays, and autumn refreshments abound too, including the spicy and oh-so-moist Pumpkin Cranberry Cake (only 6 grams of fat per serving). For summer occasions try Fresh Blackberry Shortcakes with Brown Sugar Biscuits or Peaches and Cream Cupcakes, both unforgettable confections for a Fourth of July gathering.

These cakes are not hard to make. The recipes are straightforward, the ingredients commonly available, and the techniques geared toward the home baker. All have been field tested, which means all of them work. And all follow well-recognized "enlightened" guidelines for healthy eating, including no more than 10 grams of fat per serving, utilization of healthy fats and oils, and incorporation of whole grains when possible. A nutritional analysis is included with every recipe, listing a breakdown of calories, protein, fat, saturated fat, carbohydrates, sodium, and cholesterol per serving. Enlightened Cakes is the second volume in the Enlightened Cooking series.

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Allergy Cooking with Ease: The No Wheat, Milk, Eggs, Corn, and Soy Cookbook

Author: Nicolette M Dumk

Over 200 family-tested recipes designed to meet many types of dietary needs.

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This book asks and answers the questions, ``How, then, can we live?'' Not only do folks with multiple allergies have to avoid completely many common foods that are the basis of our national diet, they also must rotate other foods or food families, eating them just once or twice a week. Dumke provides recipes for a variety of foods, including desserts, ice cream, pizza, and other popular delights that allergy patients must give up. Many of the recipes, such as the ones for no-yeast bread, pizza crust, and teething biscuits, offer variations based on alternate flours. The book is enhanced by several indexes and tables. Food-family tables for all common plant and animal foods are indexed; there is a complete allergen avoidance index; an index to recipes by grains and alternatives; and a general index. This is a valuable addition to cookery collections and health collections and a helpful reference tool as well.-- Carol Cubberly, Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg

Natural Gourmet or Saving Dinner for the Holidays

Natural Gourmet

Author: Annemarie Colbin

Annemarie Colbin learned early of the important relationship between food and health: having grown up in a vegetarian household, she spent many years integrating Eastern eating philosophies with Western habits, studying the works of everyone from J.I. Rodale and George Ohsawa to Julia Child and James Beard. With The Natural Gourmet, Colbin takes her ideas about healthful eating a step further with meals that nourish body and soul, and that are elegant enough to serve to company.

The recipes included in The Natural Gourmet are the result of a collaborative effort by Colbin and ten students from her Natural Gourmet Cookery School in Manhattan. Each recipe is classified according to the Chinese Theory of the Five Phases, making it easy to combine the various courses to create a balanced, harmonious meal. Among the delicious dishes you'll find are:
— Curried Apple-Squash Bisque
— Mushrooms Stuffed with Garlic and Rosemary
— San Franciscan Pizza
— Lissa's Homemade Black Pepper Pasta with Scallion-Butter Sauce
— Stuffed Cabbage Rolls
— Jalapeno Corn Bread
— Japanese Red Bean Soup
— Lentil Croquettes
— Potato-Cabbage Casserole with Dill
— Black Bean Salad with Corn and Red Pepper
— Pasta Salad with Zucchini and Chick-peas
— Poached Salmon Fillets with Mock Hollandaise
— Almond Flan with Raspberry Sauce
— Ginger Lace Cookies
— Orange Loaf with Walnuts
— and many more

All the recipes are in keeping with Colbin's belief that food should be whole, fresh, local, and seasonal — and, of course, delicious. Much more than simply a cookbook, The NaturalGourmet presents a combination of food preparation and philosophy that come together in a plan for healthful and graceful living.

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Saving Dinner for the Holidays: Menus, Recipes, Shopping Lists, and Timelines for Spectacular, Stress-Free Holidays and Family Celebrations

Author: Leanne Ely

Don't Just Celebrate -- Relax!

We all know that holidays are meant to be fun. But for the cook planning the feast, the holidays can inspire dread. Feeding the family on a daily basis is hard enough. Making the meal both special and delicious can raise the bar out of sight.

In Saving Dinner for the Holidays bona fide Dinner Diva Leanne Ely will show you that festive meals can be as easy and relaxing as they are tasty. She plans the menus, provides comprehensive, itemized shopping lists that are organized by supermarket section, includes heirloom recipes, and even includes the all-important timeline so that your party goes off without a hitch. She also gives you a big helping hand in the kitchen and offers tips on how to make your table sparkle with warmth and beauty.

There's a Valentine's Day Chocolate Feast not to be missed, a Mother's Day dinner that can actually be prepared by Dad and the kids, a Fourth of July picnic that lights up the palate, and many other red-letter feasts. There are even recipes that help turn leftovers into delectable dishes.