4 Ingredients Gluten-Free Cookbook

April 26, 2012 By 32 Comments

We recently received a copy of the 4 Ingredient Gluten-Free Cookbook and are excited to share a couple of the recipes with you!

Seeing that I had the review task for this cookbook, I went to the dessert section. The first recipe I tried out was the Peanut Butter Cookie recipe.

Peanut Butter Cookies

1 cup crunchy peanut butter

1 cup packed brown sugar

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 egg

Preheat the over to 350 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper. In a bowl, mix all ingredients. Using a tablespoon amounts, roll into small balls and place on the baking sheets. Flatten slightly with a fork, crisscross style. Bake for 10 minutes, or until a thin crust forms on the cookie. NOTE: These will harden as they cool.

My Thoughts: I love peanut butter cookies. These peanut butter cookies were really simple to make with what I had on hand. I admit I didn’t use crunchy peanut butter but went for the Skippy Natural Peanut Butter I seriously love. These are worth making again for sure!

Next up on the test list is the Flourless Chocolate Cake recipe!

Flourless Chocolate Cake

4 eggs, separated

1 cup superfine sugar

1 3/4 sticks (7 ounces) butter

8 ounces dark chocolate

Put a rack in the lowest position and preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 9-inch round cake pan with parchment paper. With an electric mixer, beat the egg yolks with 1/2 cup of the sugar. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until fluffy, then add the remaining 1/2 cup sugar. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites until fluffy, then add the remaining 1/2 cup sugar, gradually beating until stiff peaks form. In a bowl set over a pan of hot water, melt the butter and chocolate, stirring regularly. Fold the chocolate mixture into the egg yolks. Fold in the egg whites. Scrape the batter into the cake pan and bake for 40 minutes. Serve warm or chilled.

I can’t wait to try this recipe since I have some baking time back in my life for a few weeks!

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Piece of Cake

December 24, 2011 By 1 Comment

Piece of Cake!: One-Bowl, No-Fuss, From-Scratch Cakes

 

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One-bowl cakes are the forgotten gems in the world of home baking.

Many home bakers believe there are only two options for making cakes at home: 1) commercial cake mixes, or 2) complicated, multi-step recipes developed by professional chefs. But there’s another way: one-bowl cakes are all-natural, quick and easy to prepare.

They’re as much about what isn’t required as what is:

  • you don’t need multiple bowls
  • you will not need to cream the fat (e.g., butter, shortening or oil) with the sugar
  • you will not need to separate the eggs
  • you will not need to alternately add ingredients while simultaneously mixing
  • you will not need to use cake flour or any other fancy flour
  • you will not need to sift flour
  • you do not need to own or use a heavy-duty stand mixer.

You’ll be able to create a multitude of cakes everyone loves to eat, from classic layer cakes and Bundt cakes to old-fashioned cakes and modern innovations. The ever-popular lay-flat concealed wire-o hardcover binding, with full color throughout, makes this book even more convenient.

Our Thoughts …

We decided the Lemon Glazed Gingerbread Bundt cake would be great for the after service social tomorrow. I made the cake and left Brian to make the glaze of which he decided to do the Orange Glaze variation but then not follow the directions at all. It is a glaze but not the one in the recipe. He is worse at following recipes than me for sure! We put it in the Christmas Tree Bundt Pan because we have to use the heck out of that pan at this time of the year for the space it takes up year round!;) Here is our end product …

The cake is amazing in flavor. The recipe really is one a one bowl recipe which I LOVE since I hate baking clean up. I also just noticed a vegan and gluten free homemade cake mix recipe in the front of this cookbook. It is always great to have recipes like that on hand for friends and I think I will post a picture of the end product of the vegan recipe in January so watch for it!

This book is available on Amazon and would be a great addition to your cookbook collection if you love keep baking simple like I do!


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Betty Crocker Cookbook

December 18, 2011 By 2 Comments

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America’s most trusted cookbook is better than ever!Representing its most thorough revision ever, the Betty Crocker Cookbook, 11th Edition includes hundreds of new recipes, three new chapters, and icons that showcase how we cook today—faster, healthier, and with many more flavors.

