Just in time for summer barbecue season comes a comprehensive cookbook with 300 recipes for grilled items. And it’s not just meat. There are recipes for grilled fruit, grilled vegetables, and a variety of fish and seafood. The authors of “300 Big & Bold Barbecue & Grilling Recipes,” Judith Fertig and Karen Adler call the book’s theme “global goes local” because the recipes incorporate ingredients and techniques from around the world.
Among the recipes included are Flamed-Seared Fennel and Potato Salad, Island Grilled Papaya with Fresh Lime, Planked and Pepper-Crusted Maple-Glazed Salmon, Wasabi-Grilled Scallops with Japanese …read more

What is Glycogen? How can you replace fat with fruit in baking? How does sun-drying work? These are just three of the thousands of questions answered in the new, comprehensive cooking reference, “The Science of Good Food.”

This 611-page encyclopedia of food goes letter by letter through ordinary (like eggs) and obscure (like dulce de leche) foods, cooking styles, and cooking and food terms. It’s fascinating reading for beginning and experienced cooks alike.
The encyclopedia-style entries would be enough to make this a great book, but “The Science of Good Food” also includes a variety of recipes, interspersed …read more

If you read and/or buy just one cookbook this season, make it “Chocolate for Breakfast,” the new pictorial cookbook produced by the people at Napa Valley’s Oak Knoll Inn, written by Barbara Passino, and with photographs by Hoberman. This delightful 285-page tome is nice enough as a coffee table book or to display in your kitchen, but in addition to the beautiful, color photographs, the book features some surprising–and tasty–food combinations.

Among the more than 100 recipes are fun things like Chocolate Tacos (chocolate tortillas filled with berries and sorbet), Watermelon and Feta Salad (dusted with chocolate!), a Lacy Singapore …read more

The latest volume from Food Network darling, Paula Deen and her family includes a large number of healthy eating recipes. Yes! The queen of fried chicken and biscuits and gravy admits herself that she can’t always indulge her taste for high-calorie foods. However, she’s not about to resort to eating carrot sticks out of the refrigerator.

“The Deen Family Cookbook,” which will be available for sale starting April 7, includes such healthy dishes as Spicy Chicken and Green Chile Chili, Grilled Orange-glazed Pork Tenderloin, and Grilled Beef Tenderloin and Vidalia Onion Skewers.
The book, available at most online and …read more

The New Lasagna Cookbook
by Maria Bruscino Sanchez
Maria is wild about lasagna and is willing to bet that you will be too, if you aren’t already! Just listen to some of these dishes:

Sicilian chicken sauce lasagna
Arugula and prosciutto lasagna
Asparagus and goat cheese lasagna
Tortellini lasagna Bolognese

Maria has traveled all over the world to collect the inspiration for this book. Most of the recipes feature the traditional broad noodles that we think of with lasagna, but some of her varieties use crepes, phyllo, tortillas, and even sliced polenta.

There’s much to drool over in this wonderful new cookbook! I made the …read more

Courtesy of The Taste of Home Cookbook and website!
Warm Broccoli Cheese Spread
I cut this recipe out of a newspaper a year ago and decided to trim it down by substituting fat-free and reduced-fat ingredients. Whenever I make this for an occasion, I end up being asked for the recipe. -Patricia Moore of Toledo, Ohio
SERVINGS: 14
CATEGORY: Lower Fat
METHOD: Baked
TIME: Prep: 15 min. Bake: 25 min.
Ingredients:
* 1 package (8 ounces) fat-free cream cheese, cubed
* 1 cup (8 ounces) reduced-fat sour cream
* 1 envelope Italian salad dressing mix
* 3 cups frozen chopped broccoli, thawed, drained and patted dry
* 2 cups (8 ounces) shredded …read more

I want to tell you about the most delightful cookbook that I’ve read through in awhile! It’s call The Taste of Home Cookbook, the new revised edition, and it’s a companion book to the cooking magazine by the same name! I love everything about this book: it’s got a notebook style binding, so that you can remove sheets if you need to, it’s well-organized, prep and cooking times are clearly marked…I could go on and on. But the best thing about it is the selection of recipes!
I’m kind of appetizer-challenged. We’ve all got a weak spot, …read more

New Good Food
by Margaret Wittenberg
I read cookbooks for fun. And for knowledge, but mostly for fun, because I think food and cooking is lots of fun. The cover of this new book caught my eye immediately, and I decided to settle in with it one evening. Even though the subtitle (Essential ingredients for cooking and eating) should have prepared me, I was still taken by surprise. This is not a cookbook, but an ingredient book!
I love the way it’s organized, covering foods by categories (fruits, grains, seafood, sweeteners, etc), alphabetically within the category. There are also charts sprinkled liberally throughout …read more

The Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook
by Beth Hensperger
Publisher’s Weekly writes:
The 300-plus recipes are so far-ranging it’s hard to believe a bread exists that isn’t included here. There are white breads and sourdoughs, all manner of whole wheat and grain breads and breads featuring nuts and dried fruits, cheese and savory flavorings. There are crusty ciabattas, a sturdy Irish Potato Brown Bread and a variety of challahs. Hensperger also includes dozens of sweet breads, including croissants, coffee cakes and traditional holiday confections. There are recipes for pizza and flatbreads, as well as selections from a variety of traditions, from Alsatian …read more

Oprah Winfrey has a new cookbook out, called The Oprah Magazine Cookbook. Many of the recipes are a bit more involved than a thirty minute meal would allow for, but there are some stunningly good recipes included. I found a few online at Oprah’s website, and here’s one that fits within the boundaries of a sixty minute meal anyway!

Grilled Tenderloin of Beef with Spicy Fresh Herb Vinaigrette
Created by Celia Barbour
From Great Food in the August 2007 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
Serves 8 to 10
Vinaigrette:
* 1 cup parsley leaves, loosely packed
* 1 cup basil leaves, loosely packed
* 1/2 …read more