Recipe for 2 Servings:
Heather Johnston demonstrates how to make crispy and moist buttermilk fried chicken, and pairs a sparkling wine to drink with it.
Healthy Helpings TV host Michelle Koen heads south of the border, drawing on some Mexican influences to create a mouth watering and quick chicken dish!
This dish incorporates bell peppers and mixed beans to provide a delicious source of fiber, a combination of different beans and chicken for added protein, and wonderful flavors such as Cumin and Cilantro for a fresh, yet earthy taste.
Learn how to make refreshing, easy, really good summer salad - perfect for BBQs, picnics, outdoor suppers and dining al fresca.
Recipe for 4 serving:
Diet.com Celebrity Natural Foods Chef Bethenny Frankel teaches you how to make healthy quick and easy breakfasts. Here is her diet friendly version of Banana Nut French Toast. Perfect for any diet.
The graduation season is a time of year when families from all over the country celebrate both the academic success and beginning of a loved one’s long journey. On the islands of Hawaii, this time of year is extremely significant for native families, with several traditions that play a significant role.
In Hawaiian culture, giving a flower lei is a rich part of the graduation tradition as it represents love, friendship and celebration. With leis being made with as many as 500 flowers each, it is not uncommon to see a graduate with so many leis that their neck is barely visible.
In ancient Hawaii, leis were constructed of flowers, leaves, shells, feathers and even bone and teeth of various animals and represented wealth, royalty, and rank. Today, there are eight different types of Hawaiian leis, one symbolically for each major island. Although there are a myriad of methods to create them, there is one purpose intended…to spread the “Aloha Spirit.”
To help provide the perfect “island paradise” setting for your graduation gathering and allow you to stay as calm and cool as the island breeze, the following are some tips and recipes developed by King’s Hawaiian to create the aloha-style experience:
Invite early -- With graduation season upon us, many will have competing parties at the same time before the ceremony. Be sure to send your invitations out 4 to 5 weeks in advance to allow those that need to travel long distances to be able to plan accordingly.
Add fruit -- Hawaii is renowned for their pineapples. Sliced, diced or as a table decoration, this fruit is sure to add the island flair to your party.
Say aloha -- As if they had just set foot on the island of Oahu, welcome each guest with a traditional Aloha greeting, a lei and kiss on the cheek or a big Hawaiian hug.
Take a dip -- Bread bowl dip appetizers provide a hearty buffet recipe that requires minimal preparation and is a constant crowd pleaser. King’s Hawaiian offers two varieties of “round loaves” -- Hawaiian Sweet Bread and Honey Wheat -- which prove ideal for this offering.
Island music -- Hawaii has a rich array of both traditional and popular music. Make sure to add a few “Hawaiian” style songs to your playlist for the perfect background music for your party.
Party under the stars -- Utilizing various sized tiki torches on the tables and around the perimeter is an inexpensive lighting alternative for any occasion. Place appetizers and refreshments outside and let your guests enjoy the breeze of the “island” night.
Tropical Bruschetta
Chef Keith Snow creates a delicious Thai dish with grilled chicken thighs, coconut rice, and a Peanut Sauce.
Here's a quick and easy version of guacamole. This recipe shows you step by step how to make homemade guacamole.
Tune in to the Wild Game Gourmet with Guest Chef Billie Norris for a lesson in making this delectable dinner. Then check out other wild game recipes.
Award-winning chef Nancy Silverton has conquered the gourmet world as the original dessert chef at Spago and founder of the celebrated La Brea Bakery. Her recipes are legendary, innovative, and delicious. However, in the last few years, there has been a great shift in cooking toward the Home Meal Replacement (HMR), better known as “takeout.” It’s impossible to spend hours in the kitchen after a hard day’s work, so more people are buying prepared foods and frozen meals, compromising taste for convenience. Realizing that people’s hectic workdays don’t afford everyone the time to re-create her epicurean triumphs, Nancy has come up with the perfect solution . . .
Enter, the jar!
Compiling a list of her favorite products that come in jars—and cans, bags, and boxes—Nancy has created easy-to-follow recipes that require less than thirty minutes to prepare. With this book there’s no need to sacrifice flavor, sophistication, and taste just because you’re spending less time chopping, cleaning, cooking, or baking. Nancy’s shortcuts not only allow us to produce quick and easy meals at home, they let us bring back the pride and the joy of creating gourmet meals for our family and friends.
A Twist of the Wrist contains 137 quick and delicious gourmet recipes from salads to pasta to meats and desserts, such as:
In addition to Nancy’s own creations, she includes recipes concocted with prepared ingredients from some of her chef friends, including Sara Foster, Tom Colicchio, Charlie Trotter, Mario Batali, Suzanne Goin, Ruth Reichl, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten.
