Breakaway Cook

With recipes that break away from the ordinary, the Breakaway Cook by Eric Gower includes dishes like Pomegranate Tofu with Pink Lentil Crust, Clay-Pot Chicken with Leeks and Lotus Root, Frittata Giapponese, and Soft Chocolate Maccha Cakes.  ----  Format: Hardcover with dust jacket, 224 pages.  Copyright: 2007  Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks  Author: Eric Gower  Description: Eric Gower defines a breakaway cook as someone willing to take a culinary leap by combining everyday staples -- chicken, eggs, vegetables, pasta -- with an international bazaar of readily available ingredients: miso, pomegranate molasses, green tea, sour pickled plums, star anise, chipotle peppers, and mole, among others. The Breakaway Cook shows home cooks how to take these global flavor blasts down from the shelf and use them in new, time-saving ways.  Sprinkle poached eggs with maccha salt (powdered green tea and sea salt) for an all-in-one savory and salty breakfast. Braise duck legs with pickled plums a