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Pamela Rice Hahn

December  2006: Featured Cookbooks & Diet Books
 

Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats--A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners (A 30-Minute Meal Cookbook)
by Rachael Ray

Best known for her Food Network shows and 30-minute meals cookbooks, Rachael Ray provides you with an easy way to add variety to your menus with this, her latest 30-minute meals cookbook.

Joy of Cooking: 75th Anniversary Edition - 2006
by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Ethan Becker

Since its initial debut, this is the cookbook considered a staple in every home cook's kitchen. This new edition includes the tried-and-true favorites, but also now has recipes for popsicles, baby back ribs, smoothies, and power bars. The book even has instructions on using natural ingredients to color Easter eggs: beets for pink; chopped red cabbage for blue; tumeric for yellow; and the skins of 12 red onions for orange to burnt orange. If that isn't enough, the book includes slow cooker recipes for the first time, too.

Paula Deen Celebrates! Best Dishes and Best Wishes for the Best Times of Your Life by Paula Deen, Martha Nesbit ... Paula Dean, FoodTV, Food Television, Lady and SonsPaula Deen Celebrates!
Best Dishes and Best Wishes for the Best Times of Your Life

by Paula Deen, Martha Nesbit

In her newest cookbook, Paula Deen -- of the Lady & Sons Restaurant and FoodTV fame -- offers 170-plus recipes arranged by menus for traditional holidays and other, sometimes whimsical celebrations like Elvis's Birthday and Movie-Watching Pizza Party in Bed. Recipes in the book run the gamut, from Peppermint Bark and that stand-by, comfort food favorite Chicken Pot Pie to Cream Cheese and Chicken Enchiladas, Oyster-Stuffed Quail, Herb-Crusted Pork Loin, Black-Eyed Pea Dip, Succotash, Country Fried Steak with Gravy, Shrimp Etouffé, Muffuletta Sandwiches, Macaroni Salad, Collard Green Wantons, Grilled Chicken Pita, and Scallop and Bacon Pizza.

Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes
by Giada De Laurentiis

Organized according to the type of food you want to prepare, FoodTV Chef Giada De Laurentiis shows you 7 ways to make red sauce more interesting, 6 different preparations of the classic cutlet, 5 perfect pestos, 4 creative uses for prosciutto, 3 variations on basic polenta, 2 great steaks, and 1 sublime chocolate tiramisù—plus 100 other recipes that turn everyday ingredients into speedy but special dinners.

Because January New Year Resolution Time is just around the corner...

...and because not everybody can stay in shape by eating rich Giada De Laurentiis-style Italian pasta dishes or Paula Deen butter-rich Southern cooking-style foods, you might be interested in reading this:

You: On A Diet
The Owner's Manual for Waist Management

by Mehmet C. Oz

Amazon book description:
For the first time in our history, scientists are uncovering astounding medical evidence about dieting--and why so many of us struggle with our weight and the size of our waists. Now researchers are unraveling biological secrets about such things as why you crave chocolate or gorge at buffets or store so much fat.

Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, America's most trusted doctor team and authors of the bestselling YOU series, are now translating this cutting-edge information to help you shave inches off your waist. They're going to do it by giving you the best weapon against fat: knowledge. By understanding how your body's fat-storing and fat-burning systems work, you're going to learn how to crack the code on true and lifelong waist management....

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