This week: How to beat the heat with cooling beverages and desserts, recipes, cookbook previews and giveaways

Summertime is here for most of us in the northern hemisphere and I am sure many of us want to avoid turning on the oven for any reason. This week’s roundup will focus on chilly desserts along with cocktails/beverages because nothing tackles being parched like an icy beverage – whether a mocktail or cocktail.

In our EYB Library, we have over 300 online recipes for no-bake desserts, 187 online recipes for fool desserts, 85 online recipes for Eton mess, and over 8,000 online recipes for frozen desserts.

When talking refreshing beverages, our Library has over 9,000 online recipes for cocktails (with these online recipes classified as mocktails) and 5,278 online recipes for drinks without alcohol. This week we have a promotion for a great set of books perfect for the warmer days: Summer Drinks – Skewered.

What are your go-to no bake desserts and cocktails? Or do you just head for the ice cream shop and throw all caution to the wind? Below are a few of my favorite cookbooks and articles related to this topic. Next week is my son’s 17th birthday and I’m thinking ice cream cake for sure!

• Bakeless Sweets: Pudding, Panna Cotta, Fluff, Icebox Cake, and More No-bake Desserts by Faith Durand
• Icebox Cakes: Recipes for the Coolest Cakes in Town by Jean Sagendorph and Jessie Sheehan
• Icebox Pies: 100 Scrumptious Recipes For No-Bake No-Fail Pies and Icebox Cakes: Irresistible No-Bake Desserts by Lauren Chattman
• The Boozy Blender by Mark Scarbrough and Bruce Weinstein
• Ice cream books by popularity
• Cocktail titles by popularity
• 90 Summer Desserts from BBC Food
• 26 desserts inspired by Aussie classics to make this summer
• 28 no-bake desserts to keep you cool – Delicious.com.au
• 10 summer fruit desserts from foodtolove.co.nz

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The last week on the blog

Since our last roundup, Darcie has written these articles:

• Food fests anchor recovery efforts
• When you can’t let go
• Guild of Food Writers Award Winners 2021
• Vent some steam with catharsis cookbooks

Darcie’s weekly food news antipasto is shared every Sunday and the tag #foodnews brings up these information-packed posts from the most current to the first one. Darcie can be followed on Instagram at darcie_bakes.

Since our last roundup, I have posted the following:

• Summer Drinks – Skewered Cookbook Giveaway (US/UK/CA)
• Crave – Cookbook Giveaway (US/UK/AU/NZ)
• The Pasta Man – Cookbook Giveaway (US/UK/AU/NZ)
• June 2021 EYB Cookbook Summary
• July 2021 The Great Big Cookbook Club Roundup – updated with Great British Chef’s July selection and Tasting Table’s remainder of 2021 options.
• Last week’s roundup shared EYB tips and indexing details

Please be sure to check our Calendar which has been recently updated with events for Ottolenghi in the UK and for his 2022 tour in the US as well as other authors and cookbook store events.

As always, I continue to update our cookbook deals post (note the new permanent link) so check the blog for new sales – the ICYMI post explains the post in detail. My Instagram is thecookbookjunkies.

Jenny and the EYB Team

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Recently Indexed Titles

• My Kitchen Table: 100 Quick Stir-fry Recipes by Ken Hom
• Simply Raymond: Recipes from Home by Raymond Blanc
• Bake: 125 Show-Stopping Recipes, Made Simple by Lorraine Pascale
• Silk Road Vegetarian: Vegan, Vegetarian and Gluten Free Recipes for the Mindful Cook by Dahlia Abraham-Klein
• Japanese Cooking Made Simple: A Japanese Cookbook with Authentic Recipes for Ramen, Bento, Sushi & More
• Everyday Dinners: Real Life Recipes to Set Your Family Up for a Week of Success by Jessica Merchant
• Step-by-Step Baking by Caroline Bretherton (US edition: Illustrated Step-by-Step Baking: Classic and Inspiring Variations to Hone Your Techniques
• Going Paleo: Your Complete Guide to Changing the Way You Look and Feel, for Good by Pete Evans
• Strudel, Noodles and Dumplings: The New Taste of German Cooking by Anja Dunk (Anja has a new book coming out this September Advent: Festive German Bakes to Celebrate the Coming of Christmas)
• French Country Cooking: Authentic Recipes from Every Region by Françoise Branget
• At the Chinese Table: A Memoir with Recipes by Carolyn Phillips
• Healthier Together: Recipes for Two–Nourish Your Body, Nourish Your Relationships by Liz Moody
• The Great British Bake Off / Baking Show: The Big Book of Amazing Cakes by Great British Bake Off

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Member Photo of the Week

Thai beef salad from Delicious: 5 of the Best: Celebrating Five Years of the World’s Best Food Magazine by Valli Little submitted by member MarietNL

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Featured Online Recipe

Rustic blood orange and pistachio galettes from Cook Sister! by Jeanne Horak-Druiff

You can add all of the 557 recipes from the Cook Sister! blog to your bookshelf by clicking on the link above. Jeanne is a UK blogger.

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EYBDigital Previews

Recently we uploaded our 1,031st EYBDigital Preview where a selection of full sample pages is available for the following cookbooks.

Learn more about EYBDigital Previews.

Note: To learn why you cannot add all EYBDigital Preview recipes to your Bookshelf, please read this Help page.

• A selection of pages and 5 recipes from The 5-Minute, 5-Ingredient Lunchbox: Happy, Healthy & Speedy Meals to Make in Minutes by Alexander Hart
• A selection of pages and 6 recipes from The Complete Salad Cookbook: A Fresh Guide to 200+ Vibrant Dishes Using Greens, Vegetables, Grains, Proteins, and More by America’s Test Kitchen
• The introduction and 3 recipes from The Perennial Kitchen: Simple Recipes for a Healthy Future by Beth Dooley
• 6 recipes from The Curry Guy Easy: 100 Fuss-Free British Indian Restaurant Classics to Make at Home by Dan Toombs

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Cookbook Giveaways
Click on the Blue Link Below to Enter

• Enter our US giveaway to win one of three copies of Clodagh’s Weeknight Kitchen: Easy & Exciting Dishes to Liven Up Your Recipe Repertoire by Clodagh McKenna. EYB is providing one additional copy worldwide. This contest expires July 8th, 2021.
• Enter our US giveaway to win one of three copies of Asian Green: Everyday Plant-Based Recipes Inspired by the East by Ching-He Huang. EYB is providing one additional copy worldwide. This contest expires July 8, 2021.
• Enter our US giveaway to win a copy of Super Natural Simple: Whole-Food, Vegetarian Recipes for Real Life by Heidi Swanson. This contest expires July 11th, 2021.
• Enter our US giveaway to win a copy of Mister Jiu’s in Chinatown: Recipes and Stories from the Birthplace of Chinese American Food by Brandon Jew and Tienlon Ho. This contest expires July 11th, 2021.

The cookbook giveaway roundup shares all current giveaways.

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