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Best Bread Machine Recipes

The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine
-Whole Wheat Bread. -Gluten Free Bread. -Sourdough Bread. -Nut Bread. -Cheese Bread. -Pizza and Focaccia. -Coffee Cakes and Sweet Roll. -Chocolate Bread. However, the newer generation of machines turns out excellent bread, and after being bombarded with know-how by this James Beard Award-winning writer, even the most reluctant may be inspired to give it a go. There are recipes for pizza and flatbreads, as well as selections from a variety of traditions, from Alsatian kugelhopf to Zuni Indian bread. (Aug.). Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Reviews
"I have had his bread machine cook book for years."
"I have never made homemade bread before."
"I was reading up on the sourdough recipes and it explains in detail how to make the starter also gives a brief history of its origins."
"Unfortunately, medical issues have removed bread from my diet, but I still cook for family, and this is my long-time favorite collection of bread recipes."
"What is awesome about this book it is it does not include just recipes, but HOW they differ, what works, what doesn't, history, tips, etc."
"I've tried multiple recipes from this book with tasty results and look forward to trying more of them."
"Lots of good recipes in this book but if you don't want recipes with "complicated" ingredients then don't buy it."
"Using the exact (measured by scale) measurements of ingredients resulted in a dough that was like thick pancake batter, rather than the dough ball I usually have. So, always check your dough while it is mixing/kneeding to make sure you aren't too wet or too dry."
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Betty Crocker Best Bread Machine Cookbook: The Goodness of Homemade Bread the Easy Way (Betty Crocker Cooking)
Even better, Betty Crocker takes the mystery out of the bread machine and brings you easy-to-use recipes for both 1 1/2-pound and 2-pound loaves that work for all the popular bread machine models. A variety of bread machines were used, which means that each recipe was tested a number of different times. There are Good and Savory Loaves (Cheese Onion Bread) and Wholesome Grain Loaves (Toasted Almond Whole Wheat Bread), Fruit and Vegetable Harvest Loaves (Dried Apricot Bread), Smaller Can Be Just Right Loaves (these are one-and-a-half-pound loaves), and then several chapters on breads you start in the bread machine, but finish in the oven. These include braided sweet breads, pizza dough, rustic-style breads, and coffeecakes.
Reviews
"I bought a couple of other bread machine books used, as well as scoured the online recipes, but I still find myself using this one book more than anything else. Every one of the recipes I've tried from this book have worked perfectly the first time and ever time after."
"I had tried some other bread machine recipes that were bread machine-brand specific & they didn't work as well with my off-brand machine, but this book has recipes that have been tested & work in most all machines, so it was a great confidence booster!"
"Bought this as a gift for a new user of a bread machine."
"I have tried other bread recipes and none beat these."
"The fact that the inside is spiral bound makes it a lot easier to read, the book keeps open on the counter."
"I recently purchased a bread maker and whenever I want to make something new I use this book."
"And some of the recipes in the back of the book even show how to make items other than loves out of the dough."
"This is a great book, it has so much to pick from."
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Classic Sourdoughs, Revised: A Home Baker's Handbook
In this updated edition of Classic Sourdoughs , the Woods reveal their newly discovered secret to crafting the perfect loaf: by introducing a unique culture-proofing step and adjusting the temperature of the proofs, home bakers can control the sourness and leavening like never before. He and his wife, JEAN WOOD, founded Sourdoughs International, which ships sourdough cultures from Cascade, Idaho, to seventy-eight countries around the world.
Reviews
"I found this book to be a a very useful guide on growing, maintaining and baking amazing bread with my very own sourdough culture! However i do have to say that now i use this book as more of a guide when baking. My proofing times are quite a bit shorter than those described in the book (which isn't to say they're wrong) i just found my culture is very active and needs less time especially on the second rise."
"I looked at many other sourdough cookbooks and only found one other that did not list recipes asking for commercial bakers yeast. The chocolate sourdough cake recipe offered by King Arthur Flour Company's web-site is very good as long as you know they are looking for starter with a thick pancake batter consistency. I don't see a need for the proofing box Wood recommends, particularly during the warmer months but otherwise I am loving this book."
"I'm having lots of fun with this book."
"Great book."
"Recipes are good, but the rest is to much for me as a beginner."
"I never knew there were so many ways to cook Sourdough bread."
"A very thorough instruction book for making sour dough breads."
"The reason is because the book fails to detail critical techniques that bakers use to make excellent sourdough."
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Best Bread Baking

Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza
Whether you’re a total beginner or a serious baker, Flour Water Salt Yeas t has a recipe that suits your skill level and time constraints: Start with a straight dough and have fresh bread ready by supper time, or explore pre-ferments with a bread that uses biga or poolish. Featuring a tutorial on baker’s percentages, advice for manipulating ingredients ratios to create custom doughs, tips for adapting bread baking schedules to fit your day-to-day life, and an entire chapter that demystifies the levain-making process, Flour Water Salt Yeast is an indispensable resource for bakers who want to make their daily bread exceptional bread. Winner, IACP Awards 2013 - Baking: Savory or Sweet. Winner, James Beard Foundation Award 2013 - Baking and Dessert “If books full of stunning bread porn — all craggy crusts, yeasty bubbles and floured work surfaces — are your thing, here's Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish.” —Eater National. "Legendary Portland baker Ken Forkish (of the watershed Ken's Artisan Bakery and much-loved Ken's Artisan Pizza) has joined the ranks of the lauded letterers with his mammoth new cookbook Water Flour Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza. "Divided into four sections (“The Principles of Artisan Bread,” “Basic Bread Recipes,” “Levain Bread Recipes,” and “Pizza Recipes”), with recipes broken down by breads made with store-bought yeast, breads made with long-fermented simple doughs, and doughs made with pre-ferments, the book presents recipes accessible to novices, while providing a different approach for making dough to experienced bakers. The man abandoned his past, courageously stepped off the cliff and followed his passion, and the result has been a gift to all of us: great breads, fabulous pizzas, and now this beautiful book— Flour Water Salt Yeast —in which he reveals all.” —Peter Reinhart, author of Artisan Breads Every Day and The Joy of Gluten-Free, Sugar-Free Baking “Ken nails it, end of story, when it comes to the best levain bread or the thinnest, most perfect pizza crust you’ve ever had.
Reviews
"First off, if you are looking for a book of great, simple recipes that you can throw in the breadmaker real quick once you get home, this is NOT the book for you. You will learn how to literally use temperature and times as ingredients and how these can make bread made with the very same ingredients VERY different. The recipes are for lean dough, non-enriched breads, made straight, with delayed fermentation, and finally as pure sourdough. This book is a fantastic stepping stone for more varied texts (Bread Bible, Bread Baker's Apprentice, and the all but sacred bread text "The Taste of Bread" by Raymond Calvel)."
"But what Ken Forkish has done here is not simply to give you recipes, but to teach you to think with the flexibility that bread baking demands, and to also demand creativity out of you to go past what's in the book. There's a fantastic section on how to make recipes your own, whether it be about flour choices (and the different hydration requirements that some flours require), rearranging schedules to make your bread revolve around your life, the various options you have with levains, how to document your experimentation so that you can reproduce the results the next time."
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Best Biscuit, Muffin & Scone Baking

The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine
-Whole Wheat Bread. -Gluten Free Bread. -Sourdough Bread. -Nut Bread. -Cheese Bread. -Pizza and Focaccia. -Coffee Cakes and Sweet Roll. -Chocolate Bread. However, the newer generation of machines turns out excellent bread, and after being bombarded with know-how by this James Beard Award-winning writer, even the most reluctant may be inspired to give it a go. There are recipes for pizza and flatbreads, as well as selections from a variety of traditions, from Alsatian kugelhopf to Zuni Indian bread. (Aug.). Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Reviews
"I have had his bread machine cook book for years."
"I have never made homemade bread before."
"I highly recommend this to any bake at home person, especially ones with a bread machine that came with a limited recipe book."
"I was reading up on the sourdough recipes and it explains in detail how to make the starter also gives a brief history of its origins."
"Unfortunately, medical issues have removed bread from my diet, but I still cook for family, and this is my long-time favorite collection of bread recipes."
"What is awesome about this book it is it does not include just recipes, but HOW they differ, what works, what doesn't, history, tips, etc."
"I've tried multiple recipes from this book with tasty results and look forward to trying more of them."
"Lots of good recipes in this book but if you don't want recipes with "complicated" ingredients then don't buy it."
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Best Craft & Hobby Dough

