The Garlic Lovers Cookbook Vol II

The Garlic Lovers Cookbook Vol II

From its humble beginnings more than a quarter century ago, the Gilroy Garlic Festival has exploded into an all-out lovefest of 125,000-plus ravenous ravishers of the fragrant bulb. On the first weekend in July, fun and feasting take over the bustling community of Gilroy, California, as garlic lovers gather to live, breathe, and, of course, taste their favorite clove in a variety of culinary incarnations. The centerpiece of all this aromatic activity is the Great Garlic Cook-Off, a unique venue for amateur cooks and professional chefs from around the country to compete head-to-head. Now back in print, the second volume of the festival’s recipes brims with prizewinners, crowd-pleasers, and palate-teasers, proving the endless possibilities of glorious garlic.

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1 Star Duplicate recipes of Volume I
I purchased this cookbook for my boyfriend who has the first “Garlic Lovers’ Cookbook” from Gilroy, which he loves and uses all the time. I assumed these would be new recipes, after all they have this festival every year. He found that all of the recipes were repeats of the original cookbook and we ended up returning it. Very disappointing.

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Very Pesto

Very Pesto

Traditionally a paste of fresh basil leaves, garlic, olive oil, Parmesan, and pine nuts, pesto has come a long way since its humble beginnings in Genoa, Italy. Over the years, cooks have experimented with pesto, introducing diverse herbs such as cilantro, rosemary, mint, and lemon thyme. In VERY PESTO, you’ll learn how to make 20 different fresh and flavorful pestos and use them in more than 30 recipes for salads, pastas, pizzas, vegetables, and more. With such tantalizing recipes as Fresh Pea and Mint Pesto Pasta, Red Pesto Ceviche, Chilled Cucumber Pesto Soup, Tabbouleh with Mint Pesto, and Pesto Frittata, you’ll relish this sublime sauce year round.

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5 Stars Pretty in Pesto
Maybe it was the long winter without end. Or the snowstorm in late April. Or, belonging to a Food blog where we talked about pesto for 3 pages.

However, while visiting an herb site, I found a link for this book and without hestitation, ordered it from Amazon. I’ve had it two days, and have made four of the pestos and 6 of the dishes…need I say more….it’s FABULOUS!!!

Classic pesto, sage pesto, anchovy pesto…the list goes on and on. And it arrived right when I was having the family over for Mother’s Day, hence the mad dash for dinner and lunch dishes.

For the list price of $5.95 or less (through Amazon) you CAN’T go wrong picking up this little book for yourself, and pesto loving friends!

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Fiery Foods That I Love

Fiery Foods That I Love

Put on your apron, sharpen your knives, and get fired up to go cooking! Paul Prudhomme, America’s favorite chef, invites you to try some of the greatest flavors the world has to offer. You’ll find them in unusual and exciting combinations in Chef Paul Prudhomme’s Fiery Foods That I Love.From dark and savory tamari to the crisp brightness of ginger, from peanuts to plantains, every bite explodes with Chef Paul’s own particular magic.”Food is my passion, and my mission in life is to make your dinner better. To be exciting, food has to have several levels of taste and carry you away with flavor and delight.” And boy, does he succeed in tempting your every taste bud in each and every course. He cooks up great bean breads and fried stuffed bread pockets; soups that soar; fritters; sauces and relishes; superlative chicken, fish, and meat entrees; beans and rice with spice; vivacious vegetables; and, of course, Chef Paul leaves room for dessert, including some seasoned pie crusts, a first for him. Here is food that makes your day. Here’s where the addition of a paste of ground pecans and coffee makes magic of saut

Habanero Pepper Pantry

Habanero Pepper Pantry

Get acquainted with one of the most distinctive flavors the chile world has to offer: the fruity, hot habanero. This die-cut little book offers approximately thirty recipes, from the basics (Essential Habanero Hot Sauce) to the unexpected (Creole Peanut Soup-a West African-influenced treat with habaneros, peanut butter, tomatoes, and coconut milk). There’s legend and lore about the colorful history of these peppers (a West Indies folktale describes how a mother inadvertently killed her children by using too much habanero in her broth!), and thorough listings of mail-order sources. As chock-full of inspiration as a well-stocked pantry, The Pepper Pantry: Habaneros is perfect for either beginning cooks or die-hard chile aficionados.

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5 Stars Small, but super!!!
Although the book only contains about 40 recipes, the intro, history, growing of the pepper, etc, etc. was very good. As with many of the “pepper” cook books, I would have liked to have seen the nutrition content (protein, carbs, calories,etc), but I can live without. If worried about fat content just add another habanero right?

