The Big Book of Sides

The Big Book of Sides
Author: Rick Rodgers
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2014-10-28
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0345548191

Whether planning a quick dinner after work or a holiday meal for a crowd, you will never be stumped for a side dish again. Side dishes make the meal. Think about it: What’s a burger without fries, turkey without stuffing, or barbecue without coleslaw, baked beans, or macaroni and cheese—or all three? The Big Book of Sides contains more than 450 delicious recipes to complement any dish. Award-winning cooking teacher and author Rick Rodgers has carefully compiled a variety of wonderful options, from traditional to inspired, Americana to ethnic, Southern fare to California cuisine. Sections include “Eat Your Vegetables,” “From the Root Cellar,” “A Hill of Beans,” “Righteous Rice and Great Grains,” and “Pasta and Friends.” The Big Book of Sides shares • more than 100 information-packed entries on vegetables alone, from artichokes to zucchini, including root vegetables and grains • tutorials on the cooking techniques you need to know, such as grilling and deep-frying • at-a-glance charts for a variety of perfectly roasted vegetables and freshly cooked beans • carefree menu planning, with a complete list of special-occasion meals and suggested side dishes Home cooks of all levels will delight in preparing Roasted Summer Squash with Pepitas and Cilantro; Chard Puttanesca; Parsnip, Apple, and Bacon Hash; Smoked Gouda Mashed Potatoes; Quinoa with Carrot and Mint; Farro, Cherry, and Feta Salad; and Butternut Squash and Potato Gratin. Rodgers also shares recipes for relishes, chutneys, pickles, baked goods (from biscuits to foccacia), and even sauces. With helpful tips on how to stock your pantry, easy-to-follow cooking techniques, gorgeous color photos, and main dish pairing suggestions, The Big Book of Sides is sure to become a trusted staple in your kitchen.

Cooking Light Big Book of Salads

Cooking Light Big Book of Salads
Author: The Editors of Cooking Light
Publisher: Cooking Light
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780848736460

Dig in to a seriously tasty salad--with Cooking Light Big Book of Salads! Farmers markets popping up all over the country are filled with a variety of beautiful fruits and vegetables. Grocery stores are starting to stock locally-grown produce. And ingredients from all over the world are more accessible than ever. And CSAs drop just-picked goodies right at your doorstep! Here's how to make the most of all of nature's delicious goodness: The Cooking Light Big Book of Salads includes over 150 recipes for incredibly tasty, interesting, and healthy salads that are perfect for weeknight meals, cookout sides, and mouthwatering starters. This flavorful, healthy fare hits all the notes everyone loves. The best toppings? Got 'em: Candied nuts, creamy goat cheese, sweet dried cranberries, spicy prosciutto, pungent Stilton and Gorgonzola, juicy pears, salty olives, and crunchy croutons. You will learn how to make the most of in-season produce, like peaches, arugula, strawberries, corn, tomatoes, winter squash, and more. Tips and techniques provide everything needed to make amazing salads. You will learn how to buy and store greens so they stay crisp, how to spot fruit and veggies at the peak of flavor, how to properly dress a salad, how to whisk homemade light dressings (we're not just talking about a wimpy squeeze of lemon), tips on making salads with pasta, beans, interesting grains-and more.

The Big Book of Details

The Big Book of Details
Author: Rozlyn Linder
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780325077666

