Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Mixer Bible or A Cafecito Story El cuento del cafecito

Mixer Bible: Over 300 Recipes for Your Stand Mixer

Author: Meredith Deeds

The essential companion guide for any stand mixer.

A stand mixer is an indispensable tool in the kitchen. Its attachments and accessories make a stand mixer the quintessential food preparation machine-for everything from grinding meat to making pasta to kneading dough.

The Mixer Bible has 300 recipes designed for the stand mixer and its attachments. These outstanding recipes range from appetizers to homemade sausages to divine baked desserts and treats. Here's a sampling:


Appetizers: Mediterranean Tart with Goat Cheese and Roasted Vegetables, Cheese Straws, Hot Spinach Dip
Soups: Sweet Potato Soup, Coconut and Ginger Soup, Old Fashioned Chicken and Noodle Soup
Main Dishes: Turkey Pot Pie with an Herbed Crust, Herbed Cheese Ravioli, Scallops with Asian Noodle Salad
Sides: Scalloped Potatoes with Caramelized Onions, Zucchini Pancakes, Butternut Squash Casserole
Sausage: Country Pork Sausage, Chicken and Apple Sausage, Chinese Pork Sausage with Five-Spice Powder
Pasta: Lemon and Black Pepper Pasta, Pumpkin Pasta, Gluten-Free Pasta
Breads: Cinnamon Rolls, Walnut Potica, Chocolate Chip Macadamia Bread
Cookies: Best-Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies, Deluxe Lemon Bars, Pumpkin Spice Cookies
Desserts: Decadent Chocolate Mousse, Pear Frangipane Tart, Lemon Blueberry Trifle
Ice Creams: Peach Sorbet, French Vanilla Ice Cream, Coconut Ice Cream
Sauces, Condiments and Extras: Cinnamon Applesauce, Tomatillo Salsa, WhippedHorseradish Cream

The Mixer Bible will become a standard cookbook reference for home cooks.



Table of Contents:
Introduction
• Understanding the Equipment
• Tips on Ingredients Appetizers
• 31 recipes Soups
• 24 recipes Main Dishes
• 40 recipes Side Dishes
• 24 recipes Sausages
• Sausage Basics
• 29 recipes Pasta
• Pasta Basics
• 13 recipes Breads
• Bread and Baking Basics
• 37 recipes Cookies, Bars and Squares
• 40 recipes Desserts
• 61 recipes Condiments, Sauces and Extras
• 20 recipes

Acknowledgements
Index

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A Cafecito Story/ El cuento del cafecito

Author: Julia Alvarez

"Throughout the Dominican Republic and Central America it is a household ritual to offer a "cafecito" (a small cup of dark, rich, potent coffee) to any visitor, especially a stranger. Now, in a story spanning Latin America and Nebraska, Julia Alvarez offers us A Cafecito Story." "In North America, coffee is the morning lifeline between waking and working. In Central and South America, coffee is an economic lifeline, after oil the most important export commodity. Especially when coffee is grown sustainably, it links the First and Third Worlds in ways that are surprising and often delightful. For instance, North American songbirds winter in southern habitats where their survival is directly dependent on coffee farming practices. With lyric simplicity, A Cafecito Story tells the complex tale of a social beverage that bridges nations and unites people in trade, in words, in birds, and in love." The story unfolds through the eyes of Joe, a man with farming in his blood but an increasing sense of displacement from the natural world. While on holiday in the Dominican Republic, Joe learns about how coffee is grown and traded from Miguel, a Dominican coffee farmer. It is from Miguel and the other campesinos that Joe comes to understand the role of coffee in global trade, environmental degradation, and endangered songbird habitat.



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