Classic Vegetable Cookbook

450 first-rate recipes plus wonderfully clear & useful info on buying, cooking, serving & storing veggies.

Veg : The Greengrocer's Cookbook

Whether they’re roasted, grilled, fried, boiled, or steamed, vegetables are nature’s perfect, healthy fast food! Most cook in four minutes or less, and bring amazing versatility to any meal. On these pages is every type you’d ever expect to buy—from artichokes and asparagus to bok choi and brussels sprouts to spinach, squash, and sweetcorn—complete with descriptions of their flavor and texture, hints on identifying the pick of the bunch, and advice on preparing them perfectly, in every possible way. Try these as part of a quick and delicious meal: Eggplant-Based Moussaka; Broccoli and Cauliflower Gratin; Stuffed Cabbage Leaves, with Minced Beef and Long-Grain Rice; and New Potato, Watercress, and Bacon Salad.

Hot Potatoes

Tiny treat of zesty recipes, wit and wisdom from well-known potato lovers. Charming celebrity caricatures. Ann Landers, Kathie Lee Gifford, Ed Koch, Paloma Picasso, Joan Rivers, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, and more.

Down To Earth

Refreshing recipes for wide range of root vegetables, from the familiar to the unusual.

366 Healthful Ways To Cook Leafy Greens

Year's worth of delicious, good-for-you recipes using 30+ different greens in full range of dishes. Nutrition counts.

In Praise of Tomatoes

New in paper! Straight from the vine to the cookpot and to terrific trivia: everyone will enjoy this juicy tribute to tangy, tasty tomato. Begin with a horticultural look at resurgent vintage varieties: a comprehensive chart gives specific growing and eating details on more than 50 delicious types, both heirloom and hybrid. Find out how to create and cultivate the “essential tomato garden,” even on a windowsill. From the backyard, head straight to the kitchen with information on how to store, peel, freeze, dry, can, and cook up the harvest. Recipes include such luscious dishes as tomato soup, jam, bread, and green tomato pie. The enlightening feast rounds out with fun facts on the tomato’s history and tomato festivals.

Risotto

Risotto, one of today's most popular restaurant dishes, is actually one of the easiest to make at home. meaning little rice, risotto is an Italian dish featuring tender arborio rice slowly cooked in broth and flavored with meat, poultry, fish, vegetables, shellfish, cheese or herbs. The result is rice that is delectably creamy while the grains remain separate and firm. Risotto begins with an explanation of the principles of making the Italian specialty-cook it slowly, stir continuously, and maintain the correct heat and moisture-then follows with an inspiring selection of more than 100 variations to suit all tastes and occasions.

Essentials: Tomato

The Essentials Cookbooks go beyond explaining how to prepare and cook food: they also educate the reader about what varieties are available and how to find the best ingredients, so even novice cooks can turn out delicious fare. From salsa and pizza to pasta and soup, this collection of 50 recipes illustrates how to chop, broil, sautee, grill roast, slice, pulp, and dry tomatoes.

GACS: Fresh Garden Vegetable

Fresh Garden Vegetables proves there are more vegetables to enjoy than peas and carrots. It offers a cornucopia of recipes for fine, nutritious main course and side dish vegetables, all thoroughly tested at a renowned school-and all of them delicious.

Passion For Potatoes

Best Seller! 200 recipes from appetizers to desserts that use potatoes, the healthful food.

For The Love Of Vegetables

Foreword by Raymond Blanc. Wonderful flavors & textures in exciting new combos. Sections on main-course salads, dressings, more.

Pleasures Of Cooking Fruits & Vegetables

Kourebanas & Sontheimer, eds. Over 250 recipes by outstanding cooks & authors, from archives of famed Pleasures of Cooking magazine.

Hot Vegetables

Simple step-by-step recipes for 60+ appetizers, soups, salads, sides & entrees featuring the world's most exciting flavors.

Fancy Fruit & Extraordinary Vegetables

More than 200 recipes using the exciting new fresh fruits and vegetables found in most supermarkets in soups, salads, entrees, sides, desserts and more.

Schmecks Vegetables

From side dishes to main courses, asparagus to zucchini. Edna Staebler's delightful little books are packed with schmecksy (tasty, as her Mennonite neighbors say) food & entertaining tales. 92 pgs. Paper