Fresh Made Simple

Each of the 75 recipes in Fresh Made Simple is a charming full-page illustration showing, rather than telling, how to make the dish described. Each meal or snack begins with one delicious ingredient, and the cook builds around that to make a simple yet elegant creation. An avocado, seasoned with lime and salt, elevates a fried egg on toast; fresh-picked blueberries and an ear of corn add sweetness and texture to standard pancakes. From pineapple cilantro salsa and asparagus apple salad to a kale egg scramble, tortilla soup, and crostini, these simple recipes celebrate the unbeatable flavors of fresh ingredients.

Home Made Simple is the essential home reference for simplifying, beautifying, organizing, and inspiring your life. In these pages you'll find tips, projects, and recipes that will help you create the home you'll love to live in. Streamline your routine. Dazzle your guests. Indulge your culinary spirit. Celebrate your outside spaces. And adorn your home in ways that are uniquely yours. Home Made Simple is about making life enjoyable while keeping it simple. Look inside and discover: * Organized Life * Easy-to-achieve home-management ideas, including how to make the most of your space * Celebrate Living * Great new ways to entertain in your home, including heartwarming gift ideas * Clever Kitchen * Simple recipe favorites and helpful tips for kitchen storage and cleaning * Outside Pleasures * Unique outdoor projects for the family, plus advice for the garden, porch, and patio * Easy Décor * Stylish and realistic decorating ideas, plus dozens of DIY home improvements

Get out of your recipe rut with Real Simple's A-to-Z guide to 350 easy and delicious home cooking ideas featuring 35 of your favorite ingredients.

Organized from avocados to zucchini, Dinner Made Simple is filled with smart, quick recipes-many taking 30 minutes or less to make-that will show home cooks how 35 readily available ingredients can be spun into 350 meals fit for any day of the week. Why rely on the same spaghetti and marinara when you can discover new ways to upgrade a box of pasta with savory bacon and escarole or transform it onto a spicy kimchi noodle soup? Take a versatile ingredient like ground turkey and elevate it with surprising and mouthwatering new combo ideas or try zucchini on pizza, in gazpacho, or a sandwich.

With 10 new ideas for every ingredient, a photo for every recipe, and a wealth of simple cooking tips throughout, Dinner Made Simple will inspire readers to get creative in the kitchen and answer that nightly "What should I make for dinner?" question. Plus, helpful sections on buying and storing ingredients, desserts, measurements, and a complete nutritional index make this cookbook an incredible value and indispensable kitchen resource.

Make Pasta That’s Absolutely Magnifico! Discover the joy of creating your own pasta with Homemade Pasta Made Simple. This comprehensive pasta cookbook shows you how easy it is to make delicious pasta and sauce—all completely from scratch. Teaching everything from mixing dough to drying pasta, here’s a pasta cookbook for beginners and experts alike. Want to make farfalle with bolognese? Ravioli with sun-dried tomato sauce? Gnocchi with pumpkin and sausage sauce? Open this pasta cookbook for dozens of simple pasta and sauce recipes that you can mix and match to make your perfect pasta night. Homemade Pasta Made Simple includes: A COMPLETE BEGINNER’S GUIDE—Go from noodle novice to pasta pro with this pasta cookbook’s 3 foolproof dough recipes, essential preparation techniques, and a tool selection guide. 65 TASTY PASTAS—Farfalle, tagliatelle, busiati, ravioli, gnocchi…this pasta cookbook teaches you to make, shape, stuff, and cook all kinds of pasta. EASY SAUCES—Savor 30 scrumptious homemade sauce recipes—topped off with ideal pasta serving suggestions. Never settle for premade pasta again with Homemade Pasta Made Simple: A Pasta Cookbook with Easy Recipes & Lessons to Make Fresh Pasta Any Night.

