The majority of people dont know where to start when it comes to cooking a successful meal. Packed with easy-to-follow guidelines & recipes this full-colour hardback spiral-bound edition of Cooking Basics For Dummies helps novice chefs navigate the kitchen & learn staple cooking techniques. The lay-flat binding is the ideal format for the kitchen environment & the full-colour photos throughout show readers what they can expect to achieve from their efforts. Cooking Basics For Dummies
Includes:: Choosing the right tools & stocking your pantry The essential cooking techniques
- boiling poaching steaming sauteing braising stewing roasting & grilling Expanding your repertoire with delicious recipes A glossary of over 100 common cooking terms About the Authors Bryan Millar is a former New York Times restaurant critic. Marie Ramer is a food writer.

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This is the ultimate bible for todays busy cook. It is the cookbook that really understands what you need in the kitchen answering all your culinary questions from what the finished dish should look like & if it can be prepared to what to do with leftovers. It features over 1 000 mouth-watering recipes thousands of explanatory photographs & superb step-by-step guidance that will teach you how to get great home-cooking on the table without fuss. ...

Thai cuisine is a distinctive combination of the sweet sour sharp & fresh flavours of lime chilli coriander basil & coconut that is sophisticated in taste & yet simple to prepare. Thai food uses a range of easy-to-buy yet distinctive ingredients & simple preparation techniques to conjure those delicate flavours. What looks difficult is actually very easy to prepare at home & tastes sensational. So whether it's satay or seafood green curry or spicy fried rice enjoy the best Thailand has to offer. ...

Cooking can be a daunting prospect but this invaluable little cookbook will help the newest & the rustiest get to grips with whipping up tasty impressive meals in no time. The extensive front section provides advice & information on essentials tools basic equipment culinary terms useful conversions store cupboard essentials hygiene nutrition cooking eggs rice pasta herbs & spices meat poultry fish & vegetables. Each recipe has clear & easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions by photography that illustrates certain techniques. Choose from over 180 recipes from Salmon Fish Cakes to Courgette & Tarragon Tortilla. ...

Hungry? Cant find the menu from the takeaway up the road? Cant face beans on toast again? COOKING FOR BLOKES tells you all you need to know
- from which pots you need in your cupboard to what to put in the spice rack. From the simplest of 11.30 on a Friday night drunk starving snacks (cheese on toast) to dishes that might even impress Mum (trout & almonds) the simple short recipes take you through the process step-by-step.
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This book is full of delicious recipes & useful tips that address the rising diabetes epidemic. This varied range of tasty treats demonstrates that it is easy for everyone to enjoy a healthy lifestyle. Cooking for Diabetes provides helpful meal-plans & contains useful advice about controlling glycaemic index values to help manage & prevent diabetes. Each recipe is easy to follow & lavishly illustrated with clear colour photographs. With more than 50 recipes for a variety of low GI meals this book is sure to appeal to anyone wishing to find tempting alternatives to foods high in saturated fat & sugar. ...

TVs most famous chef Gordon Ramsay throws open the doors to his home & reveals what he cooks away from the frantic pace of his restaurant kitchen in a relaxed domestic setting. Retaining all of his trademark excitement & passion for food bestselling Cooking for Friends is packed with simple seasonal modern British recipes. Now in paperback Gordon gathers together over 100 inspiring recipes that everyone will enjoy cooking & sharing perfect for a celebratory dinner with friends or simple Sunday night suppers. Learn how to quickly & easily whip up delicious Chorizo Broad bean & Mint Couscous Scallop Brochettes with Coriander & Chilli Butter Smoked Salmon & Horseradish Cream Tarts & Toffee & Chocolate Steamed Pudding. Recipes that extol the virtues of supporting local producers & farmers markets which can be cooked with seasonal fresh ingredients that havent travelled miles to reach our plates & which celebrate the wealth of regional dishes available to us from Cornish Crab Soup to Bakewell Tarts. With chapters covering Hot & Cold Soups; Pasta & Grains; Fish & Shellfish; Meat & Poultry; Pies & Tarts; Vegetables & Salads; Puddings & Ices & Coffee & Chocolate each recipe delivers stunning results. ...

If you're a programmer hacker or maker who is interested in learning how to cook this book is for you. In this book I'll cover the basics of cooking & provide a number of simple & fun recipes as part of the food hacking experiments while at the same time exploring the science behind the example recipes to allow you to start discovering your own style. If you're already comfortable in the kitchen you'll find this book covers a number of new emerging technologies that are making their way from the lab to the kitchen. A number of these new techniques can be adapted for everyday use to make life in the kitchen easier & allow you to discover new ways of cooking. Why do some meals turn out great while others fail? What scientific principles & tools can help guide you in creating new memorable experiences? & how can you have more fun cooking for friends coworkers or a date? By applying the same tools hackers use in experimenting & debugging technology this book answers these questions by building up a framework describing what happens in the cooking process. With an understanding of the why" behind the "what " the complex system of expectations perceptions & processes is reduced to a roadmap between the store kitchen & table. Most existing cookbooks are "code " where the reader executes the instructions without knowing how to create new code. If you are an experienced cook standard cookbooks inspire remind & hint at how to produce a meal. However if you are a novice cook these same texts fail to explain how to recover when an exception occurs because the rules-of-thumb & patterns a seasoned chef knows from experience aren't codified as part of recipes." ...

This book is about pleasing yourself...shortcuts to fantastic food for one. Looking for a quick fix in the kitchen? If the thought of cooking for one at the end of the day has you reaching for a packaged ready-meal for a quick solution
- this is the book for you. Inside youll discover why being able to eat whatever you like whenever you like can actually be fun. You wont need imagination or inspiration. Molly Perham does all the thinking for you
- writes the shopping list plans the menus tells you what equipment you need & serves up recipes that are so quick & simple most ready-made options couldnt make it to the table any faster. Youll get the rundown on what you need to know about storage life nutrition & preparation for each food type. & youll also learn that the secret to great-tasting fast fresh food is simply a well-stocked cupboard & freezer. Best of all youll get back your taste for real food freshly cooked in your own kitchen.

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Living on one's own is just as likely to be a matter of choice as not & the numbers adopting this lifestyle are increasing all the time. Yet the joys of cooking for one
- it takes less time washing up is minimal & you can indulge yourself with cuts such as fillet steak which for larger numbers would be prohibitively expensive
- are frequently overlooked. The 150 specially devised recipes included here such as Chicken Milanese Salt & Pepper Prawns Baby Pumpkin Gratin & Baked Eggs with Spinach focus on what the single person really wants to eat
- quick & easy last-minute suppers & mid-week treats to lazy weekend meals
- not cut-down recipes for four. So whether you are a career girl a student an empty-nester or merely a man left to his own devices for a few days this book will prove invaluable.



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