An award-winning cookbook author shows readers how adding simple additional ingredients can turn mixes into culinary masterpieces. Includes 220 recipes for soups, desserts, and other dishes.
In The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking for Guys, chef and author Tod Dimmick brings a guy's perspective to dozens of recipes from Sloppy Joe's, Chili, Nachos, and Wings to Beer Can Chicken, Skillet Ham and Eggs, Crock Pot Kielbasa, and Garfield's Lasagne. Whether it's for a large crowd ("Firehouse Cooking"), the kids ("Recipes Even Kids Will Eat"), date night ("Food for Love"), or Appetizers ("Food for the Big Game"), men of all ages will find something to love in this unique, "guy's only" cookbook. Complete with chapters on vegetables, pasta, desserts, leftovers, nice dinners, picnics, grilling, entertaining, and Mexican food, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking for Guysalso features chapters and recipes to go with specific appliances including the oven, stovetop, broiler, and slow cooker. It also covers basic cooking terms and methods as well as spices, rubs, and secret sauces.
The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Vegan Slow Cooking provides more than 200 slow-cook vegan, plant-based recipes for every meal of the day, and includes not only soups and stews, but sandwiches, sides, snacks, appetizers, sauces, and even breads. Although most recipes are prepared with a slow cooker, some are simply prepared by slow cooking. The opening chapters introduce the reader to the world of slow cooking with the hows and whys of slow cooking, as well as intructions for adapting favorite recipes to one's slow cooker.
What do you do when you want to make a great meal for your spouse, but all your recipes say "serves 4 to 6"? You've tried to cut down recipes-simple grade-school fractions, right?-but what do you do for a recipe that requires one egg? And did you know that liquid measurements require a different division system? But don't go rushing back to school yet. Award-winning author and chef Ellen Brown has the answer- The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking for Two! This book offers familiar favourites and new dishes to tempt your taste buds... all specially developed to serve two, without dealing with leftovers for the next week. Each recipe is created to maximize your ingredients and minimize your spending, so you buy only what you need, and use all of what you bought! Also included are recipes for small-batch baking, geared toward satisfying two, so you're walking past the brownies sitting around on the counter for the next several days.
Pasta is easy to prepare, healthy, and inexpensive. This guide contains sections dedicated to each kind of pasta, with more than 100 recipes dedicated to each kind of pasta, ranging from the standard to the more complex pasta dishes.
"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking Basics helps you find your way around the kitchen and create tasty and nutritious meals on an ordinary budget. You get simple steps to all the basic kitchen skills, plus friendly advice in an easy-to-understand, easy to enjoy format. Tips, definitions, warnings, and substitutes help you save time and effort, and easy recipes guarantee you'll impress your friends and your taste buds!--p. [4] of cover.
120 everyday, restaurant-quality recipes that you can make in your slow cooker or Crock-Pot at home. Everyone loves restaurant-quality meals, but not everyone loves the cost. What if you could make restaurant-quality meals in your slow cooker at home, and at a fraction of the cost of the restaurants? The Stay at Home Chef Slow Cooker Cookbook features 120 incredible recipes that are simple, satisfying, and much less expensive to make than if you were eating them in a restaurant. Rachel Farnsworth (The Stay at Home Chef) creates simple, satisfying recipes that will appeal to anyone who is short on time but still wants to enjoy delicious meals at home. Every recipe in The Stay at Home Chef Slow Cooker Cookbook uses every day ingredients and features simple instructions. Slow cooking is one of the easiest and most budget-friendly ways to cook, and the Stay at Home Chef will show you how to do it right! Here's what you'll find inside: Amazing recipes for breakfasts, sides, soups and stews, sandwiches, dips and snacks, and desserts, as well as entrée recipes for beef, chicken, pork, and pasta, grains, and beans Simple tips for using your slow cooker, storing your meals safely, and troubleshooting common slow cooking problems Loads of variations that will enable you to mix and match recipes to suit your family's tastes Helpful advice for making the most of your recipes and ensuring they come out of your slow cooker perfectly cooked and just in time for dinner