Little Sculptors - Animal Ball: Sculpture book for kids and beginners
- 3 easy steps to sculpting a cute animal.
Reviews
"You can make them with plasticine clay or even polymer, which i used to make the monkey, and possibly even play dough."
"I love how clean and simple this book makes crafting."
"This book maybe for molding using clay or plasticine but I used these techniques and models to make some cute fondant characters for cakes and cupcakes."
"Cute book, easy instructions."
"A book for beginners, without words .."
"Only pictures to guide you so you must have a decent knowledge of working with polymer clay before you embark on these projects."
"I love these ball animals to make for kids as presents."
"I think the designs are cute but the author only gives 3 steps for each piece."
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Best Blender Recipes

Barefoot Contessa Foolproof: Recipes You Can Trust
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Millions of people love Ina Garten because she writes recipes that make home cooks look great; family and friends shower them with praise and yet the dishes couldn’t be simpler to prepare using ingredients found in any grocery store. In Barefoot Contessa Foolproof , the Food Network star takes easy a step further, sharing her secrets for pulling off deeply satisfying meals that have that “wow!” factor we all crave. For the cake ¾ pound dates, pitted and chopped 1 teaspoon baking soda ¼ pound (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature ¹⁄³ cup granulated sugar 2 extra-large eggs, at room temperature 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 1¼ cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1½ tablespoons baking powder. For the sauce 12 tablespoons (1½ sticks) unsalted butter 1 cup light brown sugar, lightly packed ½ cup heavy cream ¼ teaspoon kosher salt 2 tablespoons good bourbon, such as Maker's Mark 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract Sweetened whipped cream, for serving. Meanwhile, in an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and granulated sugar on medium speed for 3 minutes, until light and fluffy. Meanwhile, combine the butter, brown sugar, heavy cream, and salt in a medium saucepan and bring to boil. Off the heat, stir in the bourbon and vanilla and pour into a 2-cup heat-proof glass measuring cup.
Reviews
"When Ina says "foolproof" she doesn't mean a recipe has only five ingredients or that it has only three steps. Ina means she has an ingredient list with easily obtainable ingredients and steps that appeal to your common sense so that you don't worry about whether the recipe will turn out. She finishes the book with a foolproof index of menus for special occasions which cross references with special dishes from all of her cookbooks. She does repeat foolproof recipes from her previous books such as her standard chicken stock, but the book is mostly comprised of new material. I have been using her roasted carrot recipe for over a year now and am delighted to see that she has mixed it up with a recipe for braised carrots and parsnips.She presents a mashed chickpea recipe that is yummy."
"This is a cookbook favorite."
"These brownies with a carmel topping and then added flaked sea salt are exceptional."
"Great recipes and not too difficult."
"Some recopies are a bit complicated but I still like the book."
"I had just heard about Kale and how you can make it crispy by baking it and wouldn't you know, Ina has that recipe in her latest book, 'Foolproof'."
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Best Fondue Recipes

Dip Into Something Different: A Collection of Recipes from Our Fondue Pot to Yours
Create a perfect night out by gathering friends and family around a pot of warm melted cheese, chocolate or a cooking style eager to add flavor to your favorite dipper.
Reviews
"I love The Melting Pot."
"Wonderful recipes!!"
"Our daughter loved this book."
"Gave two of these for gifts to my son and his wife."
"One of my favorite places to eat for date night."
"It was a gift!"
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Best Fryer Recipes

