FREE/BARGAIN - Cookbooks - 2015

[GA Russell]

Whiskey Distilling 101 - 99 cents
http://www.amazon.com/Whiskey-Distil...dp/B00L0KTSSY/

[Little.Egret]

Mutton is pretty unusual so I post

Romantic Recipes for Two: Mutton: 50 Easy and Delicious Mutton Recipes for That Special Evening by Anaki Queen

Anaki Queen has a favorite quote:
"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." - Charles M. Schulz


http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WZERPLQ/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00WZERPLQ/
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00WZERPLQ/

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Mutton is pretty unusual so I post

Romantic Recipes for Two: Mutton: 50 Easy and Delicious Mutton Recipes for That Special Evening by Anaki Queen

Anaki Queen has a favorite quote:
"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt." - Charles M. Schulz


http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WZERPLQ/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00WZERPLQ/
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00WZERPLQ/

Mutton, except for lamb (young sheep) meat, is extremely uncommon across the pond here, at least where I have lived and visited across the country. Lamb is only a little more common. It's not available much in restaurants except in more expensive ones, generally speaking. It's hard to find in the grocery stores, at least in the towns and small cities, and if you do find it it is probably only going to be the leg portion or, perhaps, chops.

I love lamb. IMHO, some mint jelly accompanying it, though, really enhances the enjoyment of it.

Thanks for the post. I'm anxious to try out the recipes in the book.

[GtrsRGr8]

The cookbook is not put out by a major publisher--Duck In a Boat, LLC (Where do they come up with some of these publisher names?)--but the ratings are great, the markdown is big, and the book is substantial in size (416 pages; 236 recipes).

Nourished; A Cookbook for Health, Weight Loss, and Metabolic Balance. By Judy Barnes Baker. Rated 4.5 stars, from 23 reviews at the present moment at Amazon. Print list price $31.95; digital list price $9.99; Kindle price now $2.99. Duck In a Boat, LLC, publisher. 416 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Nourished-Cook...N%3DB007SZGD7Y.

Book Description
The science is clear—controlling insulin is the key to health and metabolic balance, and controlled-carbohydrate diets are the natural way to control insulin. The menus in Nourished will promote effortless weight loss without hunger or deprivation. They can be combined to provide a full day of delicious food that totals between 20 and 50 grams of digestible carbohydrates. Substantial scientific evidence indicates that this range keeps insulin levels low enough to provide a metabolic advantage for weight loss, to prevent and reverse the complications of diabetes and many other disorders, and to reduce or eliminate the need for medications.

The 236 recipes in 52 menus contained in Nourished demonstrate just how sumptuous, indulgent, and satisfying this way of eating can be. They range from basic to gourmet; there is a pie with just 3 ingredients, but there is also an authentic gumbo that lives up to the highest standards of New Orleans cuisine. Other recipes include: Vanilla Spice Broiled Chicken, Home Fries, Cheddar Biscuits with Butter and Jam, Candied Fennel Tart, and a Cake with Chocolate Butter Cream Frosting that has less than 4 grams of carbohydrates per slice. There are menus for quick breakfasts and snacks, tasty everyday meals, elegant dinner parties, traditional holiday feasts with all the trimmings, and everything in between. Every menu includes carbohydrate totals for the meal in order to simplify carb counting. Mix and match alternatives and options make them easy to customize for individual needs. A complete nutrition data analysis, including portion sizes and preparation time, is provided with each recipe. Helpful tips, stories, and quotes make Nourished not just a cookbook, but a good read as well.

Nourished is sponsored by the Nutrition and Metabolism Society and endorsed by Innovative Metabolic Solutions, an organization that educates medical practitioners around the world about treating diabetes and other metabolic disorders.

416 pages in full color, more than 80 pictures
236 recipes in 52 complete menus
Complete nutrition data for recipes
Sources and resources provided
Based on the latest science

[GA Russell]

Thai Cooking in 3 steps - free
http://www.amazon.com/Thai-Cooking-S...dp/B00M2BU59Q/

*****

Whole 30 Diet Cookbook - free
http://www.amazon.com/WHOLE-30-Cookb...dp/B012DS0U4C/

*****

DIY Protein Bars - free
http://www.amazon.com/DIY-Protein-Ba...dp/B00VH0N6F8/

*****

Here you go, Cindy!

Dump Dinners Cookbook - free
http://www.amazon.com/Dump-Dinners-C...dp/B00UGS7J6Y/

[GtrsRGr8]

Okay, I'm going to post a book from iTunes. I've shared with you before how I despise iTunes, and that hasn't changed. I'd like to post an Amazon Kindle (as I almost always do) of the book, it's just that there apparently isn't one (I didn't check to see if the ebook was available anywhere else, and I rather doubt it--the source from which I got the information about this book only gave iTunes).

