| Grandma's Best Comfort Food
| When times are tough, as they are now, we need all the comfort we can get. And what better way to provide that sense of security than to make some of the foods we most loved as children? When I think about eating Shepherd's Pie or Potato Salad I think back to a time when life was easy and the livin' was good. Grandma's Best Comfort Food is packed with recipes that will warm your heart and satisfy your taste buds.You'll find all the old stand-by favorites, from Best Ever Chili to Chicken Pot Pie ...More
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| Kitchen Confidential
| Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine." Last summer, The New Yorker published Chef Bourdain’s shocking, "Don’t Eat Before Reading This." Bourdain spared no one’s appetite when he told all about what happens behind the kitchen door. Bourdain uses the same "take-no-prisoners" attitude in his deliciously funny and shockingly delectable book, sure to delight gourmands and philistines alike. From Bourdain...More
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| Make and Freeze Recipes: Great Foods You Can Cook, Freeze, and Use Quickly and Easily (Food Matters)
| Everyone is crunched for times these days, and on a budget as well. When we are so short of time and money, how can we ever feed our families well? Convenience foods and takeaway all cost far more than cooking at home, and are certainly not as healthy as well? So what is a responsible parent supposed to do?Look to your freezer for help. In this guide, you will discover 32 recipes that can be made ahead, frozen, and thawed in minutes in the oven or microwave, so you can put a piping hot meal in f...More
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| The Good Neighbor Cookbook: 125 Easy and Delicious Recipes to Surprise and Satisfy the New Moms, New Neighbors, Recuperating Friends, ... Cohorts and Block Party Pals in Your Life!
| Forget about the same old boring pasta salad or tuna casserole when you need to bring dinner to exhausted new parents, care for a friend recovering from surgery, or contribute to a business breakfast. Sara Quessenberry and Suzanne Schlosberg offer 125 great new recipes inside The Good Neighbor Cookbook. Uniquely divided by occasion rather than food category, chapters include: Get Well Soon, Bringing Home Baby, Welcome to the Neighborhood, Novel Ideas for Book Club, Block Parties, Barbeque...More
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| Essential Pepin: More Than 700 All-Time Favorites from My Life in Food
| For the first time ever, the legendary chef collects and updates the best recipes from his six-decade career. With a searchable DVD demonstrating every technique a cook will ever need.In his more than sixty years as a chef, Jacques Pépin has earned a reputation as a champion of simplicity. His recipes are classics. They find the shortest, surest route to flavor, avoiding complicated techniques.Now, in a book that celebrates his life in food, the world’s most famous cooking teacher winnows his...More
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| An Everlasting Meal
| Reviving the inspiring message of M. F. K. Fisher’s How to Cook a Wolf— written in 1942 during wartime shortages—An Everlasting Meal shows that cooking is the path to better eating. Through the insightful essays in An Everlasting Meal, Tamar Adler issues a rallying cry to home cooks. In chapters about boiling water, cooking eggs and beans, and summoning respectable meals from empty cupboards, Tamar weaves philosophy and instruction into approachable lessons on i...More
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| The Parchment Paper Cookbook: 180 Healthy, Fast, Delicious Dishes!
| What if you could whip up healthy, mouthwatering meals that your family loved--without making a mess?Well, it's as easy as parchment paper. You'll find that cooking in parchment paper is akin to cooking in foil--if foil were French, fast, and environmentally friendly. In this cookbook, award-winning author and food writer Brette Sember shows you how parchment paper cooking can revolutionize the way you cook--and save you time and money, not to mention the grief that often accompanies dinn...More
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| Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods
| Bread. Cheese. Wine. Beer. Coffee. Chocolate. Most people consume fermented foods and drinks every day. For thousands of years, humans have enjoyed the distinctive flavors and nutrition resulting from the transformative power of microscopic bacteria and fungi. Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods is the first cookbook to widely explore the culinary magic of fermentation."Fermentation has been an important journey of discovery for me," writes author Sandor El...More
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| 365 Luncheon Dishes A Luncheon Dish for every day in the year ( Illustrated )
| This is a Classic cook book. but you can change and modify method for your menu.Ex.1.—Stewed Breast of Lamb.Cut a breast of lamb into small pieces, season, and stew until tender in enough gravy to cover the meat. Thicken the sauce, flavor with a wine-glass of wine, pile in the centre of a platter and garnish with green peas.The Authorized 365 Luncheon Dishes A Luncheon Dish for every day in the year ( Illustrated ) for Kindle Edition offers reader special Kindle enabled features, including int...More
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| Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food
| Are you the innovative type, the cook who marches to a different drummer -- used to expressing your creativity instead of just following recipes? Are you interested in the science behind what happens to food while it's cooking? Do you want to learn what makes a recipe work so you can improvise and create your own unique dish? More than just a cookbook, Cooking for Geeks applies your curiosity to discovery, inspiration, and invention in the kitchen. Why is medium-rare steak so popular? Why do we...More
