tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86583058876531228692018-09-26T18:37:45.333-07:00Reviews and Recipes from Indie, Healthy, Old-Favorite Classic and Brand-Spanking New Cookbooks.Renee Sheltonnoreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8658305887653122869.post-68729287072237787612017-09-30T20:54:00.003-07:002017-09-30T20:54:56.968-07:00

A wonderful vegan cookbook with simplified recipes. Read the Cook Lively! review and try the Orange Creamsicle Ice Cream Cake recipe! Enjoy, Renee Shelton The Cookbook Papers :) ------------------------------------ +Renee Shelton Twitter: @121degreesC

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Kitchen Matters, More than 100 recipes and tips to transform the way you cook and eat - wholesome, nourishing, unforgettable. Read the review and try a recipe from the book: Skillet Chicken with Asparagus. Enjoy, Renee Shelton The Cookbook Papers :) ------------------------------------ +Renee Shelton Twitter: @121degreesC

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The Sweet Potato Diet, plus try a recipe from the book - Fried Sweet Potato Rice. Make it for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Enjoy, Renee Shelton The Cookbook Papers :) ------------------------------------ +Renee Shelton Twitter: @121degreesC

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  Read the full review on Sand and Succotash, and try a recipe from the book, Tuna Patties. Skinny Liver: A Proven Program to Prevent and Reverse the New Silent Epidemic Fatty Liver Disease – Review.  Enjoy, Renee Shelton The Cookbook Papers :) ------------------------------------ +Renee Shelton Twitter: @121degreesC

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A great cookbook filled with pitmaster profiles, classic recipes, and the tips and stories pitmasters share. Read the full review from the All Q'd Up barbecue blog, and try a recipe from the book. Book Info: Pitmaster by Andy Husbands and Chris Hart. Fair Winds Press; 2017. ISBN13: 978-1592337583. Hardcover and ebook versions available. Enjoy, Renee Shelton The Cookbook Papers :) -

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A great baking book with traditional challah, laminated breads, flatbreads, and stuffed breads all greatly described and made.   Book Info: Breaking Breads by Uri Scheft Artisan; 2016. ISBN13: 9781579656829. Hardcover and ebook versions available. Read the full review on the Pastry Sampler blog, and try one of the recipes. Enjoy, Renee Shelton The Cookbook Papers :) ------------------

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Capstone Young Readers: Grades 3-9. Create desserts that are treats for the eyes! Decorate like a pro with these fun ideas and tips to make amazing creations, such as a lollipop disco ball, nail polish bottle cake pops, alien cookies, and armadillo cupcakes. You may decide your creations are too awesome to eat!  Dessert Designer by Dana Meachen Rau is a fun, simplified baking book that is

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Blurb: Making bread is an ancient craft and a fulfilling experience, a skill that is learnt by touch and feel. There is nothing more satisfying than kneading, pulling, stretching and punching the dough, using a little yeast and sugar to transform its lumpen beginnings, as if by alchemy, into a loaf. But it's not all hard work. To get a truly wonderful bread, you can use a starter to

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Blurb: If you're a parent or a caregiver, you know that kids are hungry all the time. And while you want to give them the best, snack time can be a true test. How do you avoid the convenient-but-unhealthy storebought treats and instead provide something that not only tastes good, but is good for them them too?With The Best Homemade Kids' Snacks on the Planet, you'll find more than 200+

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Blurb: Cook up some delicious, down-home goodness with this cookbook of more than seventy-five sweet and savory recipes from Brian Emmett, grand prize winner of CBS’s The American Baking Competition. In 2013, Brian Emmett burst onto the culinary scene with his charm, confidence, and superior baking and cooking skills on season one of The American Baking Competition. He won over the

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Blurb: A DIY guide to making the salty, sweet, tangy, and sometimes spicy pickles of Japan, featuring 16 recipes for traditional tsukemono as well as new favorites with innovative ingredients and techniques. For Asian food aficionados and preservers and picklers looking for new frontiers, the natural standout is Japan's diverse array of pickled products and innovative flavor pairings

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Blurb: Nutrition is a vital component of anyone’s fight against cancer, but loss of appetite and side effects of treatment can make even the simple act of eating a challenge.Written to meet the unique needs of cancer patients and caregivers, The Meals to Heal Cookbook offers 150 recipes to make eating less stressful, more convenient, and simply more enjoyable. Created by

