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Master over 100 irresistible and foolproof bread machine recipes—including gluten-free, sourdough, and kid-friendly options—in the ultimate guide to easy, homemade bread for every kind of baker.Tom Lacalamita’s The Ultimate Bread Machine Cookbook showed how easy it was to have freshly baked, delicious, and nutritious homemade bread anytime. Now comes The All-New Ultimate Bread Machine Cookbook: 101 Brand-New, Irresistible, Foolproof Bread Machine Recipes for Family and Friends, which presents bread machine recipes for 1 1/2- and 2-pound loaves, using the new ingredients now readily available. Here you will find mouth-watering baking recipes for Sourdough Bread, White Bread, and Sweet Bread. Imagine the sights and smells of Cinnamon-Raisin Bread and Cornmeal Honey Loaf coming hot from your machine. There are also easy bread recipes for traditional favorites such as French Bread, as well as crowd pleasers like Black-Olive-and-Rosemary Bread and Coconut-Pecan Coffee Cake. And it’s so simple! Just add the ingredients, push a button, and imagine the compliments you’ll get from your family and friends—as if you’d worked for hours in a hot kitchen! The All-New Ultimate Bread Machine Cookbook offers the full spectrum of bread machine recipes, from white to rye. For the diet-conscious, there’s a variety of gluten-free bread options, and for parents, plenty of family-friendly recipes and kid-friendly bread machine recipes, including Peanut-Butter-and-Jelly Bread and Funny as a Monkey Chocolate-Crumb Pull-Apart Bread. This is the best bread machine cookbook for anyone looking to master homemade, delicious, and gluten-free loaves with ease.

The secret is out: That slow cooker that's been collecting dust in your kitchen cabinet is a wonderful and easy tool for making delicious entrees at the touch of a button. With new U.S. sales estimated at 6 million a year, more people are finding slow cookers indispensable in getting a home-cooked meal on the table. Besides tasting good, slow cooked meals are convenient and nutritious because you use fresh, wholesome ingredients. Slow Cookers For Dummies is for working families, couples, single people, students, and anyone who is tired of takeout. Perhaps you love cooking but have little time to do it or want to decrease your reliance on prepared mixes or boxed convenience foods. Slow cooking may be right for you if you want to Save money on food and utility billsControl your sodium and fat intakeFree up your oven and cooktop for more holiday cookingTake a hot dish to a potluck supperIf you already know how to use a slow cooker, the delicious recipes in this book can help you expand your repertoire beyond soups and stews. If you're thinking of getting a slow cooker, Slow Cookers For Dummies takes you from the basics of how these cookers work to preparing special occasion meals, to troubleshooting slow cooker problems.Here's a closer look at what Slow Cookers For Dummies includes: Guidelines on how to choose the right slow cooker for youTechniques to help you slow-cook the right wayEasy recipes for snacks, beverages, chili, stews, and casserolesScrumptious recipes for roasting beef, pork, lamb, and poultryHow-to's on cooking and freezing in batchesWays to adapt favorite traditionally cooked dishes for the slow cookerIn Slow Cookers for Dummies, food and appliance cooking experts Tom Lacalamita and Glenna Vance show that this classic cooking appliance is really a wonderful tool for making creative, delicious meals. With 75 recipes for making the most out of your slow cooker, you'll never put that slow cooker in your cabinet again.

There’s nothing like the smell and taste of fresh homemade bread. But who has the time to make it anymore? You do—with a little help from your automatic bread machine. All bread machines can make good bread; they just need a little help from you to turn out a good loaf. With a little practice and a lot of fun, you too can make freshly baked bread in your kitchen with the touch of a button. Bread Machines For Dummies is for anyone who has ever been frustrated by a bread machine and wants to know if it’s really possible to turn out great bread with a minimum of time and effort (it is!). This fun and easy guide shares simple techniques and more than 85 tested, foolproof recipes for making aromatic and flavorful breads—either for your bread machine or from dough that you shape yourself and bake in the oven. You’ll see how to make: Soft white breadCracked wheat breadBasic danish doughBabka and C hallahBread bowlsBread sticks, pizza, and focacciaAnd so much more!This handy resource guide provides everything you “knead” to know about making bread, including the best ingredients to use, how to work with dough, and how to get the best results out of your machine. Along with plenty of cooking, measuring, and shopping tips, you get expert advice on how to: Shape simple doughs into beautiful breadsMix flours and liquids for perfect bread textureAdapt machine recipes for two loaf sizesUnderstand the different wheat floursFit bread into a gluten-free dietAvoid moisture mistakesMake breads with alternative ingredients such as rice flour, potato starch, and tapioca flourFeaturing a cheat sheet with standard measuring equivalents and temperature conversions, tips for troubleshooting your machine, and delicious recipes for such tasty delights as Cheddar Cheese Corn Bread, Pecan Sticky Rolls, Cranberry Nut Bread, and Banana Lemon Loaf, Bread Machines For Dummies reveals the best ways to bake, store, and enjoy your bread!

Ever have food fantasies in a truly international vein—an appetizer of feta cheese and roasted pepper spread, an entrée of spinach ravioli and steaming coq au vin, with a side of bulghur wheat and parsley salad, topped, finally, with a dish of cool gelato di crema (vanilla ice cream) and chocolate souffle for dessert. Well, fulfilling food fantasies that read like the menu in the UN cafeteria is now entirely possible. With Cooking All Around the World All-in-One For Dummies, you’ll be introduced to the cooking styles and recipes from eight of the world’s most respected cuisines, experiencing, in the comfort of your own kitchen, the fabulous variety of foods, flavors, and cultures that have made the world go round for centuries. With a roster of cooking pros and all-star chefs, including Mary Sue Milliken, Susan Feniger and Martin Yan, Cooking All Around the World All-in-One For Dummies includes some of the most popular recipes from Mexican, Italian, French, Greek and Middle Eastern, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Thai cuisines, revealing the cooking secrets that have made these recipes so winning and, in some cases, such a snap. Inside, you’ll find: The essential ingredients and tools of the trade common to each cuisineThe basic cooking techniques specific to each cuisineHow to think like an Italian or Chinese chefWhat the inside of a French, Greek and Middle Eastern, and Japanese kitchen really looks likeAnd once you become familiar with the new world of spices and ingredients, you’ll be whipping up tasty, new exotic dishes in no time! Page after page will bring you quickly up to speed on how to make each part of the menu—from appetizers, entrées, to desserts—a sparkling success: Starters, snacks, and sides—including Gazpacho, Tuscan Bread Salad, Leeks in Vinaigrette, Falafel, Spring Rolls, Miso Soup, Chicken Satays with Peanut SauceThe main event—including Chipotle Glazed Chicken, Lasagna, Cauliflower au Gratin, Lamb Kebabs, Grilled Tandoori Chicken, Braised Fish Hunan Style, Shrimp and Veggie TempuraSweet endings—including Mexican Bread Pudding, Biscotti, Chocolate Souffle, Yogurt Cake, Mango Ice Cream, Green Tea Ice Cream, Coconut Custard with Glazed BananasWith over 300 delicious recipes, a summary cheat sheet of need-to-know info, black-and-white how-to illustrations, and humorous cartoons, this down-to-earth guide will having you whipping up dishes from every part of the globe. Whether it’s using a wok or tandoori oven, with Cooking All Around the World All-in-One For Dummies every meal promises to be an adventure, spoken in the international language of good food.