365 Winter Warmer Slow Cooker Recipes: Simply Savory and Delicious 3-Ingredient Meals (repost)

365 Winter Warmer Slow Cooker Recipes: Simply Savory and Delicious 3-Ingredient Meals by Carol Hildebrand, Robert Hildebrand, Suzanne Bonet
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1592335411 | 352 pages | PDF | 4,4 MB

What could be better than walking in the door after a hard day’s work to a hot savory dinner, ready and waiting? A dinner that only requires three ingredients, that’s what! With the right high-quality ingredients, you can create delicious meals in a snap with 365 Winter Warmer Slow Cooker Recipes. While most slow cooker recipes require a lot of ingredients and steps before you actually “fix it and forget it,” these are truly simple recipes that can be done quickly and affordably. Just put three ingredients in your slow cooker, turn it on, and enjoy recipes such as Rosemary Lamb Stew, Chinese-Style Ribs, Coq au Vin, and Blueberry Cobbler.

The Kitchen Ecosystem: Integrating Recipes to Create Delicious Meals

Eugenia Bone, “The Kitchen Ecosystem: Integrating Recipes to Create Delicious Meals”

ISBN: 0385345127 | 2014 | EPUB | 416 pages | 42 MB

Paradigm-shifting, The Kitchen Ecosystem will change how we think about food and cooking. Designed to to create and use ingredients that maximize flavor, these 400 recipes are derived from 40 common ingredients–from asparagus to fish to zucchini–used at each stage of its “life cycle”: fresh, preserved, and in a main dish.

Seasoned cooks know that the secret to great meals is this: the more you cook, the less you actually have to do to produce a delicious meal. The trick is to approach cooking as a continuum, where each meal draws on elements from a previous one and provides the building blocks for another. That synchronicity is a kitchen ecosystem.

For the farmers market regular as well as a bulk shopper, for everyday home cooks and aspirational ones, a kitchen ecosystem starts with cooking the freshest in-season ingredients available, preserving some to use in future recipes, and harnessing leftover components for other dishes. In The Kitchen Ecosystem, Eugenia Bone spins multiple dishes from single ingredients: homemade ricotta stars in a pasta dish while the leftover whey is used to braise pork loin; marinated peppers are tossed with shrimp one night and another evening chicken thighs and breast simmer in that leftover marinade. The bones left from a roast chicken bear just enough stock to make stracciatella for two. The small steps in creating “supporting ingredients” actually saves time when it comes to putting together dinner.

Delicious food is not only a matter exceptional recipes—although there are an abundance

of those here. Rather, it is a matter of approaching the kitchen as a system of connected foods. The Kitchen Ecosystem changes the paradigm of how we cook, and in doing so, it may change everything about the way we eat today.

Inspiralized: Turn Vegetables Into Healthy, Creative, Satisfying Meals (Repost)

Inspiralized: Turn Vegetables Into Healthy, Creative, Satisfying Meals By Ali Maffucci
2015 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0804186839 | EPUB | 21 MB

The definitive cookbook for using a spiralizer: the kitchen gadget that turns vegetables and fruits into imaginative, low-carb dishes.

On her wildly popular blog, Inspiralized, Ali Maffucci is revolutionizing healthy eating. Whether you’re low-carb, gluten-free, Paleo, or raw, you don’t have to give up the foods you love. Inspiralized shows you how to transform more than 20 vegetables and fruits into delicious meals that look and taste just like your favorite indulgent originals. Zucchini turns into pesto spaghetti; jicama becomes shoestring fries; sweet potatoes lay the foundation for fried rice; plantains transform into “tortillas” for huevos rancheros.

Ali’s recipes for breakfast, snacks, appetizers, sandwiches, soups, salads, casseroles, rices, pastas, and even desserts are easy to follow, hard to mess up, healthful, and completely fresh and flavorful. Best of all, she tells you how to customize them for whatever vegetables you have on hand and whatever your personal goal may be—losing weight, following a healthier lifestyle, or simply making easy meals at home.

Here, too, are tons of technical tips and tricks; nutritional information for each dish and every vegetable you can possibly spiralize; and advice for spiralizing whether you’re feeding just yourself, your family, or even a crowd. So bring on a hearty appetite and a sense of adventure—you’re ready to make the most of this secret weapon for healthy cooking.