Using spices and herbs—the key to any delicious meal—can be daunting with so many to choose from, not to mention the many possible combinations. In this book, a master chef and baker unlocks the key to the dazzling world of flavor by showing cooks of every level how to use and combine over 150 of the most popular spices and herbs. She also provides delicious recipes, fun facts, tips on storage, and a resource guide on where to get hard-to-find spices and herbs. The book also includes dozens of easy-to-follow and delicious recipes.
This classic book is the resource for learning how to prepare and serve quality food in quantity. From caterers to food service managers, this book provides a wide variety of reliable quantity recipes and methods for planning, selecting and preparing menus for all types of food services. With over 100 new recipes, updated tables, and information on the latest techniques, this edition addresses safety and economic concerns, as well as the dining trends and expectations of today's consumer. Some new features include:
New! Over 100 new recipes and recipe revisions.
New! Updated charts and tables.New! Expanded section on ways to make recipes more healthy.
New! Updated information on menu planning for special meals, events and receptions.
New! Updated information on recipe modification.
For professionals in Quantity Food Production and Foodservice Management.
Flagship book of award-winning series with more than 1000 pages and 800 illustrations. Would you make 38 versions of creme caramel to find the absolute best version? The editors of Cook's Illustrated did. Along with 20 versions of simple recipes such as coleslaw. Now fully revised and expanded this new edition offers more than 1000 recipes for all your favourite dishes from roast chicken and macaroni cheese to creme caramel and chocolate chip cookies. There are also expanded tutorials on grilling, baking, stir frying and much more. This is the ultimate cooking resource for novice and experienced cooks alike.
Everyone has been in this predicament: you're at home, with no time (or desire) for a trip to the store-but the recipe you're using calls for an ingredient you don't happen to have on hand. With this book, you'll have a solution: substitute. In Substituting Ingredients, author Becky Sue Epstein has collected more than 1,000 easy-to-find, healthy, and cheap substitutions.
You'll find:
Substitutions for difficult to find items and common items you may not have on hand
Green, nontoxic household cleaner solutions
Less expensive ingredient options
The best ways to measure fruits and vegetables for recipes
Simple recipes for condiments, sauces, marinades, and spice mixtures
Strategies to remedy too much or too little of an ingredient
"With this paperback on the shelf there's no need for mad, midrecipe dashes to the grocery store." -Bon Appétit
Booze Cakes features step-by-step recipes for spiking delicious confections with spirits, wine, and beer. These delightfully tipsy desserts are perfect for dinner parties, potlucks, and pitch-ins! You’ll find recipes for:
• Classic Booze Cakes: All the recipes your grandparents used to bake, including salty-sweet Honey Spice Beer Cake, bourbon-filled Lane Cake frosted with decadent bourbon buttercream, and teeny-tiny yet potent Tropical Fruitcake Cupcakes. • Cocktail Cakes: These brand-new recipes are based on classic cocktails and mixed drinks: A tropical Piña Colada Cake, Mint Julep Cupcakes made with Kentucky bourbon, and creamy, chocolatey Rum-and-Coke Whoopie Pies. • Cake Shots: For the perfect party snack, try bite-sized Long Island Iced Tea Cakes, decadent little Wine-Tastiing Cakes, and every imaginable flavor of Jelly Cake Shot. • Cakes With A Twist: These extraordinary cake recipes are made even better with alcohol. Enjoy a Jägermeister-powered Deutsch German Chocolate Cake, Shamelessly Rich Carrot Cake infused with 151-proof rum, and frosty, delicious Spiked Ice-Cream Cake.
Featured throughout are tips and tricks on baking with alcohol, serving suggestions for fun cocktail-cake parties, and yummy cocktail recipes to accompany your confections—plus a handy “Booze Meter” that tracks the total alcohol content in each of these decadent desserts Indulge yourself!
We love sharing a home-cooked meal with family & friends, and when time is really short, a scrumptious skillet dinner can be ready in a jiffy. You'll find super-easy recipes like busy-day cheesy chicken, Angie's taco pie and sizzling potato skillet...with just 5 ingredients. You'll have no picky eaters when Judy's easy meatloaf, sloppy joe bake or sweet-and-sour pork chops are on the menu. There are lots of hearty one-pot meals like family favorite pot roast, spicy shrimp noodle bowl and herbed chicken dinner! You'll find lots of easy cooking tips too, plus simple ideas for making mealtime memorable and fun. We predict that this will become your new go-to cookbook for satisfying quick & easy family meals. So relax...dinner is almost ready! Hardcover, 224 pages. (9-1/4" x 6-1/2")
