Sharing Mountain Recipes: The Muffin Lady's Everyday Favorites (Hardcover)

~ Randi Lee Levin (Author)

Editorial Reviews

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. This delightful cookbook is filled with comfort foods, salads, desserts, soups, baked goods, roasts,cooking tips and a sprinkling of poetry. Her own sought after recipesare mingled with special recipes from friends and family. More important than all the delicious recipe treats, is the love, friendship and antidotes mixed in for good measure. There are sugar free recipes and low fat and low cholesterol recipes and glorious color illustrations. This wonderful book even includes substitutions for those who favor gluten free or dairy free alternatives, in addition to an ingredient conversion list. Words simply can't describe this delightful cookbook experience. --Susan Doyle, Kitchen Project: Household Tips

The Muffin Lady strikes again! Sharing Mountain Recipes is Randi Lee Levin's second cookbook. Her first cookbook Baking at High Altitude; The Muffin Lady s Old Fashioned Recipes won the Colorado Independent Publishers Association award, the Best First Cookbook in English, USA and then the Best First Cookbook in the World 2004 award. Her latest book completely lives up to the quality of the first cookbook. As a person who is dating an Italian chef, has several subscriptions to cooking magazines and owns over 100 cookbooks that have been read from cover to cover, I found Sharing Mountain Recipes to be one of the best and most comprehensive cookbooks I have ever read. The Muffin Lady incorporates sound advice on cooking techniques at all altitudes, wonderful recipes and puts a lot of love into her work. You will feel like you are sitting in her kitchen trying out recipes with her when you read this. This cookbook is for all level of cooks. Levin has basic recipes for starter cooks and breaks down even her most complex recipes so that even the most novice cook will be able to create these wonderful recipes. I was also impressed with the fact that she is conscious about different dietary needs. She usually has several variations of each recipe, the original in all its fattening glory, the heart healthy version and the diabetes friendly version. As the Executive Director of the Diabetes Foundation of Rhode Island I would not hesitate to recommend this book to families that are adjusting to a diabetes friendly menu (if they promised to use the healthy recipe variations!). Sharing Mountain Recipes is broken down into several sections including comfort foods, breakfast, lunch, dinner and of course, dessert. The Ultimate Comfort Food section is full of favorite mac n cheese, mashed potato and chocolate recipes.. This book will make a great gift for the Holidays, engagement parties and showers. It would also make a wonderful host gift when I am going to someone else s home for dinner. --Cherie Fisher/Reader Views

This Cookbook is packed with 472 recipes, it has the feel of a trusted friend with a guided experienced hand! --Stephanie Williams, Favorite Recipe Press

Product Description

Sharing Mountain Recipes is said to be a must have addition in all high altitude kitchens. Filled with tips, substitutions, metric conversions and a wide assortment of daily recipes that have been requested over and over again, makes this cookbook one that you will not want to be without! Imagine the ou's and ah's and the smiles on your loved ones faces when you present them with a bowl of hot Baked Oatmeal (enjoyed for over 100 years to date), a homemade fruit bar to take on the go, or a delicious Spinach Mushroom Quiche for breakfast one morning. How about replacing the everyday midday sandwich with a plateful of Shrimp Salad, Dad's Favorite Oriental Salad or easily prepared but divine, Ham Salad. Each can be prepared in a jiffy as can Mom's Shepard's Pie or Hasty Chicken Stew for dinner. Rhonda's Raspberry Balsamic Chicken only takes minutes to prepare, but will give your loved ones the impression that they are dining in a 5-star restaurant. The soups will fill your home with the scent of goodness and the snacks, such as Fruit Burritos, Molasses Bread or a simple Cream Cheese Coffeecake will be requested for years to come. Sharing Mountain Recipes is a treasure trove of recipes that have been requested for years. The memorable flavors and tips for easily preparing scrumptious everyday feasts, will have you returning to the pages time and again. No worries if you want to taste these fabulous recipes in lower altitudes, for this scrumptious cookbook includes tips for using the recipes in lower elevations too! If you enjoy good foods, good times and the production of smiles and requests for more, then whether at high or low altitudes, this is a cookbook for you and your loved ones to enjoy for generations!

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: The Muffin Lady Inc. (November 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974500828
• ISBN-13: 978-0974500829
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 8.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #186,043 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Basic Recipes, May 12, 2007

By	Martha S. Matloff MD "cookdoc" (Geneva, NY) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a good book with many excellent basic recipes, with spelling errors and errors of omission ie oven temps, etc. Interesting to read and fun to use.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great for cooking at elevation, November 29, 2008

By	Andrea Barros - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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Living at 7500 is wonderful but presents problems with cooking. This is a great book with good re4cipes. I also recomend "Pie in the Sky" and "Chocolate Snowball" - they both have altitude adjustments.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Muffin Lady strikes again!, December 4, 2006

By	Reader Views "www.readerviews.com" (Austin, Texas) - See all my reviews

Reviewed by Cherie Fisher for Reader Views (09/06)

The Muffin Lady strikes again! "Sharing Mountain Recipes" is Randi Lee Levin's second cookbook. Her first cookbook "Baking at High Altitude; The Muffin Lady's Old Fashioned Recipes" won the Colorado Independent Publishers Association award, the Best First Cookbook in English, USA and then the Best First Cookbook in the World 2004 award. Her latest book completely lives up to the quality of the first cookbook.

As a person who is dating an Italian chef, has several subscriptions to cooking magazines and owns over 100 cookbooks that have been read from cover to cover, I found "Sharing Mountain Recipes" to be one of the best and most comprehensive cookbooks I have ever read. The Muffin Lady incorporates sound advice on cooking techniques at all altitudes, wonderful recipes and puts a lot of love into her work. You will feel like you are sitting in her kitchen trying out recipes with her when you read this.

The book starts off with the statement "There is one extraordinary ingredient that goes into everything that I cook and bake. Please do not forget this ingredient, for it is imperative to all recipes. Whenever I am cooking or baking, I add extra spoonfuls of Love to all of my recipes. Love added to all things good, makes them just a little bit better." Almost all of the recipes have stories about where they came from and how other people responded to them.

This cookbook is for all level of cooks. Levin has basic recipes for starter cooks and breaks down even her most complex recipes so that even the most novice cook will be able to create these wonderful recipes. I was also impressed with the fact that she is conscious about different dietary needs. She usually has several variations of each recipe, the original in all its fattening glory, the heart healthy version and the diabetes friendly version. As the Executive Director of the Diabetes Foundation of Rhode Island I would not hesitate to recommend this book to families that are adjusting to a diabetes friendly menu (if they promised to use the healthy recipe variations!).

"Sharing Mountain Recipes" is broken down into several sections including comfort foods, breakfast, lunch, dinner and of course, dessert. The Ultimate Comfort Food section is full of favorite mac n' cheese, mashed potato and chocolate recipes. Oh yes....I can feel my diet going right out the window with these beauties. Each section is filled with recipes from Levin's treasure trove that she inherited from her grandmothers, friends recipes and her own creations.

This book will make a great gift for the Holidays, engagement parties and showers. It would also make a wonderful host gift when I am going to someone else's home for dinner. Well, onto my biggest dilemma for this weekend, am I going to make Aunt Lil's Matzo Ball Soup or Doe's Beef Stew from "Sharing Mountain Recipes"? What would the Muffin Lady advise? Hmmmm.... she would probably give me a taste of something delectable in her kitchen and tell me to do both because there is always next weekend too!