Because the book has such a great combination of high ratings and low price (I can't say "has a big markdown," because I can't find out what the retail/list digital, or even print, price is), I'm going to relax my high standards, swallow real hard, and post this iTunes ebook. However, if anyone outside of Mobileread accuses me of doing it, I will flatly deny it; I'll claim that someone stole my password and made the post in my name, or something.

One thing that you need to remember about ebooks at iTunes: they're available for download only with iBooks on your Mac or IOS device. There's more information about that on the ebooks' webpage.

If you are like me and are not going to buy the ebook (me because of the aforementioned hatred of iTunes, and the fact that I don't have a Mac or IOS device), you at least can get one free recipe out of it. Itunes generously (ack!) provides a screenshot of one page and a partial page, and on that full page there is a recipe for a delicious-looking Beef, Broccoli and Black Bean Stir-Fry.

Fresh and Light. By Donna Hay. Itunes: "We have not received enough ratings to display an average for this book;" rated 4.23, from 64 reviews at the present moment, at GoodReads. Print price: List price N/A, the least expensive print copy at Amazon is $22.83, that's for a paperback; digital list price N/A; iTunes price now $1.99. HarperCollins Publishers, publisher. 208 pages. https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/fre...t/id545389642?.

Book Description
FRESH AND LIGHT is full of new recipes that combine the freshest ingredients, pantry staples and personal tricks for a lighter touch. FRESH AND LIGHt is my answer to my own best efforts to juggle for the perfect balance. Designed to complement my existing repertoire, it's full of new recipes that combine the freshest ingredients, pantry staples and my personal tricks for a lighter touch. I've never been a fan of diets and this book is no exception. I don't even like the thought of anyone being on a diet! For me, it's always been about balance. FRESH AND LIGHtis mindful of fat and carbohydrates, but is focused on flavour and variety - without the guilt. Divided by meal, FRESH AND LIGHt is a solution-packed book of recipes loaded with power foods to give you the balance you need across your week. there are light breakfasts, tasty lunch box tips and fast dinner solutions to give you ideas for every time of the day. We all have our guilty pleasures in life. FRESH AND LIGHt lets you enjoy them and is for all those times when you're seeking something a little more virtuous. And that's really the best kind of indulgence of all - the one with balance.

[Little.Egret]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Okay, I'm going to post a book from iTunes. I've shared with you before


Fresh and Light. By Donna Hay.

Since it's a pbook (208pp for 2014 edition) with Look Inside on Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Fresh-Light-Do...dp/1742707440/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fresh-Light-...dp/1742707440/

You can sample considerably more

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Since it's a pbook (208pp for 2014 edition) with Look Inside on Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Fresh-Light-Do...dp/1742707440/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fresh-Light-...dp/1742707440/

You can sample considerably more

Excellent. For some reason, I had not thought about that! Thanks.

I also saw something that causes me to need to make a correction. I said that the least expensive hard copy at Amazon was a paperback for $22.83. I see one for less than that now--$17.71. For what it's worth.

[GA Russell]

Easy Tea Recipes - 99 cents
http://www.amazon.com/Tea-Recipes-De...dp/B00J29BUTU/

*****

Gluten Free - free
http://www.amazon.com/Gluten-Free-En...dp/B012UVJO80/

*****

Fast Metabolism Diet Recipes - 99 cents
http://www.amazon.com/Fast-Metabolis...dp/B00UP4CKPY/

[GtrsRGr8]

UPDATE: Expired.

The vital statistics: that's $23.00 less and 92% off of, the digital list price!

Giuliano Hazan's Thirty Minute Pasta: 100 Quick and Easy Recipes. By Giuliano Hazan. Rated 4.8, from 40 reviews at the present moment at Amazon. Print list price $27.50; digital list price $24.99; Kindle price now $1.99. Stewart, Tabori & Chang, publisher. 176 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Giuliano-Hazan...d+Easy+Recipes.

Book Description
Home cooks are once again looking to prepare well-balanced meals that include everyone’s favorite food—pasta. Few of us, though, have the leisure to create a classic Bolognese meat sauce from scratch. For those who are as pressed for time as they are starved for a toothsome bowl of beautifully sauced pasta, Giuliano Hazan has created 100 scrumptious pasta dishes that can be put together in half an hour or less.

Hazan’s repertoire—hearty pasta soups, fresh-from-the-greenmarket vegetarian dishes, and meat and seafood sauces that take their cue from the classics of Italian cuisine—will let you bring healthful, hunger-satisfying pasta back to your family’s weeknight supper table. Included are recipes for last-minute dishes, as well as useful advice on stocking your pasta pantry, choosing cooking equipment, and figuring out which pasta shape goes with which kind of sauce.