There is also a pantry section, telling us where to get—by the Internet and mail order—the best of all things canned, jarred, and bottled.
This charming and utterly indispensable cookbook is suited for any type of cook, whether you’re an on-the-go gourmand or you just love flavorful, accessible meals at home. A Twist of the Wrist fits perfectly into today’s modern lifestyle and is a must-have for the contemporary kitchen.
Available at Amazon.com.
This video shows how to make a fast, easy, spicy, peppery and sweet salad.
Watch Dani Spies use one of her favorite grains in a dish she calls Spring-in' Quinoa.
Key Lime . . . Peach blackberry . . . Sour cream raisin . . . Maple walnut . . . Chocolate pecan . . . Killer Pies presents 50 fresh-baked recipes from award-winning bakers across North America. These passionate pie masters share their fail-proof methods for producing flaky perfection in delicious, unforgettable variations on this classic dessert. Luscious color photographs accompany each tried-and-true recipe along with a regional guide to the diners, cafes, bakeries, and farms that serve up the originals. Stuffed with the tastiest ingredients from Santa Fe to Winnipeg, Killer Pies serves up a sweet filling of mouthwatering satisfaction!
Available at Amazon.com.
Chicken wing expert and author Chris O'Hara shows off his amazing atomic wing recipe. Enjoy the hottness.
In this cooking video, learn to make Aloo Gobi (Potatoes Cauliflower) .
Ingredients for 2-4:
Each year, Cinco de Mayo festivities take center stage in town squares across Mexico. But you don’t have to be south of the border to join in the fun. Follow the lead of area restaurants and consider throwing a little fiesta of your own!
Traditional Cinco de Mayo gatherings are abuzz with music, laughter and vibrant colors -- and of course, no Cinco de Mayo celebration is complete without great food. To lessen the stress of party planning, be on the lookout for easy ways to add the bold flavors of Mexican cuisine to your party fare. New Sargento Chipotle Cheddar cheese is the perfect ingredient to add a little kick to your recipes with a smoky twist on a familiar flavor.
Corporate chef for Sargento Foods Inc., Guy Beardsmore, offers a tip for making your Cinco de Mayo celebration a hit with your guests. “Keep it simple when you’re entertaining,” says Beardsmore. “For Cinco de Mayo celebrations, something like a build-your-own taco bar is a really easy way to serve up something fun that your guests can enjoy.”
Always a crowd pleaser, chips with cheese and bean dip are especially appropriate for Cinco de Mayo. Sargento Chipotle Cheddar bolsters the flavor in our version of Mexican Fiesta Dip, and brings authenticity to your bash. For a genuine taste of Mexico, try your hand at Chili Rellenos. This traditional dish is sure to impress your guests, and add plenty of spice to your party line-up.
As the big day nears, keep an eye out for fun and creative ways to enliven your fiesta. Add to the enjoyment with a few of these tips for bringing the warmth and spirit of Mexico to your get-together:
* Prepare a fun mix of salsa music to play in the background
* Use red, white and green décor to celebrate the colors of Mexico
* Create a fun-filled piñata for children -- and maybe a separate one with goodies for adult guests as well!
Here’s a tasty recipe you may want to try: 
Chili Rellenos
Serves: 6
Ingredients:
Watch Dani Spies show you how to make a dish with the clean fresh flavors of spring with ingredients that can be found anytime of the year.
Family Digest Magazine, Black America's #1 family and relationship magazine and one of the leading sources for delicious recipes, is searching for the best Gumbo recipe in its Ultimate Soul Food™ Recipe Contest.
People can submit their favorite family Gumbo recipe and be eligible to win cash and prizes totaling more than $1,000, and have their recipe produced by Family Digest chefs and featured in Family Digest Magazine and on The Family Digest TV Show for mass appreciation.
"Many of our readers are fantastic cooks who can rival anything produced by the chefs we see on TV," said Susan Benjamin, Editor-in-Chief of Family Digest. "We want to showcase these cooks and their recipes so that the world learns about them. Many of the Gumbo recipes entered in our Ultimate Soul Food™ Recipe Contest are a part of people's heritage, and if we can help preserve the memory of a favorite relative or celebrate the cooking genius of everyday people, that makes us and our readers happy."
Submissions can be made at www.FamilyDigest.info. Applicants must include the following information:
"We hope that people will also be inspired to share these often long-buried recipes with their families and friends, and that we can share them with our readership," continued Ms. Benjamin. "Our readers always tell us how much they appreciate being able to get fabulous recipes in Family Digest Magazine. I can tell you that our readers will love participating in this edition of the Ultimate Soul Food™ Recipe Contest."
