The high protein content and versatile nature of beans and pulses have made them a staple ingredient of many cuisines. This book contains over 185 dishes that are both health-enhancing and tasty. A comprehensive introduction describes different beans and pulses, their taste and texture, and lists their health benefits. Quick ideas show ways of adding them to the diet, either as a main ingredient, or as a delicious accompaniment. The recipes include classics such as Hummus, Bean Ribollita, Cassoulet, and Slow-cooked Boston Baked Beans. With beautiful pictures of every recipe, you are sure to achieve appetizing results every time.

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

From irresistible macaroons to tasty cheesecakes, discover new ways of using, cooking and enjoying Nutella with 30 mouthwatering recipes that are as versatile as they are delicious. Taking one classic storecupboard ingredient and adding it to a variety of sweet treats has made for an impressive range of recipes, each one accompanied by a full-page photograph. Children will love Nutella and white chocolate rice cakes alongside caramel cream Nutella lollies, while adults will appreciate Nutella charlotte and mango and Nutella spring rolls. For impressive party fare there are recipes for mini coconut and Nutella palmiers plus Nutella truffles and Banana and Nutella tartlets.

Has there ever been a more generous ingredient than the bean? Down-home, yet "haute," soul-satisfyingly hearty, valued, versatile deeply delectable, healthful, and inexpensive to boot, there's nothing a bean can't do--and nothing that Crescent Dragonwagon can't do with beans. From old friends like chickpeas and pintos to rediscovered heirloom beans like rattlesnake beans and teparies, from green beans and fresh shell beans to peanuts, lentils, and peas, "Bean by Bean" is the definitive cookbook on beans. It's a 175-plus recipe cornucopia overflowing with information, kitchen wisdom, lore, anecdotes, and a zest for good food and good times.Consider the lentil, to take one example. Discover it first in a delicious slather, Lentil Tapenade. Then in half a dozen soups, including Sahadi's Lebanese Lentil Soup with Spinach, Kerala-Style Dahl, and Crescent's Very, Very Best Lentil, Mushroom & Barley Soup. It then turns up in Marinated Lentils De Puy with Greens, Baked Beets, Oranges & Walnuts. Plus there's Jamaica Jerk-Style Lentil-Vegetable Patties, Ethiopian Lentil Stew, and Lentil-Celeriac Skillet Sauce. Do the same for black beans--from Tex-Mex Frijoles Dip to Feijoada Vegetariana to Maya's Magic Black Beans with Eggplant & Royal Rice. Or shell beans--Newly Minted Puree of Fresh Favas, Baked Limas with Rosy Sour Cream, Edamame in a Pod. And on and on--from starters and soups to dozens of entrees. Even desserts: Peanut Butter Cup Brownies and Red Bean Ice Cream.

In this 'Wild Berries Cookbook', you will find recipes for over 100 new and old berry favourites. With recipes from sparkling beverages and delicious entrees to seductive desserts. Illustrated throughout in full colour.

Infinitely customizable, cheap to make, and downright delicious, it's no wonder fried rice is one of the world's most popular comfort foods. These 50 delicious recipes draw inspiration from all over the globe, and they'll expand your fried rice repertoire well beyond the usual Chinese takeout staple. In addition to standards like spicy-funky Indonesian Fried Rice and classic Chinese Fried Rice with BBQ Pork, you'll find inventive takes on worldly flavors. Think Fried Cauliflower Rice with Turkey Kofta, Mint, and Feta from the Middle East, and Huevos Rancheros Fried Rice from Latin America. These satisfying dishes reveal just how versatile fried rice can be, and most use pantry staples or whatever you have in the fridge. Others, such as Duck Confit Fried Rice with Fennel, Mustard Greens, and Pickled Raisins, elevate the humble dish into entertaining-worthy territory, proving there's no limit to this globe-trotting grain.

