Parkers Wine Buyers Guide or Soy Dessert and Baking Book

Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide: Fifth Edition

Author: Robert M Parker

Thoroughly revised and updated, this fifth edition of the Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide has been eagerly awaited by seasoned collectors and occasional drinkers alike. No one wants to waste his or her precious dollars on an unenjoyable bottle, and with Parker's advice in hand, no one ever will. Employing his famous 100-point rating system, Parker rates more than 8,000 wines from all the major wine-producing regions in the world -- including Austria for the first time ever. Each wine producer is evaluated separately, and Parker's independence allows him to be completely honest in his opinions. In addition, the book includes other essential information such as how to buy and store wine, how to spot a badly stored and abused bottle, and how to find the best wine values for under $10.

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Soy Dessert and Baking Book: Add Soy and Nutrition to Your Favorite Cakes,Cookies,Pies,Tarts,Muffins,Puddings,Quick Breads,and Other Desserts

Author: Brita Housez

Incorporating healthy ingredients into delicious baked goods and desserts can seem like a daunting goal, but it doesn't have to be. Brita Housez has created 120 delicious recipes that incorporate soy into everyone's favorite baked goods and desserts—thereby making them more nutritious than ever. By substituting soy products for fattening ingredients like butter, cream, and cheese, Housez cuts calories, adds nutrition, and retains every bit of the great flavor you expect when biting into a slice of cheesecake or a chocolate cupcake. The book includes eight pages of gorgeous four-color photographs and many dairy-free recipes.

Publishers Weekly

Soy aficionado Housez (Tofu Mania) brings the versatile bean to the dessert table to help even the most diehard sweet tooth get the 25 to 40 grams of soy per day that doctors recommend. The recipes integrate soy in many ways, from the traditional tofu and soy milk to soy flower, soy flakes, soy nuts and soybean oil; Housez's secret to maintaining authentic tastes while eliminating much of the fat is to only partially substitute soy to have cooks use some soy flour and some unbleached all-purpose flour, for instance. Although this gives her Lemony Cranberry Bundt Cake a dense texture, the Light Chocolate Cupcakes are just what the name promises: light and airy, with the added decadence of chocolate frosting made with vanilla soy milk. The recipes are simple, marked by helpful headings (like "non-dairy" or "1-bowl recipe") and finished with nutritional information and notes on quantity, timing, and how well the dish freezes. Housez offers chapters on everything from cookies to crepes and biscuits to bars, and while traditional dishes such as Apple Pie, Oatmeal Raisin Cookies and Blueberry Muffins are included, Housez also tackles Tiramisu and Zabaglione. And she recommends an extra soy boost in the form of sauces like the rich Caramel Sauce, which has appealing overtones of cinnamon. These recipes prove it's possible to eat healthy without sacrificing too much taste. (Jan.) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Housez (Tofu Mania) provides 120 recipes for cookies, cakes and pies, quick breads, smoothies, and other desserts and baked goods prepared with soy products. She turned to soy both for its nutritional value and as a way of reducing fat in desserts such as cheesecakes. However, she says, "there is no need to overdose on soy," and in many recipes she uses soy products only as a partial substitute for the butter or other ingredients that are high in fat but are essential for flavor. Dana Jacobi's Amazing Soy (LJ 6/15/01) includes desserts among its hundreds of recipes, but most subject collections will want to add Housez's book, too. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Table of Contents:

