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 The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook by Cooks Illustrated |
Many years in the making, this comprehensive cookbook delivers more than 1,200 foolproof recipes for classic American family fare in a clear, accessible style. Beautiful step-by-step photos illuminate every conceivable technique from chopping shallots and rolling out pie dough to cutting up a chicken and tying a roast. In fact, just about anything you want (or need) to do in the kitchen will be explained in these pages in the test kitchen’s approachable, no-nonsense voice. In addition, the recipes will keep you busy (and your friends and family happy) for years to come since we’ve included hundreds of easy weeknight dishes (like Skillet Lasagna and One-Pot Chicken and Rice), company and holiday-worthy dinners (like Beef Burgundy, Roast Leg of Lamb, and Flourless Chocolate Cake), dozens of menus, shopping tips, equipment ratings and more. A cooking tutorial between two covers, The America’s Test Kitchen Cookbook is the one and only basic cookbook you will ever need, covering every course, from appetizers to desserts, plus chapters on breakfast, sandwiches, sauces and condiments, and beverages. Friendly and to-the-point test kitchen tip boxes accompany the recipes and point out either where you might go wrong, or a special technique or ingredient that makes the recipe successful. Helpful charts (like primers on steaming vegetables and cooking grains) and Cooking 101 pages (covering topics like brining meats, buying cheeses, and how to prepare crudités) make this a reference unlike any other. Bound to get America back into the kitchen again, this is a family cookbook for generations to come. Hardback notebook style with loose-leaf binding, 848 pages, beautifully illustrated & tabbed. This cookbook and Best American Side Dishes (below) are a couple of favorites at Pleasant Hill Grain!
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 Baking Illustrated by Cooks Illustrated |
Have you ever devoted a Sunday afternoon to baking bread only to turn out loaves that are misshapen and dense? Or struggled over pie crust, ending up with a dry and crumbly dough that was impossible to roll out? We have. And that’s why the test cooks and editors at Cook’s Illustrated have exhaustively examined every technique, ingredient and piece of equipment that is critical to baking success to come up with 350 recipes that take the guesswork out of baking. This new 528-page baking companion includes recipes ranging from quick breads and yeast breads to pizza, cookies, cakes, pastry, crisps, and cobblers to all manner of pies and tarts. It includes American home classics (including Southern Cornbread, Pecan Sandies, and Sour Cream Coffee Cake) as well as more contemporary favorites (such as Rosemary Focaccia, Orange-Almond Biscotti, and Chocolate Truffle tart) and European baked goods (such as Brioche, Black Forest Cake, and Tart Tatin.) Every recipe has been exhaustively researched and tested to bring you the “best” recipe (we’ll let you be the judge) along with detailed and precise explanations for everything from why you should use unsalted butter to the best oven temperature. We’ve also tested every kind of baking equipment available, from mixers and food processors to the humblest spatulas and loaf pans. 32 pages of color photographs demonstrate good results as well as bad, and 500 hand-drawn, step-by-step illustrations help you perfect your technique for fail-safe baking. Also included is a 16-page, full-color technique insert that shows you how to avoid some of the most common pitfalls in baking, such as overmixed egg whites, cheesecakes that crack, or bread dough that has overproofed. (We know a lot about mistakes – we’ve made them all.) You’ll also receive handy tutorials on baking basics, including how to stock your pantry and how to store and measure ingredients, cream butter, and roll out pie dough. Hardback, 528 pages.
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 The New Best Recipe by Cooks Illustrated |
The New Best Recipe is your invitation into America’s Test Kitchen where you will stand by our side as we try to develop the best meatloaf, the best macaroni and cheese, the best roast chicken, the best brownie, and nearly 1,000 more best recipes for all your favorite home-cooked foods.
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 Best American Side Dishes by Cooks Illustrated |
Best American Side Dishes: 500 practical recipes for everything but the main course.
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 Cover & Bake by Cooks Illustrated |
With Cover & Bake, the editors at Cook’s Illustrated set out to revive the venerable casserole. From Turkey Tetrazzini and Chicken Divan to Crab Imperial and Hoppin’ John, casserole cooking represents the ingenuity and practicality of the American cook. In Cover & Bake, the editors set out to investigate the old standards and in the process have re-imagined the art of the one-dish meal to meet the demands of today’s cook.
