Author: Juan-Carlos Cruz
Publisher: Gotham
ISBN: 9781592402588
Category : Food
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Food Network’s Calorie Commando shares his five-week weight-loss program, including 150 low-fat, healthy, and delicious recipes that follow his mantra to “keep the taste while you trim your waist.” As a pastry chef at Los Angeles’s glamorous Hotel Bel Air, Juan-Carlos Cruz created dazzling desserts. Surrounded by the best ingredients and the most tempting dishes, he began to gain weight, eventually topping 280 pounds. Finding little relief in fad diets, he developed his own weight-loss strategies and re-created many of his favorite dishes reducing both calories and fat content. Today, he’s a buff television star who reinvents recipes on the air, slashing wasted calories and making flavors sizzle. The Juan-Carlos Cruz Calorie Countdown Cookbookreveals the tricks of his trade, delivering a five-week plan to get menus on track and establish a weight-loss plan you can savor for life. After telling his own story of success and weight loss in the “Confessions of a Recovering Pastry Chef” chapter, Cruz eases readers into a gradual calorie-reduction plan. He provides five weeks of daily menus that incorporate his own recipes as well as popular commercial foods. By the end of five weeks, readers will have omitted five hundred calories from their daily intake. Tips, such as his “Chocolate-Chip Cookie Theory,” help readers identify how one deleted menu item can result in big annual calorie savings and sustained weight loss. Recipes spanning breakfast, snacks, appetizers, sandwiches, main dishes, and even desserts put the spotlight on Cruz’s world-class cuisine. Chicken parmesan, macaroni and cheese, tortilla casserole, calzones, and even chocolate cake and cheese fries prove that with the right ingredients there is room for indulgence in a healthy diet. Sixteen pages of tempting color photography complete this savory, surefire package.
The Juan-Carlos Cruz Calorie Countdown Cookbook
Author: Juan-Carlos Cruz
Publisher: Gotham
ISBN: 9781592402588
Category : Food
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Food Network’s Calorie Commando shares his five-week weight-loss program, including 150 low-fat, healthy, and delicious recipes that follow his mantra to “keep the taste while you trim your waist.” As a pastry chef at Los Angeles’s glamorous Hotel Bel Air, Juan-Carlos Cruz created dazzling desserts. Surrounded by the best ingredients and the most tempting dishes, he began to gain weight, eventually topping 280 pounds. Finding little relief in fad diets, he developed his own weight-loss strategies and re-created many of his favorite dishes reducing both calories and fat content. Today, he’s a buff television star who reinvents recipes on the air, slashing wasted calories and making flavors sizzle. The Juan-Carlos Cruz Calorie Countdown Cookbookreveals the tricks of his trade, delivering a five-week plan to get menus on track and establish a weight-loss plan you can savor for life. After telling his own story of success and weight loss in the “Confessions of a Recovering Pastry Chef” chapter, Cruz eases readers into a gradual calorie-reduction plan. He provides five weeks of daily menus that incorporate his own recipes as well as popular commercial foods. By the end of five weeks, readers will have omitted five hundred calories from their daily intake. Tips, such as his “Chocolate-Chip Cookie Theory,” help readers identify how one deleted menu item can result in big annual calorie savings and sustained weight loss. Recipes spanning breakfast, snacks, appetizers, sandwiches, main dishes, and even desserts put the spotlight on Cruz’s world-class cuisine. Chicken parmesan, macaroni and cheese, tortilla casserole, calzones, and even chocolate cake and cheese fries prove that with the right ingredients there is room for indulgence in a healthy diet. Sixteen pages of tempting color photography complete this savory, surefire package.
Publisher: Gotham
ISBN: 9781592402588
Category : Food
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Food Network’s Calorie Commando shares his five-week weight-loss program, including 150 low-fat, healthy, and delicious recipes that follow his mantra to “keep the taste while you trim your waist.” As a pastry chef at Los Angeles’s glamorous Hotel Bel Air, Juan-Carlos Cruz created dazzling desserts. Surrounded by the best ingredients and the most tempting dishes, he began to gain weight, eventually topping 280 pounds. Finding little relief in fad diets, he developed his own weight-loss strategies and re-created many of his favorite dishes reducing both calories and fat content. Today, he’s a buff television star who reinvents recipes on the air, slashing wasted calories and making flavors sizzle. The Juan-Carlos Cruz Calorie Countdown Cookbookreveals the tricks of his trade, delivering a five-week plan to get menus on track and establish a weight-loss plan you can savor for life. After telling his own story of success and weight loss in the “Confessions of a Recovering Pastry Chef” chapter, Cruz eases readers into a gradual calorie-reduction plan. He provides five weeks of daily menus that incorporate his own recipes as well as popular commercial foods. By the end of five weeks, readers will have omitted five hundred calories from their daily intake. Tips, such as his “Chocolate-Chip Cookie Theory,” help readers identify how one deleted menu item can result in big annual calorie savings and sustained weight loss. Recipes spanning breakfast, snacks, appetizers, sandwiches, main dishes, and even desserts put the spotlight on Cruz’s world-class cuisine. Chicken parmesan, macaroni and cheese, tortilla casserole, calzones, and even chocolate cake and cheese fries prove that with the right ingredients there is room for indulgence in a healthy diet. Sixteen pages of tempting color photography complete this savory, surefire package.