[GtrsRGr8]

UPDATE: Expired.

It's marked down a great 87%, from the digital list price, right now.

The book has some really nice photography (not stock, not amateurish). I'm sure that that is mainly due to the publisher's use, for the book, of a separate photographer (most likely professional) assigned to that task.

Brown Sugar Kitchen: New-Style, Down-Home Recipes from Sweet West Oakland. By Tanya Holland. Rated 4.7 stars, from 38 reviews at the present moment, at Amazon. Print list price $29.95; digital list price $22.99; Kindle price now $2.99. Chronicle Books LLC, publisher. 224 pages. http://www.amazon.com/Brown-Sugar-Ki...t+West+Oakland.

Book Description
Brown Sugar Kitchen is more than a restaurant. This soul-food outpost is a community gathering spot, a place to fill the belly, and the beating heart of West Oakland, a storied postindustrial neighborhood across the bay from San Francisco.

The restaurant is a friendly beacon on a tree-lined parkway, nestled low and snug next to a scrap-metal yard in this Bay Area rust belt. Out front, customers congregate on long benches and sprawl in the grass, soaking up the sunshine, sipping at steaming mugs of Oakland-roasted coffee, waiting to snag one of the tables they glimpse through the swinging doors. Deals are done, friends are made; this is a community in action. In short order, they'll get their table, their pecan-studded sticky buns, their meaty hash topped with a quivering poached egg. Later in the day, the line grows, and the orders for chef-owner Tanya Holland's famous chicken and waffles or oyster po'boy fly. This is when satisfaction arrives.

Brown Sugar Kitchen, the cookbook, stars 86 recipes for re-creating the restaurant's favorites at home, from a thick Shrimp Gumbo to celebrated Macaroni & Cheese to a show-stopping Caramel Layer Cake with Brown Butter–Caramel Frosting. And these aren't all stick-to-your-ribs recipes: Tanya's interpretations of soul food star locally grown, seasonal produce, too, in crisp, creative salads such as Romaine with Spring Vegetables & Cucumber-Buttermilk Dressing and Summer Squash Succotash. Soul-food classics get a modern spin in the case of B-Side BBQ Braised Smoked Tofu with Roasted Eggplant and a side of Roasted Green Beans with Sesame-Seed Dressing. Straight-forward, unfussy but inspired, these are recipes you'll turn to again and again.

Rich visual storytelling reveals the food and the people that made and make West Oakland what it is today. Brown Sugar Kitchen truly captures the sense—and flavor—of this richly textured and delicious place.

[Little.Egret]

Clean Eats

I have been studiously ignoring all cookbooks that mention 'Clean Eats' but since there are an awful lot of (61) freebies today I post this for those who may wish to investigate.

http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...tle=clean+eats

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=searc...tle=clean+eats
http://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-a...tle=clean+eats

For example Your Favorite Foods - Part 1 and Clean Meals On A Budget 10 Minutes Or Less: 2 Book Combo (Clean Eats) by Samantha Evans

Welcome to the Clean Eats Cookbook Set!

A series of Clean Eating Cookbooks for home cooks and food enthusiasts!
Looking For New Clean-Eating Ideas That Actually Taste Great?

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by Little.Egret

Clean Eats

I have been studiously ignoring all cookbooks that mention 'Clean Eats' but since there are an awful lot of (61) freebies today I post this for those who may wish to investigate.

http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-...tle=clean+eats

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=searc...tle=clean+eats
http://www.amazon.ca/s/?url=search-a...tle=clean+eats

For example Your Favorite Foods - Part 1 and Clean Meals On A Budget 10 Minutes Or Less: 2 Book Combo (Clean Eats) by Samantha Evans

Welcome to the Clean Eats Cookbook Set!

A series of Clean Eating Cookbooks for home cooks and food enthusiasts!
Looking For New Clean-Eating Ideas That Actually Taste Great?

I took a quick look. I shall avoid them.

[GA Russell]

Freezer Meals - free
http://www.amazon.com/Freezer-Recipe...dp/B00VRTXS98/

*****

Coconut Oil Bible - free
http://www.amazon.com/Coconut-Oil-Bi...dp/B00LE59M04/

*****

Here is an article you might find interesting, considering how many paleo diet books have been posted. It says that the paleo diet is based upon a false premise.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the...rbs-2015-08-18

[TrevorViking]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

Coconut Oil Bible - free
http://www.amazon.com/Coconut-Oil-Bi...dp/B00LE59M04/

The subtitle says this book is good for wight loss. I think that means it was written by a cleric of at least 7th level.