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 by Phyllis Stanley The world's premier "Unofficial Bosch Cookbook" & a Kuhn Rikon bonus! |
Healthy Recipes, by Phyllis Stanley: This is the world's premier "Unofficial Bosch Mixer Cookbook." Working with her sister Shirley, Phyllis Stanley has compiled an excellent guide to making all sorts of wonderful breads & goodies with the Bosch mixer. Chapters include: Daily Bread, Breakfast & Tea Breads, Pizza, Foccacia & Flatbread, Cakes & Cookies, and Holiday Baking Treats. Recipes for your Bosch mixer comprise the largest part of Healthy Recipes, over 100 pages. And its recipes are not only healthy... they're also absolutely, positively delicious! Introduction to Whole Grains: A helpful explanation of the various whole grain options - and why whole grain baking is so fundamental to quality nutrition - begins the book. Whole grain bread making, of course, is what the Bosch mixer excels at. Pressure Cooking is also well covered... with some 70 pages devoted to Kuhn Rikon pressure cooking. If you haven't yet discovered the delights of these revolutionary and beautiful Swiss-made pressure cookers - with their extreme safety & ease of use - this book will give you a foretaste of what you've been missing. Kuhn Rikon pressure cookers can fairly be called the next best thing to Bosch mixers! (Though that's only true if you prefer your cooked food to be tastier, faster & easier to prepare, and more nutritious than anything else around...) Of course, all of the pressure cooker recipes and tips in Healthy Cooking are equally useable with other brands of pressure cookers, too. Two awesome books in one! Healthy Cooking is easily more than worth its price if you own a Bosch mixer. Ditto if you use a pressure cooker, (Kuhn Rikon or other.) And if you have both, well... Consider this your lucky day! :-)
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Devoted to whole grains: This spiral bound cookbook (click for details), written by the importer of the Family Grain Mill (FGM), is geared entirely to baking and cooking with freshly ground flour. This is the newest edition and we recommend it highly!
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The Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book by Laurel Robertson is the classic bestselling cookbook devoted to baking light, healthful, delicious bread entirely from whole grains. This specially updated edition includes an entirely new chapter on making excellent whole-grain loaves in a bread machine. Now even the busiest can bake the delectable loaves Laurel's Kitchen is famous for.
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 Cooking with Chef Brad by Brad Petersen |
Chef Brad Petersen takes a look into the intriguing history, uses and nutritional value of most every grain imaginable in this new cookbook. Includes dozens of his favorite original recipes and practical tips that will help you discover for yourself the joy of using those wonderful grains! Exciting original recipes in these categories:
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Volume 1 has 52 pages and 168 recipes. Most are the simple, basic sort of recipes you need for everyday living. Yeast and quick breads, desserts, and main dishes are among its eight sections. See the table of contents & recipes. One special note: most new mixer users will want to start with with the basic bread recipe, and the table of contents kind of camoflages it... you'll find it at the top of page 9, titled "Breads and Rolls."
Volume 2 has 184 pages and 250 recipes. This volume adds more basics, but also ventures into greater creativity. There are many more yeast breads, from "Linda's Bread" (basic whole grain) to "Maple Nut Twist Coffee Cake" and "Zesty Tomato Pesto" and "Toasted Pecan Date Bread." Nine recipe sections cover Sourdough as well as Cereals, Main Dishes, Hor D'Oeurves & Toppings, and many more. See the table of contents & recipes.
Also see Beth Holland's bread making videos below. |
 Author Beth Holland  Basic & Advanced Bread Making Videos Also see Beth Holland's cookbooks, above. |
Beth Holland holds degrees in voice performance and acting, and served on the faculty of the University of Georgia in the Department of Drama and Theater. After reoccurring illnesses interfered with her performing, she discovered the power of whole grains for health. The fabulous taste was an unexpected bonus! Beth has invested the last twelve years in researching and teaching others about the health benefits of freshly milled grains. We're pleased to offer her bread making videos to you.
