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30 Minute Ketogenic Cooking
by Kyndra HolleyKyndra Holley knows that one of the biggest challenges people face when transitioning to and sticking with a whole foods–based ketogenic lifestyle is carving out time to cook day after day—especially on busy weeknights when life is pulling you in a million directions. Preparing healthy low-carb meals from scratch, without relying on prepackaged convenience foods, can leave you feeling like you spent hours in the kitchen, all for a meal that&’s just a memory within a few minutes&’ time. Being no stranger to the familiar time crunches of modern life, Kyndra tackles the issue head-on in her new cookbook, 30-Minute Ketogenic Cooking. The book features more than 50 of her quickest, most mouthwatering recipes, each of which requires no more than 30 minutes of hands-on cooking time. You&’ll be enjoying tasty keto meals in almost no time flat! This book is a game-changer for busy families, overworked singles, and anyone else wishing to adopt and maintain a ketogenic lifestyle without letting food prep, cooking, and cleanup rule their lives. Kyndra has included her favorite fast and flavorful breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and snacks. As in her previous books, every recipe uses only easy-to-source, real-food ingredients and reflects her instantly recognizable flair. In 30-Minute Ketogenic Cooking, she lets you in on her best timesaving tips and tricks so that in half an hour or less, you can have a delicious and nutritious low-carb meal on your plate.
30 Minutes to Mealtime
by Lund Joanna M.Now cooks on the go can prepare tasty, convenient meals at home in thirty minutes or less. Between work, raising children, or seeking that mythical "me time," the home cook can get overwhelmed, putting preparation of healthy, tasty family fare on the back burner. This cookbook makes it faster and cheaperto prepare a complete, quick meal at home than to wait for take-out. Here are 50 complete menus comprised of 200 recipes, each of which can be prepared from start to finish in half an hour or less. Also included are JoAnna's Ten Commandments of Successful Cooking, advice on how to read a recipe, and complete nutritional information for every dish.
30 Quick Tips for Better Health: An Easy-to-Do Guide to Wellness
by Don VerHulstDiscover how easy great health can be!30 Quick Tips for Better Health motivates you with timeless health principles from the Bible that are easy to put into practice. By focusing on the positive and sharing simple, straightforward advice, Dr. Don gives you the tools you need to look and feel your best, including:· The key to relaxing and eliminating stress· The diet designed by God specifically for you· The importance of a peaceful night&’s sleep· Tips for making exercise a regular and enjoyable part of your dayThese thirty, practical steps will help you build new habits throughout the month or simply now and then, whenever you have the time or need a simple health solution.Today is a new day! Take one step towards better health by reading just one of these thirty quick tips. You will find yourself on the path to a happier, healthier tomorrow.
30 Real Signs from the Afterlife: Recognizing and Understanding Messages from Lost Loved Ones
by Melissa St. HilaireDiscover signals from the spirit world and connect with those you've lostSigns of the spirit world are all around us— which means contacting loved ones and pets who have passed on is possible. This guide shows you how to communicate with the afterlife by noticing and decoding the signs and messages it sends. Author Melissa St. Hilaire explains the essential steps to sensing and understanding spirit energy, setting good intentions before contacting spirits, making a connection, and maintaining that connection for as long as you want.Know the signs — Be ready when the spirits reach out by exploring 30 different ways they make contact, including paranormal activity, a sudden animal appearance, or targeting your senses.Commune and connect — Learn how to keep communication open with meditation, séances, mementos, and more. Then, learn to strengthen those connections through conduits like candles or crystal balls.The meaning in the message — From phantom flavors to psychic visions and temperature changes, learn how to interpret each sign and understand the guidance it is offering you.Record what you receive — Keep track of your messages from your loved ones with fill-in pages that offer space to describe the details of every sign you encounter and what it meant to you.Open yourself up to the spirits that surround you with help from the 30 Real Signs From the Afterlife.
