Take legumes to a whole new level with recipes for Crispy Green Bean Fries, Lucky Black-Eyed Peas, Ultimate Nachos, and more! 101 Things to Do with Beans includes recipes for a dozen varieties of beans, including green beans, great Northern, pinto, black, navy and cannellini. Beans are a dietary wonder, packed with protein and fiber, yet low in fat and calories—and a powerhouse when it comes to iron and other nutrients. And with these recipes, they’re also delicious. Enjoy tasty dips and appetizers, soul-soothing soups and stews, hearty dinners and sides, and much more in this new collection of easy-to-make recipes―all created from delicious, nourishing beans. Includes: · Asian Soybean Hummus • Lentil, Sausage, and Kale Soup • Grandma's Ham and Beans • Easy Summer Succotash and more!

Bring home the bacon! Everybody loves bacon, and these delicious recipes feature it in much more than just breakfast dishes. You'll find new twists on old favorites as well as inventive new recipes for salads, soups, sandwiches, appetizers, entrees, and even desserts! Try Asparagus, Bacon, and Caramelized Onion Pizza; New England Clam Chowder; Bacon, Egg, and Colby Cheese Quesadillas; Bowtie Pasta with Broccoli and Bacon; Crispy Fried Rice; and Savory Bacon Smokies. Bacon and bacon recipes are appearing in the news, cited as a food trend, featured on the Food Network, and most recently as an element in desserts.

From creamy varities to tomato, find 101 new uses for the most popular staple i your cupboard. Easy favourites are simplified with canned soup shortcuts: Clasic Tuna Casserole, World's Best-Baked Beans, Chili Verde Enchiladas, Upside Dwn Pizza Casserole, Potato Chive Biscuits, Chocolate Zucchini Cake, and more!

“Everything you need to know about the delicious new world of beans in this pioneering [recipe] book . . .A keeper.” —Paula Wolfert, James Beard and Julia Child Award–winning cookbook author Who would have thought a simple bean could do so much? Heirloom bean expert Steve Sando provides descriptions of the many varieties now available, from Scarlet Runners to the spotted Eye of the Tiger beans. Nearly ninety recipes in the book will entice readers to cook up bowls of heartwarming Risotto and Cranberry Beans with Pancetta, or Caribbean Black Bean Soup. Close-up photos of the beans make them easy to identify. Packed with protein, fiber, and vitamins, these little treasures are the perfect addition to any meal. “Heirloom Beans is no less than a promise of good things to come from this humble but rather magical food.” —Deborah Madison, James Beard and Julia Child Award–winning cookbook author of Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone “Heirloom Beans is the ultimate kiss and tell all of legendary legumes. A delicious recipe and savory story for every heirloom bean.” —Annie Somerville, cookbook author and chef, Greens Restaurant “We give Rancho Gordo beans a place of honor at our restaurants.” —Thomas Keller, James Beard award-winning chef, cookbook author and restaurateur, French Laundry

More than 2 million copies sold in our popular "101" series. Often referred to as the "Forbidden Fruit," they can be eaten raw, cooked, dried, juiced, sauced, baked, jammed, or stuffed. With recipes like Pecan-Apple Muffins, Roasted Apple-Vegetable Medley, Rustic Apple Tart, Toasted Chicken-Apple Sandwiches and Apple Almond Cheesecake, there are 101 sweet and savory solutions for dinner and dessert. Madge Baird is a seasoned cookbook editor and the author of 101 Things to Do With Rotisserie Chicken as well as an avid gardener, and is known in her neighborhood as a creative good cook. She lives in Clinton, Utah.

101 Things to Do With a Smoker, the newest title in the 101 Things series, presents 101 easy and creative recipes, along with helpful hints and smoking tips, designed for the novice user of multiple kinds of smokers. This cookbook is sporting the newly updated look for the 101 series, and is a concealed spiral-bound flexi paperback. Where there’s smoke, there’s flavor! Explore great techniques and tasty new recipes with the breakfasts, appetizers, sandwiches, sides, main courses, and sweets in 101 Things to Do With a Smoker. This cookbook also includes helpful hints for smoking foods to perfection, plus recipes to make your own brines, rubs, and sauces. Discover dozens of exciting ways to enjoy incredible smoky flavors with tasty recipes such as Bourbon Maple-Glazed Cinnamon Rolls, Smoked Cheesy Garlic Bread, Brown Sugar–Smoked Salmon, Jamaican Jerk Spicy Chicken Sandwiches, Smoked Corn-on-the-Cob With Chive Butter, and Smoky Peanut Butter Cup S’Mores.

Expand your ramen repertoire with an amazingly inventive and unique addition to the million-copy-selling ''101'' series-101 Things to do with Ramen Noodles.