Air Fry Everything: Foolproof Recipes for Fried Favorites and Easy Fresh Ideas by Blue Jean Chef, Meredith Laurence (The Blue Jean Chef)
Additional recipes include Parmesan Chicken Fingers, Fish and "Chips," Cherry Chipotle Chicken Wings, Crab Cakes, Coconut Shrimp, Fried Cauliflower with Parmesan Lemon Dressing, homemade potato chips, Boston Cream Donut Holes, and much more. gives you recipes for that too including Marinated Rib-Eye Steak with Herb Roasted Mushrooms, Inside Out Cheeseburgers, Honey Mesquite Pork Chops, Maple Balsamic Salmon, Roasted Vegetable Stromboli and Mini Molten Chocolate Cake, just to name a few. The first book, Blue Jean Chef: Comfortable in the Kitchen , received rave reviews, and helped home cooks broaden their repertoire and become more versatile with a variety of cooking techniques in the kitchen. As the Blue Jean Chef, Meredith’s belief is that being comfortable in the kitchen is key to successful and enjoyable cooking.
Reviews
"So check your food as it cooks to avoid burning it."
"I bought an air fryer a while ago and need a book to know how to use it."
"This book presents most of the standard fried recipes adapted to the airfryer.."
"I made the parmesan cauliflower and maple balsamic glazed salmon for dinner last night and it was perfect!"
"So many good recipes and Meredith has expanded my thinking."
"Some nice and easy to follow recipes."
"Really nice."
"Still exploring....great recipes."
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Best Juicer Recipes

The Juicing Bible
A market-leading 350 recipes -- delicious fruit and vegetable juices, tonics, cleansers, digestives, teas, roughies, smoothies, milk and coffee substitutes and frozen treats. Because experts recommend that we get a "daily 8," namely five servings of vegetables and three servings of fresh fruit daily, Crocker's recipes will make that task easier, especially if there are finicky children in the house. The ingredient guide is cross-referenced with the recipes, making it easy to work with what you have.
Reviews
"there is one section which speaks to several ailments (in Alpha order) and tells you what to get more of, what to avoid and has page numbers to recipes good for those ailments."
"Awesome book!"
"Item as described, good transaction."
"This is one of my favorite books!"
"How much it contains--the herbs, the bodily functions that go along with the receipes to help correct or improve them, all kinds of juicing, smoothies, dessert recipes, and... even the differences between juicers and blenders."
"The book did help get me started, and it will be a great reference when I want to know why a particular ingredient is so beneficial, or need a natural remedy juice concoction for an ailment."
"I do like the book for its extensive section that covers ailments and what juice recipes will help you out."
"I knew when I read about the book's recommended juicer that it was not a serious juice book.The recipes are not that good."
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Best Cast Iron Recipes

