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McCALL'S COOK BOOK the Absolutely Complete Step-By-step Cooking and Serving Guide Review

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(More customer reviews)An old standby, this used book was in good condition and has some of the best classic recipes

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Madhur Jaffrey's Step-by-Step Cooking: Over 150 Dishes from India and the Far East, Including Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Malaysia Review

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(More customer reviews)We were so excited when we saw there was a new Madhur Jaffrey book on Asian cooking that we ordered it immediately. What a hoax--this is nothing more than a reprint of one of her earlier books, Far Eastern Cookery. That book is out of print, and so if you don't have it you might enjoy this book. But everything is virtually the same--the text and the recipes! The only difference is that there are a few Indian recipes tossed in, and there is less interesting information on the countries. The format is also less convenient. The publisher should be ashamed, since they also published Far Eastern Cookery, but there is no mention of the earlier book anywhere in this one--not even in the list of her previous books. Buyer Beware!

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Betty Crocker's New Boys and Girls Cookbook Review

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(More customer reviews)For my seventh birthday, my favorite aunt gave me the Betty Crocker's New Boys and Girls Cookbook. I was so excited since I was the eldest of four kids and always trying to find ways to help my working mother. No more simple dishwashing & ironing for me! I was moving up to the position of family "chef"!
My first attempt was the meat loaf recipe from that book. I followed every direction to the letter! And discovered two things: 1) Not everyone likes an entire tablespoon of Worcestershire sauce in their meatloaf and 2) It's alright to alter a recipe to accomodate varied tastes.
Even though my first meal largely became dog food for a dachshund, I went on to try many of the recipes in that book and it became a cherished part of my childhood. The recipes are given in clear detail with variation suggestions and photos to inspire and tantalize. The holiday suggestions in the back of the book were a particular favorite of mine.
Basic cooking terms, measurements, kitchen utensils, kitchen safety and even table manners are discussed at the beginning of the book. This book has a wonderful "retro" feel giving everyone the feeling that Carol Brady, June Cleaver or some other perfect TV mom is about to come to the door to borrow a cup of sugar. Kids today can definitely benefit from the basic knowledge and simplicity of this book.

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Features 130 easy-to-prepare recipes developed for the young cook.

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The Two Fat Ladies Full Throttle Review

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(More customer reviews)If you've come this far with Jennifer and Clarissa, this is truly "full throttle", and you won't be disappointed! You can, literally, *hear*, both of their voices when you read Clarissa's comments at the start of each chapter and both of them commenting about the receipts they've compiled for this book, which is just entirely wonderful! I happen to listen to anyone who sings the praises of animal fat, butter and the like with my my own good sense telling me, "No! It's not good for you!" And then, my French-based culinary training kicks in and says, "So what? You don't eat like this everyday, so *enjoy*!" This is why I love "The Ladies" books. If, twice a year, I can make a true Alsatian choucroute and please everyone, I'm sure I can also pull a recipe out of a "Ladies" book and remind everyone what home cooking is all about.

