Home Cooking Made Easy

Home Cooking Made Easy
Author: Lorraine Pascale
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2011-10-11
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0007459866

TV chef Lorraine Pascale, author of the phenomenal bestseller Baking Made Easy, is back with her second cookery book – this time packed with simple and delicious recipes for relaxed home cooking that go far beyond baking.

Plant Based Cooking Made Easy

Plant Based Cooking Made Easy
Author: Jill Dalton
Publisher: Hatherleigh Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 157826880X

From the creators of the popular YouTube channel The Whole Food Plant Based Cooking Show comes this timely and comprehensive cookbook! Plant Based Cooking Made Easy features over 100 life-saving, whole food plant-based recipes that are gluten-free, refined sugar & oil free, low in sodium, and full of scrumptious flavors. Modern cutting-edge nutritional research has clearly identified the whole food plant-based diet as the single most potent force for recovering and sustaining human health. Only a diet rich in a wide variety of fresh fruits, vegetables, beans, mushrooms, nuts, berries, and seeds—and which is free of highly processed foods, laden with preservatives, refined oils, sugar, and salt—has the power to reverse many of the leading chronic diseases the world faces today, including heart disease, diabetes, obesity, high blood, autoimmune disorders, and more. Jeffrey and Jill Dalton share the story of their own 23 year journey to plant-based transformation, one which not only empowered them to reverse their chronic health issues but also inspired them to create The Whole Food Plant Based Cooking Show—and now this cookbook! Drawing on their many years of experience with plant-based cooking, they spell out in detail all the appliances and preparations needed to set up your own kitchen for plant-based success. With over 100 recipes based on the best available plant-based nutritional research, Plant Based Cooking Made Easy covers all the bases, offering wholesome takes on everything from common comfort foods like hot dogs, macaroni & cheese, pizza, waffles, brownies, and double stuff Oreo cake, to international favorites like massaman curry, West African peanut sauce, sweet potato flatbread, mushroom bourguignon, tikka masala, hummingbird cake and more. Learn to easily make tasty gluten-free breads, muffins, cakes, pies, and cookies as well as plant-based cheeses and ice creams, salad dressings, and hummus, all in the comfort of your own kitchen. And if you should happen to get stuck, each recipe has a corresponding step-by-step video, easily accessible with a QR code scanner on your mobile device. With this cookbook as your ultimate guide, it has never been easier to make the life-changing switch to a plant-based diet. Soon to become an essential cookbook in healthy kitchens around the world, Plant Based Cooking Made Easy is your key to finally finding your own path to better health.

Real Simple Easy, Delicious Home Cooking

Real Simple Easy, Delicious Home Cooking
Author: Real Simple
Publisher: Oxmoor House
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-04-03
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781603209236

When dinnertime rolls around (again), do you sometimes wish you could disappear? Here's a better idea: Grab this book from the editors of Real Simple for easy, delicious dinner solutions. Since most cooks are short on time, more than half of these recipes can be prepared in 30 minutes or less, and include tips along the way point to additional time-savers and other tricks of the trade. The recipes are arranged by season, to help you take advantage of what's fresh at the market, and are accompanied by photos so you know exactly what you're getting.

Rustic French Cooking Made Easy

Rustic French Cooking Made Easy
Author: Audrey Le Goff
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2019-10-08
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1624148646

Cook Your Way Through France with Simple, Delicious Recipes Real French home cooking is easier than you think! Leave haute cuisine to fussy restaurants, and dive into these uncomplicated classics from Audrey Le Goff, founder of the blog Pardon Your French. Drawing inspiration from her childhood in the north of France, Audrey shares simple fare, full of the rich, complex flavors French cuisine is known for. From quiche to crêpes, these homey dishes are anything but humble. Explore France’s distinct regions and delve into the culture behind each recipe. Hearty cold-weather favorites from the north, like Alsatian Pork and Sauerkraut Stew and the supremely flakey Thin-Crusted Onion, Bacon and Cream Tart are quick and comforting. Provençal Vegetable and Pistou Soup, from the sunny south of France, is packed with bright herbs and ripe produce, and Basque Braised Chicken with Peppers is sure to please with a burst of spice. The essential One-Pot French Onion Soup provides a taste of France any night of the week, and the beloved, buttery Kouign-Amann is surprisingly easy to master. With friendly instructions and easy-to-find ingredients, you’ll soon feel right at home with French cooking.