The Food Stylist's Handbook
Author: Denise Vivaldo
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510721185
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
Acclaimed food stylist Denise Vivaldo shares the tips and secrets of the trade with cooks and foodies alike who want to become master stylists. It takes a steady hand to arrange the chocolate curls and drizzle the caramel sauce in elaborate designs on top of that sumptuous tiered cake. Whether for food blogs, television, books, magazines, movies, menus, or advertising, food stylists and photographers learn to slice, plate, tweak, and arrange so the dish becomes less a bit of food and more the work of an artisan. With Denise and coauthor Cindie Flannigan’s help, you’ll find out how to get started, what equipment you’ll need, how to find clients, tips to staying successful in the business, and—most importantly—how to craft and style food (and products that appear to be food) so it all looks delicious from every angle. This paperback edition of The Food Stylist’s Handbook has been fully updated and revised to help current culinary professionals, armchair chefs, bloggers, and food photographers understand how to make every picture tell a story.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510721185
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
Acclaimed food stylist Denise Vivaldo shares the tips and secrets of the trade with cooks and foodies alike who want to become master stylists. It takes a steady hand to arrange the chocolate curls and drizzle the caramel sauce in elaborate designs on top of that sumptuous tiered cake. Whether for food blogs, television, books, magazines, movies, menus, or advertising, food stylists and photographers learn to slice, plate, tweak, and arrange so the dish becomes less a bit of food and more the work of an artisan. With Denise and coauthor Cindie Flannigan’s help, you’ll find out how to get started, what equipment you’ll need, how to find clients, tips to staying successful in the business, and—most importantly—how to craft and style food (and products that appear to be food) so it all looks delicious from every angle. This paperback edition of The Food Stylist’s Handbook has been fully updated and revised to help current culinary professionals, armchair chefs, bloggers, and food photographers understand how to make every picture tell a story.
Stick to the Plan
Author: Dr. Jon E. Bathke
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1682138364
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
What do you do when you start to lose all hope when facing your demons? Do you give in, or do you fight? This book is about confronting whatever demons you may have in your life and not only fighting them, but keeping them at bay—forever! My demon was weight control, and I was knocking on death’s doorstep when I decided that this behavior had to change—and change fast. I love life too much to just give in to my weaknesses. I needed to show the same courage that I used as a former public school superintendent when confronted with an educational challenge. But just confronting was not enough . . . I needed to act. And as a result of my research and experience, I am also able to help others by developing the “Bathke Matrix” to help you fight your own personal demons. This book is designed to help those of us that need some guidance, assistance, and positive reinforcement when the challenging times seem to overwhelm us. This book made a positive difference in my life. It will make a positive difference in yours.
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1682138364
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
What do you do when you start to lose all hope when facing your demons? Do you give in, or do you fight? This book is about confronting whatever demons you may have in your life and not only fighting them, but keeping them at bay—forever! My demon was weight control, and I was knocking on death’s doorstep when I decided that this behavior had to change—and change fast. I love life too much to just give in to my weaknesses. I needed to show the same courage that I used as a former public school superintendent when confronted with an educational challenge. But just confronting was not enough . . . I needed to act. And as a result of my research and experience, I am also able to help others by developing the “Bathke Matrix” to help you fight your own personal demons. This book is designed to help those of us that need some guidance, assistance, and positive reinforcement when the challenging times seem to overwhelm us. This book made a positive difference in my life. It will make a positive difference in yours.