This made a nice addition to the other 10 or so books I have on peppers…

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Herbs Country Garden Cookbook

Herbs Country Garden Cookbook

A guide for cooks who love using fresh herbs combines full-color photographs with recipes for a variety of honeys, teas, oils, and spices that contribute to such recipes as Carrot Soup with Onion and Dill Cream, Leg of Lamb with Rosemary and Mustard Glaze.

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5 Stars Gorgeous series
I own this and all the Country Garden series of cookbooks. They are all visually gorgeous, and all written by professional chefs. Each book surrounds a featured ingredient which is seasonal. I must admit that many of the recipes could be considered “chi-chi,” but for cookbook collectors, this series is really wonderful. I’m sorry they stopped adding to these books, and very sorry that they are going out of print.

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Jeanne Roses Herbal Guide to Food

Jeanne Roses Herbal Guide to Food

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5 Stars Anyone who cooks should have a copy!
Jeanne Rose’s Herbal Guide to Food is an excellent guide to everything edible! There are tables listing illnesses and the foods that can affect them, vitamins in common herbs, a culinary materia medica and lots of great recipes!

This is not just a cook book, but a must for the serious Herbalist!

Beth Anne Haigler, Medical Herblist

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The Complete Herb Book

The Complete Herb Book

“This is a must-have book for everyone who loves gardening and cooking. I’m Jekka ’s biggest fan.”
-Jamie Oliver (on the previous edition)

The Complete Herb Book is a comprehensive A-Z guide to the fascinating world of herbs, providing practical information on each herb’s organic growing requirements, use, mythical properties and historical background. This new edition is updated and revised to include complete entries for 40 additional herbs.

The A-Z directory features a full double-page spread for each herb, with details that include:

• Natural habitat
• Species and related plants
• Soil properties
• Watering requirements
• Weather protection
• Container growing
• Strategies to eliminate pests
• Best harvesting times
• Culinary, medicinal, cosmetic and other uses
• Recipes.

The how-to section features step-by-step instructions and best practices for herb gardening. Included are sample plans; month-by-month checklists; drying, freezing and storing guides; tips for making oils, vinegars and preserves; and information on propagation.

The Complete Herb Book is the ideal handbook for growing herbs and provides hours of browsing pleasure for gardeners, cooks and natural-healing practitioners.

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5 Stars Great Herb Growing/Using Book
This is another book I checked out of the library and had to add to my permanent collection. This is a great book with color pictures of each plant outlined, how to grow it, how to harvest it, and how to use it. That sounds trite and boring, but let me assure you, this book spends time on each plant, the left page deals with the planting and harvesting and the right page deals with the storage and use of the herb. Each herb has a recipe of some type (for food, for cosmetics, for aromatics, etc.) that has a picture of the completed item. I have a couple of other herb books that I like, but this one I LOVE to look through and will be adding a few more herbs to my garden each season based on this book!

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Daring Cooks: Quick and Easy Chicken Pho (Pho Ba)

Daring Cooks: Quick and Easy Chicken Pho (Pho Ba) Oct 14th, 2009by LK. The October 2009 Daring Cooks’ challenge was brought to us by Jaden of the blog Steamy Kitchen. The recipes are from her new cookbook, The Steamy Kitchen Cookbook. I’ll be honest here – I wasn’t particularly excited about this challenge. I’ve made pho before, and I love it, but I didn’t want to do a second post on it. Plus, the main recipe presented to us was for chicken pho, and I don’t usually care for chicken soups. So

Just Pho Fun

The October 2009 Daring Cooks’ challenge was brought to us by Jaden of the blog Steamy Kitchen . The recipes are from her new cookbook, The Steamy Kitchen Cookbook . At least once a game, I find myself thinking that “pho” really ought to be a valid Scrabble word. After all, “sushi” is legal. So is “carbonara.” Ditto “paella.” And in my town, the noodle houses that specialize in this traditional Vietnamese soup can be found sometimes two or three to a block, at least as numerous as sushi r

Foodbuzz 24 24 24: Cookery Made Plain Easy – An 18th Century Supper

“ I Believe I have attempted a branch of Cookery, which nobody has yet though worth their while to write upon … If I have not wrote in the high polite style, I hope I shall be forgiven ; for my intention is to instruct the lower sort, and therefore must treat them in their own way … So as in many other things in cookery, the great cooks have such a high way of expressing themselves, that the poor girls are at a loss to know what they mean .” So begins the epically popular 18 th century cook

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