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Individual salad serving idea from the book Salad Days

Isn't this idea for serving little individual salad cups and displaying them on a three-tiered tidbit tray featured in the book Salad Days: Recipes for Delicious Organic Salads and Dressings for Every Season just beautiful?

If you love yummy salad recipes along with ideas for serving them in pretty ways, check out the Voyageur Press book:

Salad Days:
Recipes for Delicious Organic Salads and Dressings for Every Season

by

Pam Powell

Photographer: Paul Markert

This book includes 150 recipes for creating delicious salads and dressings using organic, locally grown ingredients. Recipes include Apple and Roasted Beet Salad with Fruit, Nuts, Gorgonzola, and Watercress; Green Apple Sassy Slaw with Crisp Apple Maple Dressing; Pear and Grape Salad with Big Woods Blue Cheese and Concord Grapes; Pecan-Crusted Goat Cheese and Micro Greens with Crisp Apple Maple-Brushed Crostini; Chilled Moroccan Couscous Salad; Curry Chicken and Apricot Salad; Harvest Moon Salad; and many more. Sixty color photos and colorful illustrations from the author accompany the recipes. Sidebars and tips for green ways to prepare salads are included.

Pam Powell is the founder and creator of Salad Girl Organic Salad Dressing Company, with products that can be found nationwide in co-ops, Whole Foods markets, and other supermarkets. Pam shares recipes for her organic salads regularly on her Salad Girl blog. She lives in Minnesota. Visit her at www.saladgirldressings.com.

 

Recipes for flavored water and banana breakfast bars from The Most Effective Ways to Live Longer Cookbook

With the hot weather upon us, staying hydrated is really important. To help stay hydrated, try these recipes for flavored water from The Most Effective Ways to Live Longer Cookbook.

Also, click on the page below for a delicious recipe for banana breakfast bars!

More about the Fair Winds Press cookbook:

The Most Effective Ways to Live Longer Cookbook
The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about Great-Tasting Food that Prevents Disease and Gives You Optimal Health and Longevity

by

Jonny Bowden

and

Jeannette Bessinger

Eat, drink, and be healthy at any age with these delicious recipes!

Fight oxidative damage caused by free radicals, which wears you down from the inside out. Stop the silent killer of inflammation. Reduce the damage caused by sugar molecules, known as glycation. Relieve mental, physical, and emotional stress.

Acclaimed nutritionist Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., and chef Jeannette Bessinger, C.H.H.C., have crafted more than 140 flavorful, mouth-watering recipes loaded with antioxidants, anti-inflammatory properties, vitamins, minerals, and other key nutritional components that fight the effects of aging, prevent disease, and help you feel your best every day. Try Heart-Healthy Mega Omega Fettuccine Alfredo, Immune Boon Kung Pao Chicken Soup, Hike ’n’ Bike Trail Mix, Antioxidant Almond Nog, and Chocolate–Vitamin C Fruit Salad. Using delicious ingredients and smart, healthy cooking methods, Chef Jeannette transforms everyday food—and some comfort foods—into delicious dishes!

 

Recipe for s'mores french toast from the book The Gourmet's Guide to Cooking with Chocolate

Are you making Mom breakfast in bed this Sunday? I bet she would love this recipe for s'mores french toast featured in the book The Gourmet's Guide to Cooking with Chocolate. Have a great tasty Friday and happy Mother's Day to all the great moms out there!

Click on this page from The Gourmet's Guide to Cooking with Chocolate to enlarge and read the full recipe for s'mores french toast:

 

 More about the mouthwatering book The Gourmet's Guide to Cooking with Chocolate:

The Gourmet's Guide to Cooking with Chocolate

Dwayne Ridgaway

This fully illustrated book shows how to use chocolate as the ultimate convenience ingredient that will add big impact to your cooking and baking repertoire. Why? Chocolate is versatile. It can be used with many different types of food. Use it to add variety and flavor to ordinary dishes. Add chocolate and you instantly add class to the most humble fare. With more than 150 recipes for savory dishes and inspired desserts—all featuring chocolate—you’ll never look at a candy bar the same way again.

Dwayne Ridgaway is a food and beverage consultant and caterer. He has worked as a chef in the San Destin Beach Resort and the Elephant Walk in Florida. He lives in Rhode Island.

 

How to use an apple corer to fill cupcakes from the book The Complete Photo Guide to Cake Decorating

With cupcakes all the rage these days, I bet you could use a tip or two to surprise the cupcake lovers you bake and decorate for. Want to fill your mini masterpieces with a surprise inside? Here are some great tips on how to fill cupcakes, including a surprise tool: the apple corer featured in the book The Complete Photo Guide to Cake Decorating that could make it a breeze!

Click on this page from The Complete Photo Guide to Cake Decorating to enlarge and read how to fill a cupcake with an apple corer.

If you're kicking your pastry making up a notch this spring, then grab yourself a copy of this inspiring and tutorial-filled book:

The Complete Photo Guide to Cake Decorating

by

Autumn Carpenter

This book is a comprehensive how-to book about all of the most popular cake decorating techniques, including piped frosting, fondant, and hand modeled figures. For each technique, there is an overview of the tools and materials used and complete instructions with photos. The organization provides easy access to information with step-by-step directions and 600 full-color photos for clear understanding. Easy projects allow the reader to try the techniques in each section. Galleries of decorated cakes by various artists offer the reader examples and inspiration to pursue the hobby for themselves.

Autumn Carpenter is a skilled sugar artist, demonstrator, teacher, and author. She is part-owner of a retail cake and candy supply shop. Visit her online at www.autumncarpenter.com and http://autumncarpenter.wordpress.com.

 

How to chiffonade-cut leafy greens into ribbons from the book Going Raw by Judita Wignall

One of my favorite things about food is the presentation, and this technique for cutting leafy greens into ribbons, called chiffonade (featured here from the book Going Raw: Everything You Need to Start Your Own Raw Food Diet and Lifestyle Revolution at Home), is an excellent technique that all who like to prepare pretty food should know.

Click on this page from Going Raw to enlarge and read how to chiffonade your leafy greens.

Looking for more raw food goodness? Then grab yourself a copy of:

Going Raw:

Everything You Need to Start Your Own Raw Food Diet and Lifestyle Revolution at Home

by

Judita Wignall

Go raw, get radiant, start a revolution! Judita Wignall’s Going Raw combines the flavor of a gourmet cookbook with everyday recipes that are practical for the real-world home chef. With fully illustrated raw-food techniques on the bonus DVD, this book contains more than 100 delicious, fresh, and gourmet food recipes, including smoothies, salads, “burgers,” and beyond!

Judita's passion for great-tasting food, holistic health, and wellness brought her to Living Light Culinary Arts Institute, where she became a certified raw food chef and instructor. In between her many projects, she continues to teach classes, coach, and personal chef for clients around the country. Learn more at http://www.rawjudita.com.