Cook It in Cast Iron: Kitchen-Tested Recipes for the One Pan That Does It All (Cook's Country)
Learn about this cast iron's history and what makes it uniquely American and let us show you how to shop for, season, care for, and clean this perfect pan. The highly reputable and recognizable brands of America’s Test Kitchen, Cook’s Illustrated, and Cook’s Country are the work of over 60 passionate chefs based in Boston, Massachusetts, who put ingredients, cookware, equipment, and recipes through objective, rigorous testing to identify the very best.
Reviews
"This book covers all the basic information you need to choose a pan, to cook in and care for you pan , plus detailed recipes that walk you step by step through Frying, Baking, Roasting, Braising, Deep frying in and even using it as a Pie pan, Pizza pan or Baking golden brown breads with a crispy outside crust and billowy soft middle. Searing: Blackened Chicken, Oven seared chicken breast, Indoor Barbequed chicken, Teriyaki Chicken thighs, Steak tips with mushroom gravy, Steaks, Filets Mignon, Cowboy steak, Thick cut pork chops, Pork tenderloin, Lamb chops, Snapper, Scallops. c. Roasts: Butter flied chicken, Classic roast chicken, Boneless turkey breast, London Broil, Classic Roast Beef & Gravy, Garlic roasted top sirloin, Meatloaf with mushroom gravy, Stuffed boneless pork loin, Bone in Pork Rib roast, Roasted pork shoulder, Leg of lamb. d. One Dish Dinners: Lasagna, Ziti, Macaroni & cheese, Pan roasted chicken breasts with root vegetables, Braised chicken thighs with Swiss chard & carrots, Curried chicken & rice, Easier fried chicken, Southwestern style chicken & biscuits, Chicken pot pie, Beef Pot pie, shepherd’s pie, chili, Steak tips , flank steak with potatoes, Stir fried beef & broccoli, Pork cutlets with green beans, Pan fried pork chops with succotash, Pork chops & dirty rice, Pork tamale pie, Cod & potatoes with orange parsley salad, Clams with couscous, Paella. e. Sandwiches, Burgers, & Pizza: Grown up grilled cheese, Turkey club Panini, Fried chicken sandwiches, Ultimate burgers, Fried onion burger, Chicago Style Italian beef, Baltimore pit beef, Middle eastern style lamb pita, Italian style sausage and pepper subs, chipotle chicken tacos, Flank steak tacos, skillet pizza marguerite, no cook pizza sauce, Chicago style pepperoni pan pizza, cast iron skillet calzone. This book is more than a cookbook, it includes everything you ever needed to know about cast iron fry pans plus kitchen tested recipes with easy to read, detailed step by step recipes: Choosing the best and right cast iron fry pan for your kitchen. B. Caring for your cast iron fry pan is thoroughly covered in this book including seasoning your new or older skillet, cleaning your pan, and problem solving such as cleaning an extra dirty skillet, restoring a scratched skillet, cleaning an extra dirty skillet and even getting rid of the stink in a stinky skillet. Did you know that cleaning an old dirty cast iron fry pan can be done in your oven by running it through the self cleaning cycle in your oven and then reseason the pan."
"Their findings on seasoning, cleaning and using cast iron dispel contradicting advice and myths that accumulated over a century. I wish they had included some Cook's Illustrated sort of recipes, adapted for cast iron. Mr. Kimball should recognize that his readership is not comprised solely of millennials.Those of us with older eyes and/or vision problems do not like needing a magnifying glass to read a cook book."
"Gave this as a gift and the cook loved they book."
"Trying to learn the tricks my grandmother never taught me."
"Nice cookbook to learn how to best use cast iron."
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Best Dutch Oven Recipes

One-Pan Wonders: Fuss-Free Meals for Your Sheet Pan, Dutch Oven, Skillet, Roasting Pan, Casserole, and Slow Cooker
With this in mind, we set out to streamline dinner with a fresh, modern collection of recipes make the most of your Dutch oven, sheet pan, skillet, roasting pan, casserole dish, and slow cooker to deliver dinner using just one pot (no cheating!). From Skillet Spanikopita to Sheet Pan Beef Fajitas to Indian-Style Vegetable Curry, we narrowed our ingredient lists to focus on delivering bold, fresh taste in every dish. The highly reputable and recognizable brands of America’s Test Kitchen, Cook’s Illustrated, and Cook’s Country are the work of over 60 passionate chefs based in Boston, Massachusetts, who put ingredients, cookware, equipment, and recipes through objective, rigorous testing to identify the very best.
Reviews
"I have found that ignoring them and following the sacred rice ration 1:2 rice to liquid solves that problem."
"When it comes to liquids and cooking things like rice and noodles you do need to follow the measurements and directions pretty close. To counter points in some other reviews, yes some recipies require you to microwave ingredients before adding them into the "one pan" but they do mention this in the introduction to the book, so that shouldn't come as a surprise. Also if you've ever used any Americas Test Kitchen/Cooks Country books, this is a common enough technique they recommend, and I have found has made my life easier as a cook!"
"This book has a lot of great recipes for quick and good meals."
"Delicious, simple, easy meals."
"I have not yet cooked a recipe, nevertheless, I have read and tabbed many to cook in the future."
"Love, love, love this cookbook!!"
"I've had this cook book for a few weeks and make a recipe out of it at least once a week."
"Many of the recipes require you to cook part of the meal in the pan, remove the food (and magically keep it warm for the next half an hour or more), clean the pan, and cook the second part of the meal in the same pan."
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Best Dehydrator Recipes

