The Best Casserole Cookbook Ever: With More Than 500 Recipes! (
$3.99 Kindle), by Beatrice Ojakangas and Susie Cushner (Photographer). Just the sample for this coobook is worth reading thru - there are a couple of chapters of recipes you can use, even if you decide to skip getting the entire thing (although at under four bucks, it's a steal).
Book Description
A good cook once said, a casserole is a blend of inspiration and what s on hand. Beatrice Ojakangas must have inspiration by the gallon, along with a very big kitchen, to come up with 500 comforting and creative casseroles ideal for any occasion. The enduring beauty of casseroles is that they come together quickly and they taste great the perfect dish doesn t get much better than that. The variety and versatility of these recipes will tempt you to make a casserole for every meal. Begin with a breakfast of Eggs Florentine, followed by Sweet & Sour Chicken for lunch, Pork Chops with Apple Stuffing for dinner, and Mocha Fudge Pudding for dessert. For the big family reunion, try Baked Spaghetti and Meatballs. Having an intimate dinner for two? Individual casseroles of Chicken Breast with Morel Mushrooms will make it both special and simple. Plenty of hearty dishes for vegetarians include the Latin-inspired Cornbread-Topped Black Bean Casserole and the Autumn Vegetable Stew (loaded with eggplant, zucchini, and carrots, and potatoes). Even appetizers can come in casserole form. Yummy and totally portable treats like Jarlsburg Cheese Spread and Parmesan and Sun-Dried Tomato Quiche are just right to bring to the party. 500 Casseroles serves up comforting dishes and innovative feasts for every meal of the day, every event whether big or small, and every style from down home supper to elegant dinner.
Plenty (
$2.99 Kindle, $3.99
B&N, $3.49
Kobo - coupon eligible), by Yotam Ottolenghi and Jonathan Lovekin (Photographer), is more of a vegetable cookbook than vegetarian or think of it if as Vegetarian Cooking for the non-vegan, occasional meat eater. If you are strictly vegetarian, you'll need to adjust here and there to eliminate things like Parmesan Cheese. For those looking to add a few more vegetarian meals or wanting inspiration on what to do with that eggplant in the frig, it looks to be a perfect fit.
Book Description
Yotam Ottolenghi is one of the most exciting new talents in the cooking world, with four fabulous, eponymous London restaurants and a weekly newspaper column that's read by foodies all over the world. Plenty is a must-have collection of 120 vegetarian recipes featuring exciting flavors and fresh combinations that will delight readers and eaters looking for a sparkling new take on vegetables. Yotam's food inspiration comes from his Mediterranean background and his unapologetic love of ingredients. Not a vegetarian himself, his approach to vegetable dishes is wholly original and innovative, based on freshness and seasonality, and drawn from the diverse food cultures represented in London. A vibrant photo accompanies every recipe in this visually stunning book. Essential for meat-eaters and vegetarians alike!
Dropping Acid: The Reflux Diet Cookbook & Cure (
$3.99 Kindle), by Jamie Koufman and Jordan Stern
Book Description
Dropping Acid: The Reflux Diet Cookbook & Cure is the first book to offer a nontraditional diet to help cure reflux, as well as the best and worst foods for a reflux sufferer. Using her extensive research, Dr. Koufman defines this shockingly common disease and explains why a change in diet can alleviate some of the most common symptoms. Her recipes use tasty fats as flavorings, not just as main ingredients and include a variety of dishes that prove living with reflux doesn't mean living without delicious food.
EntreLeadership (
$1.99 Kindle,
B&N,
Kobo), by Dave Ramsey
Book Description
From New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated talk radio host Dave Ramsey comes the secret to how he grew a multimillion dollar company from a card table in his living room.
If you’re at all responsible for your company’s success, you can’t just be a hard-charging entrepreneur or a motivating, encouraging leader. You have to be both!
Dave Ramsey, America’s trusted voice on money and business, reveals the keys that grew his company from a one-man show to a multimillion-dollar business—with no debt, low turnover, and a company culture that earns it the “Best Place to Work” award year after year.