New features celebrate the book’s expertise and heritage with repertoire-building recipe lessons and fresh twists on American classics. With nearly 1,100 gorgeous new photos and 1,500 recipes, as well as invaluable cooking guidance, The Big Red Cookbook is better and more comprehensive than ever before. The book features:

  • Exclusive content at BettyCrocker.com for Big Red buyers, including 80 videos, 400 additional recipes, and more to complement and enhance the cookbook
  • 1,500 recipes, 50 percent new to this edition
  • Nearly 1,100 all-new full-color photos—more than three times the number in the previous edition—including 350 step-by-step photos
  • Bold, contemporary, and colorful design
  • Three new chapters on Breakfast and Brunch, Do It Yourself (including canning, preserving and pickling) and Entertaining (including cocktails and party treats)
  • New feature: Learn to Make recipes giving visual lessons on preparing essential dishes like Roast Turkey and Apple Pie, with icons directing readers to bonus videos on BettyCrocker.com
  • New feature: Heirloom Recipe and New Twist showcase classic recipes paired with a fresh twist, with icons directing readers to bonus videos on BettyCrocker.com
  • “Mini” recipes giving quick bursts of inspiration in short paragraph form

With 65 million copies sold and still going strong, the Betty Crocker Cookbook, 11th Edition is the one kitchen companion every home cook needs.

Our Thoughts …

I have one of the 1970s versions of the Betty Crocker cookbook. It was on my grandma’s shelf before it was on mine. It is still one of my first references when I am cooking and baking. I was excited to see a new edition of this cookbook come out. It was hard to image it getting better that my go-to reference 1970s version but it did get better. There are so many new recipes in this book. I love the chapter layout with tabs of this book because it makes it so easy to find that dessert or appetizer you want to make. The tabs are in the old version and probably one of the reasons I love that book so much. I am thrilled they kept the tabs in the book to make it such an easy reference. They also kept the pictures. I love having a picture when I am making a recipe because then I can see if I flubbed it up or if I was almost close to making it. (I rarely claim perfection!) Over all this new edition is a much a have for a kitchen … even if you have an older version of the cookbook like I do. You will find something to love in this edition for sure!

You can find this cookbook over on Amazon right now for a great price! You can still order it and get it in time for Christmas too. This would make a perfect gift for someone who wants to start to cook in the new year, has an older edition of this book, or even just needs a great reference cookbook!

 

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All the way from Massachusetts!

December 17, 2011 By 1 Comment

I was really excited to participate in the gift exchange on the blogging community forum. My exchange partner was Karen over at 3 Garnets & 2 Sapphires. Karen is ahead of the game and already posted what I sent her on her site. No, I did not send a Virginia Ham to her even though  I did think about for half a second until I realized that would cost a fortune to ship!!

We were asked to send an ornament, something from our city or state, a sweet or treat, and a white elephant gift.

Here is what Karen sent …

  • Land’s End mittens ornament (they are already up on tree!)
  • a local cookbook (that Brian is already trying to claim!)
  • Peppermint Junior Mints (I am a Junior Mint junkie so these are so great!)
  • some funky pajama pants (which Brian just pointed out match my new pajama shirt I just got. haha!)

 

Thanks Karen for the fun gift box! I have really enjoyed getting to know Karen better through her blog these past few weeks. Be sure to head over and sign up to follow her on Twitter, Facebook, and subscribe to her email. She has some great tips, worksheets, and giveaways over there!

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French Women Don’t Get Fat Cookbook

November 19, 2011 By 1 Comment

 

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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of French Women Don’t Get Fat offers a long-awaited collection of delicious, healthy recipes and advice on eating well without gaining weight.

With French Women Don’t Get Fat, Mireille Guiliano wrote the ultimate non–diet book on how to enjoy food and stay slim, sparking a worldwide publishing phenomenon. Now, in her first-ever cookbook, she provides her millions of readers with the recipes that are the cornerstone of her philosophy—mouthwatering, simply prepared dishes that favor fresh, seasonal ingredients and yield high satisfaction.

Organized around Mireille’s three favorite pastimes—breakfast, lunch, and dinner—these recipes emphasize pure flavors, balanced ingredients, and easy cooking methods. Eating pleasurably is just as important as eating healthfully, and Mireille does not neglect dessert and chocolate (essential components of any French woman’s diet) and incorporates advice on entertaining, menu planning, and wine selection. And once again, Mireille offers tips and tricks to reduce one’s waistline (including a secret family recipe from Mireille’s beloved Tante Berthe for a delicious breakfast that melts away pounds effortlessly).

Filled with stories from Mireille’s childhood in France, her life in Paris, Provence, and New York, and her extensive travels and meals for business and enjoyment, The French Women Don’t Get Fat Cookbook is a beautiful, practical lifestyle guide to living well, eating wonderfully, and getting the most out of life with the least amount of stress.

