Cookbook for Beginners

Author: Lisa Grant
Publisher: Rockridge Press
ISBN: 9781641520331
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
The Super Easy Cookbook for Beginners offers a hands-on approach to learning how to cook with essential techniques and easy, 5-ingredient recipes. The best way to learn how to cook is to actually start cooking. When you're ready to set foot in the kitchen, the Super Easy Cookbook for Beginners offers the easiest, 5-ingredient recipes to teach you how to cook--while cooking! Beyond basic cooking skills, this beginner's cookbook gets you started by serving up simple, home-style recipes that require only 5 main ingredients or less. Alongside step-by-step guidance for kitchen techniques--plus useful tips like how to hold a knife--the Super Easy Cookbook for Beginners is the easiest recipe to make anyone a good cook. From preparing ingredients to roasting a chicken, the Super Easy Cookbook for Beginners sets you up for success in the kitchen with: 120 easy, 5-ingredient recipes that use commonly found ingredients for hassle-free cooking Cooking skills that range from safety practices to storage rules, and explain key terms so that you know the difference between braising and caramelizing your food Kitchen tips that outline essential appliances along with staple pantry products to keep on hand Get started with recipes like Zucchini Au Gratin or Spinach Baked Tilapia, and learn how easy cooking can be with the Super Easy Cookbook for Beginners.

How to Cook Everything: The Basics

Author: Mark Bittman
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0544186966
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 501

Book Description
The next best thing to having Mark Bittman in the kitchen with you Mark Bittman's highly acclaimed, bestselling book How to Cook Everything is an indispensable guide for any modern cook. With How to Cook Everything The Basics he reveals how truly easy it is to learn fundamental techniques and recipes. From dicing vegetables and roasting meat, to cooking building-block meals that include salads, soups, poultry, meats, fish, sides, and desserts, Bittman explains what every home cook, particularly novices, should know. 1,000 beautiful and instructive photographs throughout the book reveal key preparation details that make every dish inviting and accessible. With clear and straightforward directions, Bittman's practical tips and variation ideas, and visual cues that accompany each of the 185 recipes, cooking with How to Cook Everything The Basics is like having Bittman in the kitchen with you. This is the essential teaching cookbook, with 1,000 photos illustrating every technique and recipe; the result is a comprehensive reference that’s both visually stunning and utterly practical. Special Basics features scattered throughout simplify broad subjects with sections like “Think of Vegetables in Groups,” “How to Cook Any Grain,” and “5 Rules for Buying and Storing Seafood.” 600 demonstration photos each build on a step from the recipe to teach a core lesson, like “Cracking an Egg,” “Using Pasta Water,” “Recognizing Doneness,” and “Crimping the Pie Shut.” Detailed notes appear in blue type near selected images. Here Mark highlights what to look for during a particular step and offers handy advice and other helpful asides. Tips and variations let cooks hone their skills and be creative.

My Very First Cookbook

Author: Danielle Kartes
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1728236312
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 89

Book Description
Family time in the kitchen is special. Celebrate all the joyful moments in the kitchen with your little chef with this adorable keepsake cookbook! Learning to cook is sure to boost kids' confidence in the kitchen, but most importantly, it helps create special memories of your time together! Whether your little chef has never ventured into the kitchen or they're ready to have their own cooking show, these delightful and delicious recipes can be shared with the whole family for generations. This kid-friendly cookbook includes everything you need to create the moments you'll remember forever: More than 45 fun and simple kid-friendly recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, desserts, and more! Tips to personalize each recipe to make your time in the kitchen special Conversation starters, ideas for making joyful memories together, and even some silly jokes! Make every day a celebration with My Very First Cookbook!

The Everything Indian Cookbook

Author: Monica Bhide
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440522855
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 427

Book Description
Indian cuisine constitutes the exotic blend of flavors from the Himalayas in the North to the Eastern Bay of Bengal. Featuring hundreds of recipes, such as Indian-Style Coleslaw, Rice Pudding, and Indian Corn Flatbread, The Everything Indian Cookbook guides readers through preparing delicious Indian cuisine right in their own homes. From basic Indian flavors and spices to Indian cooking methods and meals, The Everything Indian Cookbook offers a diverse set of recipes perfect for both vegetarians and meat-eaters. Featuring delicious recipes for: Appetizers, such as Paneer Tikka Breads, such Simple Naan Bread Salads, such as Spicy Papaya Salad Curry dishes, such as Goat Chicken Curry Seafood dishes, such as Shrimp Koliwada Special vegetarian fare, such as Lentil and Rice Kedgee Chutneys, such as Mint Cilantro Chutney Desserts, such as Mango Mousse Whether cooks want to prepare a meal for one - or a flavorful feast for company - The Everything Indian Cookbook will have them serving up tasty Indian cuisine to tempt anyone!

