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The appeal of lavender extends beyond its fragrance to the rich yet delicate flavor it adds to a variety of foods. Here's the first cookbook to focus on ways the aromatic herb can be used to enhance ordinary ingredients. More than 90 recipes, such as Grilled Lavender-Honey Chicken, Stuffed Zucchini Blossoms with Lavender Goat Cheese, and Double Chocolate and Lavender Gelato, highlight appetizers, soups, salads, entrees, baked goods and desserts, with tips on growing and preserving lavender.

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There was a time when being diagnosed with celiac disease or learning you had a sensitivity to wheat or gluten meant a lifetime of dry, tasteless baked goods that crumbled in your hands and often weren't worth the effort you put in to make them. Not any more!

Today, easy-to-use alternative flours, grains, and flavorings are on supermarket shelves everywhere, which means you don't have to learn any new baking techniques or search the Internet for untried ingredients with names you can't pronounce.

In this book you'll find more than 200 easy-to-follow recipes - from moist and hearty breads and muffins to sweet-tooth-satisfying cookies, cakes and pies - that friends and family will devour. Made with a variety of healthful grains and flours that are packed with protein, these tasty treats will boost energy levels and lift spirits.

Recipes include: Chocolate Chip Cookies, Blueberry Muffins, Baked Rice Pudding, Birthday Cake, Brownies, Cornbread and many more!

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Getting a hot, delicious, gluten-free meal to the table every night can seem like a challenge when time and growling stomachs are demanding food now! But you can turn the tables from stressed to dressed in no time with Fast and Simple Gluten-Free, your one-stop solution to creating fast, family-friendly meals in a half hour or less.

Inside, you'll find more than 100 truly inspiring recipes for everything from Carrot Cake Pancakes with Cream Cheese Frosting to Green Chicken Enchiladas and Quinoa Tabbouleh, with many recipes requiring just 20 minutes or less from start to fork.

Author, mom and blogger Gretchen Brown will show you just how easy it is to create wholesome, wheat-free meals that you can feel good about-and that your family will love. Through streamlined ingredient lists and simple yet effective cooking techniques, you'll learn how to pull together delicious dishes that taste as if you've spent hours slaving away in the kitchen, even though you haven't! From classic dishes like burgers, pizzas and pot pies to fresh and exciting new takes, you'll find recipes that will make everyone happy, including:

Tarragon-Lemon Chicken Salad; Chocolate Chili; Mozzarella Pizza with Pine Nuts, Currants and Arugula; Pork Tacos with Avocado and Tomato Salsa; Cumin-Turkey Burgers; Mocha Chocolate Fudge Cakes; Lemon-Lime Cheesecake with Gingersnap Crust

Nourish yourself and your family the stress-free way with Fast and Simple Gluten-Free. Great meals are just minutes away!

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Learn from a wide range of cheesemaking professionals and discover delicious artisan recipes with The Cheesemaker's Apprentice! This step-by-step book contains interviews with worldwide experts on everything from culture strains to pairings, while the easy-to-follow, original tutorials outline this fun, productive and classic skill. You'll also find an array of mouthwatering homemade recipes that will help you apply these newly gained tips and techniques, including:

• Cream cheese
• Ricotta
• Havarti
• Gouda
• Cheddar
• Gruyère
• Stilton
• Camembert

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Food blogger Sara Forte showcases 100 tempting recipes that take advantage of fresh produce, whole grains, lean proteins and natural sweeteners - with vivid flavors and seasonal simplicity at the forefront.

Sara Forte is a food-loving, wellness-craving veggie enthusiast who relishes sharing a wholesome meal with friends and family. The Sprouted Kitchen features 100 of her most mouthwatering recipes. Richly illustrated by her photographer husband, Hugh Forte, this bright, vivid book celebrates the simple beauty of seasonal foods with original recipes - plus a few favorites from her popular Sprouted Kitchen food blog tossed in for good measure. The collection features tasty snacks on the go, such as Granola Protein Bars; gluten-free brunch options, such as Cornmeal Cakes with Cherry Compote; dinner party dishes, such as Seared Scallops on Black Quinoa with Pomegranate Gastrique; "meaty" vegetarian meals, such as Beer Bean- and Cotija-Stuffed Poblanos; and sweet treats, such as Cocoa Hazelnut Cupcakes. From breakfast to dinner, snack time to happy hour, The Sprouted Kitchen will help you sneak a bit of delicious indulgence in among the vegetables.

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"Every earth-conscious home cook who wishes to nourish his or her family with sustainable, local, grassfed and pastured meats should be able to do so, regardless of income," argues Shannon Hayes. "We just have to change how we're eating."

In her largest, most comprehensive volume to date, North America's leading authority on grassfed meat examines the conundrum of maintaining a healthy, affordable and ecologically sound meat-based diet, while simultaneously paying America's small sustainable farmers a fair price for their food. To do it, she maintains, we need to expand our menus to include more than just prime cuts, and we need to learn how to work with leftovers.

