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Extraordinary Foods for the Everyday Kitchen

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The collaboration of attorney and mother of three Loni Kornblum and child psychologist and nutritionist Bruce Semon, Extraordinary Foods For The Everyday Kitchen is an impressive culinary collection of sugar-free, yeast-free, wheat-free, milk-free, soy-free, and all Kosher recipes healthy living. Easy to prepare with the explicit instructions (going so far as to put key terms and actions in boldface type), Extraordinary Foods For The Everyday Kitchen offers a mouth-watering spectrum of dishes ranging from Chinese Tomato Soup, and Quick 'N Easy Ratatouille, to Spicy Pumpkin Cranberry Pie and so many more. Extraordinary Foods For The Everyday Kitchen is a superb resource for cooks who have to combine strict dietary requirements with succulent taste in their epicurean creations.

Extraordinary Foods is a fabulous follow-up cookbook to the authors' first cookbook, Feast Without Yeast. But while Feast Without Yeast has some foods that contain wheat and milk, Extraordinary Foods is totally free of those allergens. A few of the recipes may seem obvious, but I think these are included to fill in the gaps in their very helpful menus at the back of the book. What I love about this nice little cookbook is that it has loads of wonderful soups, salad dressings, and even fancier foods like tacos and pizza--foods really hard to get on a limited diet. The menus are extremely helpful, especially for parties and holidays. Some of my favorite recipes are Felafel, Heavenly Dressing and Joan's Red Onion Dressing. I would urge everyone to try this!

I feel ripped off.

I got this book because I am on a yeast- and gluten-free program. What a disappointment to find out that meal plans include recipes not included in this book, but from Kornblum's and Semon's other books.

I also agree with other readers that a plain baked potato or a salad with a lemon juice and oil dressing are no-brainers...but would understand if this was a "go to" book for other reasons.

But it isn't. Other readers: beware that unless you have the authors' other books, you just won't see the benefit in this one.

This was the first 'cook book' I purchased after being diagnosed with asthma and mutiple food allergies (including wheat, milk and peanuts).

What a disappointment. I don't know how they can print a plain baked potato as a recipe?

This book might be helpful if you've never cooked before, but for anyone that knows how to bake a potato or steam vegetables it's probably a waste of money.

This is a great companion for "Feast Without Yeast." In fact, there are some menu suggestions that come straight from the other book. It basically takes the general recipes from the other book, and takes them further.

good info on ingredients in many products.

easy recipes with few ingredients.

learned how to delete many foods with yeast/wheat/gluten.

could have some more variations of types of meals-especially for vegans, ie: avoiding lamb/veal.

As someone who struggles with allergies and food intolerances, I found this book to be very helpful and informative!