"The writing lessons in this book are organized to quickly unpack the detail move, explain when and why the strategy works well, share how I have taught it to my students, and offer ways to make it your own." -Rozlyn Linder Have you ever told a writer to add more details, only to see their writing get longer not better? That's why Roz Linder wrote The Big Book of Details. "To help our students use details and elaborate effectively," she writes, "we need to find out what they want their writing to do, and then show them explicit moves to make it happen." Roz breaks elaboration into 5 categories and shares 46 lessons based on the moves that professional writers use. With if-then charts that connect student needs to just-right strategies, you'll help writers master details that: Describe: for people, places, and things Dance: for showing action and sequencing events Convince: for questions, persuasion, and arguments Inform: for defining, comparing, and clarifying Speak: for conversation and speech. The Big Book of Details supports planning and on-the-go teaching for one-on-one conferences, whole-class instruction, or commercial writing programs. Its lessons are organized to help kids understand each move quickly. Roz's strategy lessons include: examples from real-world writers the reason writers use the strategy advice for introducing it to writers ideas for guided practice with writers examples of one of Roz's famous classroom charts "This is what I want for my students," writes Roz Linder, "to use details in their writing in a meaningful way that conveys their ideas and their purpose." If you want that too, then make her Big Book of Details part of your teaching toolkit.

Weber's Big Book of Grilling

Weber's Big Book of Grilling
Author: Jamie Purviance
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2001-03
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9780811831970

Building on the tremendous success of Weber's Art of the Grill (over 100,000 copies sold!), the world's best-known and most trusted grilling experts bring us the ultimate in barbecue cookbooks. Destined to become a sauce-stained classic, it's packed with 350 of the tastiest and most reliable recipes ever to hit the grill, hundreds of mouthwatering full-color photos, and countless sure-fire, time-honored techniques and tricks of the trade guaranteed to turn anyone into a barbecue champion. For the chef who's barely flipped a burger to the local grilling guru, here's all the advice and all the fabulous food required to wow the neighborhood--and at a price that's as red hot as the coals!

Fred Thompson’s Southern Sides

Fred Thompson’s Southern Sides
Author: Fred Thompson
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2012-09-24
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0807837385

Side dishes are the very heart and soul of southern cuisine. So proclaims Fred Thompson in this heartfelt love letter to the marvelous foods on the side of the plate. From traditional, like Pableaux's Red Beans and Rice, to contemporary, like Scuppernong-Glazed Carrots, Thompson's 250 recipes recommend the virtues of the utterly simple and the totally unexpected. Fred Thompson's Southern Sides celebrates the sheer joy of cooking and eating these old and new classic dishes. Exploring the importance of side dishes in the cuisine of the American South, Thompson suggests that if you look closely enough, you can find a historical tale of family, culture, and ethnicity in one awesome recipe after another. Twelve richly illustrated chapters feature a full array of produce, grains and beans, fish and meats, and more. The recipes are enhanced by Thompson's amusing observations, tales of southern living and eating, and straightforward cooking tips. Thompson also provides menus for special occasions throughout the year--for Thanksgiving, you may want to include Twice-Baked Sweet Potatoes with Sage, Sorghum, and Black Walnuts.

Southern Living Big Book of Slow Cooking

Southern Living Big Book of Slow Cooking
Author: The Editors of Southern Living
Publisher: Time Home Entertainment
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2012-10-25
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0848738926

Pressed for time? Discover the secret to creating tasty dishes with almost no effort at all! Get the most out of your slow cooking with delicious recipes for appetizers, main dishes, sides, plus more! Learn creative uses for your slow cooker in the "Yes, You Can Make That in Your Slow Cooker" chapter. "Slow-Cooker School" shares insider recipe tips from the Southern Living Test Kitchen. Full-color photos of every recipe let you quickly find the perfect dish for any occasion. Step-by-step photos reveal how-to secrets for guaranteed great results.

On the Side

On the Side
Author: Ed Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2017-05-04
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1408873168

A revolutionary cookbook that moves the humble side dish to centre stage. Whilst writing his food blog, Rocket & Squash, Ed Smith noticed that a key part of our meals was being ignored. On too many occasions, side dishes were being relegated to an overboiled afterthought, or dismissed with a throwaway 'eat with potatoes' or 'serve with seasonal greens' line. But our side dishes have the potential to be as inspirational as the main event itself. In fact, they're often the best bit! Here it's the 'two veg' rather than the meat which are given the spotlight: you'll find 140 inspiring recipes and insightful tips to make your pulses, roots, vegetables and greens dazzle in their own right. Think of garlic oil pea shoots, smoky ratatouille, celeriac baked in a salt and thyme crust, carrots with brown butter and hazelnuts, spelt grains with wild mushrooms, and chorizo roast potatoes. Complete with a recipe directory that will help you find the perfect accompaniment, whatever your cooking, On the Side will brighten and invigorate every meal.

