Cheese polenta, lime risotto, wild garlic pasta, vanilla chili hollandaise - and all veggie!  Who'd have thought that in those days when "vegetarian" still meant brown rice and lentil stew?  Today it's easy to do without meat & fish -- no problem with these recipes! Plus lots of basic information from A (adzuki bean) to Z (zucchini).

Vegetarian Basics

Schinharl, Cornelia

Dickhaut, Sebastian

Gräfe und Unzer Verlag

Finally a cookbook especially designed to show young people how to prepare great meals rapidly, while having fun at the same time. Loaded with over 200 color photos, this is a basic, unpretentious cookbook, with the potential of becoming a favorite cookbook in modern kitchens. Previously available only in Germany where it sold more than 100,000 copies in 8 months, this American edition has been carefully edited by a Certified Culinary Professional.
 The first section of Basic Cooking covers basic cooking know-how, offers advice on shopping, recommends essential kitchen equipment, and suggests fundamental staple requirements for the pantry. The second part of the book shows you how to put all this knowledge to use through over a hundred tempting recipes. From favorite Italian dishes to Mousse au Chocolat to simple fare, this book has all the key elements. You will find everything from delicious fried potato recipes, to spur-of-the-moment entrees, to basic accompaniments, such as homemade mayonnaise, to go with everything. Loaded with color photos, trendy design, and humorous text, this book transforms cooking from chore to recreation.

Basic Cooking: All You Need to Cook Well Quickly

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Newens, Jennifer L.

Quick & Easy

Silverback Books Inc

The next installment in the Basics series tackles baking in a lively, approachable manner. Hot on the heels of the successful Basic cooking, Basic baking shows a whole new generation of home cooks just how fun baking can be â€" and it's not as hard to do as one might think! 
The first part of Basic baking covers fundamental techniques and ingredients that are staples in the Basic kitchen. All the ingredients are easy to find and the techniques are easy to master â€" cornerstones of the Basic approach to cooking. The remaining chapters are divided into categories, each drawing upon the knowledge learned previously. Inside you'll find recipes for cakes, pies, tarts, cookies, bars, strudels and muffins, as well as savory snacks like crackers, meat pies, crusty breads and pizza. Every recipe features a companion photo, and the book is loaded with photos of people enjoying their time baking in the kitchen. Once you see the lively graphics and feel the easy, down-to-earth "Basic" tone, you'll want to join the party!

Basic Baking: All You Need to Bake Well Simply (Basic Series)

Newens, Jennifer

Baking

Finally--a cookbook series especially created to show young people how to prepare great meals while having lots of fun doing so. Loaded with color photographs, trendy design, and humorous text, these books transform chores into recreation. The Basic Series consists of a line of absolutely unpretentious cookbooks, which have already become favorites in an astounding number of modern kitchens. The absolutely unpretentious Basic series brings Basic Asian to the tables of the next generation's home chefs. With the newest Basic title, kitchen novices will be wrapping spring rolls, pickling ginger, making peanut satay sauce, and exploring Asian barbeque with ease. From the southern tip of India to the shores of Malaysia, Basic Asian takes the reader on a culinary exploration that all palates can appreciate. The first section of the book covers all of the basic ingredients and cookware necessary for preparing authentic Asian dishes. Demystifying fish sauce, explaining how to use a steamer, and reviewing the fine points of "wokking," Basic Asian makes even the most elementary chef feel like appro. The recipes in the second half of the book combine ingredients and technique into easily executed meals for parties of all sizes. Loaded with color photography, clean design, and humorous text, this book makes preparing Asian food basic.

Basic Asian: Everything You Need for Yin and Yang in the Kitchen

Lane, Kelsey

Regional & International

Silverback Books

A book on entertaining for a whole new generation. The first section covers know-how such as thinking up a reason to party; creating party space, equipping it, and decorating it; planning drink and food; and entertaining with panache. The second section gives a multitude of recipes for finger foods, lunch foods, outdoor foods, and sweets. As with every volume in the Basic Series, the book is loaded with color pictures and provides helpful resource info on the cover flaps.

Party Basics (Basic Series)

Cooking Education & Reference

The Quick &amp; Easy series features small, compact cookbooks, emphasizing everyday--quick and practical--cooking. Readily available ingredients are used to produce mouthwatering and visually appealing dishes for daily meals. The books feature contemporary content. Well-designed layouts, and beautiful color photography throughout. A useful table leads each book, doubling as both a table of contents and recipe description. Information such as number of calories, recipes with big portions, take-along food, fast recipes, and ultra-simple recipes, are highlighted. Helpful hints and cooking tips punctuate the text offering sensible strategies for everyday eating. Soups explores basic soup-making techniques enabling the reader to create homemade masterpieces. Based on simple stocks and ingredients, Soups provides everything from an Asian-style chicken noodle soup, to a classic tomato, to an innovative mushroom and feta recipe. From these ideas, readers can go forth to design their own signature creations.

Soups: Classic to Contemporary (Quick & Easy)

Main Courses & Side Dishes

Basic Cooking and Baskic Baking served as solid foundations for learning how to cook and bake. Now, even more enjoyment, fun, and knowledge about trendy and classic cooking is possible. Italy epitomizes vivaciousness--la dolce vita--and its cooking is probably the best-loved national cuisine in the world. The first section of this book offers basic how-to's on shopping for key ingredients (like pasta, cheese, balsamic vinegar, espresso, and wine), explains these necessaries, and lists Italian souvenirs that will infuse any home with "that Italian feeling." The recipe section is divided into starters, snacks and salads, pasta, risotto, pizza and polenta, soups and vegetables, fish and meat, and dolci. But this is not a simple collection of ethnic recipes; it is a new approach to Italian cooking and an eclectic group of meals that will well serve any party or gathering, big or small.

Basic Italian: Everything You Need to Live the Dolce Vita at Home (Basic Series)

Basic cooking. Alles, was man braucht, um schnell gut zu kochen.

Sälzer, Sabine

Gräfe & Unzer

Basic baking. Alles, was man braucht, um einfach gut zu backen.

Italian Basics. Alles, was man braucht für das dolce vita zu Hause.

Bonisolli, Barbara

Walter, Alexander

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