Our Thoughts …

This more than a cookbook. It contains many stories from Mireille’s life too! The cookbook is simply organized into a breakfast, lunch and dinner topics followed by a chapter on fish and vegetables and then sweets. The recipes are laid out really nice in a big enough font to read while you are cooking and baking! For breakfast you might pick the Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal or maybe the Provencal Omelet! Or maybe you want to skip right to the sweets and try the Fruit Salad with Quinoa!

This cookbook is on a great sale over at Amazon right now! Maybe some of these recipes will help you slim down this holiday season!

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750 Best Appetizers

November 15, 2011 By

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There are more than 750 recipes to choose from because we’ve tried to make sure home cooks have a selection to suit every possible occasion — from a dress-down backyard barbecue to the most elegant sit-down dinner. We’ve also considered the need to satisfy a variety of dietary preferences, from strictest vegans to wide-ranging omnivores. And since we know busy families are probably doing lots of things at once, many recipes can be prepared ahead of time or, if so inclined, made in a slow cooker while busy doing something else.

The book is structured to cover a broad range of options. There are 16 chapters built around specific types of dishes, such as dips and spreads, or specific ingredients, such as fish and seafood or cheese. We’ve also categorized by presentation since it’s such an integral component to appetizers, so chapters are organized by categories, such as “Wraps and Rolls” and “Sticks and Picks.”

Our Thoughts …

This book is full of ideas. If you are planning a Thanksgiving event, Christmas dinner, or just a holiday party, this book would be a great place to start. Maybe the Zucchini Hummus or Chive and Navy Bean Dip would be great to add to your next event. I think the Honey Mustard Dip might show up on our menu soon for a weekend football watching meal!;)

Amazon has a great deal on this book as we head into the holiday season!

We are excited to announce that we have been provided with the opportunity to giveaway one copy of 750 Best Appetizers to one of our readers!

 

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The Cooking Light Gluten-Free Cookbook

October 18, 2011 By

Cooking Light The Gluten-Free Cookbook: Simple Food Solutions for Everyday Meals

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Cooking Light introduces The Gluten-Free Cookbook-the search for simple, healthy and delicious gluten-free meals is over. Cooking Light developed more than 180 everyday recipes that will work for the reader searching for a wide variety of satisfying and flavorful gluten-free dishes. Designed in a full-color, easy-to-read format, Cooking Light The Gluten-Free Cookbook is the defi nitive guide to cooking gluten-free.

Questions from individuals who live gluten-free either out of necessity or by choice are answered all in one place. Within the pages of this book, readers will find the best kitchen tips and techniques and helpful information about ingredients that are the basis of glutenfree cooking, including which grains, flours, and convenience products to use. This book offers simple advice on how to avoid glutencontaining products-natural and hidden sources-and teaches what to look for on the nutrition label. Enjoy food previously sacrificed, such as pizza, pastas, meatloaf, sandwiches, breads, and even desserts! On every page, readers will find deliciously transformed, gluten-free versions of their favorite dishes-from quick breads to cakes and oven-fried chicken to spaghetti and meatballs, and more.

Our Thoughts …

We love to try difference cookbooks. We aren’t Gluten-Free at our house but we have read about this diet change that many people are living with right now. We also have several friends who are now on gluten-free diets so if we cook for them, we know that this cookbook will be our first resource. We have a few recipes we want to try in this book including …

Cinnamon-Raisin Muffins with Streusel Topping

Streusel:
1⁄4 cup chopped walnuts
1⁄4 cup packed light brown sugar
2 tablespoons brown rice flour (such as Bob’s Red Mill)
1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
11⁄2 tablespoons canola oil or butter

Muffins:
Cooking spray
3.3 ounces brown rice flour (about
3⁄4 cup; such as Bob’s Red Mill)
4.1 ounces potato starch (about 3⁄4 cup)
2.1 ounces tapioca flour (about 1⁄2 cup)
3⁄4 cup granulated sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
11⁄2 teaspoons xanthan gum
1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
3⁄4 cup raisins
1⁄4 cup chopped toasted walnuts
1⁄3 cup canola oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 large eggs
1 cup plain soy milk

