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The Complete Book of Smoothies: 115 Healthy Recipes to Nourish, Heal, and Energize

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Your complete guide to making simple, healthy smoothies

When you need a nutritious breakfast on the go or a midday snack, it doesn’t get any easier than a smoothie. This complete guide to creating smoothies offers more than 100 recipes packed with fresh flavors and nourishing ingredients. With helpful tips and tricks for making the most of your blends and nutritional information included with every recipe, you can add a nourishing routine into your daily life.

The Complete Book of Smoothies includes:

115 creative recipes—Sip on health-boosting blends, protein powerhouses, antioxidant-rich recipes, classic green smoothies, kid-friendly beverages, and drinkable desserts.

Prep and setup—Discover which smoothie staples to keep on hand, how to store ingredients to extend their shelf life, and how to swap for dietary needs or personal preference.

Smoothie anatomy—Learn how to build your smoothie from the base up, including pre-blending and layering ingredients for the perfect creamy texture.

Enjoy a fast, easy, and refreshing drink anytime with The Complete Book of Smoothies.

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Pizza Sandwiches

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A pizza sandwich is just a shortcut name for a hand-held dinner or snack that brings the flavors of Italy to your table in a new way. Favorite ingredients can start with an herbed tomato sauce, spicy pepperoni, and melty cheese—all folded into our crisp thin crust pizza dough. But the filling options are endless, and the process is easy. You define what sandwich adventure your family will love!

This clever sandwich is the best of several favorite recipes, folded into one easy-to make dish that requires very minimal effort. It has the punchy flavor of pepperoni pizza, the simplicity and portability of a sandwich, in the style of a stuffed calzone. Who could resist something so delicious? It’s bound to be a frequently requested recipe in your house.

Pizza sandwiches are simple enough to count on for a quick weeknight meal on your busiest night—or for young chefs to prepare as an after-school snack. If you like, serve them with additional pizza sauce or Ranch dressing, to dunk them in, for a fun and flavorful twist. It’s just that easy.

How to Make a Pizza Sandwich

In minutes, with just a handful of ingredients, you can make pizza sandwiches for supper, after-school treats, or wrapped up for a picnic. Details are in the recipe, but just follow these easy steps.

Press Out the Dough

Unroll the pizza dough, then press it into a 12×10-inch rectangle. Cut the dough into 4 pieces.

Add the Fillings

Spread each piece of dough with pizza sauce; arrange pepperoni on half of the dough, and sprinkle with cheese and oregano.

Fold Over

Fold the dough up and over the filling. No need to seal. Sprinkle with Parmesan.

Bake Until Golden Brown

A hot oven ensures the dough will crisp up and become golden brown, with gooey cheese!

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Outdoor Eats (Betty Crocker Cooking)

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Take the party outside with Betty Crocker!

Great get-togethers always start with good food. Now Betty Crocker gives you over twenty recipes to get the good times rolling—tasty appetizers, mini sandwiches, refreshing summer drinks, side dishes, salads, grilled food and delicious frozen treats. Whether you’re feeding your family or entertaining the entire block, these festive recipes are sure to please everyone.

For more great ideas visit bettycrocker.com

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic cooking
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2016
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The Caribbean chicken kabobs is fantastic and the summer herb steaks are out of this world. Thank you and enjoy your meal and enjoy your day.
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The Pescatarian Cookbook for Beginners: 75 Recipes to Kick-Start Your Healthy Lifestyle

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Say hello to fresh, flavorful, and healthy pescatarian cuisine—a beginner’s guide

Make sure you’re starting your journey as a pescatarian off right. Filled with essential starter advice and plenty of delicious fish- and plant-based recipes, The Pescatarian Cookbook for Beginners will help you get the most of your new diet—and love every bite of it.

Designed for new pescatarians, this pescatarian cookbook provides a comprehensive overview of the diet—including the health benefits for your brain, heart, and more. Not only will you find answers to all your questions and plenty of practical cooking advice, but you’ll also get dozens of flavorful and healthy dishes that are perfect for chefs of all levels and sure to satisfy your cravings at every meal.

The Pescatarian Cookbook for Beginners includes:

  • 75 Tasty recipes—From Spiced Sweet Potato Hash with Cilantro-Lime Cream to a Seattle Salmon Dinner, this pescatarian cookbook shows you just how great-tasting and versatile pescatarianism can be.
  • For beginners—Whether you’re just getting started as a pescatarian or this is your first time thinking seriously about cooking, discover tons of helpful guides, FAQs, and more that make it easy inside this pescatarian cookbook.
  • Kitchen stocking—Make sure you’re ready to cook whatever you need with advice for selecting fish, veggies, spices, tools, and more.

Switching to a fish- and plant-based diet has never been easier than with The Pescatarian Cookbook for Beginners.

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Chasing the Gator: Isaac Toups and the New Cajun Cooking

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A badass modern Cajun cookbook from Top Chef fan favorite Isaac Toups and acclaimed journalist Jennifer V. Cole, featuring 100 full-flavor stories and recipes.

Things get a little salty down in the bayou…

Cajun country is the last bastion of true American regional cooking, and no one knows it better than Isaac Toups. Now the chef of the acclaimed Toups’ Meatery and Toups South in New Orleans, he grew up deep in the Atchafalaya Basin of Louisiana, where his ancestors settled 300 years ago. There, hunting and fishing trips provide the ingredients for communal gatherings, and these shrimp and crawfish boils, whole-hog boucheries, fish frys, and backyard cookouts — form the backbone of this book.

Taking readers from the backcountry to the bayou, Toups shows how to make:

A damn fine gumbo, boudin, dirty rice, crabcakes, and cochon de lait His signature double-cut pork chop and the Toups Burger And more authentic Cajun specialties like Hopper Stew and Louisiana Ditch Chicken.

Along the way, he tells you how to engineer an on-the-fly barbecue pit, stir up a dark roux in only 15 minutes, and apply Cajun ingenuity to just about everything.

Full of salty stories, a few tall tales, and more than 100 recipes that double down on flavor, Chasing the Gator shows how — and what it means — to cook Cajun food today.

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