Introduction	xv
The Soy Baker's Pantry	xxi
cookies
Double Chocolate Chip Cookies	2
Double Nut-Butter Cookies	3
Cream Cheese Snickerdoodles	4
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies	5
Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies	6
Dried Fruit and Oat Crunchies	7
Ginger Cookies	8
Chinese Almond Cookies	9
Lemon Cookies	10
Coconut Macaroons	11
Lemon Coconut Biscotti	12
Nutty Meringues	14
Surprise Meringues	15
Lace Brandy Cups	16
Wonton Cinnamon Crisps	18
squares & bars
Chocolate Brownies	20
Brownie Cheesecake Squares	22
Cherry Chocolate Chip Cheesecake Squares	24
White Chocolate Cherry Bars	25
Sour Cherry StreuselSquares	26
Cranberry Apple Macadamia Bars	27
Rum Raisin and Apple Custard Squares	28
Sugar 'n' Spice Squares	29
Soynut Butter and Oat Squares	30
Crispy Rice Squares	32
Lemon Squares	33
Peach Squares	34
cakes & frostings
Light Chocolate Cupcakes	36
Chocolate M&M Cupcakes	38
Cocoa Layer Cake with Chocolate Cream Frosting	40
Sour Cream Chocolate Cake	42
Chocolate Cream Puffs with Grand Marnier Cream Filling	44
Chocolate Raspberry Pavlova	46
Ultra Light Cheesecake	47
Cheesecake with Swirled Lemon Curd	48
Cream Cheese, Tofu, and Mocha Cake	50
Mocha Cinnamon Torte	52
Tiramisu	54
Tangy Lemon Cake	55
Pineapple Upside Down Cake	56
pies & tarts
Basic Shortbread Crust	60
Pastry Crust for Fruit Pies and Tarts	61
Flan Pastry Crust	62
Graham Cracker Crust	63
Apple Pie	64
Plum Pie	66
Peaches 'n' Cream Pie	67
Key Lime Pie	68
Quick Lime Cheesecake Pie	70
Mango and Lemon Cheesecake Pie	71
Sweet Potato Pie	72
Sugar Pie	74
Butter Tarts	75
Creamy Rhubarb Tarts	76
Lemon-Lime Tarts	77
Mango Kiwi Soynut Tart	78
Blueberry Cheesecake Tart	80
Orange Mocha Cheesecake Tart	81
Chocolate Orange Pear Tart	82
Summer Berry Pizza	83
Apple Turnovers	84
pancakes, crêpes, cobblers & dumplings
Blueberry Pancakes	88
Apple Bread Pancakes	89
Chocolate Crêpes	90
French Toast with Fried Apples	91
Peach Fritters	92
Fruit Fritter Batter	93
Maple Grandpères	94
Honey Rum Baked Apples	95
Pear and Cherry Crisp with Lemon Sauce	96
Black Forest Cobbler	98
Nutty Cranberry Cobbler	99
Strawberry Shortcake	100
Granola Snack	102
muffins, biscuits & quick breads
Blueberry Muffins	104
Cornbread Muffins	105
Banana Oatmeal Muffins	106
Lemon Cranberry Muffins	107
Honey Lemon Muffins	108
Applesauce and Sour Cream Muffins	110
Baking Powder Biscuits	111
Quick 'n' Easy Carrot Scones	112
Yogurt Soda Bread	114
Banana Bread	115
Flax, Banana, and Orange Bread	116
Strawberry Quick Bread	117
Applesauce Loaf	118
Quick Health Loaf	119
Pineapple Cranberry Loaf	120
Cherry and Lime Pound Cake	121
Almond Pound Cake	122
Lemony Cranberry Bundt Cake	124
yeast breads
Cinnamon Buns	128
Plum Coffee Cake	130
Raisin Casserole Bread	132
Stollen	134
Caribbean Holiday Sweet Bread	136
Bagels	138
hot & cold puddings
Irish Cream Chocolate Pudding	142
Rice Pudding with White Chocolate	143
Vanilla Soy Pudding	144
Monmouth Pudding	145
Summer Pudding	146
Fruit Flummery	147
Steamed Cranberry Pudding	148
Persimmon Pudding	150
Carrot Christmas Pudding	152
Caramel Apple Bread Pudding	154
custards, mousses, soufflés & trifles
Banana Apple Cranberry Custard Flan	156
Zabaglione	157
Crème Caramel à l'Orange	158
Irish Coffee Crème Caramel	159
Coffee Tortoni	160
Chocolate Pots de Crème	161
Chocolate Mousse	162
Tropical Yogurt Mousse	163
Zesty Lime Mousse	164
Lemon Custard Soufflé	165
Chocolate Orange Soufflé	166
Raspberry Orange Trifle	167
creams & sauces
Best Whipped Topping	170
Basic Vanilla Sauce	171
Caramel Sauce	172
Chocolate Soynut Butter Sauce	173
Lemon Curd	174
Almond Cream	175
Orange Cream	176
Berries with Orange Ricotta Cream	177
Strawberry Fool	178
Margarita Dip with Fresh Fruit	179
confections
Amaretto Drops	182
Chocolate Caramels	183
Chocolate Caramel Truffles	184
Chocolate Soynut Butter Truffles	185
Soynut Brittle	186
beverages
Banana Daiquiri	189
Banana Soynut Shake	190
Coconut Lychee Banana Shake	191
Cranberry Buttermilk Shake	192
Cranberry Peach Smoothie	193
Protein Berry Shake	194
Raspberry Kiwi Shake	195
Orange Strawberry Smoothie	196
Peach Almond Shake	197
Mango Flax Seed Shake	198
Caramel and Amaretto Hot Chocolate	199
Holiday Eggnog	200
Acknowledgments	201
Index	202