Modernist Cooking Made Easy

Modernist Cooking Made Easy
Author: Jason Logsdon
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9781481063319

Are you interested in molecular gastronomy and modernist cuisine but can't find any accessible information for getting started? Are you looking for an easy to understand introduction to the techniques, ingredients, and recipes of modernist cooking? If you nodded your head "Yes" then this book was written for you! Modernist cooking is quickly gaining popularity in high end restaurants and working its way into home kitchens. However, there has been very little accessible information about the techniques and ingredients used. This book aims to change that by presenting all the information you need to get to get started with modernist cuisine and molecular gastronomy. It is all presented in an easy to understand format, along with more than 80 example recipes, that can be applied immediately in your kitchen. Modernist Cooking Made Easy: Getting Started covers popular modernist techniques like foams, gels, and spherification as well as many of the ingredients including agar, xanthan gum, and sodium alginate. There are also more than 80 high quality, black and white photographs providing a visual look at many of the recipes and techniques. What You Get in This Book: An in-depth look at many of the most popular modernist ingredients such as xanthan gum, sodium alginate, carrageenan, and agar agar. A detailed exploration of modernist techniques like spherification, gelling, foaming, thickening, and sous vide. More than 80 recipes for gels, foams, sauces, caviars, airs, syrups, gel noodles and marshmallows. Directions for how to use modernist techniques and ingredients to make your everyday cooking more convenient. More than 400 sous vide time and temperature combinations across 175 cuts of meat, types of fish and vegetables. If you want to get started with modernist cooking then this is the book for you!

Baking Made Easy

Baking Made Easy
Author: Lorraine Pascale
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2011
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780007275946

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Scratch

Scratch
Author: Maria Rodale
Publisher: Rodale
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2016-10-11
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1623366437

Maria Rodale was raised on real food. She doesn’t think of eating homemade, from-scratch meals as part of a trend or movement; it has always been her life. Raised in a family of farmers, bakers, chefs, gardeners, and publishers, Maria is used to growing, cooking, reading and writing about, and eating organic, delicious food. And now, for the first time ever, she’s sharing her tried-and-true family recipes. Scratch is full of comfort food recipes that aren’t focused on any one healthy trend, but are instead innately healthy, because Maria inspires you to return to your kitchen and cook with real, organic food. Recipes like Pasta Fagiole, Maria’s Fried Chicken, and Lamb & Barley Soup will be crowd pleasers for sure, but Maria throws in some unique-to-the-family recipes that are going to delight as well, such as her Pennsylvania Dutch Dandelion Salad with Bacon Dressing, Ardie’s Pasties, and Homemade Hoppin’ John (a black-eyed pea stew made with smoked turkey or ham). Besides sharing her family’s favorite recipes, Maria’s book also gives you a peek into her life as a Rodale, with personal family portraits and stories. With this cookbook, you can eat like the Rodale family every night of the week with delicious food to make at home, from scratch. Naturally healthy, bacon included.

Vietnamese Cooking Made Easy

Vietnamese Cooking Made Easy
Author: . Periplus Editors
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2012-03-13
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1462905498

Perfect for beginning cooks this beautifully illustrated Vietnamese cookbook provides easy-to-follow directions for quick and delicious Vietnamese dishes. Famous for its lively, fresh flavors and artfully composed meals, Vietnamese cooking is the true "healthy cuisine" of Asia. Abundant fresh herbs and greens, delicate soups and stir-fries, and well-seasoned grilled dishes served with rice or noodles are the mainstays of the Vietnamese table. Even the beloved snacks or desserts are often based on fresh fruits served with sweetened rice or tapioca. Rarely does any dish have added fats. Along with its delicate freshness, Vietnamese cooking is also subtle and sophisticated. At its best when its flavors are balanced between salty, sweet, sour and hot, Vietnamese cooks strive for a balance of flavors so no one taste outranks any other. Vietnamese Cooking Made Easy features over 50 recipes, from delicate soups and stir-fries to well-seasoned grilled foods served with rice or noodles and are packed with fresh herbs and spices. Stunning photography and simple step-by-step instructions make this cookbook the perfect introduction to the world of Vietnamese cuisine. From chapters introducing basic Vietnamese ingredients to sections devoted to appetizers, noodles, seafood and poultry, this handy little book features a spiral binding, making it an easy-to-use addition to your cookbook library. Easy Vietnamese recipes include: Grilled Lemongrass Chicken Satays Glass Noodle Soup Fish in Caramel Sauce Spicy Lemongrass Tamarind Chicken Sesame Beef with Bamboo Shoots Sweet Glutinous Rice with Coconut and Red Beans Modern cooks will find preparing a Vietnamese meal both rewarding and relatively easy. And with the widespread popularity of Asian foods, locating ingredients is not a challenge--most supermarkets now carry such basics as fresh ginger, lemongrass and chilies. Making delicious Vietnamese food at home has never been easier!

