The Complete Idiot's Guide to Easy Freezer Meals

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Easy Freezer Meals
Author: Cheri Sicard
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2011-04-05
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1101513675

"Freezers are your friends!" Freezers allow busy home chefs to plan their family menus a weekend, a week, or even a month in advance. Now expert chef and flood blogger Cheri Sicard presents recipes for 120 delicious, healthy meals that can be frozen and then reheated—and still taste fantastic. • Over 120 delicious, unique and easy to prepare recipes • Great cooking tips designed to help the home cook • Flexible menu planning from a weekend to a full month

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Homemade Ice Cream

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Homemade Ice Cream
Author: Dick Warren
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2006
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781592574841

Even with the proliferation of brand-name ice creams and ice cream shop chains and the availability of numerous flavours, homemade ice cream remains as popular as ever. You have only to look at the variety of home ice cream machines and the number of companies manufacturing them to see it. Homemade ice cream has a special taste that you can't buy, and it is a family activity and summer tradition in many homes. But homemade ice cream isn't as simple as it seems for the novice, and even families that have been making it for years look for new recipes and ideas to challenge their skills and their palates. In The Complete Idiot's Guide to Homemade Ice Cream, readers will find: *More than 200 recipes, ranging from the simple to the sublime *Step-by-step instructions for making ice cream, sherbet, sorbet, frozen yogurt, and gelato *Topping and serving recipes and ideas *Recipes and instructions for ice cream-based and other frozen drinks

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Couponing

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Couponing
Author: Rachel Singer Gordon
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2012-04-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1101580119

• Combines couponing advice with up–to–date online coupon tips and a sensible approach

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition
Author: Julieanna Hever
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2011-08-02
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1101543361

The healthy vegan diet-made easy. Vegans face their own special challenges when it comes to nutrition and this book provides answers. There are about one million vegans in the U.S. and about 50,000 new ones every year. A growing number of physicians advocate a completely plant-based diet for many of their patients who suffer from diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. In The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Plant-Based Nutrition, readers will find: ? Where to get nutrients that others get from meat and dairy. ? How to avoid the vegan pitfall of overfed but undernourished. ? How to spot hidden animal ingredients in packaged foods. ? Tips for eating at restaurants. ? Special considerations for children and seniors.

Complete Idiot's Guide to Twenty-minute Meals

Complete Idiot's Guide to Twenty-minute Meals
Author: Tod Dimmick
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2002
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780028644196

-- A focus on great meals in 20 minutes or less! A better time-promise than the competition! -- Clear, easy and functional line-art shows technique and equipment -- not cartoony. Families today have less time than ever to sit down and enjoy a meal together! And who has time to cook? Making the most of precious minutes in the kitchen has lead to one of the biggest trends in home cooking - the quick and easy meal. Filled with delicious recipes that the family - including the kids- will love. The Complete Idiot's Guide "RM" to 20-Minute Meals gives you a variety of recipes that look much more difficult and time consuming than they are. Recipes focus on timesaving meals - such as using prepared sauces as a base for your dish, adding prepared components to your meal and shortcutting time intensive techniques. Create terrific appetizers; soups, salads, meat dishes, pasta, seafood, kid favorites, vegetables, breads, sweets and more in under 20-minutes per recipe. Complete with time saving techniques and ingredients, Chef Dimmick also includes menus for feasts such as Easter, Thanksgiving, July 4th, brunch and dinner for the boss!

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Low-Carb Meals, 2nd Edition

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Low-Carb Meals, 2nd Edition
Author: Lucy Beale
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2012-06-05
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1101589124

In the world of diets, low-carb dieting is still very popular. Reformed from its early no-carb version, today’s low-carb diet relies on cutting down carbohydrates in your diet and replacing them with protein. Numerous diets today—and even some diabetic diets—rely on cutting carbohydrates. Cooks today are looking for low-carb alternatives that aren’t bland diet book recipes. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Low-Carb Meals, second edition, has lower carb recipes and more vegetarian and vegan selections than before. As many readers point out, low-carb diet cookbooks read like they were written by scientists, not cooks. Enter cookbook authors Lucy Beale and Sandy Couvillon with more than 330 taste-tempting recipes for low-carb alternatives. Moreover, the recipes have additional nutritional information—not just carb/gram data, but also protein replacement data and complex and simple carbohydrates nutritional information. With everything from breakfast (egg dishes, of course) to late-night snacks, Beale and Couvillon offer hundreds of delicious recipes for the die-hard dieter and health-conscious cook that appeal to the family and are easy to make. This cookbook offers fantastic salads, bread and pasta recipes, grains, potatoes, rice, desserts, fruit options—and even an entire chocolate chapter.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Low-Fat Vegan Cooking

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Low-Fat Vegan Cooking
Author: Bo Rinaldi
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2012-08-07
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1615642625

Vegan cooking is often associated with being healthy, but it’s not always low in fat. The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Low-Fat Vegan Cooking brings a fresh and delicious approach to the vegan kitchen, but minus so much of the fat that can often be added to make vegan dishes more flavorful. The vegan chef will open readers up to a universe of fantastic, 100% vegan recipes that offer the added benefit of being low in fat and lower in calories. Readers will be able to craft menus and discover recipes that go from variations on everyday comfort foods to delicious, nutrient-dense dishes that offer maximum nutritional benefit.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Preserving Food

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Preserving Food
Author: Karen K. Brees, Ph.D.
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2009-07-07
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1101081996

You can preserve just about everything-from soup to nuts. Food contamination scandals, the rising cost of food, organic eating, and better nutrition-all these factors contribute to the upsurge in interest in food preservation. While there are many books on canning, freezing, and pickling foods, few are as comprehensive as The Complete Idiot's Guide to Preserving Food, in which readers learn how easy and beneficial food preservation can be with detailed, step-by-step instructions. -The sales of jars for preservation have jumped 28% in the past year, indicating a strong increase in interest in preserving food -The author is a Master Food Preserver with over 40 years of expertise -Advice on preserving for special needs diets is unique to this book -Provides instructional photos

The Complete Idiot's Guide Greens Cookbook

The Complete Idiot's Guide Greens Cookbook
Author: Trish Sebben-Krupka
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2013-05-07
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 161564346X

The Complete Idiot's Guide® Greens Cookbook includes more than 200 mostly vegan and many vegetarian recipes for greens and provides nutritional and preparation information to help readers get the most flavor and nutrition from the greens they eat. In addition to traditional greens, this cookbook covers many newly-popular greens, such as bok choy, beet, kale, and dandelion.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Losing 20 Pounds in 2 Months Fast-Track

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Losing 20 Pounds in 2 Months Fast-Track
Author: Wendy Watkins
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2013-02-05
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1615644024

The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Losing 20 Pounds in 2 Months Fast-Track provides meal plans and exercises designed to take off 20 pounds in 2 months or 10 pounds in 1 month. It is a short, simple, step-by-step diet with meal plans and packed with useful tips to make it easy and healthy. Written by a gym owner and trainer, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Losing 20 Pounds in 2 Months Fast-Track offers everything you need to lose weight fast.