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I found this calendar at a used book store, and while it is from 2001 and no longer usable for keeping dates, it does have a classical collection of twelve traditional Chinese recipes. Recipes included: Tangerine Pork Chops; Firecracker Chicken; Braised Beef Short Ribs in Garlic Sauce; Curry Prawns with Yams; Tea-Smoked Duck; Crabmeat with Chinese Okra; Halibut in Spicy Red Pepper Sauce;

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Blurb: Whether you’re vegan, vegetarian, or eat-everything-you-can-get-your-hands-on, a weeknight home chef, everyday athlete, or just a busy person looking wholesome, protein-rich snacks and meals, you deserve something better than another chia seed ball or protein shake for dinner. Award-winning vegan chef Terry Hope Romero leads the charge with 100 lean, mean recipes using a wide

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Soupelina's Soup Cleanse: Blurb:Move over, juicing and bone broth! Soup cleanses are taking over the spotlight. Unlike sugary smoothies and juices, soups heal digestive issues and provide necessary fiber. Journalist Elina Fuhrman turned to plant-based soups while fighting an aggressive breast cancer, originating the first "soup cleanse." Now, she shares the recipes for soups that

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A great book on using up every part of the veggies that grow in your garden - or those that come in your CSA box if you have a subscription. My review of this cookbook is posted on Cultivate to Plate - The CSA Cookbook: No Waste Recipes for Cooking Your Way Through a Community Supported Agriculture Box, Farmers' Market, or Backyard Bounty. Enjoy, Renee Shelton The Cookbook Papers :)

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Book Blurb: Shauna Martin, Daily Greens™ Founder discovered the phenomenal benefits of green juice after her diagnosis with breast cancer as a young mom over nine years ago. Her journey from disease to health then fueled her 
passion to advocate for juicing greens as part of a long-term healthy lifestyle and empower others to take control of their health through nutrition, beginning with

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Book Blurb: Geek out with recipes inspired by books, movies, television, and video games! You've conquered comic con. You binge watch Star Wars regularly. Now, it's time to get your geek on in the kitchen! Cassandra Reeder loves to cook, and she's a bona-fide mega-geek. Comic-lover, avid gamer, and sci-fi and fantasy lover, she started The Geeky Chef in 2008. She creates real-life

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Cookbook of the Week: Vegan with a Vengeance: Celebrating 10 Years of Vegan Domination with New Photos and Even More Delicious, Cheap Recipes That Rock! This cookbook of the week is a great vegan cookbook: the 10th anniversary updated edition of Vegan with a Vengeance by Isa Chandra Moskowitz. She's the author of Veganomicon and her website is The Post Punk Kitchen. I put up a review of

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We all have knifes in the kitchen. But, do you know how to properly use one, or which to use for different kitchen tasks? Bill Collins explains it all in Knife Skills. Blurb: Good knife skills are key to feeling confident and comfortable in the kitchen. Chef Bill Collins shows you how to choose knives that will feel good in the hand, and then he shows you exactly how to slice, chop, peel,

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Book Blurb: The classic American treat finally gets its due: foolproof pudding recipes, from irresistible standards to inventive modern twists, by the chef and owner of New York City’s popular pudding destination. Puddin’ shares Clio Goodman’s secrets for re-creating—and improving on—your sweetest childhood memories. From grown-up renditions of snack-time favorites like Butterscotch

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  Book Blurb: Dr. Brent Ridge and New York Times bestselling author Josh Kilmer-Purcell are not your average couple: The two Manhattanites left their big city lives behind, and found themselves living in bucolic Sharon Springs, New York, where they became "accidental goat farmers." But what began as a way to reconnect with their own style of modern country living soon exploded into a

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Blurb: Forget everything you’ve heard about baking gluten-free bread. The revolutionary Gluten-Free on a Shoestring Bakes Bread gives you 100 recipes to satiate your crispy, crunchy, and doughy cravings, gluten-freely and on a shoestring budget.  Ours is a bread-obsessed culture. Whether we’re eating it at every meal or refusing to eat it altogether, bread defines almost every diet,

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Learn something new and pass it on. That's the running theme throughout Jamie's Food Revolution. Jamie Oliver is on a quest to educate readers on the benefits of good food and simple preparation. And by teaching, he is hoping the newly educated cooks will pass on their knowledge with someone else ("preferably four"). Regardless of recessions and credit crunches, we all need to know how to

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