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| Make the Bread, Buy the Butter: What You Should and Shouldn't Cook from Scratch -- Over 120 Recipes for the Best Homemade Foods
| When Jennifer Reese lost her job, she was overcome by an impulse common among the recently unemployed: to economize by doing for herself what she had previously paid for. She had never before considered making her own peanut butter and pita bread, let alone curing her own prosciutto or raising turkeys. And though it sounded logical that “doing it yourself” would cost less, she had her doubts. So Reese began a series of kitchen-related experiments, taking into account the competing demands of...More
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| A Plain Cookery Book for The Working Classes (Illustrated)
| An Excerpt from Preface:"My object in writing this little book is to show you how you may prepare and cook your daily food, so as to obtain from it the greatest amount of nourishment at the least possible expense; and thus, by skill and economy, add, at the same time, to your comfort and to your comparatively slender means. The Recipes which it contains will afford sufficient variety, from the simple every-day fare to more tasty dishes for the birthday, Christmas-day, or other festive occasions....More
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| Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking
| WHEN YOU KNOW A RATIO, IT’S NOT LIKE KNOWING A SINGLE RECIPE, IT’S INSTANTLY KNOWING A THOUSAND. In Ratio, Michael Ruhlman, recognized as one of the great translators of the chef’s craft for both home cooks and culinary professionals, shows how cooking with ratios will unchain you from recipes and set you free. Ratio is the truth of cooking: basic preparations that teach us how the fundamental ingredients of the kitchen—water, flour, butter and oils, milk and cream, and eggs—wor...More
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| The Second Parish Cookbook
| A newly edited and formatted version of a cookbook first published in 1890s USA. Because of its age, this collection of simple and traditional recipes contains no mention of modern vegetable oils or food additives - no food colorings or preservatives, and no paranoia about high fat vs low fat. From a time before heart disease and cancer became the rampant epidemics that they are today, this is traditional cooking at its best and most simple.
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| Good Things to Eat, As Suggested by Rufus: A Collection of Practical Recipes for Preparing Meats, Game, Fowl, Fish, Puddings, Pastries, Etc.
| Rare cookbook from 1911 --- the first written by a Black chef --- republished with 52 "new" photographs, illustrations, and advertisements from the 1800s and early 1900s. Includes the author's comments on what it was like to be a little boy during the Civil War. Includes 21 chapters and 591 recipes . . . for haute cuisine as well as family-style meals, some southern and Creole dishes. Roasted canvas-back duck, Virginia stew, blackberry vinegar, cakes, pies, cookies, omelettes.
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| All About Roasting: A New Approach to a Classic Art
| A master teacher provides delicious recipes and explains the principles behind the essential technique of roasting.Successful restaurateurs have always known that adding "roasted" to a dish guarantees immediate appeal. Molly Stevens brings her trademark thoroughness and eye for detail to the technique of roasting. She breaks down when to use high heat, moderate heat, or low heat to produce juicy, well-seared meats, caramelized drippings, and concentrated flavors. Her 150 recipes...More
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| The Complete Book of Cheese
| The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Cheese; Cookery (Cheese); Cooking / General; Cooking / General; Cooking / Regional
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| The Professional Chef
| "The bible for all chefs."—Paul BocuseNamed one of the five favorite culinary books of this decade by Food Arts magazine, The Professional Chef™ is the classic kitchen reference that many of America's top chefs have used to understand basic skills and standards for quality as well as develop a sense of how cooking works. Now, the ninth edition features an all-new, user-friendly design that guides readers through each cooking technique, starting with a basic formula, outl...More
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| Don't Panic - Dinner's in the Freezer: Great-Tasting Meals You Can Make Ahead
| Authors Susie Martinez, Vanda Howell, and Bonnie Garcia dish up recipes singles or families can freeze ahead, showing you how to cook simply and economically.This one-of-a-kind cookbook offers measurements for cooking alone or with one or two friends. With dozens of ready-to-freeze recipes at your fingertips, you'll be ready the next time someone wonders, "what's for dinner?"Dozens of ready-to-freeze recipes help you save time and money in the kitchen. Whether you prefer to cook alone, or with ...More
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| Taste of Home: Comfort Food Diet Cookbook: New Quick & Easy Favorites: Slim Down with 380 Satisfying Recipes!
| Third in the series, following the best-selling Comfort Food Diet Cookbook, The Comfort Food Diet Cookbook: Quick & Easy Favorites offers an all-new collection of recipes for hearty all-time favorites with fewer calories than expected. This new cookbook includes a bonus section of recipes that are extra quick and easy to suit today's busy lifestyle. Realistic portions combined with exceptional taste put pleasure back into healthy eating without sacrificing quality or satisfa...More
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