This book presents Dave’s playbook for creating work that matters; building an incredible group of passionate, empowered team members; and winning the race with steady momentum that will roll over any obstacle.
Regardless of your business goals, you’ll discover that anyone can lead any venture to unbelievable growth and prosperity through Dave’s common sense, counterculture, EntreLeadership principles!
This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (
$2.99 Kindle,
B&N,
Kobo), by John Brockman has been published in several print editions and looks to be interesting (despite the minimal description HarperCollins gives us for the Kindle edition).
Book Description
Edge.org presents brilliant, accessible, cutting-edge ideas to improve our decision-making skills and improve our cognitive toolkits, with contributions by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Richard Dawkins, Brian Eno, Steven Pinker, and more. Featuring a foreword by New York Times columnist David Brooks and edited by John Brockman, This Will Make You Smarter presents some of the best wisdom from today’s leading thinkers—to make better thinkers out of the leaders of tomorrow.
Thomas Jefferson (
$1.99 Kindle,
B&N,
Kobo), by Christopher Hitchens
Book Description
In this unique biography of Thomas Jefferson, leading journalist and social critic Christopher Hitchens offers a startlingly new and provocative interpretation of our Founding Father. Situating Jefferson within the context of America's evolution and tracing his legacy over the past two hundred years, Hitchens brings the character of Jefferson to life as a man of his time and also as a symbolic figure beyond it.
Conflicted by power, Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and acted as Minister to France yet yearned for a quieter career in the Virginia legislature. Predicting that slavery would shape the future of America's development, this professed proponent of emancipation elided the issue in the Declaration and continued to own human property. An eloquent writer, he was an awkward public speaker; a reluctant candidate, he left an indelible presidential legacy.
Jefferson's statesmanship enabled him to negotiate the Louisiana Purchase with France, doubling the size of the nation, and he authorized the Lewis and Clark expedition, opening up the American frontier for exploration and settlement. Hitchens also analyzes Jefferson's handling of the Barbary War, a lesser-known chapter of his political career, when his attempt to end the kidnapping and bribery of Americans by the Barbary states, and the subsequent war with Tripoli, led to the building of the U.S. navy and the fortification of America's reputation regarding national defense.
In the background of this sophisticated analysis is a large historical drama: the fledgling nation's struggle for independence, formed in the crucible of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, and, in its shadow, the deformation of that struggle in the excesses of the French Revolution. This artful portrait of a formative figure and a turbulent era poses a challenge to anyone interested in American history -- or in the ambiguities of human nature.
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (
$1.99 Kindle,
B&N,
Kobo), by Douglas Brinkley
Book Description
From New York Times bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley comes a sweeping historical narrative and eye-opening look at the pioneering environmental policies of President Theodore Roosevelt, avid bird-watcher, naturalist, and the founding father of America’s conservation movement—now approaching its 100th anniversary.
Historian Douglas Brinkley draws on never-before-published materials to examine the life and achievements of our "naturalist president." By setting aside more than 230 million acres of wild America for posterity between 1901 and 1909, Theodore Roosevelt made conservation a universal endeavor. This crusade for the American wilderness was perhaps the greatest U.S. presidential initiative between the Civil War and World War I. Tracing the role that nature played in Roosevelt's storied career, Brinkley brilliantly analyzes the influence that the works of John James Audubon and Charles Darwin had on the young man who would become our twenty-sixth president. He also profiles Roosevelt's incredible circle of naturalist friends, including the Catskills poet John Burroughs, Boone and Crockett Club cofounder George Bird Grinnell, and Sierra Club founder John Muir, among many others. He brings to life hilarious anecdotes of wild-pig hunting in Texas and badger saving in Kansas. Even the story of the teddy bear gets its definitive treatment. Destined to become a classic, this extraordinary and timeless biography offers a penetrating and colorful look at Roosevelt's naturalist achievements, a legacy now more important than ever. As we face the problems of global warming, overpopulation, and sustainable land management, this imposing leader's stout resolution to protect our environment is an inspiration and a contemporary call to arms for us all.