Japanese Home Cooking

Japanese Home Cooking
Author: Sonoko Sakai
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2019-11-19
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0834842483

“A beautifully photographed . . . introduction to Japanese cuisine.” —New York Times “A treasure trove for . . . Japanese recipes.” —Epicurious “Heartfelt, poetic.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Expand a home chef’s borders” with this “essential guide to Japanese home cooking” featuring 100+ recipes—for seasoned cooks and beginners who crave authentic Japanese food (Martha Stewart Living). Using high-quality, seasonal ingredients in simple preparations, Sonoko Sakai offers recipes with a gentle voice and a passion for authentic Japanese cooking. Beginning with the pantry, the flavors of this cuisine are explored alongside fundamental recipes, such as dashi and pickles, and traditional techniques, like making noodles and properly cooking rice. Use these building blocks to cook an abundance of everyday recipes with dishes like Grilled Onigiri (rice balls) and Japanese Chicken Curry. From there, the book expands into an exploration of dishes organized by breakfast; vegetables and grains; meat; fish; noodles, dumplings, and savory pancakes; and sweets and beverages. With classic dishes like Kenchin-jiru (Hearty Vegetable Soup with Sobagaki Buckwheat Dumplings), Temaki Zushi (Sushi Hand Rolls), and Oden (Vegetable, Seafood, and Meat Hot Pot) to more inventive dishes like Mochi Waffles with Tatsuta (Fried Chicken) and Maple Yuzu Kosho, First Garden Soba Salad with Lemon-White Miso Vinaigrette, and Amazake (Fermented Rice Drink) Ice Pops with Pickled Cherry Blossoms this is a rich guide to Japanese home cooking. Featuring stunning photographs by Rick Poon, the book also includes stories of food purveyors in California and Japan. This is a generous and authoritative book that will appeal to home cooks of all levels.

The Clever Cookbook

The Clever Cookbook
Author: Emilie Raffa
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2016-02-16
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1624142168

Recipes for complex meals that come together in no time.Just because you're short on time doesn't mean you have to sacrifice healthy, flavorful homemade food. Thanks to Emilie Raffa's The Clever Cookbook, readers can cut down on cooking time while still creating delicious, complex meals.The highlight of the book is Emilie's incredibly delicious recipes, such as 30-Minute Chicken Piccata, No Sweat Gratin with Brown Rice, Zucchini & Tomatoes and Quick Chicken Stir-Fry with Oven Roasted Broccoli. The recipes are easy and fast, thanks to her clever shortcuts and flavor tricks.Here are some of Emilie's kitchen shortcuts:- Use a wide skillet to cook everything fast (i.e. tomato sauce, pot pie filling and meat sauce).- Cook pasta in less water-it boils faster and the extra starchy cooking liquid creates silky pan sauces. And these are some of her easy taste-boosting tricks:- Save and freeze all parmesan cheese rinds to add to soups and stews for a delicious nutty flavor.- Use the 7-6-5 method for grilling pork tenderloin-sear for 7 minutes, flip and sear for 6 minutes, shut off the heat and let it rest for 5 minutes with the lid closed. Perfectly tender pork every time!Emilie's classic culinary training, knack for creative recipes, savvy shortcuts and flavor tricks will help readers prepare mouthwatering, healthy meals quickly and with ease.