Weekend Baker or The All New Atkins Advantage

Weekend Baker: Irresistible Recipes, Simple Techniques, and Stress-Free Strategies for Busy People

Author: Abigail Johnson Dodg

"This no-time-for-frills cookbook offers low effort/high yield desserts."—USA Today

Want to start baking (again) but can't find the time? The Weekend Baker makes it easy with its unique organization. Recipes are grouped by how long they take, from the simple to the elaborate. Need a dessert in under an hour? Turn to Baker's Express and whip up Emergency Chocolate Cupcakes. Like to plan a bit more? Try the Glazed Apricot-Plum Galette in Baking in Stages—there's no pie plate, no crimping, no double crusts. Want a sophisticated dessert for your dinner party? You can make the Lemon Chiffon Pie with Pretzel Crust and store it in the fridge for up to three days. 24 pages of color photographs.

Publishers Weekly

Dodge believes that when it comes to the often-intimidating world of baking, one need not sacrifice quality for simplicity. Chocolate-Glazed Ricotta Cake, Old-Fashioned Berry Ice-Box Cake, Jalapeno Corn Bread Wedges-all are within reach, with a little planning. The author honed her skills at La Varenne in Paris, specializing in pastry, but despite her serious experience, her approach is relaxed and realistic. To Dodge, the weekend baker is the dinner party host who wants to accompany the meal with homemade focaccia, but doesn't get home from work until six; the mom who finds out her son needs cupcakes for Cub Scouts in an hour; or the low-maintenance sweet tooth who's ready to embark on a baking "production" on a Saturday afternoon, but doesn't know where to start. Supremely efficient, the book will help readers in any number of situations, whether they have a few days (Ready-When-You-Are-Chocolate-Raspberry Souffl s can be prepared and refrigerated for up to a day or frozen for up to two weeks before baking) or less than an hour (Nutty Cinnamon Elephant Ears use frozen puff pastry). Encompassing cookies and bars, cakes, breads, custards and pies, and sharing time-saving tips on everything from using the microwave to soften butter to keeping a well-stocked pantry, this is an excellent resource for cooks of all levels. Photos. (Nov. 9) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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The All-New Atkins Advantage: The 12-Week Low-Carb Program to Lose Weight, Achieve Peak Fitness and Health, and Maximize Your Willpower to Reach Life Goals

Author: Stuart M Trager

The proven diet that will slim you down, get you exercising, and change your life

The All-New Atkins Advantage is more than a diet: it features the Atkins proven-effective weight loss program in a 12-week, step-by-step plan, including instructions on how to incorporate healthy exercise into your life as well as guidance on maintaining the motivation to stick with the diet and exercise program.

Each week builds on the one before it to raise your level of competence and confidence:

Week 1: Combat cravings for sugars and starches with tasty, low-carb alternatives like veal parmesan and trout almondine.

Week 4: Achieve peak fitness with the Atkins approach to exercise. Fully illustrated stretching, cardio, and strength training plans will get you energized.

Week 6: Start an Atkins journal to maintain your motivation and continue your enthusiasm and success.

Week 9: Get out of your lunch rut! Go out for a special but speedy meal at a restaurant, instead of the nearby deli.

Week 12: All the work you’ve done thus far has prepared you for this moment: the beginning of the rest of your life!

Turn your life around and give yourself a dietary, exercise, and lifestyle makeover with THE ALL-NEW ATKINS ADVANTAGE.

The All-New Atkins Advantage will allow you to enjoy a wider variety of foods, tailor an individualized exercise plan, and do Atkins your way.

The step-by-step program is designed to allow you to move at your own pace.

Part I introduces you to the basics of the Atkins program, from a list of foods you'll want to have on hand to mental exercises to get you motivated.

Part II features the 12-week AtkinsAdvantage Program, including a fitness component that allows you to design your own workout, no matter what your level of fitness.

Part III includes 12 weeks' worth of delicious daily meal plans at varying carbohydrate levels.

At the end of the twelve weeks, you will have changed the way you eat and become healthier, slimmer, and happier.

STUART L. TRAGER, M.D. is a board certified orthopedic surgeon. He is an eight-time Ironman and a top ten finisher at the Ultraman World Championship who credits the Atkins Nutritional Approach for helping him achieve peak fitness and health.

COLETTE HEIMOWITZ, M.Sc., has been featured on national television networks such as NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC, and on radio programs across the country.