Bowls of Plenty: Recipes for Healthy and Delicious Whole-Grain Meals

by Carolynn Carreno, Nancy Silverton (Foreword by)

Overview

A fresh and flexible approach to grain bowls—thoughtfully structured one-dish meals that marry health and flavor—from James Beard Award-winning journalist and acclaimed cookbook coauthor Carolynn Carreno.

Gorgeous, layered, satisfying bowls have become the next wave of healthy eating. From food blogs to Instagram, farm-to-table bistros to chain restaurants, "the bowl" has become part of our culinary vocabulary. And whole grains are not just for hippies and health nuts anymore! Hearty grains like quinoa, farro, millet, and spelt are replacing flour or corn tortillas, bread, pasta, white rice, and mashed potatoes as the base or vehicle for other, richer, more complex ingredients.

Bowls of Plenty brings grain bowls to the home cook, offering more than 75 recipes for hearty, grain-centric, one-dish meals that layer flavorful veggies and delicious sauces and vinaigrettes, with optional meats and dairy on a foundation of whole-grain staples. A mix sweet and savory breakfast bowls, salad bowls that will put an end to the sad desk lunch, flexible composed main dish bowls that work with all diets, and creative dessert bowls, Bowls of Plenty is a modern handbook for healthy and delicious cooking at home.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781455536580
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	01/17/2017
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Carolynn Carreño is a James Beard award-winning food writer. Her work as appeared in Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, Gourmet, Saveur, and the Los Angeles Times. She has coauthored many acclaimed cookbooks, including Nancy Silverton's Mozza at Home and Pat LaFrieda's Meat: Everything There is to Know. Carreno lives in San Diego, CA and New York City.

Editorial Reviews

★ 11/07/2016
Carreño (co-author of The Mozza Cookbook and Meat: Everything There Is to Know) has impeccable creds on the seemingly ubiquitous yet still growing phenomenon of one-bowl meals. Carreño is a California native with a self-described “health nut” mother, and her take on value-added whole grains is deeply authoritative and inspiringly delicious. A “Meet Your Grains” guide ranges alphabetically from amaranth to wild rice, encompassing Italian farro and Khorasan wheat—commonly sold as Kamut, a trademarked name—and including clear instructions that make it seem easy to cook even the most esoteric items. More familiar oats (as groats, steel-cut, or rolled) and brown rice (both long- and short-grain) get play as well. Carreño’s determinedly “flavor first” approach draws on influences modern eaters want, such as high-quality proteins and farmer’s market vegetables, which can be combined as Korean short ribs and kimchi rice, Thai-style satay of chicken or tofu with coconut rice and peanut sauce, or an “Ultimate Burrito Bowl.” Guides for building one’s own Asian, farmer’s market, Middle Eastern, and Mexican bowls make it simple to customize a meal with what’s on hand or what the reader craves. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

"Carreno has impeccable creds on the seemingly ubiquitous yet still growing phenomenon of one-bowl meals. . . . her take on value-added whole grains is deeply authoritative and inspiringly delicious. . . . [the] determinedly 'flavor first' approach draws on influences modern eaters want."
—Publishers Weekly

"Carolynn Carreno is perhaps the most honest and knowledgeable cook I know. She is fearless in her pursuit of authenticity and flavor, and she creates recipes that are filled with her unstoppable quest for deliciousness. She is truly a cook's cook."—Jonathan Waxman

"When Carolynn told me she was working on BOWLS OF PLENTY, I knew it was a great idea, and also that she was the one to write it. Carolynn is the rare combination of cook who has a 'chef' mentality. . . . Combining those two sensibilities to create 100 grain-based recipes, well, those will be grain bowls that I will want to eat for a very long time."—Nancy Silverton

"Carolynn Carreno is both a knowledgeable writer and an entertaining one, a writer with a flair for language and a talent for storytelling. She can make any topic interesting, even fun, to read about."—Colman Andrews

From the Publisher

12/01/2016
Professional home cook Carreno, the award-winning coauthor of Nancy Silverton's Mozza at Home and Sara Foster's Fresh Every Day, steps into the limelight with a new collection of one-bowl meals. In 100-plus healthy recipes such as slow-cooked brown rice and quinoa porridge, Umbrian farro and mozzarella salad with celery leaf pesto, and goat's milk rice pudding with raisins, Carreno coaxes flavor from a wide range of popular and lesser-known whole grains, pairing them with appealing, flavorful toppings. Throughout, she peppers the book with stories of California and New York food culture and her work with notable chefs. VERDICT Grain bowl obsessives and health-conscious omnivores will love this, as well as Allison Day's Whole Bowls and Sara Forte's The Sprouted Kitchen Bowl and Spoon.

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