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The Slow Cooker Collection
Elizabeth Baird
Crock pots for those of an age, but slow cookers to millions of users. This piece of equipment is a standby in the kitchen these days. and when the Canadian Living team tackles the slow cooker you can be sure the results will appeal and you'll wonder what took them so long!
Summer Berries
Elizabeth Baird
A true Canadian classic, Elizabeth Baird’s Summer Berries captures everything that is great about harvesting, cooking, and eating in the summer. Along with the usual suspects, Baird includes red and black currants, blackberries, saskatoons, partridge,elderberries, and honorary berry, rhubarb. More than just pies the traditional pies, the recipes cover everything from punch to pot roast. The preserving information helps you enjoy the berry harvest way beyond those brief weeks of summer. Do not miss the double-crunch rhubarb crisp. Softcover, 128 pp. $19.95.
Complete Canadian Living Baking Book
Elizabeth Baird & CL Test Kitchen
Tried, tested and true. The holy trinity when it comes to baking and The Canadian Living Test Kitchen delivers again. Hardcover, 352 pp. $34.95.
Canadian Living Make It Tonight
Elizabeth Baird & the Canadian Living Test Kitchen
Fast, little cleanup, good for entertaining, well-tested: the crew at Canadian Living understands exactly what the time-crunched home cook wants in a cookbook. There is no need to pick up takeout on the way home when you can have a beef and sweet potato stir-fry ready in under 30 minutes. Fill your slow cooker in the morning to find Spanish pot roast ready and waiting when you open the door. Whether it is off the barbecue, out of the toaster oven or the freezer, this is a book that will help you get tasty food on the table during the week. Colour photos. Paper, 239 pp, $24.95.
Canadian
Living Everyday Favourites Cookbook
This latest offering, celebrating 30 years, from Canadian Living magazine lacks the thoroughness in production which we have come
to depend on. That aside the book delivers the same reliable recipes
we have come
to know and love and the two chapters featuring Top 10 Most Requested
Recipes as well as Test Kitchen Favourites are worth the purchase.
Hardcover, 377 pp, $39.95.
Canadian Living
Cooks
Daphna Rabinovitch, Emily Richards, Elizabeth Baird and The Canadian
Living Test Kitchen
No fuss recipes reflecting Canada s multicultural flavours. Also, a peek behind-the-scenes
of the enormously popular Food network show of the same name. Softcover, $29.95
The
Complete Canadian Living Cookbook
Elizabeth Baird
From the Canadian Living Test Kitchen
This tome has everthing you need and didn't know you needed! Information on equipment,
choosing and storing ingredients, glossary of culinary terms, nutritional analysis
for each recipe, advice on using bread machines, food processors, slow cookiers
and let's not forget the 350 recipes! $49.95. Recipe: Chunky
Mushroom Soup.
Three Sisters Around the Greek Table
B., E. & S. Bakopoulous
These engaging perky Greek sisters from Ontario have put together a stunning self published cookbook. Lots of traditional Greek recipes but also lots of recipes for today's more modern Greek family fare. So no it's not "coals to Newcastle" to give this to a Greek on your list! Softcover, 278 pp. $34.95.
The Passionate Cook
Karen Barnaby
Some things old, some things new, all add up to the best of Karen
Barnaby whose culinary career spans the country and more than two decades.
Dive mouth-open into a vat of clams steamed in spicy coconut lime broth
or revisit childhood with a serving of Karen 's meatloaf and a fistful
of skor bar cookie brittle. Colour photos. Paper, 300 pp, $24.95.
Girls
Who Dish
Karen Barnaby et al
Packed with tempting recipes from women chefs of Vancouver. These recipes really
do deliver the goods! Out of Print/Not Available
Girls Who Dish Seconds Anyone?
Karen Barnaby et al
They're back! The girls Who Dish dish it out again. Seconds Anyone? is even better
than the first book. $19.95.
The Beerbistro Cookbook
Stephen Beaumont & Brian Morin
The formerly “humble hop” is transformed to haute in this collection of recipes from Toronto’s Beerbistro. Besides traditional combinations with mussels, internationally-recognized beer writer, Stephen Beaumont and chef Brian Morin have created dishes such as grilled porter-braised pulled pork quesadillas, blonde ale pakoras with roasted pineapple raita, and stout and skor bar ice cream. Colour photos. Hardcover, 264 pp. $40.00.
Wanda's Pie
In The Sky
Wanda Beaver
Wanda's tips for perfect pastry will help anyone overcome their
fear of baking. She's truly 'The Pie Queen' and her step-by-step
illustrations will guide you to the best pie in town. The Raspberry
Marzipan Tarts (p. 139) are a staff favourite. Softcover, 288 pp.,
$22.95.
The Recipe of Love an Ethiopian Cookbook
Aster Ketsela Belayneh
A dab of history and a pinch of philosophy accompany the recipes from the owner of Toronto's Addis Ababa Restaurant. Built on grains, pulses, and vegetables embellished with spices, Ethiopian dishes offer an exotic addition to a healthy diet. Colour photos. Softcover, 186 pp. $29.95.
Fresh
John Bishop
Vancouver's Bishop's restaurant could be the poster restaurant for the "eat
locally" movement. More than just a prettily presented collection of recipes
from the renowned menu, this book is a chronicle of the intricate dance between
grower and chef, chef and the end consumer. The delectable simplicity of chanterelle
and pear pot, sweet corn soup, or summer salad bowl serves as a reminder to the
modern cook that "to everythings there is a season." Colour photos.
Softcover, 194 pp. $34.95.
Complete Best of Bridge Cookbooks
Volume One
This includes all the recipes from the first book (the red one) and the second (the yellow one) in one volume. All of the individual volumes are now out of print, so this is your chance to recapture these treasured recipes. Binder, 384 pp. $29.95.
The
Rest of the Best and More
The Best of Bridge
Along with the rest of the best from previous editions, the latest from the Best
of Bridge features 100 new recipes including cheddar chutney tarts, Asian salad
and brandied cranberry apricot brownies. Colour photos. Paper, 324 pp, $29.95.
Fresh
at Home
Ruth Tal Brown and Jennifer Houston
From immunity-boosting elixirs to chocolate almond peanut butter
pie, the Toronto restaurant (formerly Juice for Life) shares its most
popular vegan recipes.B & W photos. Paper, 215pp, $28.00.
Juice for Life
Ruth Tal Brown
More than just another juicing book, Juice For Life also serves
up the best in vegan and wheat-free cooking. Softcover $21.99.
Recipe: JFL
Burger Mix.
Chez Piggy Cookbook
Who can resist Chez Piggy? This cookbook captures the charm
and grace of the restaurant located in a limestone stable in Kingston,
Ontario. The Lemon Pots du Crème are to die for. Winner
of the 1999 Cuisine Canada Cookbook Award. $24.95.
Company's Coming Practical Gourmet Small Plates for Sharing
Edited by Laurie Stempfle
Company's Coming, you seem to have come a long way. The first title in the Practical Gourmet series captured the 2009 Cuisine Canada's Culinary Book Award in the cookbook category. What sets this book apart from earlier Company's Coming works is the sophistication of both the ingredients and the flavour combinations. Yet the methods remain as simple as ever - as emphasized in the intro to each recipe. Colour photos. Hardcover, 223 pp. $29.95.
Fearless
in the Kitchen
Christine Cushing
Popular Food Network host, who's shows and books have attracted wide audiences for
her simple and innovative recipes. 206 pp. $29.00. Recipe: Israeli
Couscous with Sweet Potato.
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