Visual Vegetables

Fanciful & bright recipes, anecdotes & color illus.

Vegetables

James Peterson's latest masterpiece thoroughly covers 60+ vegetables and all the techniques and methods best suited to them, then offers 300+ international recipes and charts on yields, seasonal availability, more.

Vegetables from Amaranth to Zucchini

2003 IACP Award Winner! Cookbook of the Year, and Food Reference and Technical Category! America's most esteemed produce expert offers an indispensable encyclopedia and cookbook. Elizabeth Schneider returns with an all-new guide that chronicles America's emerging multinational vegetable vocabulary. With the scholarship for which she is famous, Schneider has produced an encyclopedia, market guide, and recipe resource without equal. Describing some 300-plus vegetables, exotic to everyday, she makes unfamiliar amaranth greens as easy to use as common zucchini--and make zucchini more interesting than anyone ever knew it could be. Every entry provides a full-color identification photo of each vegetable, its market names in the United States, and richly readable historical information. Here, too, are practical sections on availability, selection, storage, preparation, basic use, cooking methods, and best of all, reliable recipes.

Vegetables

Today, because of our increased concern about diet and new interest in healthy, balanced cooking, vegetables are returning to our table. For a long time, they have been simply accompaniments to meat and fish. Inventive, inspiring, and easy to prepare, these recipes restore vegetables to their rightful place. In this book, Guy Martin, chef of the Grand Vefour--the historic, three-star restaurant in Paris--presents more than 200 of his delicately flavored, original recipes.

Classic Zucchini Cookbook, Third Edition

NEW EDITION! Completely revised and updated with 40 percent all-new recipes. 225 easy-to-make, through-the menu recipes. And good information on canning, freezing, drying, cooking and storing zucchini and other squash.

Humble Spud

Mashed, baked, fried, or added to curries, tortillas, soups, or salads, nothing beats the versatile, delicious, and nutritious potato. For over six millennia, it's been one of the world's most important and universally loved staples, and a welcome addition to any meal. Find out about the spud's many virtues and varieties, from the Russet Burbank to the Belle de Fontenay; how to choose and store them; and ways to cook them up–including roasting, gratins, griddling, and barbecuing. Spoon up a quickly made yet luscious potato chowder. Savor a snappy sweet potato and grilled chili salad. For something elegant, choose Potatoes Dauphinoise; for a full meal, prepare Carnival Chicken with Sweet Potato mash. Never have there been so many yummy recipes for this yummy food.

Bean Book : Over 70 Incredible Recipes

Versatile, nutritious, yet so simple, beans are the ideal ingredients for any meal, and there is no better introduction to the amazing properties and diverse flavors of the legume family than this book. Here is the history of humanity's relationship with the bean, the details of its nutritional and health benefits, and an exhaustive list and description of all the major beans in the world, from pinto and cannellini beans to chickpeas and lentils. Along with numerous storing and preparation tips, this volume features a wide range of international dishes that brings out the incredible variety of styles and tastes that beans can deliver. Beginning with mouthwatering soups like minestrone and black bean soup with soba noodles and savory starters like garlic, herb, and bean pate and the classic refried beans, this book goes on to provide dozens of hearth main course dishes ranging from the vegetarian bean tagine) to such classic meat and bean dishes as cassoulet, Chinese chicken with black beans, and chili con carne. Illustrated throughout with lush, full-color photographs, this is a must-have for anyone who already loves the delicious variety of bean flavors and will convince anyone who has ever thought that beans are but a poor man's food that there really is magic to this fruit.

Pumpkins & Squashes : Gardening, Crafts, Recipes

With their bright colors and eccentric shapes, pumpkins and squashes are enjoying increasing popularity across the world. Discover the versatility of these humble, yet beautiful fruits and how to grow and use them to best effect.

A Passion for Vegetables

Inspired by the exquisite paintings of the 17th–century Florentine artist Giovanna Garzoni, Mike Newton’s color–drenched photographs bring to life the beauty and variety of garden–grown vegetables. The gentle art of the court miniaturist to the Medici is reflected in these gorgeous still lifes of sun–ripened tomatoes and eggplants and succulent pods bursting with beans. To complement these images, celebrated Italian cook Lorenza de’ Medici (a direct descendant of Garzoni’s patrons), offers an elegant, informative narrative and more than 100 Tuscan-inspired recipes. Using well-loved favorites, such as cabbage, potato, and leek, as well as the more unusual, like kohlrabi and celeriac, she offers delectable recipes for every course. A book to inspire cooks, art lovers, and gardeners alike.