Learn to Cook

Author: Hilah Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988673601
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 310

Book Description
Drawing from a lifetime of cooking, Hilah Johnson (host of the popular internet cooking series, Hilah Cooking) has produced a beginners cookbook for today's young (and young-at-heart) adults. Featuring a casual straightforward style and a focus on fresh, simple recipes "Learn to Cook" will appeal to anyone who loves to eat. Inside you'll find chapters on menu planning, knife skills, shopping, kitchen equipment (including the only three tools you "really" need), and more. Plus, a comprehensive spice chart and over 150 recipes from breakfast to dinner to the snacks in between.

My First Cookbook

Author: America's Test Kitchen Kids
Publisher: America's Test Kitchen
ISBN: 194870322X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194

Book Description
From the creators of NYT Bestseller The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs, America's Test Kitchen and an army of kid recipe testers, this awesome new cooking collection will get 5 to 8 year olds (and their grown-ups!) into the kitchen doing fun food projects together! My First Cookbook will inspire the youngest chefs to enter the kitchen, empower them to cook, and engage their creativity--plus they'll have fun doing it. From simple after-school snacks, family meals, and holiday celebration recipes, each beginner recipe is developed by America's Test Kitchen Kids before being kid-tested and kid-approved.

Ottolenghi

Author: Yotam Ottolenghi
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 1607744198
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 509

Book Description
Available for the first time in an American edition, this debut cookbook, from bestselling authors Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi of Plenty and Jerusalem, features 140 recipes culled from the popular Ottolenghi restaurants and inspired by the diverse culinary traditions of the Mediterranean. Yotam Ottolenghi’s four eponymous restaurants—each a patisserie, deli, restaurant, and bakery rolled into one—are among London’s most popular culinary destinations. Now available for the first time in an American edition and updated with US measurements throughout, this debut cookbook from the celebrated, bestselling authors of Jerusalem and Plenty features 140 recipes culled from the popular Ottolenghi restaurants and inspired by the diverse culinary traditions of the Mediterranean. The recipes reflect the authors’ upbringings in Jerusalem yet also incorporate culinary traditions from California, Italy, and North Africa, among others. Featuring abundant produce and numerous fish and meat dishes, as well as Ottolenghi’s famed cakes and breads, Ottolenghi invites you into a world of inventive flavors and fresh, vibrant cooking.

Gluten-Free 101

Author: Carol Fenster
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0544186575
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 243

Book Description
It can be upsetting and overwhelming to learn that you can’t eat gluten, or that you need to cook for someone who can’t. Gluten-Free 101 is the guide to help make the transition a simple and positive change. It explains how to select and work with the best g-free foods from a now extensive (and sometimes confusing) product shelf, how to continue eating healthfully, and how to master basic gluten-free cooking techniques, such as cooking g-free pasta and rolling g-free dough. There are 175 simple recipes for everyday favorites like pancakes, pizza, fried chicken, sandwich bread, and cupcakes, with more than twenty-five beautiful recipe photos. Going gluten-free can be fun and delicious!

The Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook

Author: Good Housekeeping
Publisher: Hearst
ISBN: 9781588161871
Category : Cookbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A collection of over 1,400 recipes each featuring step-by-step instructions, including 900 color photographs of finished dishes.

Betty Crocker's Cooking Basics

Author: Betty Crocker
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780028624518
Category : Cookbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Today, many people find they don t know kitchen basics, much less know how to cook a meal. Betty Crocker comes to the rescue in Cooking Basics, covering all the information anyone needs to cook, whether they are just leaving home, or discovering a need to cook at any age. Using the 100 appealing recipes here, anyone can learn to cook a complete meal. Nothing is intimidating, and every technique, term and ingredient is clearly explained. Each recipe has its own two-page spread, complete with a photo of the finished food and how-to photos of techniques used in the recipe. It s never been simpler to create a great dish! Betty Crocker interviewed inexperienced cooks, to get just the the right recipes for this book, the ones novice cooks really want: hamburgers three way broiled, grilled or fried; Quick Lasagna; Teriyaki Chicken Stir-fry; Quick Chicken Soup; Shrimp Scampi; Quesadillas; Mashed Potatoes; Strawberry Shortcakes, and other tempting treats. Anyone can cook a dinner -- even entertain -- with these sure-fire recipes. Did you think only gourmets tackled Thanksgiving dinner? Not with Betty Crocker. Included is a complete Thanksgiving feast, with a timetable so everything comes out just right. Whether you want to host the show, or bring a dish to help out your host, this Thanksgiving meal is perfect for everyone. Also covered is how to set up a kitchen, how to read a recipe, a glossary of ingredients and a complete explanation of food preparation terms. Learn about fresh herbs--what they look like and how to use them -- plus complete easy-to-read listings of pasta shapes and salad greens. Sections on grilling, entertaining, table setting, and refrigerator and freezer storage guides complete the book, and make new cooks feel confident on all fronts. No longer does anyone have to be afraid of the kitchen. With Betty Crocker know-how and experience, you can cook up a great dinner!