Going Wild in the Kitchen or Jazzy Jars

Going Wild in the Kitchen: The Fresh and Sassy Tastes of Vegetarian Cooking

Author: Leslie Cerier

Go wild in the kitchen! Be creative! Venture beyond the usual beans, grains, and vegetables to include an exciting variety of organic vegetarian fare in your meals. Step outside the box and prepare dishes with beautiful edible flowers; flavorful wild mushrooms, herbs, and berries; tangy sheep and goat cheeses; tasty sea vegetables; and exotic ancient grains like teff, quinoa, and Chinese "forbidden" black rice. Author and expert chef Leslie Cerier is crazy about the great taste and goodness of organically grown foods. Now she shares scores of her favorite recipes that spotlight these fresh, wholesome ingredients in this exciting cookbook.

Going Wild in the Kitchen contains over 150 kitchen-tested recipes for healthful, taste-tempting dishes, including breakfast favorites, satisfying soups and salads, sensational main course creations, delectable desserts, and much more. There is even a chapter devoted to making your own flavored oils and vinegars. The book encourages the creative side of novice and seasoned cooks alike, prompting them to follow their instincts and "go wild" in the kitchen by adding, changing, or substituting ingredients in existing recipes. To help, an extensive ingredient glossary is included, along with a wealth of helpful cooking tips and techniques. Lively illustrations and a complete resource list for finding organic foods rounds out this user-friendly cookbook.

Going Wild in the Kitchen is more than a unique cookbook-it's a recipe for inspiration. So let yourself go! Excite your palate with this treasure-trove of distinctive, healthy, and taste-tempting recipe creations.

Library Journal

If you're up for an ingredient adventure, this book is for you. Where else can you find a recipe for Pine Needle Vinegar, or one using teff, kamut pasta, or calendula flowers? The chapter devoted to flavored oils and vinegars alone is worth a look through the book. Also covered is an array of breakfasts, soups, sauces and dips, salads and wraps, main dishes, and desserts. Cerier, a kitchen designer, organic gourmet caterer, and cooking instructor, gets readers' creative juices flowing by suggesting excellent alternative ingredients for just about every recipe she provides (more than 200 in all). The strength of her book, however, is also its weakness, as some of the ingredients she lists might not be easily found in all parts of the country. Though Cerier provides plenty of mail-order sources, by the time readers receive, say, the Bhutanese red rice flour called for in one recipe, their craving may have already passed. A reliable glossary helps decipher unfamiliar ingredients. Nutritional values are not provided. Recommended for urban public libraries, where unusual ingredients can more easily be procured.-Marija Sanderling, Lane Memorial Lib., Hampton, NH Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Foreword	ix
	Introduction	1
1	Recipe for Inspiration	3
2	Morning Bliss	23
3	Loving Spoonfuls	39
4	Sauces, Dips, and Dressings	67
5	Flavored Oils and Vinegars	83
6	Salads and "Wraps,"	109
7	Super Sides	127
8	Ancient Wisdom, Ancient Grains	147
9	Main Attractions	169
10	Just Desserts	191
	Metric Conversion Tables	210
	Resources	211
	Index	217

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Jazzy Jars: Glorious Gift Ideas

Author: Marie Browning

“More than 45 one-page patterns, complete with color photographs and directions....Of inordinate help, even more so than the jars, are the ideas for filling the packaged jar....A good source.” —Booklist. “Turn a humble glass container into a great gift with dozens of recipes for instant-mixes and an inspiring array of embellishing techniques.”—Crafts’n Things.