Simplify Entertaining or The Accidental Gourmet

Simplify Entertaining: Less-Stress Solutions for Party Giving

Author: Mary Corpening Barber

Hundreds of practical, simple solutions for creating the perfect party that will save you time and money and let you enjoy yourself in the process. This book is filled with many ideas and techniques to orchestrate a successful gatheringlarge or small, formal or casual.

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The Accidental Gourmet: Weeknights: A Year of Fast and Delicious Meals

Author: Sally Sondheim

DO YOU DREAD FIXING DINNER EACH NIGHT, BUT ARE LOOKING FOR BETTER THAN TAKEOUT? THE AUTHORS OF THE BESTSELLING A DINNER A DAY SHOW YOU HOW TO PREPARE DELICIOUS, FAMILY-PERFECTED MEALS EVERY MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR.

If you're the cook in your household and crave comfort food that will bring your family back to the table, you need The Accidental Gourmet: Weeknights. Written by a gourmet and an I-hate-to-cook, this must-have volume translates Grandmother's cooking into today's lifestyle and gives new meaning to the term "fast food," as it brings variety, great taste, and fun back to home-cooked meals. In a unique approach to taking control of the kitchen, Sally Sondheim and Suzannah Sloan have created 260 brand-new menus—including entrées, side dishes, and desserts—that will allow time-pressed cooks to put together readily available ingredients with style and speed.

There's no guesswork involved: Each menu is presented to you complete on two facing pages. The recipes are accompanied by organized shopping lists that make once-a-week marketing a snap, a rundown of necessary cooking equipment, and an indispensable preparation schedule that gets everything to the table on time. Each menu feeds an average family of four, but can easily be expanded or reduced to fit your needs, and the dishes highlight the freshest foods of the season, judiciously augmented by timesaving convenience foods. Now your family can enjoy such mouthwatering combinations as hearty chicken soup with carrots, beans, potatoes, and spinach, served with maple syrup muffins and strawberry-topped sherbet over melon; or a sausage, egg, and vegetable bake,served with spiced peaches, rosemary buns, and angel food cake with blueberry sauce. How about pork chops simmered with lemon, brown sugar, and honey, served with egg noodles tossed with butter and poppy seeds, sautéed snow peas and asparagus, and a butterscotch pudding layered with shortbread cookies? All the thinking, all the planning, all the organization, has been done for you. All that's left for you to do is to take the credit!

Whether you're a single parent, the cooking half of a two-career family, or an overscheduled stay-at-home mom, The Accidental Gourmet: Weeknights is the one book you'll want to use every day.

