Cookbooks reviewed: Mar 18

  

The Big Book of Preserving: The Complete Guide and Foolproof Recipes to Preserve Almost Everything by Canning, Pickling, Dehydrating, Fermenting, Salting, Smoking and So much more by Martha J. Cummings

TOC where chapters are broken up into different methods.

Intro discusses how to preserve and then other chapters relate to specific methods.

Very detailed instructions, tell you what you will need and how to do them.

Lots of hints on how to freezer certain foods and best method to use.

Water bath method includes recipes. The recipe starts with a title, prep cook times and servings.

List of ingredients and you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low fat, low sodium, low sugar and fresh vs canned items.

Directions are given and there are NO pictures, NO nutritional information.

Pressure cooker methods has recipes for soups and the like to preserve.

Conversion tables are listed at the end. 

Great resource book, it has everything you need to know about presrving and so many different methods along with recipes.

Fast Metabolism Diet: 20 Metabolism Boost Diet to Speed Up Your Metabolism, Help You Lose Weight Fast and Stay Healthy Forever by Patricia Benson

Other works by the author are listed.  TOC where chapters are concerned about different foods and food groups.

Intro discusses metabolism and how to correct it.

Each of the foods concentrating on show a title, small color photo, summary of what is in the group and how to add it to your diet.  Free ebook offer and request for review.

The New Spanish Cookbook: Discover Delicious Spanish Recipes in an Easy Latin Cookbook by BookSumo Press

TOC where recipes are listed.

Each recipe starts with a title. To far right hand corner in a shaded area sometimes are: prep and total time, servings.

Some nutritional information: calories, fat, cholesterol, sodium, carbs and protein.

In the main part of the page is a list of ingredients and you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low fat, low sodium, low sugar and fresh vs canned items.

Directions are given and there are NO individual recipe photos.

There are hand drawn sketches throughout also featuring foods.

Like the simple Cuban turkey sandwich, sound yummy.

Lots of different flavors to experience with the recipes.