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In their third uncensored romp through British and European cuisine, TV's doyennes of decadent food let it rip with all-new, rebelliously rich recipes and food for thought. This raucous ride finds Clarissa Dickson Wright and Jennifer Paterson storming across the cattle and pig farms of Britain to reclaim meat-eaters, searching through dead royals' repertoires for time-tested treasures, and even venturing down under to Australia for their delectable gems. Companion to their hit series, The Two Fat Ladies Full Throttle offers a diversity of dishes that makes menu planning easy. These intensely flavored recipes deliver palate-pleasing meals that are a delight on your plate as well, for as Clarissa maintains, "Nothing is worse than an all-white menu."In their own inimitable fashion, the Ladies tackle everything from potent cocktails and savory soufflés to full-flavored pheasant. Appetizers range from satisfying soups spiked with exotic notes like a Chicken and Ginger Soup to tasty crêpes, mousses, tarts, and terrines. Whether it's lamb wrapped in delicate phyllo pastry or a beef stew served with pumpkin scones, main dishes are both comforting and heartwarming, delivering a full measure of robust flare. When it comes to poultry, the Ladies incorporate a wide variety of seasonings to create Calcutta Chicken Croquettes and Spanish Chicken Andalouse. They attack side dishes with similar gusto. A fetchingly colored Tomato Tart and Sugar-Browned Potatoes, laced with a divine caramelized sugar, bring zest to even simple entrées. To finish off these hearty offerings, indulge in the Ladies' desserts, which include creamy custards, Apple Balls smothered in pastry, and a daringly delicious Chocolate Crème Brûlée.Never has indulgence been so over the top and so very tempting. Replete with hilarious anecdotes from their forays into the British countryside and beyond the Channel, The Two Fat Ladies Full Throttle includes full-color photos of finished dishes. Just as their popular cooking series and two best-selling books won them a place in our hearts, The Two Fat Ladies Full Throttle offers us more delightfully decadent meals that are sure to please. The original cookbook that took the world by storm, with such Fat Ladies classics as:
Eggs Drumkilbo straight from Buckingham Palace
Potato salad for the perfect picnic
Rabbit dishes fit for the Crusades
The second savory outing from Jennifer and Clarissa includes:
Boston Baked Beans with an Elizabethan twist
Lobster specialties direct from a Scottish castle
A proper English tea from proper English Ladies

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Marcella Cucina Review

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(More customer reviews)I adore this cookbook. The photographs are beautiful, the story behind each recipe is fascinating, the explanations are clear and the results are superb. I am awed by Marcella Hazan's ability to take simple ingredients and create fantastic results with sheer technique and attention to details, such as slicing vs. chopping garlic, sauteing certain ingredients for a long time and adding others for a short time, using butter here and olive oil there and even just plain vegetable oil at other times. There are two summer pasta sauces with nearly identical ingredients, and, as Marcella points out, completely different results. I have made almost all of the sauces and none have been less than delicious. I have discovered the joy of pancetta thanks to this book. I have learned how to make risotto, very good and not all that difficult. Now I am venturing into the meats - the beef stew with capers, cornichons and pancetta was amazing. I have learned alot about good cooking from this book, and not just of Italian food. Marcella's cooking is alive and accessible and completely masterful at the same time.

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The Vegetarian Table: North Africa (Vegetarian Table Series , Vol 4) Review

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(More customer reviews)I'm a professional vegetarian chef and with out a doubt this ranks as probably my favorite "ethnic" cookbook, if not just one of my all time favorite cookbooks in general.

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Apples for Jam Review

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(More customer reviews)If you want a "just the facts, ma'am" type of cookbook this is not for you. However, beyond the good range of simple but inspiring recipes, it was the stories and pictures that are mixed in that really made this book for me. (NB: I didn't mind the colour-coding of the recipes as there is an alphabetical index in the back)
I will definitely be adding more of Tessa Kiros in my cookbook collection.

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Rice Cooker Creations With Debra Murray Review

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(More customer reviews)Purchased this while buying the Wolfgang Puck rice cooker. The rice cooker is the single button cook/warm type with a lid that snaps closed and has a seal. The recipes are for that type of cooker so I don't know how it would work for fuzzy logic types. The recipes are easy to fix and the ingredients are easily found. I only wish it had more recipes in it. It does cover a variety of foods and tastes, including desserts. I like the fact that although limited, the more general approach to the recipes can be used as inspiration to create your own. Recipes include rice dishes (risotto too), bean dishes, stew beef, pasta meals, soups, dessert, etc.. There is even a chicken fettuccine recipe that uses frozen chicken.

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Rice Cooker Creations is a collection of recipes using one of today's most exceptional kitchen appliances...the rice cooker. This book will reveal the rice cooker's true potential and versatility in making delicious dishes for any occasion. Debra Murray, assistant to Chef Wolfgang Puck and television personality, has authored this cookbook to showcase her recipes ranging from enticing appetizers to exquisite desserts. Readers will enjoy delicious dishes like Spicy Shrimp Risotto, classic pastas like Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo, show-stealing side dishes like Easy Fiesta Rice, savory soups like Roasted Red Pepper Soup, plenty of pork, chicken and beef recipes like Beer Braised Baby Back Ribs and heavenly desserts like Cherry Fudge Cake.

