Super Natural Cooking

A couple of years back I discovered the website 101Cookbooks. It is a pleasurable site to visit, filled with valuable tip, recipes, narratives and photos. Heidi's book SUPER NATURAL COOKING follows the same quality format as her website. It is a visual treat just to thumb through the pages.

Everyone knows that whole foods are much healthier than refined ingredients, but few know how to cook with them in uncomplicated, delicious ways. Using a palette of natural ingredients now widely available in supermarkets, SUPER NATURAL COOKING offers globally inspired, nutritionally packed cuisine that is both gratifying and flavorful. With her weeknight-friendly dishes, real-foodie Heidi Swanson teaches home cooks how to become confident in a whole-foods kitchen by experimenting with alternative flours, fats, grains, sweeteners, and more. Including innovative twists on familiar dishes from polenta to chocolate chip cookies, SUPER NATURAL COOKING is the new wholesome way to eat, using real-world ingredients to get out-of-this-world results.

With more and more focus on nutrition and food safety, this is a book that should be in your collection.

Semi-Homemade Cooking by Sandra Lee

This is a book that I have had on the shelf for awhile and continue to pull down and thumb through for ideas. While I am a reasonably experienced cook, there are fresh ideas in this book for the time impacted cook.

Many readers will be familiar with the name Sandra Lee. Sandra Lee is known to audiences nationwide by appearances on the QVC shopping channel and numerous network and cable television programs. Her Semi-Homemade solutions have also been featured in People, Redbook, Better Homes and Gardens, Traditional Home, Country Home and Victoria. She has also appeared on NBC's Today. FOX's Good Day LA, Good Day New York and the Food Network.

Semi-Homemade is based on Sandra's 70/30 philosophy - 70% store-bought/ready-made products accompanied by 30% fresh and creative touches - allows anyone to take 100% of the credit for something that looks, feels or tastes homemade.

As Sandra herself says; " Our days are filled with too much to do, too little time to do it in, and not enough money to make it all happen. Life today requires us all to be super-human. and after getting all your "to-dos" done, you're expected to plan, shop for, and whip up new, fresh, mouth-watering homemade meals from scratch?"

You will love the simple yet elegant recipes and the accompanying photos for each recipe. This book will give you new energy and hope to face the "what's for dinner?" line.

From Amazon.com

Every ingredient that can possibly be branded is labeled as such. Lee's Salad Chinois is made with Swanson premium chunk chicken breast, Kikkoman soy sauce, McCormick ground ginger, Hellman's or Best Foods mayonnaise, La Choy chow mein noodles, Fresh Express prepared green salad, Chun King chow mein vegetables, and Dole mandarin orange segments. Gnocchi Dippers are whipped up with Alessi gnocchi, Bertolli olive oil, and, believe it or not, Kraft Velveeta cheese. The Malibu Rum Cake includes Malibu Rum, Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe yellow cake mix, and Jell-O vanilla instant pudding.

Sandra Lee has written 8 other books dealing with the same Semi-Homemade theme.

This is a book that I have had on the shelf for awhile and continue to pull down and thumb through for ideas. While I am a reasonably experienced cook, there are fresh ideas in this book for the time impacted cook.

Many readers will be familiar with the name Sandra Lee. Sandra Lee is known to audiences nationwide by appearances on the QVC shopping channel and numerous network and cable television programs. Her Semi-Homemade solutions have also been featured in People, Redbook, Better Homes and Gardens, Traditional Home, Country Home and Victoria. She has also appeared on NBC's Today. FOX's Good Day LA, Good Day New York and the Food Network.

Semi-Homemade is based on Sandra's 70/30 philosophy - 70% store-bought/ready-made products accompanied by 30% fresh and creative touches - allows anyone to take 100% of the credit for something that looks, feels or tastes homemade.

As Sandra herself says; " Our days are filled with too much to do, too little time to do it in, and not enough money to make it all happen. Life today requires us all to be super-human. and after getting all your "to-dos" done, you're expected to plan, shop for, and whip up new, fresh, mouth-watering homemade meals from scratch?"

You will love the simple yet elegant recipes and the accompanying photos for each recipe. This book will give you new energy and hope to face the "what's for dinner?" line.

From Amazon.com

Every ingredient that can possibly be branded is labeled as such. Lee's Salad Chinois is made with Swanson premium chunk chicken breast, Kikkoman soy sauce, McCormick ground ginger, Hellman's or Best Foods mayonnaise, La Choy chow mein noodles, Fresh Express prepared green salad, Chun King chow mein vegetables, and Dole mandarin orange segments. Gnocchi Dippers are whipped up with Alessi gnocchi, Bertolli olive oil, and, believe it or not, Kraft Velveeta cheese. The Malibu Rum Cake includes Malibu Rum, Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe yellow cake mix, and Jell-O vanilla instant pudding.

Sandra Lee has written 8 other books dealing with the same Semi-Homemade theme.