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Your Kitchen's Magic Wand

Recipes that expand the indispensable features of the immersion blender beyond soups and smoothies saving time, cleanup, and effort.

Your Kitchen’s Magic Wand consists of sixty+ recipes for all kinds of dishes that are made considerably easier with the use of an immersion blender, in terms of convenience, time-saving, and cleanup. The book takes the immersion blender out of the smoothie and soup closet and into the mainstream, with a wide range of appetizers, cocktails, salads, pastas, entrees, side dishes and desserts, in addition to some wonderful soups and smoothies—all made easier and faster because they’re made with an immersion blender at a crucial point in the recipe.

Recipes include:

Penne with Green Peppercorn Cream Sauce

Veal Saffron Meatloaf

Beef Tenderloin Steaks Stuffed with Brie in a Cranberry Balsamic Reduction

Asparagus with Mayonnaise Verte

Peach-Orange Pudding

Tom Steele, Rebecca Bent

Tom Steele is a restaurant reviewer for Fodor's New York and a cookbook writer whose titles include EVERYDAY ASIAN with Patricia Yeo, A GREAT AMERICAN COOK with Jonathan Waxman, and BURGERS with Rebecca Bent. He lives in New York City.