BOOKS
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Arabian Delights; Recipes & Princely Entertaining Ideas from the Arabian Peninsula consists of cultural-culinary menus, recipes, and entertaining timelines with step by step guides for recreating each venue.
Arabian cuisine combines healthful ingredients and time honored techniques with exotic herbs, flowers, spices, and sometimes even incense. Arabian Delights presents not only thousands of years of culinary history with ancient and traditional recipes passed down from one generation to the next, but also modern, trendy Arabian recipes.
Sample traditional Arabian recipes like Gulf Style Calamari Soup, Fish with Saffron-Béchamel Reduction, Yogurt Marinated Leg of Lamb, Beef Morsels and Cracked Wheat Stew, and Chicken Kabsah, (a delicious rice and chicken casserole which exudes the aromas of dried limes and the traditional Saudi Spice Mix).
In the “Palatial Feasts” section, Amy reveals the secrets to creating a seemingly endless holiday buffet and Arabian Tea Party worthy of royalty plus many other palatial ideas. In “Special Ceremonies” you’ll learn the traditions behind the Laylat Ul Henna, the ultimate girls’ night in, when brides-to-be gather with female friends and family members for a full night of beauty, pampering, henna-tattooing, and of course, an array of tempting culinary treats. I
In “Simpler Delights” Amy shows how to transform an ordinary picnic at the park into an Arabian evening excursion where you’ll feast on Basmati Rice with Apricots and Dates,Tamarind Glazed Fish, Coriander Salad, Fig and Cream Tartlets, and Date and Sesame Cake.
To Purchase Arabian Delights, please visit www.capital-books.com
The Mediterranean Cookbook for Diabetics combines family recipes and traditions from the Mediterranean region. It offers you the secrets of the healthy Mediterranean lifestyle and fabulous recipes from one book, and will teach you how to use Mediterranean ingredients, as well as how to eat, cook, entertain, and shop the Mediterranean way. You’ll be inspired to incorporate the healthy living traditions of the Mediterranean into your lifestyle with this collection of intrinsically healthy and delicious cuisine.
Nile Style: Egyptian Cuisine and Culture will be released in 2008. It reveals the secrets for celebrating Egyptian style. Egyptian cuisine is a blend of ancient wisdom, deep religious traditions, millennia of converging cultural influences, and modern cosmopolitanism. Egypt’s flavorful cuisine is packed with fresh, high quality produce, an extensive array of herbs, flowers, spices, and wheat products.
Nile Style: Egyptian Cuisine and Culture includes both historical recipes (those found in tombs dating back to the fourth century BC), and modern interpretations of classic Egyptian cuisine. Nile Style: Egyptian Cuisine and Culture will teach you how to celebrate Jewish, Christian, and Muslim holidays with Nile flair. It also gives a picnic menu for the Egyptian “smell of the fresh breeze”, Sham an Nassim holiday, as well as many others. Let
Amy guide you through a culinary trip to Egypt where you’ll sip ruby – colored Hibiscus Punch, sample Spinach, Cheese, and Meat-Filled Phyllo Triangles, Baby Vegetables Stuffed with Herbs and Rice, Grilled Lamb, Arugula, and Pita Sandwiches. Delectable desserts include Apricot Pudding, Honey-Filled Kahk Cookies, Cream-Filled Shedded Phyllo Dessert, and Egyptian Rice Pudding.
Amy’s recipes also appear in; Upper Crusts by Sheilah Kaufman And The Canola Gourmet Cookbook by Sheilah Kaufman
