Setting a healthy sustainable table: tips and recipes to eat healthier and help our planet along the way. Eat vegetarian a few times a week, support local agriculture, and find food in your own garden, and use fresh and healthy seasonal ingredients with Southwest flavors. Includes over 100 recipes, such as Banana Buckwheat Pancakes, Halibut with Grapefruit Sauce, Tortilla Soup, Chipotle Enchiladas, and Chocolate Lava Cake.

Southwest the Beautiful Cookbook explores a cuisine as diverse as the terrain and the people who settled there. The region's culinary originality derives from a historic union of native American, European and Mexican cultures, each contributing its own distinctive cooking traditions to produce what we know today as Southwestern fare. This cuisine is sumptuously presented in Southwest the Beautiful Cookbook with more than 200 recipes illustrated with stunning full-color photography. Noted Pheonix-based cooking teacher and food writer Barbara Pool Fenzl has gathered recipes that combine innovative techniques and dynamic food combinations with historic methods and ethnic contibutions to produce dishes as vibrant and exciting as the Southwest itself; shellfish tamales with ancho cream, quail salad with pumpkin seeds, sopiapillas and jalapeño chutney and so much more. Complementing the recipe chapters are informative essays by noted author and Southwest enthusiast Norman Kolpas, along with glorious photography that bring this wonderful region to life on the printed page. The people, geography, and history of the area are skillfully portrayed in scenic photography and richly anecdotal text. Home to such awe-inspiring natural wonders as the Grand Canyon, Arches National Park, Mesa Verde and the Sonoran Desert, this region is a land of austere beauty, rich culture and a uniquecuisine that is very much alive in this gorgeous addition to the Beautiful Cookbook® series.

In her first cookbook, chef and restaurateur Donna Nordin brings together 85 recipes for the food that has earned her national acclaim and repeatedly landed Cafe Terra Cotta on lists of America's best restaurants. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

A food bonanza--fantastic Southwestern flavors plus good nutrition. The Healthy Southwest Table features more than 100 recipes bursting with taste as well as nutrition. From zippy corn chowder to green chiles stuffed with tuna salad, these savory dishes are low in sugar, salt, and fat and high in beneficial ingredients such as soy, whole grains, and colorful fruits and vegetables. A healthy diet will strengthen your heart, bones, and immune system and reduce the risk of disease. But it can also delight your palate. Set an irresistibly delicious Southwest table with Janet Taylor's quick and tasty Vegetable Stir Fry, followed by Salmon with Sunset Sauce and delectable low-fat Berry-Peach Crumble. 40 color photos.

In a true masterpiece that pays homage to her Southwest home, chef and author Barbara Pool Fenzl presents more than 150 original recipes that burst with the colors, textures, and flavors of the region--plus complete seasonal menus.

A guide to preparing and serving the savory and spicy traditional dishes of New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Mexico includes recipes for sour cream shrimp, cornmeal pancakes, pumpkin ravioli, and favorite variations of bean and barbeque meals.