30 Recetas Saludables y Locamente Buenas para hacer Smoothies
by Jeff Ramsey¿Está usted buscando tomar el control de su salud? ¿Desea superar una enfermedad? ¿Necesita desesperadamente bajar de peso? ¿Desea desintoxicarse y poder deshacerse de todas las toxinas nocivas que pueden estar dañando su cuerpo? ¿Está dispuesto a reemplazar su comida regular al menos una vez al día con una comida cargada de nutrientes? Si al menos una de sus respuestas a las preguntas arriba mencionadas fue “sí”, entonces un batido smoothie rico en nutrientes es justo la solución para usted. Los batidos smoothie pueden ser utilizados como un sano reemplazo de sus comidas regulares. Se requiere de muy poco tiempo para prepararlos, siempre y cuando tenga todos los ingredientes listos. Los batidos smoothie pueden prepararse utilizando casi cualquier ingrediente que pueda imaginar. Solo ponga los ingredientes en su licuadora y licúe hasta que haga espuma. Su batido smoothie está listo. Si usted es un amante de los batidos smoothie ha descargado el libro adecuado. Traemos para usted nuevas ideas y tips para hacer algunos batidos saludables, buenos y locos que lo dejaran pidiendo más. Además le daremos una lista completa de lo que debe y no debe hacerse para quienes sean nuevos en hacer batidos smoothies. Confiamos en que usted se sentirá muy bien después de preparar y consumir los batidos de este libro. Los batidos smoothie son divertidos y fáciles de preparar. Una vez que comienza a prepáralos ¡ya no será capaz de detenerse! En las próximas páginas usted aprenderá a elaborar las recetas de batidos smoothie más asombrosas, especialmente diseñadas para acelerar la desintoxicación, ayudar a perder peso, proveer energía, y ayudar a los pacientes diabéticos e incluso a los de artritis reumatoide con algunos batidos smoothie desinflamatorios. ¡Estamos seguros de que usted los amará, y esperamos que lo ayuden a tomar el control de su salud en muy poco tiempo!
30 Steps to Finding Yourself: An Interactive Journey to Self-Discovery
by Sally HopeThis 30-step journal will take you on a unique journey to discover who you are and who you want to be. With interactive CBT-based activities, journalling prompts and actionable advice to deepen your self-awareness, this book will be your guide to understanding and empowering the most important person in your life: you.
30 Steps to Finding Yourself: An Interactive Journey to Self-Discovery
by Sally HopeThis 30-step journal will take you on a unique journey to discover who you are and who you want to be. With interactive CBT-based activities, journalling prompts and actionable advice to deepen your self-awareness, this book will be your guide to understanding and empowering the most important person in your life: you.
30-Day Healthy Weight Loss Plan and Cookbook: 100 Easy Recipes and Workouts for a Balanced Life
by Kelli ShallalLose weight the simple way—100 recipes and a 30-day plan to kickstart long-term healthIf you're looking to adopt a healthier lifestyle but don't know where to begin, you're in luck. This healthy cookbook is all about starting fresh. It's your template for developing skills and habits around cooking, nutrition, and exercise that will set you up for weight loss success, and help you stay positive and realistic about your body and your health.It's easy to stick to this healthy cookbook and encouraging 30-day program no matter how busy you are, with weekly meal plans and shopping lists, along with simple exercise routines you can do at home. You'll also find 100 delicious recipes that make it practical to develop a diet that leaves you feeling satisfied and energized.Discover a healthy cookbook that offers:30 Days and beyond—Equip yourself with the tools you need to form better eating and exercise habits—and to maintain them for a lifetime.100 Easy, healthy dishes—Discover a healthy cookbook of hearty recipes, many of which only require a few ingredients, just one pot or pan, or take just 30 minutes to prepare.Go-to workout plans—Find an entire chapter of easy-to-follow workouts that will help you build strength, boost your mood, and burn calories.This healthy cookbook and weight loss plan is your ultimate guide to taking better care of your body.
30-Day Heart Tune-Up: A Breathrough Medical Plan to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease
by Steven MasleyFollow this step-by-step program to optimize your cardiovascular health, boost your energy, slim your waistline, and heat up your sex life—all while enjoying sixty delicious recipes!Cardiovascular disease is America's #1 killer, and while most doctors focus on lowering cholesterol and blood pressure they are overlooking the real culprits: arterial plaque and poor gut health.The good news is that everyone—regardless of size, genetics, gender, or age—can treat arterial plaque, improve their overall health, and prevent heart attacks and strokes with The 30-Day Heart Tune-Up. Inside, you'll discover: A delicious, heart-healthy diet designed to supercharge your heart healthExercises to improve circulation and strengthen your entire cardiovascular systemCreative and effective techniques for stress managementA customized supplement planCutting-edge science on the fascinating ways the bacteria in your gut can affect the health of your heart. This fully revised and updated edition of The 30-Day Heart Tune-Up includes the latest science on the surprising connections between your gut and your heart as well as tons of new information on reducing cardiovascular risk factors like obesity, high blood sugar, high cholesterol, and chronic inflammation through diet and exercise, it will help you get healthy—and stay healthy—for life.