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Growing Vegetable Soup (Voyager Books) Review

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(More customer reviews)Children of all ages will enjoy this book, especially if they love to grow plants. Growing Vegetable Soup is also woderfully illustrated. I used this book in a Literacy Bag in conjuction with a Peter Rabbit Garden created by my university. An activity that can be used with the book for young children would be a matching game--vegetable or tool picture to word.

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The Cook's Country Cookbook: Regional and Heirloom Favorites Tested and Reimagined for Today's Home Cooks Review

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(More customer reviews)I would like to take issue with the previous reviewer concerning the fact that the recipes are taken from previous magazines. I for one am delighted to have these excellent and thoroughly tested recipes and product reviews and commentary finaly assembled into a single well organized cookbook. I greatly value these recipes and use them often, but found it tedious to have to thumb through the magazine issues looking for ideas for cooking pork chops for example. All similar recipes are grouped together. If one uses the monthly magazines and then reads the book description and reviews (above), it should be obvious that the magazine recipes would appear in " Cook's Country's" first ever cookbook! Why wouldn't they? I would be dissapointed if I looked for my favorite recipes from the magazine in the cookbook and couldn't find them. Especially for tried and true classics.
For example, If the people at "Cook's Illustrated/ Cook's Country" test recipes for fried chicken and after much tweeking (as is their custom) offer up a recipe that is the "best recipe", I would expect to see that recipe in any of their cookbooks in which it would be pertinent. How many BEST recipes for a single dish can their be. I assume ONE. Therefore whether I reach for their "American Classics" volume or one of their more comprehensive cookbooks, I would expect to find THE best recipe for fried chicken in all of them, unless of course they've further developed that recipe.
I've repeatedly seen this kind of complaint , that they repeat recipes (as if this was a flaw or a rip off, which it's not) and/or they never add new recipes. Cook's Illustrated is constantly testing and publishing new recipes and sometimes updating older ones.
I've been an avid professional and home cook for about 40 years now and own thousands of cookbooks and nothing comes close to the cookbooks offered by "Cook's Illustrated'" (I own them all). I'm not alone in this opinion. Read the reviews for their other cookbooks.
I would highly recommend any thing they publish to any one who enjoys cooking and wants thoroughly tested, fool-proof, and delicious recipes with one caveat. Read the descriptions and reviews of the book(s) you intend to purchase and make certain it's something you want.

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Welcome to Cook's Country - a place where you'll learn what's cooking in kitchens across America. This debut collection from the editors of Cook's Country magazine celebrates the landscape of American home cooking from yesterday and today. In the tradition of great American cookbooks like The Fannie Farmer Cookbook and The Settlement Cookbook, The Cook's Country Cookbook is, at its core, a wide-ranging, comprehensive collection chock-full of beloved classics like roast chicken, beef stew, biscuits, blueberry pie, and more. In addition, the editors of Cook's Country magazine have also reached back in time to revive old favorites to suit modern tastes and lifestyles. Here you'll find Chicken Divan without the soup mix - only tender chicken crisp broccoli blanketed in a velvety cheese sauce. You'll learn that it's possible to serve a from-scratch comfort food classic like meatloaf on a weeknight when time is tight: our mini-meatloaves cook in a fraction of the time of traditional versions. Discover fresh, new, and sometimes regional recipes that illuminate the depth and personality behind American cooking - recipes such as North Carolina Pulled Pork (a slow-cooker dish with real barbecue flavor); 24-Hour Salad (a make-ahead salad where the vegetables remain crisp and fresh); and King Ranch Casserole (a kid-friendly creamy chicken casserole with toasty corn chips and Southwestern spices, made famous by Lady Bird Johnson).In addition to foolproof recipes, The Cook's Country Cookbook also pulls back the curtain to reveal the often fascinating origins of classic American favorites, such as the use of breakfast cereal in party snack mixes or how Bundt pans gave rise to the popular cake. Much more than a collection of foolproof recipes, The Cook's Country Cookbook provides a lively, in-depth portrait of the great American table.