The Ultimate Dehydrator Cookbook: The Complete Guide to Drying Food, Plus 398 Recipes, Including Making Jerky, Fruit Leather & Just-Add-Water Meals
Includes tips on selecting a dehydrator, as well as proper sanitation, storage, and rehydration techniques Individual entries on how to dehydrate all manner of berries, fruits, vegetables, greens, herbs, and edible flowers include information on how to prep, dehydration temperatures, and times Includes recipes for making your own teas, herb blends and rubs, flavored oils, instant baby food, jerky, and fruit leathers Includes nearly 400 recipes for cooking from your dehydrator pantry. " The Ultimate Dehydrator Cookbook is just that: the Ultimate...Its 18 chapters cover every aspect of dehydration and cooking with dehydrated foods...This book is great for those who are nervously just getting started on food preservation with all the information needed to successfully preserve food for later. Things I never would have considered doing with my dehydrator or the foods I had dehydrated! "Far more than a simple cookbook, the authors preface the recipes with dozens of pages outlining the principles and benefits of dehydration...Fully half the book is dedicated to recipes on using your home-dehydrated foods actively as ingredients, rather than thinking of them as standalone foods. "Whether you are an avid gardener or you bring your produce home from the grocery store, The Ultimate Dehydrator Cookbook will inspire and motivate you!...I was originally unenthusiastic about dehydrating because I'm a home canner...After reading this book, I was very surprised at the amount of nutrients that are lost when it comes to preserving food by freezing, canning and dehydrating. And you guessed it, dehydrating is the best option for preserving those nutrients!...Not only will the book inspire you to dehydrate more, but the wonderful recipe section will have you dreaming up all kinds of meals and desserts for your family." I mean how many things can you really dehydrate and/or make with dehydrated food?...
Reviews
"The second and 3rd picture show my peaches off the tree, and dehydrated per the book, ready for fruity oatmeal later on."
"EVERYONE should have THIS BOOK!"
"Lot's of information in the book that you will not find on the internet."
"Good book."
"Looked through book and can't wait to use it."
"Great information since I am a newbie."
"I will be street guidelines for me."
"My wife says it's a cool thing."
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Best Rice Cooker Recipes

The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook: 250 No-Fail Recipes for Pilafs, Risottos, Polenta, Chilis, Soups, Porridges, Puddings, and More, from Start to Finish in Your Rice Cooker
It focuses on a wider variety of rices, too, with lots of ideas for red, black, basmati, jasmine, and Arborio rices, as well as partially milled white rice, which looks and cooks like white rice but has the nutritional value of brown rice. “It’s great to see a book dedicated to an appliance that is integral to creating the core of so many dishes, regardless of the origin of the dish.” – Ming Tsai, host of "East Meets West" and co-author of Blue Ginger: East Meets West Cooking with Ming Tsai.
Reviews
"Cool cookbook."
"Great book full of recipes and instructions to help you get started making many new dishes."
"Was given as a christmas gift and they state that they have gotten some wonderful recipes from the book."
"Have not tried to much in there, but it has been very interesting to read."
"Lots of things one can cook in a rice cooker that aren't as well."
"Great explanations about all sorts of races in the way that they are prepared great photos I like the book."
"After reading the reviews, I didnt know what to think but I bought it anyways and Im glad that I did."
"I have already made several of the recipes in this book and love them."
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Best Food Processor Recipes