30-Day Ketogenic Cleanse: Reset Your Metabolism With 160 Tasty Whole-food Recipes And Meal Plans
by Maria EmmerichThe 30-Day Ketogenic Cleanse is a guidebook for healing the body from the inside out. Most people attempting a keto diet do it completely wrong. Maria Emmerich, on the other hand, bases this cleanse on a true, well-formulated ketogenic diet, helping readers reset their metabolism, regain health, lose weight, and tap into increased energy levels. This book includes: •A detailed explanation of how sugar causes inflammation and leads to disease •30-day meal plans to kick-start ketosis, with corresponding shopping lists •30-day Whole30-compliant meal plans, with corresponding shopping lists •A wide variety of amazing recipes, with suggestions for combining those recipes into delicious and satisfying ketogenic meals •Easily accessible lists of approved keto foods and foods that hold people back from ketosis •Tips on how to eat to balance hormones, sleep better, feel better, and lose weight while following a ketogenic diet •Guidance for maintaining ketosis after a successful 30-day cleanse •Recommendations for supplements to help heal from poor eating habits •A bonus slow cooker chapter to help make life easier!
30-Day Meditation Challenge: Exercises, Resources, and Journaling Prompts for a Better Life
by Emma Silverman Nicole StumpfIn Emma Silverman’s newest book, she teams up with her yoga teacher, Nicole Stumpf, to make meditation accessible, interesting, and fun. Exploring meditation traditions from around the world, Silverman and Stumpf invite readers to try thirty different meditations and then record their experiences after the practice. This book combines thousand-year-old meditation traditions with the newer phenomenon of prompted journaling. Studies at Harvard University found that just eight weeks of meditation rebuilds the gray matter of your brain that supports learning and memory. The National Institute of Health has written that meditation increases activity in the parasympathetic nervous system, which is associated with a state of relaxation. A study at the University of Wisconsin in Madison found that “mindfulness meditation” improves both our mood and the strength of our immune system. There are dozens more scientific and peer-reviewed studies that agree: meditation can change your life for the better.Beginning is often where the greatest challenge lies. This is the book to help you explore what all the meditation buzz is about!
30-Day Sobriety Challenge: Take a Break from Social Drinking and Create New Habits
by Bianca L. Rodriguez EdM, LMFTEnjoy life without alcohol Our culture has normalized drinking for all occasions, whether it's celebrating, socializing, or taking the edge off a bad day. But reaching for booze habitually can be risky to your overall health and happiness. This 30-day sobriety challenge encourages you to examine your relationship with alcohol, break habits that lead to drinking, and develop new ones that support sobriety and recovery. What sets this book apart from other sobriety books: Take it one day at a time—Discover a new entry for each of the 30 days, featuring prompts and activities that delve into everything from willpower to peer pressure and how alcohol affects you. It's based in real psychology—Explore proven strategies for self-care and building healthy routines that were developed by a licensed therapist who specializes in sobriety. You can find your own happy medium—Try out this challenge whether you're ready to quit drinking entirely or just curious about cutting back and seeing how it makes you feel. Change your perspective on drinking and become the most content and authentic version of you with the 30-Day Sobriety Challenge.
30-Minute Cookbook for Beginners: 100+ Recipes for the Time-Pressed Cook
by Colleen KennedyYour next home-cooked meal is just 30 minutes away—no experience necessaryCooking can seem daunting, time-consuming, and labor-intensive, but it doesn't have to be. All you need are the basic tools, a few strategies for getting organized, and some easy recipes to start you off. If you've been looking for cookbooks for beginners, this one offers all that and more—and each recipe only takes 30 minutes.This trusty (and delicious) entry into cookbooks for beginners will help you master all the essential cooking techniques, from panfrying to broiling. It also includes practical tips on how to grocery shop efficiently, practice food safety, and save time with hacks that get every recipe on the table in 30 minutes or less.Find what you've been looking for in cookbooks for beginners:Beginner-friendly—Directions are easy to follow, ingredients are easy to find, and popular staple dishes are now on the menu—from fluffy eggs to juicy burgers.Quick-look labels—Unlike other cookbooks for beginners, this one includes labels indicating whether a recipe can be made with just 5 ingredients, cooked in one pot, or is vegetarian or gluten-free.Beyond the recipes—Learn bonus skills like handling knives, storing food, and even maximizing the use of your microwave.With tips, tricks, and 100+ classic recipes, this book is everything cookbooks for beginners should be.
