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The Spice Kitchen: Everyday Cooking with Organic Spices
The Spice Kitchen offers more than one hundred delicious recipes for using herbs and spices to add vibrant flavors to your food at breakfast, lunch, dinner, and any time in between. From Spiced Yogurt and Granola Parfaits, to Strawberry Salad with Cinnamon-Balsamic Vinaigrette, Spiced Guacamole, Tarragon Chicken Potpie, Clove Spiced Caramel Corn, and more, this exciting cookbook is full of inventive recipes, information, and tips for using herbs and spices. Best of all, the recipes are easy and fuss free--a must for busy home cooks who want to spend less time in the kitchen and more time at the family table. And with dozens of full-color photographs and illustrations, The Spice Kitchen is as beautiful as it is practical.
The Spice Kitchen changes everything, using herbs and spices to add special twists to favorite family recipes, from macaroni and cheese, to burgers, chicken salad, deviled eggs, and much more. It's the only all-purpose cookbook for spicing up everyday meals. Not just exotic extras, spices from around the world make it easier--and much more fun--to turn out delicious and healthy food. The simple but flavorful recipes and ideas in The Spice Kitchen will make old family favorites new again--and bring everyone to the table.
The Spice Kitchen changes everything, using herbs and spices to add special twists to favorite family recipes, from macaroni and cheese, to burgers, chicken salad, deviled eggs, and much more. It's the only all-purpose cookbook for spicing up everyday meals. Not just exotic extras, spices from around the world make it easier--and much more fun--to turn out delicious and healthy food. The simple but flavorful recipes and ideas in The Spice Kitchen will make old family favorites new again--and bring everyone to the table.
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208 pages, Hardcover
First published October 20, 2009
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February 10, 2014
I really like this books layout. A great browsing book and an easy to read recipe book.
The book begins rightly enough with a little history about the spices, covering twenty-two and then moves onto a bit about zest.
Along the edges of the pages are colorful fun facts like, "Cloves have mild anesthetic and antimicrobial properties and in the past were used to treat toothaches. Even today, preparations containing cloves are used in dentistry, as mouthwashes, and for sore throats." Or, "Cumin seeds have been found in the pyramids, interred with the pharoahs of ancient Egypt."
The recipes have little added hints and suggestions like, "Sage can be used as insect repellent, rubbed on the skin or placed in sachets to keep away moths and other marauders."
The recipes' layout makes them very user friendly. Even a recipe like, "Coconut Curry Shrimp," is written out in such a way that a person can easily see what ingredients are necessary and what needs to be done so that the dish could be on the table in 30 minutes.
This book makes me believe I could conquer my fear of risotto, "There's something about gently coaxing moisture into each grain of rice that is supremely satisfying."
Many of the recipes are only 4 or 5 ingredients; recipes as simple as:
"Spiced Yogurt"
2 Cups Vanilla yogurt
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ginger
Mix and enjoy BUT had you ever thought to do that!?
Enlightened Oatmeal at three ingredients gets even simpler when substituting the steel-cut oats for old-fashioned rolled oats.
My family is crazy about the tandoori chicken. I can prepare it in the morning or even the day before and at dinner all that needs to be done is to quickly grill it.
This would make a terrific gift for yourself! Oh, alright, maybe for someone else who loves spices as well.
The book begins rightly enough with a little history about the spices, covering twenty-two and then moves onto a bit about zest.
Along the edges of the pages are colorful fun facts like, "Cloves have mild anesthetic and antimicrobial properties and in the past were used to treat toothaches. Even today, preparations containing cloves are used in dentistry, as mouthwashes, and for sore throats." Or, "Cumin seeds have been found in the pyramids, interred with the pharoahs of ancient Egypt."
The recipes have little added hints and suggestions like, "Sage can be used as insect repellent, rubbed on the skin or placed in sachets to keep away moths and other marauders."
The recipes' layout makes them very user friendly. Even a recipe like, "Coconut Curry Shrimp," is written out in such a way that a person can easily see what ingredients are necessary and what needs to be done so that the dish could be on the table in 30 minutes.
This book makes me believe I could conquer my fear of risotto, "There's something about gently coaxing moisture into each grain of rice that is supremely satisfying."
Many of the recipes are only 4 or 5 ingredients; recipes as simple as:
"Spiced Yogurt"
2 Cups Vanilla yogurt
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp. ginger
Mix and enjoy BUT had you ever thought to do that!?
Enlightened Oatmeal at three ingredients gets even simpler when substituting the steel-cut oats for old-fashioned rolled oats.
My family is crazy about the tandoori chicken. I can prepare it in the morning or even the day before and at dinner all that needs to be done is to quickly grill it.
This would make a terrific gift for yourself! Oh, alright, maybe for someone else who loves spices as well.
November 17, 2009
A gorgeous book with simple recipes given a special touch with the addition of different spices. Also a great resource guide for cooking with spices (and the Spiced Granola with Coconut and Almonds is to die for!)
You can read my full review and see what I cooked on my blog here:
http://kahakaikitchen.blogspot.com/20...
You can read my full review and see what I cooked on my blog here:
http://kahakaikitchen.blogspot.com/20...
March 28, 2010
I still use it every single day!
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