SIMPLY SUMMER Gourmet Meals Made Deliciously Easy with Tips for Elegant Living

PRLog (Press Release) – Aug 13, 2007 – Can’t fathom the thought of cooking in a steamy hot kitchen and therefore resorting to eating yet another boring salad or sandwich this summer? Worry not, former chef and Renaissance Gourmet Angela Tunner can’t either, which is why she’s created the versatile and accessible SIMPLY SUMMER cookbook to save you from those dog days of summer doldrums.

SIMPLY SUMMER: Deliciously Easy Gourmet Meals with Tips for Elegant Living (Eat Like a Millionaire Omnimedia, June 2007, $21.95) espouses Tunner’s “no-cook cooking” approach - one that is every busy parent, professional and home cook’s salvation. “No-Cooking” is about providing abundant, quality meals that bring families together around the table so that they can regroup and reconnect in body, mind and soul. To that end, SIMPLY SUMMER offers a spate of wonderfully handy tips- including invaluable shopping lists for each recipe- to make cooking in the heat a low-wattage, cucumber-cool affair. Angela’s unfussy, gourmet-recipe laden book offers everyone delectable dishes that eschew the heat of stoves or ovens for small kitchen appliances. This approach is perfect for those increasingly sweltering summer days, which scientists agree has everything to do with increasing greenhouse gases being emitted into our environment.

Angela employs toaster ovens, microwaves, blenders and other small kitchen appliances that use up to 75% less energy than a large electric oven in preparing simple recipes made with easily available ingredients found in neighborhood markets. And without an “energy hog” on in the summer to over-work an already full-tilt air conditioning system, you’ll have virtually no excuse for creating some “no-cook” classics sure to become new family favorites. Whipping up feast after sumptuous feast of restaurant quality meals based on timeless French recipes that are made with seasonal produce never looked so good or easy!
 
SIMPLY SUMMER offers readers tips on how to:

•   Prepare gourmet dishes with fresh, unfussy recipes, using readily available ingredients- perfect for hot, summer weather without the use of a stove or oven, for example: Decadent Apples with Vanilla and Lavender, Melon and Port Soup and Balsamic Portobello Mushrooms
•   Make dishes easy enough for the novice cook and enjoyable enough for the more serious amateur
•   Tips on how to organize your kitchen for more effective cooking
•   Recipes for dishes simple enough to serve everyday but impressive enough to serve when entertaining, plus each recipe’s own shopping list
•   Handy measurement conversion charts

[ About the Author ]

Angela Tunner is a restaurant-trained cook who spent five years full of 18-hour days refining classic French techniques and dishes which she’s simplified for every home cook who wants to cook like a pro with everyday ingredients. Angela’s food and cooking philosophy revolves around the fact that in her own life, food is more than mere sustenance. It is the conduit that helps people connect, regroup and bring each other back down to earth. What’s more, Angela believes that good food brings quality to your life, to your family and guests- and to your home by awakening what she calls the “heart” of every household- the kitchen. By using more energy-efficient kitchen appliances, she’s also doing her part to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and encourage others to do the same. After all, one drop in the bucket can soon become a river.
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SIMPLY SUMMER
Gourmet Meals Made Deliciously
Easy with Tips for Elegant Living
By Angela Tunner
Eat Like  Millionaire Omnimedia
$21.95
Available for order only online at www.angelatunner.com

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