30-Minute DASH Diet Cookbook: Fast and Easy Recipes to Lose Weight and Reverse High Blood Pressure
by Luis Gonzalez Andy De Santis30-Minute meals for lower blood pressure—the DASH diet made easyAdopting a low-sodium diet may feel like a challenge, but this supportive cookbook will make your transition to the DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) as enjoyable as it is rewarding. With a straightforward overview of the diet, 90 delicious recipes that can be prepared in 30 minutes or less, and a 21-day meal plan, the 30-Minute DASH Diet Cookbook is for anyone looking to lower their blood pressure through flavorful, easy to prepare food.Make the DASH diet work for you, with:Familiar favorites—The DASH diet limits sodium but encourages all the staples like fruits, vegetables, lean meats, nuts, and whole grains, so you can still enjoy hearty classics like Shrimp Pad Thai and Shredded Chicken Tacos.3 Weeks of 30-minute meals—Jump fearlessly into the DASH diet with help from this book's 21-day meal plan, complete with weekly shopping lists and an emphasis on utilizing leftovers and similar ingredients across recipes.A fresh approach to flavor—Find a variety of homemade seasonings, sauces, and recipes, packed with flavors that rely on ingredients like herbs and spices rather than fats and salt.The 30-Minute DASH Diet Cookbook is your guide to losing weight and lowering blood pressure—simply and deliciously.
30-Minute Heart Healthy Cookbook: Delicious Recipes for Easy, Low-Sodium Meals
by Cheryl Strachan RDFast, flavorful recipes for a strong, healthy heart Food is a critical driver of heart health, and this heart healthy cookbook helps you take the wheel. The 30-Minute Heart Healthy Cookbook is full of simple, quick, and satisfying meals the whole family will love. Meal planning tips, a grocery shopping guide, and at-a-glance food charts make it easy to prepare nutritious, low-sodium meals. Many recipes call for just five ingredients, and all are designed for efficiency, perfect for when you're short on time or energy. This top choice among cookbooks features: Recipes for every diet—Discover a wide array of options perfect for whatever style of heart-healthy diet you prefer, including vegetarian, vegan, DASH, and Mediterranean. Nutrition info—Each recipe lists key nutrients like sodium and fat, along with the amount of vitamin K and potassium per serving. Guidance for health concerns—Get advice for dieting with a variety of conditions like high cholesterol, high triglycerides, high blood pressure, diabetes, and prediabetes. Enjoy delicious meals that take care of your heart with the 30-Minute Heart Healthy Cookbook.
30-Minute SIBO Cookbook: 65 Fast Recipes to Relieve Symptoms
by Kristy ReganA healthier, happier gut starts with a specialized 30-minute SIBO dietManaging dietary needs associated with small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) can be difficult and time-consuming. The 30-Minute SIBO Cookbook will support you in saving time in the kitchen—so you can get quick, tasty meals on the table, bring symptoms to a manageable level, and redirect your energy toward your health.Discover delicious, user-friendly, and quickly prepared recipes like Cinnamon Blueberry Rice Flour Pancakes and Coconut Lemon Scallops that include a mix of healthy nutrients. The 30-Minute SIBO Cookbook includes diet-specific and nutritional labels for each recipe, as well as essential allergenic categories. You'll find more joy in the process of both eating and cooking.This healing cookbook includes:Understand SIBO—Learn up-to-date and accurate information, including discussion of the gallbladder, and clarity regarding the causes of the condition.Effortless eating—From short, simple recipes to easy-to-source ingredients, you'll save time and money.Fully flexible—Though focused on the low-FODMAP diet, the 30-Minute SIBO Cookbook also includes adjustments for those following these other diets: SCD, GAPS, SSFG, BPD, and CSD.Heal your gut and start feeling good again while you make more time for yourself and your relationships.