Basic Bread Making Video by Beth Holland: This 45 minute VHS video covers grain milling and bread making from the beginning. Topics include:
Beth demonstrates in her videos using the Electrolux DLX mixer but the principles she teaches apply for those using other mixers. Advanced Bread Making Video: This 110 minute VHS video demonstrates the preparation of Apple Cinnamon Coconut Bread, Apricot Walnut Bread, Croutons/Herb Bread, Cinnamon Rolls, Tortillas, Overnight Coffee Cake, Reuben Sandwich/French Bread, Garlic Bread sticks & Pizza. How to convert conventional recipes to freshly milled grains; use of Sucanat; Double Chocolate Bread; Shortnin’ Bread, Biscuits, Types of Baking Powder, Scones, Clotted Cream, Cream Cheese Icing, Orange & Streusel-Topped Muffins, Lemon Cake, Granola, Proportions of Various Grains for Various Textures.
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 by Marleeta Basey See Grain Mills |
Flour Power by Marleeta Basey (Revised Edition): Flour Power, A guide to modern home grain milling explains why commercial flours (including "whole wheat") lack flavor and nutrition, and why home-milled flour is the most feasible (and delicious) source for the "good" carbs that are so vital to a healthful diet and proper weight. It provides an education on bread and dessert wheats, explains how to make American-style breads light and artisan loaves authentic, and offers recipes for delicious (100 percent whole wheat) breads, muffins, cookies, quick breads and much, much more. Detailed, entertaining, rich in historical tidbits; indispensable for the time starved, health-conscious bread lover.
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Sue Gregg Cookbooks: Sue Gregg has spent a lifetime studying nutritious cooking. The fruits of her labors are available in a library of cookbooks and CD's that are unexcelled for their breadth, detail, and practical usefulness. Sue Gregg's resources are one of those products about which we can say that if you purchase one, you'll probably be back for several more - both for yourself and as gifts for family and friends. Click to see our full page of Sue Gregg Resources.
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 Set for Life |
If you want to lose weight or if you've already lost weight and are struggling to keep it off, the Setpoint Lifestyle provides the simple, permanent solution. Authors Jane Merrill and Karen Sunderland teach a practical, livable lifestyle -- not a diet -- that enables you to eat more, weigh less, and feel terrific. It's ideal for athletes, families, and anyone who wants better health, normal weight and stress control. Written in terms anyone can identify with, Set For Life tells you not only what to do, but how to do it. Best of all, no more mealtime dilemma. Set For Life includes hundreds of tasty, nutritionally analyzed Setpoint recipes that are:
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 Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon |
This well-researched, thought-provoking guide to traditional foods contains a startling message: Animal fats and cholesterol are not villains but vital factors in the diet, necessary for normal growth, proper funciton of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels. Sally Fallon dispels the myths of the current low-fat fad in this practical, entertaining guide to a can-do diet that is both nutritious and delicious.
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 Country Beans by Rita Bingham  Member, Better Business Bureau    We Accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover, Checks & Money Orders |
One of Country Beans' best features is its FAST, Fat-Free and GOOD for you recipes made with bean, pea and lentil flours. Most recipes are wheat-free for those allergic to gluten. GF recipe index included.
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 Big Book of Bread Machine Recipes by Donna German See the Zojirushi Automatic Bread Maker |
Big Book of Bread Machine Recipes: Donna German is known to many as the world's premier creator and author of scrumptious bread machine recipes. Her new "Big Book" gives you all her best recipes and it really is big. How big is it? Well we did a bit of research on bread machine cookbooks and found books with 138 recipes... 140 recipes... 101 recipes. We even found one with 375 recipes called "Biggest." Donna's new book has over 600 recipes. But are they good recipes? Well... Donna's previous series (from which this book was compiled) sold over 2 million copies, and cookbooks don't sell like that unless the quality is outstanding. More importantly to us, our customers like it. We believe you won't be disappointed! Shipping is free when this great (big) cookbook is ordered with any combinations of items over $50 total.