Good Advice from Bad People
Author: Zac Bissonnette
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698141792
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The world is full of people telling you how to live your life. Sometimes the advice-givers fall ever-so-slightly short themselves. Bestselling author Zac Bissonnette has gathered more than seventy-five jaw-dropping gems, including risk-management advice from the man who triggered the world’s largest hedge fund collapse and tips from gay-prostitute-patronizing pastor Ted Haggard on how to build a marriage that lasts a lifetime. The result will keep you smiling while you glean all the wisdom you need to build the life you want . . . if only you can follow it better than the people who gave it. • “When you know what you are talking about, others will follow you, because it’s safe to follow you.” —Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld, 2006 • “I think the most important thing is restore a sense of idealism and end the cynicism.” —future Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, 2002 • “The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuse, that’s the day you start to the top.” —O.J. Simpson, 1975
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698141792
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The world is full of people telling you how to live your life. Sometimes the advice-givers fall ever-so-slightly short themselves. Bestselling author Zac Bissonnette has gathered more than seventy-five jaw-dropping gems, including risk-management advice from the man who triggered the world’s largest hedge fund collapse and tips from gay-prostitute-patronizing pastor Ted Haggard on how to build a marriage that lasts a lifetime. The result will keep you smiling while you glean all the wisdom you need to build the life you want . . . if only you can follow it better than the people who gave it. • “When you know what you are talking about, others will follow you, because it’s safe to follow you.” —Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld, 2006 • “I think the most important thing is restore a sense of idealism and end the cynicism.” —future Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, 2002 • “The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuse, that’s the day you start to the top.” —O.J. Simpson, 1975
Tu Ciudad Los Angeles
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hispanic Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hispanic Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Love Diet
Author: Juan-Carlos Cruz
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780977412037
Category : Aphrodisiac cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
With more than 50 food dishes and cocktails, this cookbook helps save money, improve energy, and boost all-around health with modern, mouth-watering recipes from natural ingredients scientifically proven to support sexual health. Dishes include sizzling lemongrass mussels, tomato and avocado picnic sandwiches, limoncello spritzer, feta and basil stuffed mushrooms, hot sausage stew, and chocolate mint seduction cookies. Unlike most diet books, which remake fattening foods with healthy versions that are never as good as the original, this guide instead creates unique recipes with flavors and techniques that are on the cutting edge of restaurant and cooking trends, and also offers comprehensive information on aphrodisiac ingredients.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780977412037
Category : Aphrodisiac cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
With more than 50 food dishes and cocktails, this cookbook helps save money, improve energy, and boost all-around health with modern, mouth-watering recipes from natural ingredients scientifically proven to support sexual health. Dishes include sizzling lemongrass mussels, tomato and avocado picnic sandwiches, limoncello spritzer, feta and basil stuffed mushrooms, hot sausage stew, and chocolate mint seduction cookies. Unlike most diet books, which remake fattening foods with healthy versions that are never as good as the original, this guide instead creates unique recipes with flavors and techniques that are on the cutting edge of restaurant and cooking trends, and also offers comprehensive information on aphrodisiac ingredients.
Food Stylist's Handbook
Author: Denise Vivaldo
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 1423614925
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Acclaimed food stylist Denise Vivaldo shares the tips and secrets of the trade with cooks who want to become master stylists. It takes a steady hand to arrange the chocolate curls and drizzle the caramel sauce in elaborate designs on top of that sumptuous tiered cake. Whether for food blogs, television, books, magazines, movies, menus, or advertising, food stylists and photographers learn to slice, plate, tweak, and arrange so the dish becomes less a bit a food and more the work of an artisan. Learn how to create ice cream that doesn't melt under the hot camera lights, build stacks of lighter-than-air pancakes, grill a thick steak to perfection with a charcoal starter and more.
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 1423614925
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Acclaimed food stylist Denise Vivaldo shares the tips and secrets of the trade with cooks who want to become master stylists. It takes a steady hand to arrange the chocolate curls and drizzle the caramel sauce in elaborate designs on top of that sumptuous tiered cake. Whether for food blogs, television, books, magazines, movies, menus, or advertising, food stylists and photographers learn to slice, plate, tweak, and arrange so the dish becomes less a bit a food and more the work of an artisan. Learn how to create ice cream that doesn't melt under the hot camera lights, build stacks of lighter-than-air pancakes, grill a thick steak to perfection with a charcoal starter and more.
