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After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans thousands of people lost their keepsakes and family treasures forever. As residents started to rebuild their lives The Times-Picayune of New Orleans became a post-hurricane swapping place for old recipes that were washed away in the storm. The newspaper has compiled 250 of these delicious authentic recipes along with the stories about how they came to be and who created them. Cooking Up a Storm includes the very best of classic and contemporary New Orleans cuisine from seafood and meat to desserts and cocktails. But it also tells the story recipe by recipe of one of the great food cities in the world and the determination of its citizens to preserve and safeguard their culinary legacy.

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• More than 65 all-new recipes are age-appropriate, kid-tested and kid-tasted.
• Every recipe has a full-color fun illustration and recipe photo.
• Recipes use short ingredient lists and easy step-by-step instructions.
• Written and designed to appeal to 8- to 12-year-old children who are just beginning to cook on their own, as well as those who have some cooking experience.
• Cooking Basics chapter covers all the things kids need to know, such as kitchen safety, menu-planning, basic nutrition information, and how to read food labels.
• New illustrations and new features make this a must-have reference cookbook for kids and their parents to use together.
• Simply delicious recipes that kids will have fun preparing and the whole family will enjoy eating.
• Yummy recipes include: Farmhouse Breakfast Pizza, Sun-Up Sandwiches, Fast Fixin’ Fajitas, Mighty Melts, Ooey Gooey Fudge Sauce, Raining Berries Turnovers.
• Includes recipes for special celebrations and diabetic exchanges.

From Publishers Weekly

Zien, creator and host of the television show Sam the Cooking Guy, is very clear from the onset that he is not a chef; he also believes that certain things, like measuring ingredients (unless baking), are a “waste of time” and that 350 degrees is the “universal temperature” at which to cook everything. A self-proclaimed “regular guy,” Zien thinks that people have “been wrecked by cooking shows with their millions of complicated steps and crazy ass ingredients.” His recipes are for people who want to cook, but want to spend as little time and effort in the kitchen as possible. Two of his favorite ingredients, which show up frequently, are prebaked pizza crust (used in his pesto pizza recipe, which also calls for ready-made pesto) and “ready bacon,” which simply needs to be microwaved. Other dishes include a Tomato and Potato Chip Sandwich and Stir Fry Noodles made with Styrofoam cup instant ramen. Some dishes, though lacking originality, call for fresh ingredients and explain simple techniques, like the Adobo Chicken or Ginger Scallops. Foodies won’t be impressed, and even those with mild interest in putting together their own meals might want to be challenged a bit more. (Mar.)
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“‘I can’t cook,’ I hear that all the time. And it’s not that you can’t–it’s that you don’t. It’s that we’ve been wrecked by cooking shows with their millions of complicated steps and crazy-ass ingredients. Ingredients you can’t find, let alone pronounce. That’s not how I want to cook. I want to eat well, but I don’t want it to take a year. Who’s making stuff like ‘Truffled Peruvian Mountain Squab with Chilled Framboise Foam’ anyway?

“So this book is about food that’s big in taste and small in effort. Just great-tasting stuff with no fancy techniques and definitely no over-the-top ingredients, as in everything-comes-from-a-regular-supermarket–cool concept, huh? It’s just a bunch of recipes you’ll easily be able to make and enjoy.”
–From Sam the Cooking Guy

Look inside for great recipes like these:
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Cinnamon Pull-Apart
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French Toast Mountain
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One Dank Tomato Pie
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“Whatever” Spring Rolls
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Five-Minute Stir-Fry Noodles
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O.F.R.B.P.J.G.O.
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Awww Nuts!
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BBQ Chicken Pizza
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Halloween Chicken Chili
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Fridge Fried Rice
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Sam’s Sticky Sweet BBQ Ribs
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Stuffed Burgers
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Pesto BBQ Shrimp
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Chili Salmon
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Motor Home Meatballs
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Spicy-ish Sausage Pasta
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The Great Potato Cake
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Brussels Sprouts You’ll Actually Eat
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(Fake) Creme Brulee
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Chocolate Toffee Matzoh
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Peanut Butter Ice-Cream Cup Things

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From Publishers Weekly

Food Network darling Ray wants home cooks to become more “instinctual,” and this assortment of quick meals is expansive enough to encourage even novices to wing it. The author hopes readers cook their way through the entire book; to that end, she organizes the recipes not by course or main ingredient (though there are indexes), but by number. The organization takes some getting used to. Helpful but occasionally jarring “tidbits” pop up everywhere, and many “recipes” make more than one dish, so cooking just one requires a fair amount of reading. For example, number 16 encompasses “Oregon-Style Pork Chops with Pinot Noir and Cranberries; Oregon Hash with Wild Mushrooms, Greens, Beets, Hazelnuts, and Blue Cheese; [and] Charred Whole-Grain Bread with Butter and Chives.” Readers making just the hash must read around the instructions for the other two dishes. Still, the recipes are great. They vary in technique and ethnicity, and many give instructions on expanding the dish (after making Spicy Shrimp and Penne with Puttanesca Sauce, for example, “now try” omitting the olives and capers, swapping linguine for the penne, reducing the number of shrimp, and adding lump crab meat and mussels to make Frutti di Mare and Linguine). As Ray would say, “Yummo.” (Nov.)
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Even your favorite dinner can lose its appeal when it’s in constant rotation, so mix it up! With her largest collection of recipes yet, Food Network’s indefatigable cook Rachael Ray guarantees you’ll be able to put something fresh and exciting on your dinner table every night for a full year… without a single repeat!

Based on the original 30-Minute Meal cooking classes that started it all, these recipes prove that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel every night. Rachael offers dozens of recipes that, once mastered, can become entirely new dishes with just a few ingredient swaps. Learn how to make a Southwestern Pasta Bake and you’ll be able to make a Smoky Chipotle Chili Con Queso Mac the next time. Try your hand at Spring Chicken with Leeks and Peas and you’re all set to turn out a rib-sticking Rice and Chicken Stoup that looks and tastes like an entirely different dish.

As a best-selling cookbook author and host of three top-rated Food Network shows, Rachael Ray believes that both cooking and eating should be fun. Drawing from her own favorite dishes as well as those of her family, friends, and celebrities, she covers the flavor spectrum from Asian to Italian and dozens of delicious stops in between. Best of all, these flavor-packed dishes will satisfy your every craving and renew your taste for cooking. With so many delicious entrees to choose from you’ll never have an excuse for being in a cooking rut again.

How about a brand-new 30-minute dinner every night for an entire year?

Tired of making the same old same old, week after week after week?

With Rachael’s most varied and comprehensive collection of 30-minute recipes ever, you’ll have everyone at your table saying “Yummo!” all year long.

It’s amazing what a half hour can do for your tastebuds … 365 days a year!

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