A delicious take on the latest superfood meal, with innovative grain, seed, and rice recipes ideal for everyday healthy eating Grain bowls and porridge are hitting the headlines with their nutritious properties. Restaurants worldwide are adding grain-based dishes to their menus - and not just for breakfast. These recipes are guaranteed to surprise and inspire, built around quinoa, oats, rye, spelt, buckwheat, barley, amaranth, black rice, and millet. The Grain Bowl is a collection of 90 hearty recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner - delicious, satisfying, easy, and heart-healthy - made with a variety of grains, seeds, rice, and superfoods, plus fresh fruits, slow-cooked meats, roasted vegetables, and sweet treats. This book serves up delicious and nourishing options for home cooks everywhere.

This is a book of recipes. It is a delightful introduction to the versatility of coffee with 30 mouthwatering recipes. You can choose from classic teatime treats such as Mocha Sponge Cake, Coffee Profiteroles or Walnut and Coffee Slice or delight your guests with mouthwatering hot and cold desserts such as Baked Coffee Custards, Chocolate and Coffee Pudding, Maple Coffee and Pistachio Bombe, or Coffee Granita. You can indulge yourself in delicious souffles, hot puddings, iced desserts, soothing drinks and melt-in-the-mouth cakes and bakes. It includes a guide to the types of coffee, buying and making coffee and how to use it in recipes. It is beautifully illustrated with over 100 photographs of each finished dish, plus charming artworks. A nutritional breakdown for each recipe will help with dietary planning. Coffee is a wonderfully rich and versatile ingredient, bringing a unique touch of sophistication to even simple cakes and bakes. The family will love Mississippi Coffee Cake and Coffee Sponge Drops, while at coffee - or tea-time - your guests will adore classic treats such as Coffee Biscotti, Mocha Viennese Swirls, or a slice of Cappuccino Coffee Cake. If you are entertaining, there are ideas here to combine coffee with complementary ingredients such as cream, chocolate, alcohol and spices to produce delicious indulgencies such as Tiramisu, Irish Coffee Cheesecake, Coffee and Cardamon Zabaglione and Chocolate Coffee Truffles. There are also many coffee drinks to try including Cinnamon Iced Coffee, Coffee Milkshake and Coffee Chocolate Soda. With an introduction to guide you through the different types of coffee and how to brew it properly, and illustrated throughout with beautiful photographs and artworks, this delightful collection of coffee recipes can't fail to please you and your guests.

Go beyond guacamole! Enjoy avocados in 70 delicious and different ways and improve your health with this cookbook devoted to the popular superfood. Research shows that adding an avocado a day to your diet can improve your overall health, but even most avocado lovers don't know what to do with them beyond adding a slice or two to a sandwich or mashing one into guacamole. Here are 70 simple and delicious tasty recipes for everything from breakfast to dessert, including Avocado Green Curry Noodles, Tequila, Citrus and Ginger Stuffed Avocados, Avocado Waffles, and Avocado Key Lime Pie. Author Lara Ferroni educates readers on the various kinds of avocados and how to pick them, store them, and even grow them! Home cooks will learn how to use avocado butter, oil, and honey, and how to incorporate avocados into any every meal of the day.

A international directory and guide to growing and cooking apples, with recipes and 1500 pictures.

Poached, scrambled, boiled, whipped into a cocktail, transformed into a painting medium, tossed at an enemy's house. As the most striking of paradoxes, the egg exists in happy suspension between humble household ingredient and ever-powerful source of life. One of the most enduring symbols throughout antiquity, eggs were used by the Romans to dispel evil spirits, modeled as priceless artifacts for the Russian nobility, and were woven into Egyptian mythology. In the debut volume of TASCHEN's series with cult-favorite The Gourmand journal, we celebrate the link between food and culture in a visual and literary exploration of the powerhouse kitchen staple. A collection of original essays and archetype recipes, from the perfect poach to artful desserts, celebrates the diversity of culinary traditions around the world. The Gourmand's Egg. A Collection of Stories and Recipes is illustrated with exclusive commissions by acclaimed still life photographers-equal parts sumptuous, absurd, lurid, mouthwatering, and undeniably The Gourmand. Rounding out the volume are works from art history's titans, including Salvador Dali, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Frida Kahlo, David Hockney, and Man Ray alongside texts from chef, food writer, and critic Ruth Reichl and writer and editor Jennifer Higgie, and more. "In cooking - as in almost every-thing else," Reichl said. "It all starts with an egg."

