Caldo Verde (Portuguese Cabbage Soup)
This is from the cookbook "Twelve Months of Monastery Soups." I have reduced the oil from 1/2 cup to 1/4 cup to make it a little more healthy. Pour the oil into soup pot and saute onions for five minutes. Add the potatoes, cabbage, chicken [... more]
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Rachael Ray: Just in Time: All-New 30-Minutes Meals, ...
 Perfect for an Adult Couple with Adventuresome Tastes Who Can Read Blue Type and Want Leftovers: The cover of this book is reassuring: The photograph shows a Rachael Ray who seems to have trimmed down and started showing her enthusiasm again. Maybe there' [... more]
CDN$25.95
Amazon CA |
Otherwise Engaged: A Novel
From Amazon.com: After 18 months of dating, hemming, hawing, begging, badgering, and threatening--as well as performing "really sincere fellatio"--the heroine of Otherwise Engaged has finally finagled an engagement ring. Eve seems confident [... more]
CDN$17.95
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HeartSmart Chinese cooking
Worth the effort: This book has two faults, firstly it is not long enough, I would love to see an illustration of each dish (but then it would have to be rather large and expensive. The second fault, it doesn't acknowledge people on a VERY low sodium [... more]
CDN$12.01
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The Provence Cookbook
A better book on Provencal Home Cooking: The cookbooks of 'cuisine Provence' just keep coming. The latest is the new book by Patricia Wells, whose credentials for doing a cookbook on a cuisine of France are impeccable, as she has already written seven (7) [... more]
CDN$34.95
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Jacques Pepin's Simple and Healthy Cooking
Not for busy families: Healthy, perhaps; but simple? My problem with this book was that I couldn't just start with a trip to the grocery store. For example, in order to make one dish, one must first have made 'poultry brown base sauce.' In order to make [... more]
CDN$26.95
Amazon CA |
The Savoy Cookbook
Good Famous Restaurant Book. Not much else: Anton Edelmann's 'The Savoy Cookbook' is a celebrity restaurant coffee table book which must be judged on merits relevant to its type rather than being judged by the same criteria as a regional cookbook or a [... more]
CDN$50.00
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The Perfect Recipe: Getting It Right Every Time -- ...
From Amazon.com: Have you ever felt a little besieged by recipes? Ever opened up the newspaper to the food page and found yet more recipes that may or may not taste like anything you might want to have in your mouth? Ever longed for simplicity, for that [... more]
CDN$33.95
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Sharper Your Knife The Less You Cry
A wonderful love story -- for food, cooking, Paris, partner, life.: The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School, Kathleen Flinn. One of the joys of being a book lover is that people always [... more]
CDN$30.00
Amazon CA |
Sara Moulton Cooks at Home
From Amazon.com: Sara Moulton is a very, very busy woman: Food Network host and personality, executive chef for Gourmet magazine, food editor for Good Morning America, and the mother of two children. Now add to that author of her first cookbook Sara [... more]
CDN$44.95
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Mediterranean Light
Too light for today: Many of the recipes in this cookbook are okay, but when I ordered it I failed to notice that it contains a "Forward by Dean Ornish, M.D." That would have been the tip-off. We all know that too much fat is bad for us, and [... more]
CDN$42.95
Amazon CA |
Cooking with the Diabetic Chef
Quotes from the Media: Connie Martinson Talks Books - "Quote" "...a must for any family with someone who is a diabetic; plus, the recipes are very good." Epinion Review!: Still hot off the press, "Cooking with the Diabetic Chef& [... more]
CDN$31.95
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