The Art of French Pastry
Author: Jacquy Pfeiffer
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307959368
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Winner of the 2014 James Beard Award for Best Cookbook, Dessert & Baking What does it take to perfect a flawless éclair? A delicate yet buttery croissant? To pipe dozens of macarons? The answer is: an intimate knowledge of the fundamentals of pastry. In The Art of French Pastry award-winning pastry chef Jacquy Pfeiffer, cofounder of the renowned French Pastry School in Chicago, gives you just that. By teaching you how to make everything from pâte à choux to pastry cream, Pfeiffer builds on the basics until you have an understanding of the science behind the ingredients used, how they interact with one another, and what your hands have to do to transform them into pastry. This yields glorious results! Expect to master these techniques and then indulge in exquisite recipes, such as: · brioche · napoléons / Mille-Feuilles · cream puffs · Alsatian cinnamon rolls / chinois · lemon cream tart with meringue teardrops · elephant ears / palmiers · black forest cake · beignets as well as some traditional Alsatian savory treats, including: · Pretzels · Kougelhof · Tarte Flambée · Warm Alsatian Meat Pie Pastry is all about precision, so Pfeiffer presents us with an amazing wealth of information—lists of necessary equipment, charts on how ingredients react in different environments, and the precise weight of ingredients in grams, with a look at their equivalent in U.S. units—which will help you in all aspects of your cooking. But in order to properly enjoy your “just desserts,” so to speak; you will also learn where these delicacies originated. Jacquy Pfeiffer comes from a long line of pastry chefs and has been making these recipes since he was a child working in his father’s bakery in Alsace. Sprinkled with funny, charming memories from a lifetime in pastry, this book will have you fully appreciating the hundreds of years of tradition that shaped these recipes into the classics that we know and love, and can now serve to our friends and families over and over again. The Art of French Pastry, full of gorgeous photography and Pfeiffer’s accompanying illustrations, is a master class in pastry from a master teacher.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307959368
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Winner of the 2014 James Beard Award for Best Cookbook, Dessert & Baking What does it take to perfect a flawless éclair? A delicate yet buttery croissant? To pipe dozens of macarons? The answer is: an intimate knowledge of the fundamentals of pastry. In The Art of French Pastry award-winning pastry chef Jacquy Pfeiffer, cofounder of the renowned French Pastry School in Chicago, gives you just that. By teaching you how to make everything from pâte à choux to pastry cream, Pfeiffer builds on the basics until you have an understanding of the science behind the ingredients used, how they interact with one another, and what your hands have to do to transform them into pastry. This yields glorious results! Expect to master these techniques and then indulge in exquisite recipes, such as: · brioche · napoléons / Mille-Feuilles · cream puffs · Alsatian cinnamon rolls / chinois · lemon cream tart with meringue teardrops · elephant ears / palmiers · black forest cake · beignets as well as some traditional Alsatian savory treats, including: · Pretzels · Kougelhof · Tarte Flambée · Warm Alsatian Meat Pie Pastry is all about precision, so Pfeiffer presents us with an amazing wealth of information—lists of necessary equipment, charts on how ingredients react in different environments, and the precise weight of ingredients in grams, with a look at their equivalent in U.S. units—which will help you in all aspects of your cooking. But in order to properly enjoy your “just desserts,” so to speak; you will also learn where these delicacies originated. Jacquy Pfeiffer comes from a long line of pastry chefs and has been making these recipes since he was a child working in his father’s bakery in Alsace. Sprinkled with funny, charming memories from a lifetime in pastry, this book will have you fully appreciating the hundreds of years of tradition that shaped these recipes into the classics that we know and love, and can now serve to our friends and families over and over again. The Art of French Pastry, full of gorgeous photography and Pfeiffer’s accompanying illustrations, is a master class in pastry from a master teacher.
The Secrets of Baking
Author: Sherry Yard
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618138920
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Describes the process of creating sophisticated and delicious desserts, presenting a series of recipes for chocolate sauce, lemon curd, and pound cake, along with tips on transforming these basics into delectable treats.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618138920
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
Describes the process of creating sophisticated and delicious desserts, presenting a series of recipes for chocolate sauce, lemon curd, and pound cake, along with tips on transforming these basics into delectable treats.
Desserts by the Yard
Author: Sherry Yard
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618515226
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Spago's pastry chef's recipes for such desserts as cráeme brãulâee, chocolate caramel tart, oatmeal raisin cookies, and soufflâeed cráeme fraãiche pancakes with strawberry sauce are accompanied by handy baking techniques, tricks, and personal anecdotes.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618515226
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Spago's pastry chef's recipes for such desserts as cráeme brãulâee, chocolate caramel tart, oatmeal raisin cookies, and soufflâeed cráeme fraãiche pancakes with strawberry sauce are accompanied by handy baking techniques, tricks, and personal anecdotes.