This is the indispensable cook's guide to tomatoes, featuring a variety list and over 160 delicious recipes. It is the ultimate guide to cooking, using and growing tomatoes - one of the world's most popular ingredients. It is an authoritative introduction that includes all you will ever need to know about tomatoes, including preparation, buying, storing and preserving, and how to grow your own. It is a detailed and comprehensive fully illustrated guide to more than 40 different varieties of tomatoes. It is a mouthwatering selection of over 160 recipes - appetizers, salads, breads, main courses and side dishes. You can take your pick from such classic delights as homemade tomato ketchup; iced tomato soup; crunchy Greek tomato and feta salad; juicy stuffed tomatoes; crispy tomato tarts and pizzas; refreshing tomato cocktails; hot chili salsas and delicious tomato sauces. Tomatoes are one of the most popular, delicious and versatile ingredients available. This extensively researched guide encompasses every aspect of the tomato - from its many varieties to the multitude of ways to cook it and eat it. The informative introduction starts with the history of the tomato, a guide to types, and advice on buying, growing, storage and preservation. The recipe section of the book has ideas for soups and appetizers, salads and side dishes, vegetarian, meat or fish dishes, drinks, salsas and breads, with plenty of new ideas as well as many old friends. This book will help you get the very best out of this most delicious ingredient.

Eat your way to health with a packed, wholesome, customizable paleo bowl. A must-own book for everyone living the paleo lifestyle or starting a paleo diet. Quick, healthful, and comfortingly delicious, the bowl food trend is the busy person's answer to jump-starting the ultimate paleo lifestyle! Build your own bowl with unprocessed, anti-inflammatory whole foods and nourish your body with one hundred gluten-free, dairy-free, and refined-sugar-free bowl recipes for a hearty breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A tremendous holistic resource, Paleo Power Bowls, filled with more than 100 gorgeous photos, is not only an essential guide to the paleo diet. It also promotes the concept of food as medicine and personalized nutrition-customizing what foods work for you based on your personal nutritional needs and gut biome. Mueller shows how to build a well-balanced bowl tailored to specific diets and restrictions, whether it is AIP, low-FODMAP, Whole30, vegetarian, or vegan. If you suffer from autoimmune disease or allergies, the book includes instructions for a thirty-day elimination diet. Recipes include: Spaghetti Squash with Broccoli & Pumpkin Seed Pesto Fluffy Poppy Seed Pancakes with Caramelized Figs All-the-Good-Veggies Detox Salad with Lemon-Parsley Dressing Chicken Tikka Masala with Cauliflower Rice Quick-and-Easy Turkey Meatballs with Zoodles Pumpkin Spice Chia Seed Pudding And more! Paleo Power Bowls also features one-pot, slow cooker, and thirty-minute meals-including sides, condiments, and desserts-that can be assembled any night of the week. Learn to prepare:

Some fruits are at their best when eaten fresh, while others reveal their truest and most delicious flavour when cooked. Understanding how to enjoy fruit at its peak of flavour, whether it's lightly sauteed, poached, baked, braised or roasted, is the key - and this cookbook for home cooks shows you how. 'Simple Fruit' inspires home cooks to explore and enhance the flavours of fruit throughout the year. Each recipe applies a cooking technique that wakes the senses with the distinct flavour characteristics of a fruit. The 50 recipes in this book are organised seasonally and by type of fruit, with a focus on bringing out the best flavour. Whether it's Vanilla-Roasted Rhubarb, Strawberry Pavlova, Cherry Hand Pies or Grilled Apricots with Brown Butter and Maple-Tamari Glaze, 'Simple Fruit' encourages and inspires readers to explore cooked fruits, and gives them options to create a variety of seasonal desserts.