The sous vide, the affordable and revolutionary cooking device now available everywhere, cooks any food for every meal to perfection. In this simple and easier-to-use edition of The Sous Vide Kitchen, join Anova sous vide recipe developer, Christina Wylie, and take your skills to the next level! If you own a sous vide machine, chances are you’ve tried it out by cooking burgers, steak, and pork. But that’s just the beginning. For years, restaurants have used sous vide to perfectly cook a wide variety of foods, including eggs, vegetables, and more. Now you can do the same in your home kitchen! Use sous vide to make the perfect breakfast of soft boiled eggs, then go further and learn how to use it to make scrambled eggs, overnight oatmeal, and other breakfast staples. For lunch, try topping your salad with perfectly cooked sous vide tuna or salmon (the secret is a short brine). For dinner, the options are endless. Choose from Asian dishes like Char Siu Pork Loin and Miso-Marinated Cod, reinvent a favorite with the Deconstructed Beef Wellington or Spicy Southern-Fried Chicken, or enjoy a surprisingly simple 48-Hour Beef Brisket. Finish the meal with a sous vide twist on cheesecake or a nightcap of homemade spiced rum (speed-infused using sous vide, of course). With recommended times and temperatures for every recipe, unique combinations of sous vide with other cooking techniques, and more than 70 recipes to explore, this book will help you get the most out of sous vide.

If you love having friends and family round for dinner or simply rustling up fresh, fast food, Mexican cooking is fun, fantastic and full of flavour. One of its brightest stars, Wahaca chef and food writer Thomasina Miers shares the recipes she has gathered since she first fell in love with the country aged 18, reinventing the classics with accessible ingredients to demonstrate how exciting and delicious traditional Mexican food can be. Whether you're looking for street snacks full of punch, rich, hearty stews, or sensational, spicy wraps, Thomasina's Mexican Food Made Simple is bursting with recipes you'll want to eat and share: soft corn tacos and tostados; little cheesy things (Quesadillas); a great Mexican chille con carne; Grilled Seabass or succulent Lamb Chops with homemade salsas and tortilla chips; and to finish churros with chocolate sauce. The book features vibrant food photography throughout, and step-by-step guides to folding the perfect burrito, eating a taco (no knives and forks allowed), making a sizzling table salsa, and much more. And with Thomasina's guide to the world's hottest Chillis, ingenious cheats, and helpful menu planner, Mexican Food Made Simple has everything you need to put together a fantastic Mexican feast at home.

Each of the 75 recipes in Fresh Made Simple is a charming full-page illustration showing, rather than telling, how to make the dish described. Each meal or snack begins with one delicious ingredient, and the cook builds around that to make a simple yet elegant creation. An avocado, seasoned with lime and salt, elevates a fried egg on toast; fresh-picked blueberries and a leftover ear of corn add sweetness and texture to standard pancakes. From pineapple cilantro salsa and asparagus apple salad to a kale egg scramble, tortilla soup, and crostini, these simple recipes celebrate the unbeatable flavors of fresh ingredients.

Maria Rodale was raised on real food. She doesn’t think of eating homemade, from-scratch meals as part of a trend or movement; it has always been her life. Raised in a family of farmers, bakers, chefs, gardeners, and publishers, Maria is used to growing, cooking, reading and writing about, and eating organic, delicious food. And now, for the first time ever, she’s sharing her tried-and-true family recipes. Scratch is full of comfort food recipes that aren’t focused on any one healthy trend, but are instead innately healthy, because Maria inspires you to return to your kitchen and cook with real, organic food. Recipes like Pasta Fagiole, Maria’s Fried Chicken, and Lamb & Barley Soup will be crowd pleasers for sure, but Maria throws in some unique-to-the-family recipes that are going to delight as well, such as her Pennsylvania Dutch Dandelion Salad with Bacon Dressing, Ardie’s Pasties, and Homemade Hoppin’ John (a black-eyed pea stew made with smoked turkey or ham). Besides sharing her family’s favorite recipes, Maria’s book also gives you a peek into her life as a Rodale, with personal family portraits and stories. With this cookbook, you can eat like the Rodale family every night of the week with delicious food to make at home, from scratch. Naturally healthy, bacon included.