30-Minute Type 2 Diabetes Cookbook: 75 Fuss-Free Recipes for Healthy Eating
by Michelle Anderson Andy De SantisEat well with easy, tempting dishes to manage your type 2 diabetesA diabetes diagnosis often means changing your diet—but doing so doesn't have to be difficult or boring. The 30-Minute Type 2 Diabetes Cookbook is full of nutritious dishes that utilize basic ingredients and require minimal prep, allowing you to eat healthy and manage your diabetes symptoms without spending a ton of time in the kitchen.75 scrumptious recipes—From sizzling Mongolian-Inspired Beef to a succulent Salmon Po'boy, feast on a range of fast, simple recipes that are light on carbs and sugar but big on flavor.Overview of type 2 diabetes—Learn the connection between diabetes and diet, including the role of blood sugar, insulin, and the glycemic index.Strategies for success—Sticking to your new diet is made easier with tips for stocking your pantry with nutritious staples, suggestions for "make ahead" meals, and healthy ways to satisfy your cravings.Transform your diet and take control of your health with the 30-Minute Type 2 Diabetes Cookbook.
30-Minute Vegan Cookbook: Plant-Based Food in a Flash
by Ally LazareCook up delicious, plant-based dishes in 30 minutes or less Even when you're pressed for time, vegan meals can be surprisingly simple to make without sacrificing flavor or relying on processed ingredients. The 30-Minute Vegan Cookbook makes it easy to whip up nutritious and creative plant-based recipes with familiar ingredients and basic cooking methods, so you can spend more time enjoying your meals and less time making them. This standout among vegan cookbooks includes: Truly easy recipes—Perfect for complete beginners and experienced cooks alike, these recipes use simple preparation methods and basic ingredients you can easily find at your local grocery store. A focus on whole foods—Discover flavorful plant-based dishes that rely primarily on vegetables, beans, and whole grains, minimizing the use of processed ingredients and added salt, oil, and sugar. Shortcuts and hacks—Learn time-saving tips that simplify a plant-based diet, from smart grocery shopping advice to prep and cooking pointers. When it comes to quick and simple plant-based recipes, the 30-Minute Vegan Cookbook has you covered.
30-Minute Vegiterranean Cookbook: Healthy Vegetarian Recipes for the Mediterranean Diet
by Molly DevineCombine quick vegetarian meals with the power and flavor of the Mediterranean dietWhen a vegetarian cookbook meets the traditions of Mediterranean food, delicious things happen. This vegiterranean cookbook combines the health benefits of both extraordinary diets without requiring a lot of time and effort in the kitchen. Get ready to enjoy everything from rich and filling Fettuccine with Arugula Pesto to the sweet simplicity of a Creamy Berry and Almond Quinoa Breakfast Bowl—all in 30 minutes or less.This vegiterranean cookbook has:The basics—Discover a complete rundown of this combo diet and lifestyle, including its many health benefits, what to stock, and more.Easy preparation—In addition to taking 30 minutes or less from start to serve, many of these recipes also feature other conveniences, like one-pot cooking or limited ingredients.Nutrition info—This vegiterranean cookbook makes it easy to keep an eye on health with recipes that list calories and other important nutrition facts for every serving.Eat well without spending tons of time in the kitchen thanks to The 30-Minute Vegiterranean Cookbook.
30-Minute Weight Loss Cookbook: 100+ Quick and Easy Recipes for Sustainable Weight Loss
by Mandy EnrightMake weight loss more manageable with quick and easy recipesCreate a truly sustainable weight-loss plan with great meals that don't take a ton of time or effort to prepare. From breakfasts to dinners and desserts, the 30-Minute Weight Loss Cookbook helps you cook up more than 100 satisfying dishes and provides guidance for changing the way you look at food and weight loss.This weight-loss cookbook features:Tools to maximize kitchen efficiency—Learn how to navigate your kitchen quickly and easily using helpful hacks, suggested tools for powering through prep, and more.Weight-loss strategies—Take an anti-diet approach thanks to this weight-loss cookbook that helps change the way you approach mealtime, like altering just one food-related habit or reexamining your relationship with eating.Quick recipes—Discover a variety of recipes that only take 30 minutes from start to finish, as well as convenient one-pot, limited-ingredient, and extra-low-calorie options.Set yourself up for success with this practical weight-loss cookbook.
30-Minute Whole-Food, Plant-Based Cookbook: Easy Recipes with No Salt, Oil, or Refined Sugar
by Kathy A. DavisMake nourishing, plant-based meals in 30 minutes or lessThe whole-food, plant-based (WFPB) diet brings the conventional vegan way of eating closer to nature with a focus on dishes made only with unprocessed ingredients. Harness the health benefits of this lifestyle with the 30-Minute Whole-Food Plant-Based Cookbook, where you'll find simple recipes you can get on the table in half an hour or less.Whether you're brand new to plant-based eating, a vegan or vegetarian looking to eat more whole foods, or someone who has been eating WFPB for some time, this cookbook offers essential guidance and a collection of delicious recipes free from added salt, oil, or refined sugar.This whole-food plant-based cookbook includes:Time-saving tips—Find innovative suggestions for saving time on food prep, from meal planning to batch cooking.Practical advice—Make a WFPB diet easy and sustainable with lists for stocking your kitchen, foods to eat and avoid, and more.A sample meal plan—Get inspired with a week's worth of pre-planned meals to start you on your journey.Whip up nutritious, mouthwatering meals in no time with this convenient whole-food plant-based cookbook.