1. Preheat oven to 400°.
2. To prepare streusel, combine first 5 ingredients in a small bowl with a fork until mixture resembles small peas.
3. To prepare muffins, place 18 paper muffin cup liners in muffin cups. Coat liners with cooking spray; set aside.
4. Weigh or lightly spoon brown rice flour, potato starch, and tapioca flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine brown rice flour, potato starch, tapioca flour, granulated sugar, and next 4 ingredients in a large bowl, stirring with a whisk. Stir in raisins and walnuts; make a well in center of mixture. Combine oil, vanilla, and eggs in a medium bowl, stirring with a whisk. Stir in soy milk; add to rice flour mixture, stirring just until moist. Spoon batter evenly into prepared muffin cups. Sprinkle batter evenly with streusel topping.
5. Bake at 400° for 20 minutes or until muffins are lightly browned and spring back when touched lightly in center. Cool in pans 5 minutes on a wire rack. Serve warm. Yield: 18 servings (serving size: 1 muffin).

CALORIES 201; FAT 8.5g (sat 0.8g, mono 3.9g, poly 3.2g); PROTEIN 2.3g; CARB 31g; FIBER 1g; CHOL 24mg; IRON 0.6mg; SODIUM 149mg; CALC 57mg

(Copied with permission from The Cooking Light Gluten-Free Cookbook .)

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Entenmann’s Big Book of Baking

September 22, 2011 By

Entenmann’s Big Book of Baking

 


 

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Focusing on fresh ingredients and simple preparation, Entenmann’s Big Book of Baking makes it easy for bakers of all levels to create Entenmann s classic
baked goods with a homespun touch. Recipes range from favorites like Cinnamon Crumb Cake, Chocolate Cake Donuts, and Banana Crunch Cake, to new ideas such as Blackberry and Apple Loaf Cake, Cranberry Sour Cream Brownies, and even healthy on-the-go snack choices such as Nutty Granola Bars.

With the same care that she brings to the development of Entenmann’s supermarket products, master baker Kathleen Robbins relied on her 23 years of experience in testing the book’s recipes. I m very excited to bring that expertise to the recipes in this book, assuring that each of the recipes included here works perfectly for every home baker and tastes absolutely delicious, she writes in the book’s introduction.

For the die-hard fans of favorites such as Entenmann’s All-Butter Loaf cake, the party hostess with no time to cook, and the everyday sweet tooth, Entenmann’s Big Book of Baking also includes an Almost Homemade section featuring inventive recipes incorporating Entenmann’s classic products.

Here is a recipe … YUM!!!

 

 

The Entenmann’s Big Book of Baking includes recipes like this one that are “cheat” recipes where you get to use one of their great products and recipes that all sound amazing and make in impossible to for me to even decide which one I would try first.

You head over to Amazon and order this now for $11.68!

We are excited to giveaway this cookbook to one of our readers!

 

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This giveaway is open to US residents who are 18+!!!

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Top 100 Pasta Dishes: Easy Everyday Recipes That Children Will Love

September 1, 2011 By 1 Comment

We are excited to provide a review of the complementary copy of Top 100 Pasta Dishes: Easy Everyday Recipes That Children Will Love that we received!

Top 100 Pasta Dishes: Easy Everyday Recipes That Children Will Love

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Who doesn’t love pasta? For most kids—and their parents—pasta is the best food in the world. It’s tasty and nutritious, it’s easy, quick, and economical to cook—and, even better, it comes in lots of fun shapes! Here is Annabel’s ultimate collection of one hundred pasta dishes, with a section for babies (it’s a good way to introduce texture) and toddlers (it’s great for fussy eaters), plus a huge variety of quick and easy recipes that older children will enjoy and that will become family favorites!Filled with color photos, simple instructions, and clear notes on cooking and preparation times, plus symbols throughout to show which recipes are suitable for babies and younger children, and which recipes are suitable for freezing, this is the ultimate pasta cookbook for families everywhere. With Annabel’s help, dinnertime can finally be fuss free!

About the Author
Annabel Karmel is the mother of three children, a bestselling author of books on nutrition and cooking for babies and toddlers, and a familiar face on British television. Annabel travels frequently to the United States, where her books on feeding babies and young children are very popular. She has appeared on many TV programs, including the Today show and The Early Show. You can her website at www.annabelkarmel.com.

Our Thoughts …

The first thing that caught my eye when reading through this cookbook was the pictures. They are great pictures for some of the recipes (not all of them). The recipes start of with a Baby and a Toddler chapters. The next chapters are geared towards family meals … Poultry and Pasta, Meaty Menus, Favorite Fish, and Yummy Veggies. This cookbook really has something for everyone within those chapters!

