Baking at Home with The Culinary Institute of America

Baking at Home with The Culinary Institute of America
Author: The Culinary Institute of America
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-09-27
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780471450955

A complete, illustrated volume of lessons and recipes for the home baker. The Culinary Institute of America is the place where many of today's leading chefs and pastry chefs have learned the fundamental skills that launched their careers. Now, in this companion to Cooking at Home with The Culinary Institute of America, the CIA draws on its extensive expertise and experience to give home bakers an outstanding course in the essentials of baking, along with a wealth of irresistible recipes. It outlines all the basic information on equipment, ingredients, and methods necessary to create top-quality cakes, pastries, breads, frozen desserts, and more. Readers learn the techniques step by step, with detailed instructions and photographs that clearly explain what to do and how to do it. Ideal for developing skills and building a repertoire, the book's 200 recipes - all specially created by the CIA - are delicious, attractive, and easy to make, from Cream Scones and Streusel-Topped Blueberry Muffins to Flourless Chocolate Souffle Cake and Warm Lemon Pudding Cakes. Complete with 250 beautiful full-color photographs of procedures and finished dishes, Baking at Home with The Culinary Institute of America is a comprehensive resource that will enable home cooks to master the art of baking in their own kitchens.

Artisan Breads at Home

Artisan Breads at Home
Author: Eric Kastel
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2010-01-12
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0470182601

Beginning with a thorough discussion of ingredients and equipment, Chef Kastel explains everything from how to shop for flour to how to use a shower cap during the dough's rise. From there, he outlines the 12 steps of bread baking, describing each one in detail.

Cookies at Home with The Culinary Institute of America

Cookies at Home with The Culinary Institute of America
Author: The Culinary Institute of America (CIA)
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2011-10-25
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780470412275

Chewy, crispy, rich, and crunchy—who doesn't want a cookie right this minute? In the tradition of Chocolates and Confections at Home with The Culinary Institute of America comes Cookies at Home with The Culinary Institute of America, featuring chewy, crispy, rich, and crunchy cookies and offering information about basic cookie-making techniques, equipment, and ingredients. The recipes include a range of options, from quick and easy Chocolate Chip Cookies and Fudge Brownies to cookies that will delight and inspire your guests, including Lemon Meringues and French Macaroons. With beautiful full-color photography throughout, Cookies at Home with The Culinary Institute of America offers easy instructions and features nearly 100 recipes, with helpful tips for decorating cookies for special occasions and packing them for personal gifts. Includes nearly 100 delicious cookie recipes, from classic to contemporary, sweet to savory Features important step-by-step techniques and beautiful photographs throughout Developed with the authority of The Culinary Institute of America and the expert voice of Chef Todd Knaster No matter what kind of cookies you love, from Triple Chocolate Cookies to the festive Gingerbread House, Cookies at Home with The Culinary Institute of America will help you take your home-baked cookies to new and delicious heights.

Baking and Pastry

Baking and Pastry
Author: The Culinary Institute of America (CIA)
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 944
Release: 2009-05-04
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780470055915

First published in 2004, Baking and Pastry has quickly become an essential resource for anyone who wants to create professional-caliber baked goods and desserts. Offering detailed, accessible instructions on basic techniques along with 625 standout recipes, the book covers everything from yeast breads, pastry doughs, quick breads, cookies, custards, souffl?s, icings, and glazes to frozen desserts, pies, cakes, breakfast pastries, savory items, and chocolates and confections. Featuring 461 color photographs and illustrations--more than 60 percent of which are all-new--this revised edition offers new step-by-step methods for core baking techniques that make it even more useful as a basic reference, along with expanded coverage of vegan and kosher baking, petit fours and other mini desserts, plated desserts, decorating principles and techniques, and wedding cakes. Founded in 1946, The Culinary Institute of America is an independent, not-for-profit college offering bachelor's and associate degrees, as well as certificate programs, in culinary arts and baking and pastry arts. A network of more than 37,000 alumni in foodservice and hospitality has helped the CIA earn its reputation as the world's premier culinary college. Visit the CIA online at www.ciachef.edu.

Hors D'Oeuvre at Home with The Culinary Institute of America

Hors D'Oeuvre at Home with The Culinary Institute of America
Author: Culinary Institute of America
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2007-04-23
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0764595628

Contains 150 recipes for stylish hors d'oeuvres, grouped in seven categories, including hors de'oeuvre in bite-size containers; fillings, dips, and toppings; filled or stuffed, layered, and rolled; skewered and dipped; bowls and platters; cheese service; and bite-size desserts; with serving suggestions.

Gluten-Free Baking with The Culinary Institute of America

Gluten-Free Baking with The Culinary Institute of America
Author: Richard J Coppedge
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2008-09-17
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1598696130

Contains 150 recipes for gluten-free yeast breads and pastries, quick breads, cookies, brownies, pastries, cakes, pies and tarts, and savories, and includes tips on living gluten-free, as well as notes on ingredients and equipment.

Italian Cooking at Home with The Culinary Institute of America

Italian Cooking at Home with The Culinary Institute of America
Author: The Culinary Institute of America
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-03-08
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780470182581

Authentic, amazing Italian cooking made easy This sumptuously photographed guide to cooking all things Italian in the home kitchen will win over both beginning and experienced cooks with authentic and inventive recipes and step-by-step guidance from the experts at the CIA. Covering a variety of dishes from snacks, pickles, and preserves to pasta, meat, fish, and dessert, Italian Cooking is the perfect primer for fresh and flavorful Italian cuisine. With rustic focaccias, long-simmered soups, and entrées with aromatic herbs, these vivid recipes are irresistible. Wine suggestions and mouthwatering photographs accompany the recipes. Includes more than 150 fantastic, approachable Italian recipes Covers chapters on Gli Spuntini (Snacks and Little Bites), I Crudi (Raw Dishes), Le Minestre (Soupe), La Pasta Secca (Dry Pasta), La Sfoglia (Fresh Pasta), I Pesci (Fish), Le Carni (Meat), and more Features tantalizing photos by Francesco Tonelli that illustrate cooking techniques and provide plenty of inspiration for the home cook Italian Cooking offers a grand tour through Italian cuisine, covering regional cuisines, wines, and histories along the way.

The Culinary Institute of America Cookbook

The Culinary Institute of America Cookbook
Author: Culinary Institute of America
Publisher: Lebhar-Friedman
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2008
Genre: Appetizers
ISBN:

The Culinary Institute of America Cookbook is complete with our favorite recipes for morning meals, baked goods, appetizers, hors d'oeuvres, soups, light meals, main courses, side dishes, and scrumptious desserts.

Breakfasts & Brunches

Breakfasts & Brunches
Author: Cynthia Scheer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1983
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780897210126

Abstract: A cookbook in 8 chapters focuses on different ways to prepare and serve tasty breakfasts and brunches. Topics include reasons for eating a nutritious breakfast; ideas for interesting brews, beverages, and spirited drinks, fruits and fruit mixes, and desserts made with fruits; egg cookery; meat, poultry, and fish dishes and pancakes, waffles, breakfast pies and breads. Colorful photographs illustrate finished dishes and drawings illustrate some cooking techniques. A US measure and metric measure chart is provided along with an index. (kbc).