Eat Dessert First!: The Red Hat Society Dessert Cookbook
Author: Red Had Society
The Red Hat Society cooks are back! With a beautiful full-color dessert cookbook filled with enthusiasm, humor, and really good desserts.
"Life is uncertain, eat dessert first!" This beautiful cookbook maintains that you should "Eat Dessert Always!" Even the Red Hatters who no longer bother to cook regular meals will still strut their stuff with chocolate, meringues, pastries, and cakes.
Compiled by Red Hatters from around the country, this luscious collection ranges from simple to sublime, delightful to decadent. Beautiful full-color photos will inspire cooks of all ages and tempt cookbook buyers to add this book to their collection. More than 200 recipes include cakes, pies, candies, breads, puddings, cookies, and much more. For the non-cooks who still want to impress, there will be a special section of non-cook, easy-to-assemble desserts guaranteed to succeed.
The Red Hat Society Cookbook, published in the fall of 2006, was a huge success. Publisher's Weekly said, "The fun spirit of this cheery cookbook makes it a winner." The Red Hat Society Dessert Cookbook contains all new recipes; none are duplicated from the earlier cookbook.
Judith Sutton - Library Journal
"Life is uncertain-eat dessert first" is one of the mottoes of the Red Hat Society, an organization of women, now with more than a million members, determined to have fun growing old. This follow-up to the society's best-selling first cookbook, The Red Hat Society Cookbook, includes more than 200 recipes, contributed by "Red Hatters" from all over the country, for cakes and pies, cookies, frozen treats, beverages, and more. Sure to be popular, this is recommended for most collections.
Table of Contents:
Introduction VCakes for Every Occasion 1
Savory Cheesecakes and Pies 53
Pastry Delights 91
Munchable Cookies 117
Mouthwatering Bars and Luscious Brownies 153
Old-Fashioned Favorites 191
Frozen Delights 211
A Medley of Other Sweet Pleasures 225
Brittles, Truffles, and Assorted Candies 245
Thirst-Satisfying Beverages 271
Index 283
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Simple Vegetarian Pleasures
Author: Jeanne Lemlin
Jeanne Lemlin is aware that we're all vegetarians some of the time and that what we crave is delicious food that is quick and simple to prepare. In Simple Vegetarian Pleasures, she shares her dedicated, relaxed approach to good food with two hundred tempting recipes for flavorful meals.
The flexibility and range of Jeanne's recipes encourage you to take advantage of seasonal fruits and vegetables, and her menu suggestions for every occasion help frazzled cooks move serenely, almost effortlessly from soup to nuts. With tips for keeping your pantry and refrigerator stocked to simplify meal preparation and vibrantly flavored recipes - for stovetop dishes, make-ahead casseroles and gratins, rich vegetable stocks, salads, and a range of pizzas, quesadillas, sandwiches, and vegetarian burgers -vegetarian cooking becomes easy, fast, and fabulous. Whether you're vegetarian all the time or occasionally enjoy a meatless dish, Jeanne Lemlin has your food right here - simply delicious and deliciously simple.
Winning Dishes:
Chickpea Salad with Fennel, Tomatoes, and Olives
Spinach Soup with Couscous and Lemon
Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Portobello Mushroom and Caramelized Shallot Omelette
Nantucket Cranberry Cake
Trish Hall
Ms. Wolfert does not just writer recipes; she writes about the recipes, and about the food, and about the people who make the food. —New York Times
Cooks Source
Simple Vegetarian Pleasures is, above all, a collection of recipes that will awaken your palate to the pleasures of vegetarian cooking, simply and easily.
Publishers Weekly
Lemlin (Main-Course Vegetarian Pleasures; Quick Vegetarian Pleasures) adds to her meat-free oeuvre with this unpretentious repertoire of quick-to-prepare vegetarian dishes. Without precisely defining "simple," Lemlin uses her introduction to give suggestions for stocking a pantry and a brief rundown on vegetarian nutrition. Recipes are fairly basic, although special touches enliven Mesclun Salad with Dried Apricots and Spiced Nuts; Beer Pizza (the brew's in the crust) and Coconut Lime Rice. Innovative approaches evidenced in such recipes as Tiny Eggplant Turnovers (thin slices of eggplant folded like ravioli around a goat cheese filling) accompany standards along the lines of Kale, Butternut Squash and White Bean Soup; Black Bean and Red Onion Burgers; and Macaroni and Cheese. Chapters like the one on tofu and tempeh dishes (Marinated Fried Tofu and Vegetable Salad with Mesclun, Baked Tofu and Mushrooms Hoisin, Garlicky Tempeh and Potato Ragout) open with useful tips (buy sealed tofu, because the loose variety is a breeding ground for bacteria). The chapter of breakfast recipes and that titled Pizzas, Burgers, Sandwiches, Quesadillas, Etc. brim with good ideas. Lemlin's refreshing, no-nonsense, unproselytizing attitude inspires. (May)
Library Journal
Haedrich (Simple Desserts, LJ 8/95) says that few of the many vegetarian cookbooks around are "grounded in the reality of family life," but his new book should remedy the situation. His four children have grown up on a vegetarian diet, and there are lots of kid-friendly recipes here, as well as advice on feeding a family with different likes and dislikes. Some of the recipes include variations or options for grownups only, and although Haedrich isn't a strict vegetarian, his partner (as he identifies her) is, and she's contributed some vegan recipes and alternatives. Any parents who are committed to a vegetarian diet should be interested in Haedrich's new book. Lemlin, who has written a number of excellent vegetarian cookbooks (including Main-Course Vegetarian Pleasures, LJ 4/15/95), is less concerned with avoiding dairy products, chocolate, and so forth than Haedrich is, but she is no less aware of the time constraints facing busy family cooks. She offers an attractive collection of quick and easy recipes, often with make-ahead suggestions. With its simple but fairly sophisticated recipes, Lemlin's latest should appeal to "sometime" as well as "all the time" vegetarians. Recommended for most collections.
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