 |
|
|
|
Best-Ever Recipes
| Our Price |
$ 20.71
|
|
| Retail Value |
$ 24.95 |
|
| You Save |
$ 4.24 (17%) |
|
| Item Number |
2414112 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Item Description...
Best-Ever Recipes Looking for that perfect recipe for a barbeque with friends, a holiday dinner, or just a quick weeknight meal? Best-Ever Recipes will inspire you with old favorites and new classics you'll make again and again. From simple and irresistible French Onion Soup and Porterhouse Steaks with Blue Cheese Mashed Potatoes to Banana Caramel Sundaes, you'll be ready to cook for any occasion. More than 180 recipes for appetizers, soups, salads, meats, fish, pasta, and desserts that you and your family will love Every recipe is triple-tested for success every time Lush, full-color photographs for every recipe will inspire even the busiest cook |
Item Specifications...
Pages 372
Dimensions: Length: 9.7" Width: 8.9" Height: 1.1"
Weight: 2.8 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Feb 24, 2009
ISBN 0470440546
EAN 9780470440544
|
Availability 3 units.
Availability accurate as of May 20, 2012 06:00.
Usually ships within one to two business days from La Vergne, TN.
Orders shipping to an address other than a confirmed Credit Card / Paypal Billing address may incur and additional processing delay.
|
Product Categories
Similar Products
Reviews - What do our customers think?
 | 180 interesting and flavorful recipes that you can cook at home Feb 17, 2009 |
Wiley has teamed up with Australia's largest publisher of magazines (ACP Press - Australian Consolidated Press) to provide us with 180 very good recipes in a lavish format. The book has no specific author, nor are the editors identified. However, I did a little digging and ACP does a lot of their recipes through the Australian Women's Weekly. AWW has their own test kitchens and their assurance of quality to their readers is that they triple test each recipe. This is the same assurance this book gives us about these recipes. In any case, we are getting this cookbook through Wiley, and I am grateful for it.
What does the book provide? This book provides 180 recipes that it says are the best ever. I don't know if they truly are the best ever because I don't know what the standards are or what they are being compare to. But as I read through them there were several that jumped out at me that I simply must try. The book is organized into sections on soups & salads, appetizers, pasta & rice, fish, chicken, beef, veal, pork, lamb, and desserts. There is also a good index.
Each recipe tells you its expected preparation time, cooking time, and the number of servings the dish is intended to provide. There is a short paragraph about the dish, a list of ingredients, a list of steps for preparing the dish that are always clear and well organized. They often include tips for preparing the dish. I find that the way the ingredients and instructions are written are delightfully helpful rather than the cryptic shorthand we too often get with recipes.
Each dish is also given a full page magazine quality color photo of its finished presentation to help you see what you are trying to prepare. Each recipe also has nutritional information for each serving. They range for low hundreds to more than a thousand calories for some of the rich dishes. I think it is very helpful to see the nutritional impact of these dishes so you can plan your meal and diet to enjoy your indulgence in one the splendor of some of the richer dishes.
Of course, every recipe has to be examined on its own merits. For example, I don't know why their Caesar Salad recipe doesn't use anchovies. Maybe it is not customary in Australia, but I sure want them in my Caesar! But this is not a book of traditional classics. They have wonderful creations based on familiar cuts of meat that add a range of wonderful flavors and food experiences. However, the preparations are usually quite simple and nothing exotic by way of ingredients or cooking techniques are required. As the subtitle notes, this book is intended for the way you really cook. Home cooks are not restaurant chefs. We don't have a line of cooks to prepare the ingredients and support us. So, we want things that are manageable in real life, taste great, and will delight our family and friends. This book fits that bill.
I think you will enjoy this book very much.
You might also enjoy this in the same series:
Best Quick Fixes
Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Ann Arbor, MI
| | | Write your own review about Best-Ever Recipes
|
|
Family Book Store (home) 
(0 Items)
