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Everyone knows that whole foods are much healthier than refined ingredients, but few know how to cook with them in uncomplicated, delicious ways. Using a palette of natural ingredients now widely available in supermarkets, SUPER NATURAL COOKING offers globally inspired, nutritionally packed cuisine that is both gratifying and flavorful. With her weeknight-friendly dishes, real-foodie Heidi Swanson teaches home cooks how to become confident in a whole-foods kitchen by experimenting with alternative flours, fats, grains, sweeteners, and more. Including innovative twists on familiar dishes from polenta to chocolate chip cookies, SUPER NATURAL COOKING is the new wholesome way to eat, using real-world ingredients to get out-of-this-world results.
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Super Natural Cooking: Five Ways To Incorporate Whole and Natural Ingredients into Your Cooking
- Paperback: 215 pages
- Publisher: Celestial Arts; 2007-03
- Label: Celestial Arts
- Studio: Celestial Arts
- ISBN: 1587612755
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 64 reviews
- Sales Rank in Books: #2791
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Summary: Worth the money 2009-01-07
Comment: I have found several recipes from this cookbook that are great, simple, tasty and if you can improvise just a little, even better. I for one cannot always find what her recipes may call for, but I can find a substitute that works well. I really like how this book feels when I open it which makes me just a little more pleased to use it. If you like cooking with whole foods, this is a great recipe book to add your collection. Highly recommeded.
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Summary: Haven't seen the book.....sent it as a gift. 2008-12-01
Comment: My friend who received this book for her birthday said it was a wonderful book with beautiful photography but I haven't seen the book myself. I love the authors food blog and was motivated by that to order the book for a present.
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Summary: Good Info 2008-09-10
Comment: A good book overall. I found the information about how to substitute healthier options for the more commonly used ingredients the most useful. Recipes are pretty simple.
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Summary: Love this approach to cooking 2008-07-29
Comment: I think that I'm pretty knowledgeable when it comes to healthy eating, but still, before getting Super Natural Cooking, I considered items like margarine and fat-free dressings to be healthy. But Heidi Swanson's way makes much more sense -- doesn't it stand to reason that foods that are naturally cultivated would be received and digested by our bodies with far greater ease than factory-made approximations of real food? I for one would now much rather have a homemade amaranth-flour biscuit with real organic butter over a piece of sliced, processed bread with margarine.
It makes even more sense when you take into account that Heidi's recipes are delicious. Following the advice in the book, I have completely restocked my pantry with whole wheat and all natural flours and grains, and all natural oils and sweeteners. Now I reach for them when I cook, and I've come to appreciate even the process of cooking as something to enjoy and celebrate.
The actual recipes I've tried thus far are the amaranth seed biscuits (which I screwed up the first time; my own fault -- but the second time, they were delicious), the amaranth ginger shortbread, the mesquite chocolate chip cookies and the polenta-style teff wedges, which I've made a few times. It was all wonderful, homey and delicious. I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to eat healthy and make a life-style change while doing it.
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Summary: Some Of My Favorite Recipes, All In One Book! 2008-07-21
Comment: Even if you're not into 'natural' foods, this is a terrific cookbook. Full of gorgeous photography and really delicious recipes (which are easy to make), it's a perfect cookbook if you're wanting to try some healthy foods or even just some different versions of some vegetable side dishes, new salads, etc.
I especially love the Big Curry Noodle Pot recipe, as well as the fantastic brussels sprouts recipe. Everything I've tried (I've tried about 10 or recipes from here) has been delicious. Very inspirational also when trying to decide 'what to cook'.
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Super Natural Cooking: Five Ways To Incorporate Whole and Natural Ingredients into Your Cooking
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