Publishers Weekly

Hoping to trump their own highly successful A Dinner a Day, Sondheim and Sloan have turned out another year's worth of weeknight meals, planned and formatted down to the smallest detail. With their weekly shopping list, two-page spreads, and meticulously sequenced prep instructions, the authors have once again taken all of the planning and pain (some may argue much of the fun) out of deciding what's for dinner. Readers can cook straight from Monday's Silence of the Hams to Wednesday's Orson Beans with absolutely no forethought or last-minute trips to the corner deli. Nowadays, the word "gourmet" in a title more or less guarantees something from a can or a mix on almost every page, and this volume is no exception. Anyone frightened of whipped toppings, instant pudding mixes, canned nacho cheese soup, pre-seasoned stuffing or canned fruits had better steer clear. Still, the book is a godsend for its target audience: busy working people or oversubscribed family cooks whose only quick alternative is a frozen TV dinner or takeout. For these, the horrendous puns ("Dancin' Chick to Chick" and "I Get a Cake Out of You") and scary desserts (peanut butter and jelly cake; marshmallow cr me fantasies) will be a small price to pay for a home-cooked meal made a little easier. (Dec.) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Pan or The Basic Basics

Pan!: Recetas sencillas y deliciosas para hacer en una maquina de pan

Author: Kathryn Hawkins

This book contains a wealth of bread-making recipes that include everything from breads to pizza bases to doughnuts, each accompanied by a vibrant color illustration. A thorough introduction explains the basic steps and variety of ingredients, followed by Bread-Machine Basics, Handy Hints, and Troubleshooting. Following that are dozens of recipes for loaves, cakes, tea breads, and homey favorites, including Olive and Pesto Sourdough Loaf, Boston-Style Brown Bread, Smoky Potato and Corn Bread, Almond Danish Pastries, Chocolate Truffle Cake, French Toast, and many more. The book covers types of flour and shows how to incorporate mouth-watering additions such as nuts, grains, sun-dried tomatoes, olives, herbs, spices, and dried fruits. Different-shaped breads are featured, along with tips on what to do with those leftover bits of dough and bread. The last chapter describes wonderful jams, butters, and spreads that can be paired with these yummy creations.

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The Basic Basics: How to Cook from A-Z

Author: Janet MacDonald

This is a handbook for the starter cook. Ingredients and techniques are listed alphabetically for quick and easy reference, and it provides the basic methods and techniques for dealing with vegetables, fruits, meat, fish, poultry, grains, legumes, pulses, breads and pasta, with advice on how to clean, store, prepare and cook each entry.

Line drawings illustrate techniques such as dicing, slicing, coring fruit and rubbing in fat, and where appropriate a very simple recipe - such as a basic broth or pie - is included, which allows the reader to develop the skills demonstrated.

Entries also cover simple but easily-forgotten information such as how to poach an egg, the quantities for a Yorkshire pudding batter, and what temperature to roast a chicken at.

International Wine Guide or Guide to Craft Brewing

International Wine Guide

Author: Susy Atkins

Whether you enjoy light, dry, or fruity whites or full-bodied, light, or smooth reds, this book promises to help today s enthusiast choose and appreciate the different styles and tastes of wine from around the world. The core of this book provides 10 different styles with a key wine for each, plus lesser-known varieties and up-and-coming ones. You ll also find advice on buying and serving as well as tips on food pairings, plus how to choose the perfect varietal.

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Guide to Craft Brewing

Author: John Alexander

A guide to Craft Brewing explains how to brew your own beer in clear and straightforward terms, making this popular and rewarding hobby accessible to all. This practical book covers twenty-eight types of malts, thirty-one adjuncts and thirty-three hops, and includes how to treat water to match a beer type and yeast necessary to create your own unique beer style. It explains each step for the novice with tips and advice, but also includes advanced techniques and ideas for the more experienced home brewer.

John Alexander supped his first pint of home-brewed beer in 1970 and was hooked. He readily mastered the techniques involved in brewing with malt extract and cereals, and quickly moved on to mashing, brewing wholly from malt and adjuncts. He has also specialized in 'beer from the wood' since 1979 and this has helped him perfect the real ale recipes included in this book.