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• 30 Day Gourmet - Freezer cook books show how to cook a month's meals in a day, and save money.
• Acanthus Books - Reprints of old cookbooks ranging from Roman to medieval to Victorian. Books on culinary and food history, kitchen gardening, household management, and dining etiquette.
• Company's Coming - Cookbooks, including lifestyle, low-fat, entertaining, cookbooks for kids. Free recipes and tips on cooking and entertaining.
• Complete Guide To Cooking Quinoa - Quinoa recipes and information about how to cook quinoa. Also offers The Seven Day Quinoa Diet book.
• Cookbook Cupboard - Jackie Gannaway creates original layered cookie mix in a jar recipes, layered soup mix in canning jars recipes, mix in a spoon recipes, and mixes in a can recipe cookbooks.
• Cookery Books Online - A wide variety of cookery books. Also sells new and used books from and about Cornwall, England.
• Cooking for Children - Selection of Annabel Karmel's cookbooks for children, toddler and baby food.
• Jessica's Biscuit - Offers a wide selection of cookbooks. Also sells coffee and has a recipe collection.
• Jo Seagar Cookbooks - New Zealand food personality, Jo Seagar's recipes, and cookbooks plus cooking tips, competitions and free ecards.
• Stephanie Ashcraft Inc. - Series of "101 Things to do With a" books for tortillas, potatoes, cake mixes, slow cookers, and casseroles.
• The Cook Book Store - A wide selection of food and wine books. Includes selected recipes, and a section of Canadian authors and foods.

Random Indian Recipes:-

• Dal Fry
  Wash tur dal and soak in water for 30 min. and cook in a pressure cooker. Cut tomato,onion,ginger and garlic into fine pieces. In a pan heat oil and add mustard seeds,jeera and kadipatta. Then add red chilly and ...
  
  
• Medu Vada
  Soak urd dal in water for at least 5 hours and grind it without water. Add salt,black pepper powder and beat well to make it light and fluffy. Add chopped coriander leaves,curry leaves and green chilly pieces. Heat oil and Shape the daal mixture into flat rounds and make a hole in the center. Add little rice flour if shape is not forming. Fry first over high heat and then over lower heat till golden brown. Remove the vada out of oil and drain on absorbent paper. Serve hot with green chutney or sambar.
  
  
• Balushai
  Make the syrup of 2 string consistency and add rose essence and lemon juice. In a plate sieve flour and baking soda together and keep aside. In a big plate take curd,2 tsp sugar and 1&1/2 cup ghee and beat finely for 4-5 min. Now add maida and soda. Knead the dough smoothly. Use curd if necessary.(no water) Make small balls off the whole dough and press them a bit. Make thumb impression in center. Cover with a damp cloth and keep aside for 10 min. Heat ghee in a pan and fry balushai on a ...
  
  
• Plain Dosa
  Wash rice,urad dal and methi seeds and soak in a water for atleast 4 hours. Grind to a smooth paste with a water.and keep aside for atleast 4-5 hours. Add salt and mix well. Heat a non-stick tava and grease with butter or oil. when hot, sprinkle a little ...
  
  
• Egg Kheema
  Grate eggs and chop onion,tomato and coriander leaves. Heat butter in a pan and add chopped onion and saute it till golden brown. Add green chilly ginger garlic paste,mirchi powder,dhania jeera powder, garam masala powder,turmeric powder and saute for few seconds. Now add chopped tomatoes and salt. saute it till oil seperates. Lastly add grated eggs and chopped coriander leaves to it and stir it for 5 minutes on low flame. Egg kheema is ready. ...
  
  
• Samosa
  Boil potatoes and green peas. Chop onion and coriander leaves. Heat 2-3 tbsp oil and mix in maida and make smooth dough adding salt and warm water. Keep aside for 30 min. In a pan heat 1 tbsp oil and add mustard seeds and cumin seeds. when they started to crackle add onion and kadipatta and fry for 2-3 min. Now add ginger garlic paste and again fry for 2-3 min. Add dhania jeera powder,turmeric powder and salt. Lastly add mashed potatoes, ...
  
  
• Dhondas
  Grate cucumber. remove seeds.take cucumber juice. Soak chana dal in water for 30 min. In a big pan take grated cucumber with juice and add soaked chana dal,coconut pieces,jeera powder,turmeric powder and salt.and keep to boil. In another pan take ghee and fry rawa for 4-5 min on low flame. then pour boiled cucumber water. Cook on low flame.then add ...
  
  
• Paanipuri ki puri
  In a big bowl take maida,rava,salt and 2 tbsp oil and knead a dough using little water. The dough should be hard. Cover the bowl and put in a refrigerator for 2 hrs. After 2 hrs make small balls and roll out small puris very thinly. You may roll out big thin chapati and then cut small puris with...
  
  
• Bhogichi Bhaji
  Peel the carrots and potatoes. Make small pieces of ghevada. Cut potato,brinjal and carrot into pieces. Remove green chana from the pods. Make fine paste of coriander leaves and green chilly. Roast groundnut and sesame and make powder. Now in a pan heat oil and add mustard seeds and cumin seeds. Allow to splutter then add turmeric powder. Add potatoes,carrots,green chana and ghevada. Fry for a min. then add green paste. Cover the pan and allow to ...
  
  
• Potato Burfi
  Boil potato and mash finely. Grate coconut. In a thick bottom pan mix mashed potato,coconut and sugar. Allow to cook on a low flame (appx. 45-50 min). When the mixture bacame thick remove from the gas. Add elaichi powder and mix well. Pour the mixture on greased platform. Roll out the mixture with roll pin to make 1 cm thick. Cut the pieces as shape as you want. Allow to cool.