Tom Lacalamita

The stress-free way to cook under pressure In today's "hurry-up" society, pressure cooking is an attractive means of preparing consistent, convenient everyday meals. Increasing health concerns coupled with a continuously rising cost of living have made pressure cooking more popular as a way to save money and eat healthier at home. This revised edition of Pressure Cookers For Dummies includes all new recipes and refreshed content. Pressure Cookers For Dummies gives you the lowdown on the different pressure cooker options that are available to make sure you get the pressure cooker best equipped to suit your needs. It includes delicious recipes for dishes such as soups, chilis, and stews; roasts and poultry; rice dishes; beans; vegetables; and desserts, jams, and compotes. It also offers a wealth of recipes for those on vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, and lactose-free diets. Pressure Cookers For Dummies offers tips on adapting your favorite recipes for the pressure cooker plus several comparison recipes made the traditional way. Every recipe Includes preparation times, cooking times, and nutritional information. Updated expert advice on choosing the best pressure cooker for your kitchen, including coverage of electric cookersExplanations on how pressure cookers work and tips on adapting your favorite recipes for the pressure cookerShows you how to use pressure cookers to create vegetarian, vegan, special diet, and sustainable dishes with flavor and zest; and incorporate ethnic dishes into your pressure cooker repertoireIncludes fun, tasty, and easy recipes for holidays and other occasions that the whole family will enjoy If you're a new or seasoned cook, Pressure Cookers For Dummies gives you everything you need to make the most of this time-saving appliance.

Easy-to-follow recipes for favorite foods from around the world The majority of today's consumers are cuisine literate but not yet culinary literate. They know about a wide variety of foods and cuisines, but they don't know how to prepare these dishes at home. Cooking Around the World All-in-One For Dummies offers easy-to-follow recipes from the best of the world's cuisines, including dishes from Mexico, Italy, China, Japan, Thailand, France, India, Greece, and the Middle East. Perfect for home cooks who love world foods but don't want to invest in cookbooks for each cuisine, this fun and friendly guide will give readers the know-how they need to creatively expand their culinary repertoires. Martin Yan, a certified master chef and host of TV's Yan Can Cook, has authored twenty-four bestselling cookbooks. Cesare Casella transformed his family's restaurant in Lucca, Italy, Il Vipore, into a world-class establishment, earning a Michelin star. He is the coauthor of Diary of a Tuscan Chef. Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken opened the celebrated City Café in Los Angeles in 1981 and now divide their time between their restaurants in Las Vegas, Santa Monica, and L.A.

There’s nothing like the smell and taste of fresh homemade bread. But who has the time to make it anymore? You do—with a little help from your automatic bread machine. All bread machines can make good bread; they just need a little help from you to turn out a good loaf. With a little practice and a lot of fun, you too can make freshly baked bread in your kitchen with the touch of a button. Bread Machines For Dummies is for anyone who has ever been frustrated by a bread machine and wants to know if it’s really possible to turn out great bread with a minimum of time and effort (it is!). This fun and easy guide shares simple techniques and more than 85 tested, foolproof recipes for making aromatic and flavorful breads—either for your bread machine or from dough that you shape yourself and bake in the oven. You’ll see how to make: *Soft white bread *Cracked wheat bread *Basic danish dough *Babka and C hallah *Bread bowls *Bread sticks, pizza, and focaccia *And so much more! This handy resource guide provides everything you “knead” to know about making bread, including the best ingredients to use, how to work with dough, and how to get the best results out of your machine. Along with plenty of cooking, measuring, and shopping tips, you get expert advice on how to: *Shape simple doughs into beautiful breads *Mix flours and liquids for perfect bread texture *Adapt machine recipes for two loaf sizes *Understand the different wheat flours *Fit bread into a gluten-free diet *Avoid moisture mistakes *Make breads with alternative ingredients such as rice flour, potato starch, and tapioca flour Featuring a cheat sheet with standard measuring equivalents and temperature conversions, tips for troubleshooting your machine, and delicious recipes for such tasty delights as Cheddar Cheese Corn Bread, Pecan Sticky Rolls, Cranberry Nut Bread, and Banana Lemon Loaf, Bread Machines For Dummies reveals the best ways to bake, store, and enjoy your bread!

Two food and appliance experts offer an easy-to-follow handbook for effective use of slow cookers, gathering eighty delicious recipes, including soups, stews, roasts, and vegetarian dishes, and discussing the pros and cons of all types of slow cooking machines. Original.

Tom Lacalamita's The Ultimate Bread Machine Cookbook showed how easy it was to have freshly baked, delicious, and nutritious bread anytime. Now comes The All-New Ultimate Bread Machine Cookbook: 101 Brand-New, Irresistible, Foolproof Recipes for Family and Friends, which presents recipes suitable for making 1 1/2- and 2-pound loaves, using the new ingredients now readily available. Here you will find mouth-watering recipes for Sourdough White Bread and Sweet Bread. Imagine the sights and smells of Cinnamon-Raisin Bread and Cornmeal Honey Loaf coming hot from your bread machine. There are also recipes for traditional favorites such as French Bread as well as crowd pleasers such as Black-Olive-and-Rosemary Bread and Coconut-Pecan Coffee Cake. And it's so easy! Just add the ingredients, push a button, and imagine the compliments you'll get from your family and friends, as if you'd worked long hours in a hot kitchen! The All-New Ultimate Bread Machine Cookbook offers the whole range of breads, from white to rye. For the diet conscious there is information on gluten-free breads, and for parents there are lots of family- and kid-friendly breads and treats, including Peanut-Butter-and-Jelly Bread and-Funny as a Monkey Chocolate-Crumb Pull-Apart Bread. This is the new ultimate bread machine cookbook for the new ultimate bread machine cook!