The Yoga Kitchen celebrates nourishing wholefoods that enables you to reclaim your inherent power to heal your digestive system and boost immunity, and help you to forge healthy new habits, not restrictions. This collection of recipes will inspire you to return to the kitchen to create delicious simple, satisfying and nutritious meals that will appeal to the whole family. All the recipes are gluten, grain and dairy free, and based on the ‘Food Combining’ principles that promote good digestion and nutrient absorption, weight loss and an alkaline body. Extras: highlighted health benefits of each recipe, the Yoga Kitchen 21-day meal plan to reboot your metabolism, an A–Z guide to the sources and roles of vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients, traditional recipes for bone broth, cultured vegetables and sprouting that will transform your health, essential pantry ingredients and lifestyle tips.

Whole grains and fresh greens are food soulmates that offer a winning combination for health, vitality and climate-friendly cooking. From power breakfasts to grain bowls, warming soups and stews to satisfying salads, Nina Olsson's inspirational collection of versatile and tasty meat-free recipes makes for quick and easy bowls of goodness. Each recipe features nutrient-rich sources of fibre, vitamins and minerals that not only reduce the risk of stroke, type 2 diabetes and heart disease, but also contribute to better weight maintenance and are naturally anti-inflammatory. Grains and greens have never been more delicious and nutritious.

The Cookbook for Enjoying Summer's Quintessential Food Easy to grow and delicious to eat, tomatoes can be enjoyed raw and are commonly cooked in recipes. Ranging from the size of a grape to that of a softball, tomatoes provide a sweet, tangy flavor, perfect for salads, appetizers, beverages, pasta, and more. Tomatoes is a cookbook by Julia Rutland that features 50 easy recipes geared for busy cooks who enjoy great flavor. The author is a professional writer, recipe developer, recipe tester, food stylist, and television/media demonstrator, so you can be certain that every recipe is a crowd-pleaser! The book's full-color photography adds to the enjoyment of cooking. Plus, an entire chapter is devoted to growing tomatoes in your own plot or container garden-with expert tips from a master gardener. Julia further provides plenty of useful information on buying tomatoes and a rundown of the different types available. People love tomatoes because they flavor so many of our favorite dishes: pizza, salsa, spaghetti, BLTs-and, of course, the Bloody Mary. Add Tomatoes to your cookbook collection, and savor this wonderful variety of delectable dishes.

Japanese food is healthy, delicious and universally enjoyed but despite the popularity of sushi and noodle bars worldwide too few of us cook this delightful cuisine at home. In Japanese in 7 (the latest addition to the in 7 series), Kimiko Barber uses just 7 ingredients or fewer to make deliciously fragrant dishes that you can effortlessly pull together any night of the week. Chapters are divided into: *Fresh - vibrant and healthy meals such as Yellowtail Sashimi, Hand-rolled Sushi and Japanese-style Duck Orange. *Fast - Meals like Dashi-rolled Omelette and Tuna Hotpot that can be on the table quickly after a long day at work. *Light - delicious recipes such as Japanese Onion Soup and Savoury Egg Tofu. *Vegan - nourishing plant-based recipes like Grilled Aubergine in Miso Soup and Mushroom Rice. *Comfort - bowls of warming Moon Udon, Chicken and Miso Porridge or Sea Bream Rice to enjoy on a cold winter's evening. *Sweet - creative Japanese desserts such as Matcha Jelly, Kyoto Tiramisu and Black Sesame Ice Cream. *Basics - Dashi and flavoursome dressings you can use to quickly create authentic Japanese dishes.