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If you're craving to learn all about soy and how to incorporate soyfoods into your diet, you will find The Whole Soy Cookbook truly satisfying. Beginning with a thorough explanation of the different types of soy foods and how to use them, this comprehensive guide boasts more than 175 innovative (and flavorful!) recipes using soy. All are meat- and dairy-free. Every recipe includes a nutritional analysis (including calories, protein, carbohydrate, fat, cholesterol, fiber, and sodium). For those of you who want more than recipes from a cookbook, author Patricia Greenberg provides suggestions for getting the optimum nutrition from soy following today's accepted standards for a healthy diet. Interesting (and possibly surprising) charts compare the nutritional statistics of meat and dairy products to their soy analogs.
The Whole Soy Cookbook is packed with instructions on how to use soy in everyday cooking. Handy side bars are peppered thoughout, offering suggestions for entertaining, variations to the recipes, as well as tips that will inspire you to get creative. The recipes range from simple to exotic: Enjoy comfort foods such as Soy Caesar Salad, Tofu Pot Pie, and Cream of Tomato Soup, or have some fun in the kitchen with Wild Mushroom Crepes, Soy Olive Bread, Tofu with Mexican Mole Sauce, Kung Pao Tempeh, and Tofu Chocolate Mousse. Greenberg also incorporates the use of meat and dairy substitutes in many of the recipes such as Soy Sausage Rolls, Soy Sausage Tortilla Pizzas, Soy Sloppy Joes, Country Soy Sausage Stew, and Soy Meatloaf. It's easy to appreciate the versatility and potential for flavorful, healthy food using soy with The Whole Soy Cookbook. Mail order sources and a conversion chart are also included. --Gretel Hakanson, www.goodreads.com Soy Desserts: 101 Fresh, Fun Fabulously Healthy Recipes
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What if you could improve your health by eating a luscious espresso cinnamon cheesecake, a delicious key lime tart, or tantalizing chocolate truffles? — Well, now you can! Soy Desserts is the first cookbook exclusively devoted to desserts made with tofu, soy chocolate, soy milk, soy yogurt, and soy cheeses. In its pages you'll learn how to make and enjoy such delights as Raspberry Marble Tofu Cheesecake, Soynut Pecan Pie, Tofu Coconut Cream Pie, and Lemon Ginger Soy Ice Cream.
Lauded as a miracle food, soy is renowned for lowering the risk of breast cancer and heart disease, easing the symptoms of menopause, protecting against prostate cancer, and preventing digestive disorders. Additionally, soy provides the highest levels of protein available from a plant source, is an ideal source of complex carbohydrates, and is naturally low in sodium. Patricia Greenberg explains the many healthful benefits of soy and reveals how even the most decadent of desserts can be turned into a healthy treat using nature's healthiest bean.
Soy Desserts shows how you can indulge in rich, sweet treats like Tofu Chocolate Almond Mousse, Soy Chocolate Raspberry Brownies, and Four-Layer Soy Yellow Cherry Cake with Soy Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting and still maintain a healthy diet. It also includes helpful sections on buying, storing, and baking with soy products and getting the best nutrition from soy. Whether you're vegetarian, vegan, diabetic, lactose -intolerant, or just someone who wants to prepare tasty, health-promoting desserts, this is the cookbook for you.
Soy Desserts includes mouthwatering recipes for: Tasty Pies and Tarts, Scrumptious Cakes and Frostings, Delicious Quickbreads, Muffins, Brownies, Bars, and Scones, Irresistible Candies and Cookies, Delightful Parfaits, Custards, Mousses, Puddings, and Soy Ice Creams.
By Patricia Greenburg, the Bestselling Author of The Whole Soy Cookbook.