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 Pressure Perfect by Lorna Sass "Two Hour Taste in Twenty Minutes!" See the table of contents |
The ultimate guide to making the most of today's 100% safe pressure cookers. Written by Lorna Sass, America's leading authority on the subject. This is a very comprehensive and up-to-date cookbook and guide for pressure cookers, and Pleasant Hill Grain recommends it highly! Includes over 200 innovative, flavor-packed recipes for preparing irresistable soups, stews, curries, risottos, pastas and desserts -- all in one-third or less the standard cooking time. Click to see the full table of contents & recipes.
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 The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook: 250 Rice Cooker Recipes & Much More by Beth Hensperger & Julie Kaufmann
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Throughout Asia, the rice cooker is indispensable. Now, The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook unlocks the rice cooker’s potential for the American kitchen. Starting with an explanation of how a rice cooker works and important tips on cooking with rice cookers, it proceeds to easy-to-follow charts on how to prepare basic rice, grains, and dried beans. Then it moves on to making a perfect pot of rice, whether it’s American long-grain white or Bhutanese red. Once the basics of the rice cooker are mastered, there are rice-centered meals such as Butternut Squash Risotto, Fruited Pilaf, and Indonesian Rice Bowl. Next The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook explains how to use the rice cooker to prepare all manner of grain and bean dishes, from Breakfast Barley to Gorgonzola Polenta to Turkey Chili with Baby White Beans. Last, but certainly not least, the book reveals the secrets to making delicious puddings and fruit desserts, preparing and steaming fish, vegetables, tamales, dolmas, dim sum, and more, all made in the rice cooker from start to finish. 368 pages with 250 no-fail rice cooker recipes and rice cooking tips.
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 Wraps & Roll-Ups Cookbook See Tortilla Presses |
Wraps & Roll-Ups Cookbook: Recipes for tortillas and other flatbreads; rice and beans, salads, slaws and salsas, meat, poultry, fish & other fillings. By Dona Meilach. Paperback, 8-1/4 x 5-1/4", 176 pages.
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New Recipes for Your Sandwich Maker: Make quick sandwiches for breakfast or lunch and fill them with unusual, tasty fillings -- or try using bread dough or puff pastry to hold exotic fillings. By Donna German. Paperback, 8-1/4 x 5-1/4", 160 ages.
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 Joanna White's Barbeque Cookbook |
The Barbeque Cookbook: Contains recipes for all types of meat, poultry, fish, vegetables and fruit, as well as marinades, compound butters, spice rubs and sauces. Also included is information about barbequing techniques, types of grills and safety and cleaning methods. By Joanna White. Paperback, 8-1/4 x 5-1/4", 160 pages.
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 New Book of Waffles & Pizzelles See Waffle & Pizzelle Makers |
New Book of Waffles & Pizzelles: This popular waffle book now has added recipes for the pizzelle maker. More than 100 recipes for waffle batters and toppings, and pizzelle recipes. By Donna German. Paperback, 8-1/4 x 5-1/4", 160 pages.
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Mom's Kitchen... You're the author! This great cooking journal lets you organize and record the recipes and lore of your own family's kitchen. Home life revolves around the kitchen and this book is the perfect vehicle to preserve not only your favorite recipes, but much more... funny and tender stories about cooking for your family, practical advice, hopes for the future, cherished traditions & special shared moments.
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 50 Best Biscotti Recipes See Baking Sheets/Pans |
Best Biscotti Recipes: These twice-backed favorites are surprisingly easy to make. Nuts, fruits, savory biscotti, chocolate, lemon, anise, cranberry, almond, biscotti-like cookies and classic Italian versions are all here... not just 50 biscotti recipes, these are Barbara Karoff's Best 50 Biscotti Recipes... and only 14 cents apiece! Paperback, 6" x 4-1/2", 80 pages.
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 50 Best Salsa Recipes See Salsa Makers |
Best Salsas: Delicious, spicy vegetable and fruit salsas add zip to your menu! This neat little cookbook by Christie and Thomas Kotana offers an introductory section on salsa ingredients and serving tips plus fifty of the best salsa recipes you'll ever find... and they're less than 12 cents apiece! Paperback, 6" x 4-1/2", 70 pages.
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