One Smart Cookie or Tru

One Smart Cookie

Author: Julie van Rosendaal

Think rich, chewy, gooey, chocolatey cookies, brownies and squares are off-limits? Not so! In One Smart Cookie, you'll be thrilled to find more than 200 recipes for goodies such as Triple Chocolate Chunk Cookies, Decadent Cheesecake Brownies, Pecan Pie Squares and Cranberry White Chocolate Blondies, trimmed of fat but not the flavor!

Everybody loves cookies. They are as welcome at a dinner party as they are tucked into a lunch box or hanging on the Christmas tree. And we all have longtime favorites that have often become family traditions. In this book, you will find lower fat recipes for your favorite cookies, squares, brownies, and biscotti, as well as a wealth of information that will help you to reduce the fat in your own special cookie recipes.

The desserts and snacks in this book aren't just a healthy alternative to the cookies you crave-- they are the real thing!

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Tru: A Cookbook from the Legendary Chicago Restaurant

Author: Rick Tramonto

The opening of Tru in Chicago was the long-anticipated culmination of the dreams of executive chef Rick Tramonto and his partner, executive pastry chef Gale Gand. There Tramonto and Gand are free to unleash their superb culinary imaginations, serving wildly creative fare best described as progressive French-inspired cooking anchored in the finest European traditions.

Tru reveals the secrets of Tramonto and Gand's award-winning cuisine-techniques and recipes they have evolved over the past twenty-five years of preparing some of the most delectable food in the world. This glorious cookbook, illustrated with more than sixty photographs by the renowned photographer Tim Turner, offers more than seventy-five never-to-be-forgotten Tru favorites-starting with first courses such as Ricotta Gnocchi with Parmegiano-Reggiano Cream; greens such as Lemon Balm Salad with Yuzu Soy Dressing; and entrees including Black Trumpet Mushroom—Crusted Ahi Tuna and Roasted Beef Tenderloin with Truffled Potato Puree. Gale Gand provides recipes for an irresistible array of cheese courses and a variety of exquisite desserts, including Apricot Tart Tatin and Fromage Blanc Mousse with Blueberry Stew.

Masterfully written recipes with careful attention to detail and easy step-by-step instructions will enable cooks of all levels to prepare and present unforgettable meals, enhance the dining ambience, and enjoy the taste of Tru perfection at home. Award-winning sommelier Scott Tyree suggests wines to complement every course. Tramonto and Gand also share the remarkable story of how they became two of the world's great chefs and how they made Tru a four-star restaurant.

On every page,Tru reflects an abiding love for food, a great passion for the table, and attention to all that goes into producing superb meals. Tru is the ultimate cookbook for anyone who appreciates food as inventive as it is beautiful.

Publishers Weekly

This collection is full of the kind of over-the-top recipes that give chef cookbooks a bad name. Tramonto's frou-frou constructions, like Rabbit Roulade with a Salad of Fris e, French Beans and Radish, and Arctic Char Poached in Duck Fat with Spinach-Almond Puree, sound delicious, but with their numerous subrecipes (Roasted Beef Tenderloin, Truffled Potato Puree and Bone Marrow Foam with Red Wine Sauce requires extracting chlorophyll from spinach and parsley, as well as pouring a marrow mixture into a canister powered by N2O chargers) and long ingredient lists, they also sound about as accessible for the home cook as the summit of Mount Everest is for someone who takes occasional strolls in the woods. These rarefied creations do offer a pleasurable peek into the mindset of a creative chef: there's an entire chapter on foie gras, for example. Pastry chef Gand's desserts are equally complex and include small treats the restaurant offers, like Honey-and-Lemon Tea Lollipops, which are "surprisingly easy to make," as long as readers have sucker collars on hand and don't mind pouring 305-degree syrup. Recipe headers are lengthy and sometimes repetitive, adding to the feeling of dizzying information overload this book provides. Photos. (On sale Nov. 2) FYI: Tramonto and Gand have won awards for their earlier books, and Gand hosts a Food Network show. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

Tramonto's last book, Amuse-Bouche, featured the dazzling hors d'oeuvres he serves at his acclaimed Chicago restaurant, while Butter Sugar Flour Eggs and Gale Gand's Just a Bite provided the dessert recipes that pastry chef and partner Gand creates there. Here is the rest of their menu, from Roasted Sweetbread Salad with Walnut Vinaigrette and Beet Paint to Malaysian-Crusted Rack of Lamb with Truffled Bread-and-Butter Pudding (along with a few more desserts for good measure). These are chef's recipes indeed, with multiple components and many exotic ingredients. Tramonto is certainly talented, but home cooks are more likely to enjoy browsing through the book, which is illustrated with full-page color photographs. For area libraries and other collections catering to foodies. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.