Cooking the Whole Foods Way or Mason Jar Cookie Cookbook

Cooking the Whole Foods Way: Your Complete, Everyday Guide to Healthy, Delicious Eating with 500 Vegan Recipes, Menus, Techniques, Meal Planning, Buying Tips, Wit, and Wisdom

Author: Christina Pirello

The revised and updated edition of the popular, whole foods cookbook-with more than 80 new recipes...now 100% vegan!

With a dash of fun, Christina Pirello introduces whole foods cooking, inviting health-conscious readers to cut out processed and chemically enhanced food, as well as dairy, sugar, and meat, and embrace fruit, whole grains, vegetables, and beans. From savory soups to innovative entrЋes and delectable desserts, here are more than 500 recipes and ideas for wholesome, gourmet eating. With tips on meal planning, a shopping guide, productresource list, and extensive glossary, Christina makes healthy eating a most delicious adventure.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments     ix
Preface     xi
Foreword     xiii
Introduction     1
What Is Macrobiotics?     7
Glossary     20
The Basics     35
Amazing Grains     41
Savory Soups and Stews     72
Beans, Beans, Beans     95
Tasty Tofu, Tempeh and Seitan     115
Eat Your Veggies!     141
Pastabilities     200
Sensational Salads     234
Sassy Sauces and Dressings     269
Breads of Life     280
Great Dessert Classics     297
Resource Guide     335
Recommended Reading     337
Bibliography     338
Metric Conversion Charts     339
Index     340

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Mason Jar Cookie Cookbook: How to Create Mason Jar Cookie Mixes

Author: Lonnette Parks

Nothing gladdens the heart like the tantalizing aroma of cookies baking in the oven. But for so many people, a busy lifestyle has made it impossible to find the time to bake at home--until now. Lonnette Parks, cookie baker extraordinaire, has not only developed fifty kitchen-tested recipes for delicious cookies, but has found a way for you to give the gift of home baking to everyone on your gift list.

For each mouth-watering cookie, the author provides the full recipe so that you can bake a variety of delights at home. In addition, she presents complete instructions for beautifully arranging the nonperishable ingredients in a Mason jar so that you can give the jar--complete with baking instructions--to a friend. By adding just a few common ingredients, such as butter and eggs, your friend can then prepare fabulous home-baked cookies in a matter of minutes. Recipes include Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies, Blondies, Cranberry Dream Drops, Gingerbread Cookies, Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, and much, much more.

Whether you want to bake scrumptious cookies in your own kitchen, you'd like to give distinctive Mason jar cookie mixes to cookie-loving friends and family, or you're searching for a unique fund-raising idea, The Mason Jar Cookie Cookbook is the perfect book. It just may bring home-baked cookies back in style.

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Parks's "Mason jar cookies" are cookies whose dry ingredients are layered in a 1-quart canning jar, ready to give-along with the recipe-as a gift to friends and others. She includes 50 recipes for easy cookies and bars, each one set up as a two-page spread: the complete recipe is given on the left page, and the facing page provides instructions on "creating the jar"-a diagram of the specific way the ingredients should be layered in the jar, along with a box (that can be photocopied) providing a list of the eggs, butter, etc., needed in addition to the dry ingredients and a concise version of the recipe. Many of the recipes are familiar, but both home bakers and "crafters," as Parks calls them, will find her book of interest; for larger baking collections.