Perfect Vegetables

The test cooks at Cook's Illustrated are hard at work, testing thousands of vegetable recipes in order to bring you the very best techniques and flavor combinations. This summer, the results of a full year of work in the test kitchen will be available in the upcoming Best Recipe Series cookbook, Perfect Vegetables. Inside Perfect Vegetables you'll learn how to prepare and cook the wide array of vegetables now available in markets--everything form artichokes and asparagus to winter squash and zucchini. Included are 300 recipes (all are new to The Best Recipe Series) for favorite versions of all-American classics such as twice-baked potatoes and glazed carrots, as well as more unusual recipes such as stir-fried green beans and roasted beets. You’ll find more than 200 hand-drawn illustrations demonstrating cooking techniques in step-by-step detail, dozens of equipment testings and blind tastings of supermarket ingredients, and 16 pages of full-color photographs.

Verdura : Vegetables Italian Style

An inspired collection of nearly three hundred classic and original recipes, Verdura translates the Italian passion for food into an endless celebration of vegetables. A good salad tomato should be firm, plucked from the vine just before it is fully ripened, and heavy with the spicy scent of its foliage. With exquisite attention to the pleasures of cooking fresh food, Viana La Place introduces the basic Italian principle of cooking with herbs and vegetables. Many of these recipes pair simple vegetables with unusual preparations, transforming classic dishes into new masterpieces. Here you will discover revelatory antipasti, like Baby Artichokes Marinated in Lemon and Herbs (Carciofini al Limone e alle Erbe); innovative salads like Romaine and Gorgonzola Salad with Whole Wheat Crostini (Lattuga Romano e Gorgonzola con Crostini al Pone Integrate); and such tantalizing pastas as Butterfly Pasta with Fennel and Balsamic Vinegar (Forfalle ai Finocchi) and Tiny Pasta with Ten Herbs (Tripolini alle Dieci Erbe)--dishes characterized by their earthy, intense fragrance. Viana La Place's brilliant and original recipes will make Verdura a permanent guide to cooking vegetables the Italian way in your kitchen.

Vegetables The Essential Kitchen

Enjoy stylish, beautifully prepared vegetable dishes. This cookbook features step-by-step cooking techniques--from steaming to chopping. Recipes span the spectrum of veggie choices, including leafy greens, roots and tubers, pods and seeds, and stalks and shoots. Part of The Essential Kitchen Series.

Potato Salad

No picnic, barbecue, or lazy-day potluck is complete without it--potato salad is the ultimate crowd-pleaser. There are more ways to dress up the homely spud than ever before, and all the best are here--from the tried-and-true classic made with hard-boiled eggs, sweet pickle, and creamy homemade mayonnaise to creative new versions using pesto or smoked turkey. Hot salads are guaranteed to heat up cold weather suppers and potluck dinners. Celebrity salads from such noted chefs as Marcella Hazan and Deborah Madison are an added bonus to this beautifully photographed book, offering salads as suitable for crisp white linens as for the red checkered tablecloth. Curious cooks will find valuable tater tips, including a discussion of the best types of potatoes to use for salads and master recipes for boiling and steaming super spuds. New family traditions start today with recipes from Potato Salad. Barbara Lauterbach is a teacher and spokesperson for the King Arthur Flour Company. She teaches cooking classes and hosts culinary weekends at her New Hampshire home and country inn.

Vegetarian Meat & Potatoes Cookbook

The Vegetarian Meat & Potatoes Cookbook is for all those who say, I could never go vegetarian. I'm a meat-and-potatoes person. But eating vegetarian does not have to mean giving up hearty, filling food. With more and more people cutting down on or eliminating meat, vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike need a source for meatless meals that are as flavorful as their meaty counterparts. With that in mind, Robin Robertson has developed 275 recipes for mouthwatering, soul-satisfying dishes that feed the hunger without the meat. The Vegetarian Meat & Potatoes Cookbook will change the way people think about vegetarian food, a cuisine not usually associated with indulgence. Everything is comfortingly familiar: Mushroom Barley Soup, German Hot Potato Salad, Chili con Frijoles, Layered Vegetable Lasagna, Broiled Eggplant Teriyaki, Shepherd's Vegetable Pie, and much more. Roasts, burgers, steaks, stews, meat loaves--they're all here, and they're all delicious and all healthy. There are also plenty of fun and funky appetizers; substantial salads and sandwiches; versatile sauces, marinades, and salsas; and rich, homey desserts.

A Passion for Potatoes

In this book, the author introduces you to the versatility of everyone's favorite comfort food. Using the potato as a base, he creates the perfect recipes for every meal from breakfast to dinner, starters to dessert. Among these 150 recipes is something for everyone?the vegetarian, the weight-conscious, the gourmet, and even those with sweet tooths. In this inventive, cosmopolitan collection you'll find: Grilled Potato and Fennel Nicoise; Rolled Italian Potato Bread; Tikka Masala Potatoes; Espresso and Sweet Potato Tart; Cypriot Hot Potatoes; and more. Scattered throughout are invaluable tips and features, including a history of the potato, as well as a comprehensive introduction, with a chart of world varieties that guides you through everything from choosing the right potato to buying, storing, and preparing them.