Some of our favorites as we read through are the Sweet and Sour Meatballs and the Pumpkin gnocchi with lemon-sage butter sauce. I will say that these recipes are the five ingredient type nor are they the super fast type (some look faster than others.) I know we hope to try a few out in the coming months. I am in particular looking forward to some of the  Yummy Veggies recipes for our Meatless Monday posts!

You can find this book on Amazon right now for $12.32!

 

Have you tried any recipes in this book? If so, what are you favorites? Do you love other books by Annabel Karmel? Let me know which one I should try to find next!;)

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Guy Fieri Food

May 24, 2011 By 62 Comments

**This giveaway has ended. Thanks to all who entered! The winner is comment #45!**

I recently had the chance to get a copy of Guy Fieri Food from MorrowCooks. Be sure to check out their blog titled, The Secret Ingredient Blog!

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Bursting with personality, fun, and flavor, Guy Fieri Food is the first-ever cookbook from the Food Network superstar, host of NBC’s popular game show “Minute to Win It,” and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Diners, Drive-ins & Dives and More Diners, Drive-ins & Dives. Filled with more than 150 original recipes, gorgeous full-color photos, and loads of great cooking tips, Guy Fieri Food is an absolute must for any Fieri fan!

Book Description

If you’ve checked out my Diners, Drive-ins and Dives books or visited my restaurants, Johnny Garlic’s and Tex Wasabi’s, you know I’m down with all types of good food—and that I’ll do what’s required to track it down. In Guy Fieri Food, I’m cookin’ it my way, from the perfect recipe for Pepper Jack Pretzels (from Mr. Awesome Pretzel himself—that’s me) to how to pull together a Red Rocker Margarita Chicken sandwich to a full-on vegetable Guy’d (bet you didn’t see that one comin’!). Before I’m finished I’ll have you throwing parties with everything from Bacon-Jalapeno Duck appe-tapas to Chicago Beef Pizza to Johnny Garlic’s Cedar Plank Salmon.

Fact is, I’ve been cookin’ it, livin’ it, and lovin’ it since I was just a kid, and it’s a privilege to help you bring home some of my own classic, big, and bold flavors.

Get the full details on the bookpage!

My Thoughts …

We love to watch Guy’s shows here at our house. He is a lot of fun to watch and not the same old boring cooking or food show. So when I heard Guy was coming out with his first cookbook, I knew we had to make room on our cookbook bookcase (yes, they have their own bookcase) for his book. Looking at the cover of the book, I knew the book was really part of Guy. The cover just screams his personality! That theme continues through the book. The cookbook does contain many great recipes but it also has many great stories from Guy. This makes it a great read and not just a reference book to sit on your cookbook bookcase! ;)

I am excited to share a recipe from Guy Fieri Food. Here is Guy’s Watermelon Pork Tacos!

Watermelon Pork Tacos

Pork
1 pork tenderloin, silverskin removed, cut into 1-inch-thick slices
1 tablespoon onion powder
1 teaspoon red chili flakes
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 tablespoons chopped ginger
1 tablespoon seeded, minced serrano chile
2 tablespoons minced garlic
3 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons oyster sauce
1/2 teaspoon sesame oil

Salsa
1 cup watermelon cut into 1/4-inch cubes
1 cup seeded English cucumber cut into 1/4-inch cubes
1 Haas avocado, pitted, peeled, and cut into 1/4-inch cubes

Lettuce “Shells”
1 romaine lettuce head

1. To make the pork, combine all the ingredients in a resealable 1-gallon plastic bag and marinate for 30 minutes.
2. While the pork is marinating, whisk together all the ingredients for the vinaigrette. In a medium bowl, combine all the ingredients for the salsa. Very gently fold in the vinaigrette. Chill.
3. Trim off the soft dark green end of the romaine. Cut off the root end and separate the leaves to create 4-inch-long lettuce “shells”. Rinse, dry, and chill the leaves.
4. Preheat a grill to medium. Discard the marinade. Grill the pork for 3 minutes on each side. Remove from the heat, let rest 3 minutes, and roughly chop into 1/2-inch pieces.
5. Fill the lettuce shells with the pork, top with the salsa, and devour!

If that doesn’t sound yummy to to then, I am not sure what would. I honestly can’t wait to add this our menu next month. We will have to leave out the oyster sauce as I am allergic to oysters but I think it will still taste great.

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