Making Artisan Pasta: How to Make a World of Handmade Noodles, Stuffed Pasta, Dumplings, and More
Learn how to use the best ingredients and simple, classic techniques to make fresh, homemade pasta in your own kitchen with Making Artisan Pasta . Through author and chef Aliza Green’s pasta expertise and encyclopedic knowledge of all things culinary, plus hundreds of gorgeous photos by acclaimed food photographer Steve Legato, you’ll never look at the supermarket pasta aisle the same way again. He resides just outside of Philadelphia, PA. Visit his website at http://www.stevelegato.com.Aliza Green is an award-winning Philadelphia-based author, journalist, and influential chef whose books include The Butcher's Apprentice and Making Artisan Pasta(Quarry Books, 2012),The Fishmonger's Apprentice(Quarry Books, 2010), Starting with Ingredients: Baking (Running Press, 2008) and Starting with Ingredients (Running Press, 2006), four perennially popular Field Guides to food (Quirk, 2004-2007), Beans: More than 200 Delicious, Wholesome Recipes from Around the World (Running Press, 2004) and successful collaborations with renowned chefs Guillermo Pernot and Georges Perrier.ÿA former food columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Cooking Light Magazine, Green is known for her encyclopedic knowledge of every possible ingredient, its history, culture, and use in the kitchen and bakery and for her lively story-telling. For more information about Aliza's books and tours or to send her a message, visit her website at http://www.alizagreen.com.Steve Legato is a freelance photographer specializing in food, restaurant industry, cookbooks and advertising.
Reviews
"I have other pasta books, such as the joy of pasta, and usually they are maybe 25% actual pasta recipes, and the rest is sauce or soup or casseroles using the pasta. There is nothing wrong with that, but Making Artisan Pasta is a book about the pasta, about what ingredients to use, how to use them, how to make the pasta, form the pasta, and tons and tons of ideas and tips on making amazing pasta. There are some pastas that simply call for special gadgets to make them, it's the nature of the pasta, but if you don't want to spend a penny on new fun equipment there are still plenty of pasta recipes you can easily make."
"If you're a pasta lever in years past a lot this is a good book to have because make your own pasta is much better than what you buy in the store."
"all kinds of great recipes....already gained 2 pounds."
"I love the fact it gives you various instructions whether making or cutting it by hand or with a machine."
"There are recipes for white or red wines pasta dough; porcini mushroom dough; CHOCOLATE pasta dough; matzo balls, ravioli gnudi, spaetzle, passatelli, laminated pastas, Siberian pelmeni, pot stickers, and numerous others."
"The instructions are simple and clear-there are photos of each recipe, and they are unique...something you would actually use."
"Illustrations are very helpful and photos of finished dishes always make a cookbook enjoyable."
"This book wasn't at my local library, I had to special-order it from a more distant library, twice."
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Best Pressure Cooker Recipes

Great Food Fast : Bob Warden's Ultimate Pressure Cooker Recipes
Now, Bob Warden's entirely new pressure cooking cookbook, Great Food Fast , looks to redefine pressure cooking all over again. Bob is also the author of several cookbooks which include Quick and Easy Pressure Cooking, Best of the Best cook's essentials Cookbook (with Gwen McKee), Bob Warden's Favorite Ninja Recipes, Bob Warden's Favorite Recipes for cook's essentials Cookware, and Bob Warden's Slow Food Fast.
Reviews
"If you are an experienced home cook, looking to use a pressure cooker to speed things up....this might not be the best book for you."
"The one problem I had was in step #4 he stated to perform a quick release, in which I did and ended up with juices spewing out the top of my pressure cooker all over my walls and cupboards. I was terrified to use the quick release method again until I read some posts on a pressure cooking forum on how to do it correctly."
"The recipes are written for using a pressure cooker, but I'd guess one could also adjust time and use the ingredients to slow braise or use a crock pot to make these meals. I bought this book to use with the Instant Pot Pressure Cooker and it delivers in both quality and ease of following written instructions."
"One of the recipes that I made from Great Food Fast, Pizza Style Chicken with Pepperoni and Mozzarella Cheese, could have been cooked in the oven for about the same amount of time it took following the recipe. The recipe called for browning the floured chicken in the PC, pressure cooking with pasta sauce and green peppers for 8 minutes, meanwhile also boiling water and cooking the pasta. Oh well, it would be a great recipe for someone who doesn't have an oven - just add the pepperoni and cheese after the pressure has been released and let it melt. Bob's first electric pressure cooker cookbook Slow Food Fast: Over 120 Quick and Hearty Pressure Cooker Recipes is also really good."
"Ive cooked only a few recipes from this book, but how many meh results should one get before he/she says--these recipes aren't very good and they taste very similar one to another."
"Easy ingredients combined with excellent instructions and awesome pictures makes this book sit on the top shelf in my house."
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