Barbara Kafka Libros

The first microwave cookbook ever introduced by a major food writer--a breakthrough cookbook that challenges all the preconceptions about what one can and cannot do with a microwave. Includes hundreds of entries explaining how different foods react in a microwave. Black-and-white illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Provides instructions for seven hundred and fifty recipes that utilize vegetables, including tabbouleh with red and hot peppers, chard gratin, creamy carrot soup, and morels with rhubarb and asparagus.

A rising star in the food world, Michael Psilakis is co-owner of a growing empire of modern Mediterranean restaurants, and one of the most exciting young chefs in America today.In How to Roast a Lamb , the self-taught chef offers recipes from his restaurants and his home in this, his much-anticipated first cookbook.Ten chapters provide colorful and heartfelt personal essays that lead into thematically related recipes. Gorgeous color photography accompanies many of the recipes throughout.Psilakis's cooking utilizes the fresh, naturally healthful ingredients of the Mediterranean augmented by techniques that define New American cuisine.Home cooks who have gravitated toward Italian cookbooks for the simple, user-friendly dishes, satisfying flavors, and comfortable, family-oriented meals, will welcome Psilakis's approach to Greek food, which is similarly healthful, affordable, and satisfying to share any night of the week.

Provides recipes for appetizers, soups, poultry, seafood, meat, side dishes, and desserts and discusses the varieties of California wine that should accompany them