Entries will be accepted until July 1, 2007. The Family Digest chefs and staff will test recipes for taste, creativity and broad appeal. Winners will be contacted by email. Winners will be announced online, on TV and in Family Digest Magazine.
Source: PRWeb
Madeline's taking a lunch break in her native Puerto Rico for some empanadas and salsa.
It's Like Getting 5 Cookbooks for the Price of 1
DELVE INTO THE FASCINATING FLAVORS and variety of Indian cuisine with this unrivaled recipe collection. You'll discover delicious choices for dishes that make Indian food unforgettable: crispy fritters; tangy pickles; chaat snacks and salads; refreshing yogurt raitas; richly flavored curries; comforting legume (dal) dishes; creative vegetable and meat main courses and side dishes; decadent desserts; and exotic drinks.
To guide your cooking, Neelam Batra provides time-and labor-saving methods, ingredient substitutions, and menu suggestions, and addresses modern health concerns without sacrificing flavor. This is a book Indian food lovers-and health-conscious eaters and vegetarians, too-can turn to for everyday meals and special occasions for years to come!
Available at Amazon.com.
This shrimp salad will be the hit of your next picnic or cook out, and it's so easy!
The Taylor 9842 waterproof digital thermometer, with a range of -40 to 450 degrees F, ensures that roasts and rotisserie foods are thoroughly cooked. The thermometer delivers an instant readout, and with its antibacterial storage and carrying sleeve, the device stays sanitary even when in frequent use. In addition, the thermometer recalibrates regularly to comply with HACCP requirements for foodborne illnesses. The thermometer features a stainless-steel stem, measures 5-3/4 inches long, and carries a one-year warranty against defects.
Available at Amazon.com.
The super fast and super easy way to learn to cook. Fast Foods offers you quick recipes to please any guest.
How to make Guacamole! This is the perfect recipe whether you're taking something to a party, hosting your own, or just kickin' back.
Learn to Make JalebisRecipe for 4 servings:
Jalebi Batter:
For the Syrup:
Learn how to make this delicious Chicken and Peach Salad without ever having to touch the stove.
No matter how busy you are, at the end of the day you want fresh, flavorful meals that are easy to prepare. And you want lots of choices and variations—recipes that call for your favorite foods and take advantage of excellent (and readily available) ingredients. In the first book from the award-winning magazine Everyday Food, you’ll find all of that: 250 simple recipes for delicious meals that are quick enough to make any day of the week. Because a change in weather affects how we cook as much as what we cook, the recipes in Everyday Food are arranged by season. For spring, you’ll find speedy preparations for main-course salads, chicken, and poached salmon that minimize time spent at the stove; summer features quick techniques for grilling the very best burgers and kabobs as well as no-cook pasta sauces; for fall, there are braised meats and hearty main-course soups; and winter provides new takes on rich one-dish meals, roasts and stews, and hearty baked pastas. Finally, a chapter on basics explains how to make year-round staples such as foolproof roast chicken, risotto, couscous, and chocolate sauce.Designed in a contemporary and easy-to-read format, Everyday Food boasts lush, full-color photography and plenty of suggestions for substitutions and variations. With Everyday Food, even the busiest on-the-go cook can look forward to meals that bring freshness, nutrition, and a range of flavors to dinner all week long.
Available at Amazon.com.
In this video, learn how to make a fabulous salad with mangos and shrimp with no-fat dressing.
With the arrival of spring, creative cooks look for seasonal vegetables to freshen up their daily menus. The produce aisle is stocked with the spring season’s best offerings. Artichokes, asparagus, snow peas and a variety of spring lettuce all serve as terrific ingredients for a delicious salad. Add a serving of seafood, and transform a spring mix of vegetables into an entrée salad worthy of any dinner table.
When shopping for salad ingredients, work to incorporate spring’s freshest offerings that add a punch of color and flavor to your meal. Navel oranges, radishes and strawberries are good accompaniments for vibrant additions to your salad.
When adding seafood, consider strength of flavor and texture. Shrimp, delicate tilapia, hearty salmon, or a perfectly seared tuna steak can all work nicely and add a hearty dose of protein. Try brushing on a simple glaze to enhance the flavor and make for a tasty and impressive meal.
Every salad needs the perfect dressing to be complete. One option for premium quality and homemade taste is Marie’s. Refrigerated and found in the produce aisle of your local grocery store, Marie’s is kept cold to preserve the fresh taste and full flavor.
Try this salmon spring salad with a tasty twist of orange zest:
Orange Balsamic Glazed Salmon Spring Salad
Prep Time: 25 minutes
Cook Time: 8 minutes
Yield: 4 entrée salads
Ingredients:
Watch Dani Spies put her twist on Spaghetti and Meetballs.
