Canadian Living The Affordable Feasts Collection

I've said before that I love Canadian Living cookbooks...the beautiful photos that have me drooling, and the easy to prepare recipes that always come out as they should, thanks to the work of everyone at their test kitchen. Affordable Feasts Collection has those in spades with an added twist that we can all use since everything seems to cost twice as much these days without the paychecks to match.

Canadian Living The Appetizer Collection

It's no secret to those who know me, that my favorite food group is "the appetizer".  What?  You don't think that's a food group?  Let me ask you this...

Curtis Stone What's For Dinner?

Who could not love Curtis Stone? That lovely Aussie accent, his easy cooking style, not to mention his energy and ... well he is easy to look at too.  That said, lots of celebrity chefs are cute and fun to watch on TV.  Not always do their recipes translate well to paper.

Cooking Season By Season

This isn't the first DK Publishing Compilation book in my bookcase.  I've even written about some of them. There's The Illustrated Kitchen Bible, and The Illustrated Quick Cook .  Not to mention The Everyday Series (Chicken, being a particular fave here), but you can wander through my library for all the others. The latest to hit my counter is Cooking Season by Season and, like the others, it's not only lovely, it's informative.

The Vegetarian's Complete Quinoa Cookbook

Many of you already know and love Mairlyn Smith.  If you don't, you can find out all about her  HERE.  I was lucky enough to get a review copy of her first cookbook Healthy Starts Here: , and which I wrote about and still love to death...um... make that to good health.

Naturally when I heard that she had a new cookbook out... in this one she edits an awesome collection of quinoa recipes from the Ontario Home Economics Association.   Now hold on...

David Rocco's Made in Italy

I'm a sucker for Italian Food, so how could I say no when asked to review David Rocco's latest cookbook Made in Italy .  I love watching him on TV.  He has such an easy way about him... and his cooking style - cucina povera or Peasant Style cooking.

Just about every page is earmarked and last night I tried his own favorite meatball dish and now they're my favorite too!

The writing style and stunning photos are enough to have you feel like you're just having a friendly chat in his kitchen and that he's sharing generations of Italian mamas' secrets with you.   I can't wait to try to make some of my own pasta - there are several options, all with photos, but in the meantime, I bought some boneless chicken breasts and can't decide to start with the Pollo al Limone (Chicken with Lemon) or Pollo con Rosmarino e Peperoncino (chicken with crispy rosemary & chili).

Everything is wonderful and I highly recommend this book.  It will be used often in my kitchen.

Chef Laurent Gras - My Provence (eBook)

I was sent an email asking if I would like to review Chef Laurent Gras' new eCookbook Laurent Gras - My Provence. and of course I said yes.  I mean who would say no to recipes from Provence. And let me say that if this were a paper book, I'd have just about ever page bookmarked! But I had my reservations.