Mary Bell

Evie Righter

Far from being a fad, food dyhydrating is one of the most ancient, effective, and nutritous ways of preserving food. Now, at last, there is a book that teaches absolutely everything there is to know about using an electric food dyhydrator to dry foods at home -- and gives more than 100 foolproof recipes for scrumptious snacks and meals made from dried foods. With this extraordinary book, you can learn how to cross junk food and expensive store-bought snacks off your family's shopping list -- and add to your cupboard homemade, preservative-free fruit leathers, candied apricots, beef (and fish) jerkies, "sun" dried tomotoes, corn chips, banana chips, and so much more! Mary Bell gives specific techniques and instructions for preparing every kind of fruit (from apples to watermelon) and vegetable (from asparagus to zucchini). She also provides important shopping tips for buying an electric food dehydrator. The recipes for cooked meals (including mushroom soup, sloppy joes, pesto, and moist banana bread) will make this book a kitchen classic. And recipes for lightweight, filling trail snacks mean that the book will travel, too. Additional chapters explain to how make herb seasonings, granolas, celery powder, cosmetics, dried fruit sugars, potpourri -- and even pet treats! Food drying is an excellent way for gardeners to preserve their produce. It is a great way to make healthful snacks for the kids. It's perfect for the new wave of thrifty consumers who can't bear to spend dollars at health food stores for treats they cold make for pennies themselves. And food drying doesn't use chemicals or preservatives—so it's great for you and for the planet, too!

Mary Bell's Comp Dehydrator Cookbook

minutemeals has it down to a system, an easy way to enjoy a complete dinner, including dessert, in only 20 minutes! The menugameplan organizes the meal effortlessly; just follow the simple step-by-step plan and create a gourmet meal. Each menu also has a handy at-a-glance shopping list for a quick in-and-out at the store. There is a list of ingredients from your pantry-things you most likely have on hand-no shopping needed. luckyforyou and headsup tips round out the menu with helpful advice to make the recipes even easier. When you follow the minutemeals system, you're never too busy to cook a real dinner! You'll also enjoy: 150 tempting gourmet menus-complete with dessert most-requested menus from www.minutemeals.com an entire chapter of health-conscious menus complete nutrition information Plus, quick-cooking tips from Jacques PÉpin, Graham Kerr, and Nick Malgieri.

Evie Righter

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