The Healthy Sides Cookbook

The Healthy Sides Cookbook
Author: Editors of Cooking Light Magazine
Publisher: Liberty Street
Total Pages: 1021
Release: 2015-08-18
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0848747127

Cooking Light, the healthy cooking authority, helps you make any meal better with 300 inspired recipes, and hundreds of photographs, for side dishes that are big on flavor, but short on effort for the cook. This book will help you discover new, easy-to-prepare ways to make the most of any vegetable, fruit, grain, or pasta. From crowd-pleasing side dishes for big holiday celebrations to tips on scaling your recipes to the incredibly useful "Pairs With Index" that quickly identifies the perfect match for any main, 3 Sides to Every Meal will be your go-to resource for delicious, foolproof dishes that complement every meal.

Weber's Big Book of Burgers

Weber's Big Book of Burgers
Author: Jamie Purviance
Publisher: HMH
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0544850378

The ultimate cookbook for BBQ lovers, with recipes and tips for heavenly hamburgers and much more. Weber’s Big Book of Burgers tips a spatula to the mighty beef patty, celebrating our national dish in all its glory, and goes beyond the bun, reinventing the burger with modern twists and alternative ingredients such as pork, poultry, seafood, and veggies. And it doesn’t stop there—with recipes for sizzling sausages, hot dogs, and brats, plus sides like out-of-this-world onion rings and drinks like luscious milkshakes—this book pays homage to other classic barbecue fare and offers 160 inspiring reasons for you to fire up the grill. Packed with nearly 250 full-color photos, step-by-step instructions, and whimsical watercolor illustrations, Weber’s Big Book of Burgers is sure to become as classic as the burger itself. From the food to the fun to the flavors, you’ll find juicy goodness on every single page. Weber’s Big Book of Burgers also includes: The Five Steps to Burger Perfection for perfect patties and big, juicy burgers time and time again Tried-and-true expert advice on grinding your own meat for burgers; building a better burger; grill setups, maintenance, and safety; tools of the trade; ten tips for grilling greatness; and more A visual sausage guide detailing many different varieties’ flavor profiles and origins Regional burger and hot dog features on these American favorites with full-color illustrations from artist Linda Kelen Feature stories on who invented the hamburger; the New England–style top-loading bun; Sheboygan: the home of the brat; pickles; and understanding the science behind food euphoria

The Big Book of Air Fryer Recipes

The Big Book of Air Fryer Recipes
Author: Parrish Ritchie
Publisher: Page Street Publishing
Total Pages: 1036
Release: 2020-09-29
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1645671011

The Ultimate Everyday Cookbook for Your Air Fryer Parrish Ritchie, creator of Life With The Crust Cut Off, compiled 240 of her favorite air fryer recipes so you can make any dish you’re craving and still save time in the kitchen. With gorgeous photography for each mouthwatering meal and recipes ranging from egg rolls to bagels, calzones and even churros, there’s something for everyone in this cookbook! What’s even better? The air fryer cooks food in half the time of a conventional oven—plus you’ll get that crispy, delicious crunch you love without cups of oil. And the best part is that everything you put in the air fryer comes out tasting absolutely amazing! With this comprehensive cookbook you’ll be ready to make the most of any meal, any time, with recipes including: ·Southwest Avocado Egg Rolls ·Rainbow Bagels ·Crispy Chicken Fries ·Cheesesteak-Stuffed Peppers ·Buttermilk Ranch Drumsticks ·Chicken Alfredo Calzones ·“Fried” Cookie Dough Bites ·Mini Churros with Caramel With so many fantastic recipes to choose from, you’re sure to have a tastier, healthier meal on the table in record time.