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Cover and Bake (With Free Issue of Cook's Illustrated) Review

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(More customer reviews)If you love the magazine, "Cook's Illustrated" but don't know how to organize the recipes (photocopy/cut-and-paste onto 4x6" cards? tear out your favorites and keep in a binder? keep all the issues and try to remember which had what?), then this book is for you.
The recipes, the background, the tips -- they're all here in an organized, workable format. Hooray!

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Real New Mexico Chile: An Insider's Guide to Cooking With Chile Review

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(More customer reviews)This is my all-time favorite cook book. I cook recipes from it all the time. Most are easy and very tasty!! I have given many copies out as gifts to people just arriving in New Mexico or to others who might like to cook with chiles. When my dog ate my original copy (probably tasted good with little chile stains here and there), there was no question I would get another. Was sad to see it is no longer in print. But the used copy I recieved looked like new.

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Here's a recipe excerpted from Real New Mexico Chile—An Insider's Guide to Cooking With Chile by Sandy Szwarc. Copyright © 1996. All rights reserved.Feast Day Pumpkin StewPumpkin, chiles and corn are foods native to New Mexico and frequently found in traditional Indian stews. This updated version is invigorated with chorizo and given a pleasing creaminess by the addition of milk.1 teaspoon canola oil3/4 cup finely chopped onion (about 1 medium onion) 3 garlic cloves, minced 8 ounces chorizo, chopped4 cups diced pumpkin flesh1 1/2 cups rich chicken or vegetable stock2 cups skim milk1/2 cup chopped roasted and peeled New Mexico green chiles 1/2 teaspoonground cuminsalt to taste1 1/2 cups fresh or frozen corn kernels or cooked posoleIn a large heavy saucepan, heat the oil over medium high heat. Add the onion and garlic and saute until they've softened, about 3 minutes. Add the chorizo and saute until no longer pink, about 5 minutes. Add the pumpkin, stock, milk, chiles, cumin and salt.Simmer, partially covered, over medium-low heat until the pumpkin is tender. Add the corn and heat through. Serve it in bowls, sprinkled with any cheese desired for garnish. Yields 4 servings.

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Extending the Table: A World Community Cookbook Review

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(More customer reviews)The recipes from all over the world, mainly third-world nations, are delicious, easy-to-prepare, healthy, and can be made from inexpensive ingredients after an initial investment in spices. My husband and I were unemployed students and this cookbook gave us an endless variety of ideas for how to prepare lentils, at 50 cents a meal! I buy fresh garlic and ginger and keep both in my freezer. No need to peel the ginger if you've washed it before freezing it, and it breaks apart easily when it has been frozen. Though seasonings can be expensive, they can make the most basic ingredients--dried beans, lentils, grains--savory and satisfying! If you don't have the ingredients the recipe calls for, improvise! These recipes are extrememly versatile.
There is a index for the recipes origin, so you can decide to have a complete dinner featuring a particular nation or region. Many meals can be prepared with one or two pots on your stove, as many kitchens in the world contain only a wood-fired stove.
If you buy this book, spend some time just reading it-- it is filled with stories and observations from MCC volunteers who lived in community with the poor of the world and experienced generosity and hospitality of their neighbors. Some stories will bring you to tears. You will never think of food in the same way again.

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Season's Greetings: Cooking and Entertaining for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Review

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(More customer reviews)I immediately went out and purchased this book after attending a party in which the hostess presented a beautiful and tasty appetizer buffet using eight different recipes from Season's Greetings. The recipes are all eye appealing, delicious and in most cases easy to make. Recipes also include make-ahead tips. I highly recommend it for the beginner as well as the seasoned hostess.

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Eat This .. It'll Make You Feel Better Review

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(More customer reviews)A terrific cookbook with mouthwatering home cooking recipes. This endearing cookbook is written with love, tears and more love and the recipes included read (and taste) like old world home cooking. Mama's Spinach Rolls, Veal Piccata and plenty of sauces are among the very easy recipes that seasoned and new cooks will enjoy. Dom DeLuise shares recipes from friends, families and his own kitchen and like all good cooks, has a story for each and every one. A joy to read.

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