More than just a cookbook, Long Way on a Little presents Hayes' practical knowledge about integrating livestock into a sustainable society with her accessible writing and engaging wit. Designed to be the only meat book a home cook could ever need, Long Way on a Little is packed with Hayes' signature delicious no-fail recipes for perfect roasts and steaks cooked indoors and out on the grill, easy-to-follow techniques to make use of the less-conventional, inexpensive cuts that often go to waste, tips on stretching a sustainable food budget, and an extensive section on using leftovers and creating soups … all with the aim of helping home cooks make the most effective and economical use of their local farm products or their own backyard livestock.

While addressing the topic of making local food more affordable, Hayes also frankly grapples with tough health issues confronting many Americans today, from diabetes to grain and gluten intolerance. The result is a family-pleasing, nutrient-dense, affordable cuisine that is a joy to prepare, rich in authentic flavor, and steeped in the wisdom of the world's greatest culinary traditions, all bundled together in a thought-provoking and informative book that is as stimulating to the mind as it is to the palate.

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Maximize the returns from your garden. Learn how to grow more of what you eat. Read top tips for growing and preserving your own harvest. Lead a more self-sufficient lifestyle. Learn 12 tips for maximize gas mileage. You can achieve all this and more with the help of the MOTHER EARTH NEWS Wiser Living Resource Set. Six guides in all make up this spectacular set that includes some of the magazine's most popular articles on organic gardening, preserving the harvest, green cars, saving money on food bills, baking easy homemade bread and more.

This set includes:
MOTHER EARTH NEWS Guide to Growing Your Own Food, 4th Edition
With beautiful color photos, this guide has the information to help readers have a self-sufficient life, starting in their own backyards. Learn a better way to fertilize your garden, read about tips for vertical gardening techniques and maximizing returns, follow instructions to build an affordable, portable and predator-proof chicken coop, and more.

MOTHER EARTH NEWS Guide to Self-Reliance and Country Skills
Are you looking for an easy-to-read guide that provides you with all the information you need to lead a self-reliant lifestyle? This excellent resource will show you how to make your own herbal medicine, rodent-proof your house, bake easy homemade bread and choose the best backyard chicken breeds.

MOTHER EARTH NEWS Guide to Real Food All Year
Filled with nearly 20 articles that instruct, help and point readers in the right direction for eating fresh food all year long, Guide to Real Food All Year covers everything from drying tomatoes to making your own cider, from growing great salads to saving time and energy with pressure cookers. Readers will learn how to choose inexpensive cuts of grass-fed beef, how to grow colorful heirloom corns, and how to dry the harvest they buy to make homegrown snacks and convenience foods for year-round eating.

MOTHER EARTH NEWS Guide to Organic Gardening, 3rd Edition
This glossy-paged guide has everything you need to create the garden of your dreams. Everything from natural insect control to tomato cage plans, from fertilizer to growing berries is covered in this helpful guide. Read all about growing cucumbers, berries and lettuce. Learn the best vegetables to grow in the shade and create your own edible landscape. Discover why poultry is your garden's secret weapon and much more.

MOTHER EARTH NEWS Guide to Green Cars
Just how high will gas prices go? Nobody knows, but you can save money on gas now and find the right fuel-efficient vehicle for your needs via our new Guide to Green Cars. With reviews of more than 50 cars that get 35-plus mpg, proven tips for maximizing mpg, and the latest on hybrid, electric, clean diesel and flex-fuel vehicles, this 100-page special issue will be an invaluable resource whether you need a new ride now or down the road.

MOTHER EARTH NEWS How to Grow and Preserve Your Own Food, 3rd Edition
From cover to cover, this resource guide contains tips and techniques for growing your own fruits and vegetables, and for preserving them using simple, easy-to-learn techniques. Learn how to grow winter tomatoes indoors all through the season; harvest the freshest mushrooms with the help of a do-it-yourself kit; discover how to make sauerkraut; and more.

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Chef Ming Tsai believes there are four basic needs in everyday cooking today: taste, healthfulness, simplicity and affordability. So in this groundbreaking cookbook, he tackles all four. Broken down into seven techniques of one-pot cooking (including braising, wokking, sautéing, roasting, high-temperature cooking, tossing and soups) Simply Ming: One-Pot Asian Meals offers 85 recipes. Every ingredient can be found at your local market, every recipe will track its salt and fat intakes and allergens, and every meal will cost around $20 for four.

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This comprehensive, technical guide offers the curious home distiller pretty much everything there is to know about distilling fruit brandies. Raw materials, fermentation, mashing, alcohol determination, clarifying and filtering, storage -- all are presented in great detail through text, diagrams and photos. Every aspect of distilling is covered, including timing, yields, detecting errors, and more. This guide also offers a thorough introduction to the proper usage of equipment, ranging from measuring devices and vessels to simple stills and stills with enhancement systems, or columns. And for the enterprising distiller there is also an introduction to the process of grain distillation. Here is a great resource for adventurous artisans, home brewers and vintners.