Books by Andrea Chesman

Including more than 250 easy-to-bake recipes for the classic desserts loved by everyone, two veteran cookbook authors provide the best recipes at the best price--including whoopie pies, blondies, apple cobblers, and raisiny rice pudding--along with little-known food anecdotes and historical tidbits. Original.

Andrea Chesman presents 366 creative and flavorful "natural gourmet" recipes using a wide variety of beans and grains, like basmati and jasmine rice, adzuki beans, amaranth, and quinoa. Organized by course and main ingredient, these dishes range from light and lively starters to hearty and soul-satisfying foods that stick to your ribs but not to your waistline. American favorites are well represented here, but adventurous cooks will be pleased to find ethnic cuisines dominating this mouthwatering collection, including such recipes as: • Spicy Vegetable Couscous • Pesto Pasta with Cranberry Beans • Smoky Black Bean Burritos • Jamaican-Style Rice and Peas This wonderful addition to our 366 Ways series features foods that are among the most versatile and healthful in the human diet, not to mention absolutely delicious. • Recipes are high in flavor, low in fat. • Each recipe includes a detailed nutritional analysis, which counts calories, fat, percentage of calories from fat, protein, fiber, sodium, and calcium. • Vegetarian dishes dominate the collection, but healthful variations include salmon, shrimp, and chicken.

This eminently useful cookbook--which deals with many other squashes besides the venerable zucchini--includes recipes for appetizers, vegetarian dishes, chicken and meat dishes, breads, desserts, and much more. Recipes include Tomato-Zucchini Soup, Cheese and Squash Relleños, Beef and Zucchini Stovetop Casserole, Ragout of Summer Squash, Chocolate Zucchini Bread, and Butternut Custard Pie.

This delightful book offers more than 700 ways parents and children can spend more time playing, laughing, and making memories together. Going beyond traditional games and activities, this book includes hundreds of innovative crafts, recipes, adventures, quiet and spirited games, outdoor fun, holiday celebrations, and more.

Organized by vegetable, it features more than 350 photographs and 300 recipes of vegetables alone or in combination with meat, poultry, fish, and eggs.

Tells the stories of successful, and unsuccessful, New England inventors, including Birdseye, Goodyear, and Whitney.

A practical handbook on today's informal, relaxed, and fun-filled brand of entertaining shares the secrets of the finest in crowd-pleasing cuisine, with a host of recipes designed to feed eight or more people, including Quesadillas, Sweet and Sour Meatballs, Muffalettas, Broccoli-Rice Salad, Cuban Black Beans, and Baked Barbecued Chicken. Original.

This revised and updated edition of the classic cookbook presents 250 recipes for healthy and flavorful vegetarian dishes designed for the grill--including Tandoori-style Vegetable Kabobs, Grilled Portobello Salad with Roquefort Dressing, and Vegetarian Fajitas with Chipotle Sour Cream--and features helpful information on vegetarian grilling techniques and current equipment options. Original.

A chef's guide to roasting vegetables ranging from artichokes to zucchini for all occasions serves up recipes for 150 scruptious meat-free dishes, including simple side dishes, entrTes, soups, appetizers, sandwiches, and more. Simultaneous.

Whether it's grilled chicken over romaine lettuce tossed in a garlicky Caesar dressing, or roasted vegetables over greens, or tuna with crunchy vegetables, salad is a cook's quickest, coolest option for a complete meal. Chesman includes scores of healthful possibilities, from Warm Asparagus and New Potato Salad with Pan-Seared Trout to Vietnamese Beef Salad, plus a host of dressings, from Buttermilk-Dill to Mango Chutney Vinaigrette.

Celebrating the unique flavors of fresh-from-the-garden vegetables, an innovative cookbook, organized seasonally, presents more than 175 recipes for such terrific dishes as Grilled Chicken and Asparagus Salad, Maple Roasted Carrots, Soy-Sesame Grilled Eggplant, and many more, including a selection of vegetarian options. Reprint.

A colorful collection of healthful pasta salads--side dishes, one-dish meals and appetizers--from a variety of ethnic heritages: Thai, Tex-Mex, Greek, and Chinese.

ingle skillet include vegetarian, seafood and fish, chicken and turkey, and beef, pork, and lamb dishes. Chesman is the author of six previous books including Sun-Dried Tomatoes. Full color throughout.

This collection, gathered from potluck experts and community supper veterans all over New England, offers more than 300 recipes for affordable, easy-to-prepare dishes made with ingredients that can be found in any supermarket. From appetizers to desserts, with these innovative, group-tested, and varied American recipes, you'll never again wonder "What should I bring?" Illustrations.