30-Minute Yoga
by Viveka Blom NygrenIn 30-Minute Yoga, certified yoga instructor Viveka Blom Nygren demonstrates how to do a half-hour Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga session in your own home so that you can achieve focus and calm on a more regular basis. With full-color photographs of yoga positions to help guide you through your home workout, Nygren explains what it means to practice yoga and how to breathe correctly, then walks readers through various yoga movements--basic positions, forward bends, relaxation poses--and closes with an exploration of how to make your yoga practice truly individual for you, through mantras and meditation. If you are new to yoga, beginner modifications are provided to help you attain a successful workout. If you are more advanced, use 30-Minute Yoga as a supplement to your full yoga sessions.
30-Minute Yoga: For Better Balance and Strength in Your Life
by Viveka Blom NygrenNow you can find time to enjoy the benefits of yoga in your own home. In 30-Minute Yoga, certified yoga instructor Viveka Blom Nygren demonstrates how to do a half-hour Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga session in your own home so that you can achieve focus and calm on a more regular basis. With full-color photographs of yoga positions to help guide you through your home workout, Nygren explains what it means to practice yoga and how to breathe correctly, then walks readers through various yoga movements-basic positions, forward bends, relaxation poses-and closes with an exploration of how to make your yoga practice truly individual for you, through mantras and meditation. If you are new to yoga, beginner modifications are provided to help you attain a successful workout. If you are more advanced, use 30-Minute Yoga as a supplement to your full yoga sessions.
300 15-Minute Low-Carb Recipes: Hundreds of Delicious Meals That Let You Live Your Low-Carb Lifestyle and Never Look Back
by Dana CarpenderSimple, super-speedy dinners, desserts, snacks, sides, and more from the million-selling low-carb guru!Eat well, stay fit, and maintain your low-carb diet with these 300 delicious and easy recipes that can be made in fifteen minutes or less from start to finish. Fast cooking methods will lead you to a fabulous finished product every time! Create delicious, nutritious, filling meals and treats like:Rosemary-ginger ribs with apricot glaze—Cranberry burgers—Chipotle-bacon breakfast burrito—Chicken chili verde—Beef and bacon “rice” with pine nuts—Thai-style crab salad in avocados—Aladdin salad—Basil-lime shrimp—Salmon in ginger cream—Strawberry ice cream—Mexican chocolate smoothie—and many, many more
300 Best Rice Cooker Recipes: Also Including Legumes and Whole Grains
by Katie ChinThe rice cooker is an amazingly versatile appliance. When is a rice cooker not only a rice cooker? When it becomes one of the most versatile and useful tools in any contemporary cook's kitchen. Of course we all know that you can make perfect rice in a rice cooker,but did you know that whole grains and beans are also perfectly suited to this appliance?These wonderful recipes -- created specifically to be used in a rice cooker -- are inspired by flavors from around the corner and around the world. Virtually every type of meal can be prepared in a rice cooker, from appetizers, soups and salads to main dishes, one pot meals and side dishes. Home cooks in the mood for a hearty stew, paella, a heavenly risotto or some authentic homemade dim sum need look no further than their rice cooker and these recipes for perfect results every time. The delicious and time-saving recipes, perfect for the busy working family and experienced gourmet cooks alike, include:Arroz con polloItalian sausage and portobello mushroom risottoGrits jambalayaRoasted corn and quinoa saladChocolate banana oatmealPancetta and pea risottoCaribbean pilaf with red quinoaBarley cioppinoWhite chipotle turkey chiliBlack-eyed pea, turkey and Swiss chard stewLemony risotto with shrimp. The author also includes valuable information on rice cooker features, the background, USDA charts and descriptions of rice, beans and grains as well as cooking time charts for perfecting rice, beans and grains in a rice cooker. Packed with great meal ideas, easy-to-master techniques and wonderful serving suggestions, chef Katie Chin has created a book every home cook will use over and over again.