Good Housekeeping takes the “luck” out of potluck with ten delicious seasonal menus that are always good to go! From hearty chili for Super Bowl Sunday to Syrupy Banana-Nut Overnight French Toast to sweeten up a Mothers Day brunch, these triple-tested dishes will be the star of any gathering. Advice on selecting a site, assigning dishes, and transporting your food makes it a cinch to throw a fabulous, affordable shindig! Festive menus include: Mothers Day Brunch * Potluck Patio Party * Family Reunion Picnic * Neighborhood Fourth of July Fun * Dinner on the Lawn Picnic * Fall Tailgate Party * Day After Thanksgiving Dinner Party * New Years Eve Potluck Party * Super Bowl Shindig * Midwinter Blues Bash
A taste-tempting array of sweet treats and yummy desserts features more than 250 easy-to-follow recipes for cakes, cookies, pies, custards, pastries, soufflés, meringues, ice creams, granitas, sauces, toppings, garnishes, and more, ranging from Grapefruit Sorbet or Chocolate Cherry Bread Pudding to Baked Alaska.
Here is the first ring-bindercookbook from the famed Good Housekeeping test kitchens--where every dish is triple-tested for ease, reliability, and great taste. These 375 delicious recipes, specially selected by the test kitchen as any home cooks essential go-to collection, are paired with irresistible color photographs and the magazines unmatched kitchen know-how. - Recipes include colorful icons to indicate at-a-glance low-calorie, heart-healthy, 30-minute meals, make-ahead, and slow-cooker choices. Chapters cover everything from appetizers to desserts, and there are special chapters on one-dish meals, vegetarian main meals, and fast weeknight meals. - Includes smart phone tags that link to 35 helpful Good Housekeeping how-to cooking videos. The user simply scans the tags with a free phone app to view them. For users without smart phones, URLs are also provided to view the videos on the web. - Under the direction of Susan Westmoreland, The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen buys approximately 17,000 pounds of food, performs 1,700 taste tests, and washes 77,000 dishes every year to make sure that every delicious recipe works in any oven or stovetop, with any brand of ingredients, no matter what.
Make delicious meals for one or two hungry people with 125 simple and satisfying easy recipes from the Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen–all perfectly portioned. Couples and other smaller families shouldn’t have to rely on recipes for four or six. Here, the experts and recipe testers in the Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen take the guesswork out of small-batch cooking and share their favorite weeknight meals such as Pan-Fried Chicken with Lemony Roasted Broccoli, Air-Fried Steak Fajitas, Speedy Eggplant Parm, Short Ribs with Polenta, and Seared Pork Chops with Cherries and Spinach Plus: you also get the Test Kitchen’s secrets on how to downsize any recipe, including your own family favorites. You’ll never get stuck with endless leftovers again! Inside you’ll find: Cooking techniques such as how to perfectly sear a chicken breast, clever shopping strategies to reduce food waste (ask the butcher to split a package of meat, roast veggies to extend their tastiness), and storage tricks to ensure freshness Mix-and-match options like delicious pan sauces (Mushroom Wine, Poblano Cream) and simple sides (Bacon-Roasted Potatoes, Coriander-Maple Glazed Carrots) so meals are always exciting and varied (1,300 possible combinations!) Stews and soups (Creamy Corn Chowder) and cozy casseroles (Loaf Pan Lasagna) to satisfy comfort food cravings Wow-worthy recipes for occasions such as date night, anniversaries, holidays, or weekend brunch so you can feast but not cook for a crowd. Happy hour menus such as Staycation Sips and Dips or For Brunch Lovers that bring the party to your home Special treats like Skillet Brownies, Freeze-and-Bake Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Small-Batch Cupcakes for occasions when you want to bake a smaller batch Leftovers reimagined so cooking once, eating twice are both meals to look forward to Whether you are craving a hearty Pork Ragu Rigatoni or lighter fare like Ginger Pork & Cucmber Salad, these recipes will come out perfectly portioned and deliver delicious results every time.
From the test kitchen of America’s iconic lifestyle magazine, an indispensable guide to baking from classic recipes to trusted equipment—includes photos. With everything from Cheesecake Swirl Brownies and Buttery Blueberry Pie to Puff Pastry Cheese Straws and Lemon-Ricotta Muffins, this comprehensive cookbook from the famed Good Housekeeping test kitchens is a baker's delight. It features 390 classic, triple-tested recipes for cookies, cakes, pies, puddings, pastries, and breads, all illustrated with how-to photos and mouthwatering shots of the finished treats. Tips, techniques, and an overview of essential ingredients and tools will help even inexperienced bakers enjoy success.
This stunning cookbook is as practical as it is beautiful with 1,000 recipes and 1,800 color photographs that make cooking step-by-step simple pleasure. With tasty recipes ranging from traditional family favorites to new innovative dishes, The Good Housekeeping Step-by-Step Cookbook covers scores of basic to advanced cooking techniques. From appetizers to meat and poultry, from pastas to flatbreads, from vegetables to desserts, every section begins with how-to photographs of a basic cooking technique as well as photographs of finished dishes and recipes that build on the technique. Preparation and cooking times as well as nutritional information are provided with every recipe. Know-How sections throughout are packed with essential information about food safety and storage, entertaining and menu-planning, food history, gadgets and equipment, ethnic ingredients, and cooking charts. Most appealing of all - and at the heart of the book - are the recipes!
