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If you’re wondering what you’ll be serving up for Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Year’s Eve and Boxing Day this year, these two gorgeous ecookbooks for the holidays can help. Vegan Christmas The first holiday ecookbook is by Nicola Griffiths of The Livity. Her ebook Vegan Christmas should appeal to anyone who is vegan as well [...]
I first came across Nadia G. of Bitchin Kitchen at a BlogWorld Expo 2010 food blogging session. I admired how she transitioned her online brand to primetime television. So, when I got home, I checked out her show on the Cooking Channel. I thought her cooking was rather elementary, but my son and husband said [...]
To celebrate Earthbound Farm’s 25thanniversary of their organic packaged salads, they’re giving fans of organic salad the opportunity to download a FREE eCookbook! Salads for Every Season: 25 Recipes from Earthbound Farm by Myra Goodman (who’s been called “The Queen of Greens”) is 83 pages of delicious salad recipes from Myra’s first two cookbooks, Food [...]
Today’s guest post is by Brette Sember, author of The Parchment Paper Cookbook. She blogs about parchment paper cooking at No Pot Cooking and writes the popular food blog, Martha and Me. I’ve cooked fish in foil, but never tried parchment paper cooking. It’s a great time to try it since this week only (until [...]
Kathleen Sloan-McIntosh, author of 300 Best Potato Recipes: A Complete Cook’s Guide writes in her cookbook: I once knew a family of Carolinians who moved from the South to New York City many years ago. No doubt because of their Southern roots, these folks always called sweet potatoes “Carolinas.” This is the pie they made [...]
I still don’t know what we’re doing for Thanksgiving. Either we’re going to a friend’s or staying home. Then it’s just me and the kids (and maybe my mother in law) as my husband has already headed to Boston to start work. When I asked the kids what they wanted to eat for Thanksgiving, they [...]
Pizza’s a great dish for Meatless Monday nights . This recipe is from Food Network star, Robin Miller’s new cookbook Robin Takes 5: 500 Recipes, 5 Ingredients or Less, 500 Calories or Less, for 5 Nights/Week at 5:00 PM coming to bookstores on November 1, 2011. Robin Takes 5 features 500 recipes that require five [...]
Beginning today, Thursday June 30th to Monday July 4th, you can get the Cookouts Veggie Style! ebook by Jolinda Hackett for FREE for the Amazon Kindle, the Sony eReader, or from the Apple iTunes eBookstore. This eBook contains 225 vegetarian (and some vegan) recipes that are fresh, fun, colorful, healthy and delicious and incorporate vegetables [...]
Adams Media just put their Everything Mediterranean Diet Book ebook on sale TODAY, June 22 to Friday June 2 for only $1.99! This exotic cookbook provides endless yummy dishes to whip up while sticking to a healthy diet! The combination of nutrient-rich vegetables, healthful olive oils, and plenty of exercise can help you get lean and [...]
I can’t stand most celebrity cookbooks. They’re usually overly simplistic, obviously ghost written, and just meant to cash in on the celebrity’s popularity. Rarely the cookbook shows the celebrity’s passion for food and how he or she cooks at home. However, I’ll make an exception for Alicia Silverstone’s The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to [...]
Since I found out that I have food sensitivities to dairy products, I’ve been checking out vegan blogs and cookbooks for substitutes for my favorite recipes that use cheese and yogurt. That’s why I requested a review copy of The Everything Vegan Cookbook by Jolinda Hackett with Lorena Novak Bull, RD. Vegan recipes like Thai [...]
My family and I just came back from visiting the Grand Canyon. It was one of the best trips we’ve ever taken, and if you have a chance – GO! While we were there I picked up a fun little cookbook called The Grand Canyon Cook Book, Southwestern recipes from Arizona’s natural wonder by Bruce [...]
Clean Start: Inspiring You to Eat Clean and Live Well is Terry Walters’ follow up to her first cookbook, Clean Food: A Seasonal Guide to Eating Close to the Source with More Than 200 Recipes for a Healthy and Sustainable You. Even though I’m not a vegan, having to avoid milk and wheat products has [...]
The frustrating thing about my food sensitivities has been the lack of ready made desserts. I have a sweet tooth and love a piece of chocolate after a meal. Unfortunately, almost all commercially made chocolate bars are made with sugar or cane sugar, which is on my “avoid this” list. There are a few companies [...]
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